There are tons of products and companies vying for our attention during the chaos and bustle of the CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show held every January in Las Vegas. But whether or not those products actually hit store shelves by the end of the year — or any year — is a different …
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Newegg is still going strong with the deals for Cyber Monday. Following up on some monster discounts for Black Friday, Newegg has solid sales on a range of computer stuff: gaming rigs, motherboards, a la carte processors, hard drives and other components from your favorite brands like Asus, Samsung, HP and Acer. The 40 best Cyber Monday 2018 deals still available +57 …
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Good news, everyone! If you slept on a Black Friday Chromebook deal, there are new Cyber Monday Chromebook deals ripe for the picking. Google’s web-based Chrome OS laptops and two-in-ones are typically cheap to start with, starting around $200. But this time of year you can find some amazing prices. Chrome doesn’t require a lot of processing power for basic …
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The global PC market may be stabilizing. PC makers shipped 67.2 million units in the third quarter of 2018, a 0.1 percent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary numbers released Wednesday by Gartner, a market research firm. The flat overall number comes after a second quarter in which shipments posted a modest increase of 1.4 percent, …
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Samsung ‘s new Core i7 hexacore laptop with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics is now available in the US, over five months after its launch. The company announced its rebooted gaming laptop series with the 15.6-inch Odyssey Z during Intel’s 8th-generation Core i CPU launch in April. It only comes in one model, with a 1,920×1,080-pixel IPS display, a 256GB SSD and 16GB …
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Last Wednesday, a seemingly innocuous request appeared in Google’s Chromium codebase: “Add mappings for “Hamburger” and “Assistant” keys on Hammer/Wand/Whiskers and BRYDGE keyboards.” But that single sentence may have been enough to reveal a secret — Google may be planning to bring a new wave of high-end Chrome OS tablets to market. That’s because Brydge is the name of a …
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Every so often I ask Cheapskate readers to name their favorite deals. One that continues to make the list (despite the funny name): Zoolz. What the heck is Zoolz? It’s a cloud-storage service, and a rather unique on at that. It’s also extremely affordable, at least if you take advantage of this deal: StackSocial offers a lifetime 3TB Zoolz subscription …
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It was only a stage demo — no real models to be seen on the IFA 2018 show floor — but we hope this flip-over display in Acer’s Predator Triton 900 becomes a reality sooner rather than later. It might not be as flashy as the company’s Predator Thronos gaming chair, but it’s a good deal more practical. Sadly, we …
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School is already back in session for some lucky students, while others have just a few precious days of summer vacation left. Either way, you’ve missed all the back-to-school bargains, right? Not quite. Walmart has a smattering of school-friendly items on sale — most of them focused more on leisure time than study, but a relaxed student is a successful …
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Acer has introduced an array of new computer hardware at IFA in Berlin, including what it says is the world’s lightest 15-inch notebook. The Acer Swift 5, starting at $1,100, weighs just 2.2 pounds — about 0.3-pound less than LG’s 15.6-inch Gram, which formerly held the title of lightest 15-incher and costs about $900 more. (For additional context, the Swift 5 …
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