Microsoft is holding its annual Surface announcement event on Wednesday, Sept. 22, and you can follow along with our live coverage of the Microsoft event, which starts at Sept. 22 at 8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET). We could see the new Surface Duo 2, Surface Pro 8, Surface Go 3 and more. Read more: Microsoft Surface Laptop …
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Laptop designs have changed significantly since Microsoft debuted its Surface Book, a laptop with a tablet that detached from a keyboard base with discrete graphics for more power. It awkwardly straddled the two-in-one (with displays that rotate around 360 degrees, like the HP Spectre x360) and detachable (where the keyboard snaps onto the tablet, as with the Surface Pro 8) categories. …
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Best Buy just kicked off another 24-hour flash sale with some great deals that won’t be around for long. As usual, today’s Best Buy flash sale ends tonight at 10 p.m. PT (1 a.m. ET), but until then, you can snag some solid discounts on laptops, home garden kits, monitors and more. It’s one of the smaller flash sales we’ve …
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Laptops running ChromeOS are extremely common in classrooms these days, due largely to the ease of management and cost of acquiring dozens of them at a time. But even at home, a Chromebook is super useful as a lightweight low cost computer. Some of the easiest Chromebooks to recommend are the ones which offer a ruggedized body so they can …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Ready for a monitor upgrade? Need more room than your laptop’s screen offers? I feel you, work-from-home warriors. While I agree that bigger is better when it comes to monitors, how much display space do you really need if you aren’t a PC gamer or …
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Global PC shipments grew 4.6% to 71.6 million in the second quarter of 2021, according to new data from Gartner. That increase is a substantial drop from the 35.7% growth seen in the first quarter, due partly to the global components shortage. When the coronavirus pandemic had many students and employees self-isolating at home and tightening their budgets, companies started …
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Old flagship gaming laptops never die, they just fade into the neutral zone. That’s what’s become of Alienware’s m15 laptop line with the introduction of its thinner, more cutting-edge and far more expensive x15 line. The company seems to differentiate between the two by the display choices; it tags the Intel-based R6 models as the ones with “boundary-breaking visuals,” which translates …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Editor’s note, June 23: Prime Day has officially ended at Amazon, but Walmart’s sale continues throughout Wednesday. Check out the best Prime Day deals still available, and some other favorite Prime Day deals that are hanging on. Amazon Prime Day 2021 is …
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On the eve of Computex, the normally mammoth trade show in Taiwan that’s gone virtual for 2021 due to the pandemic, Intel quietly rolled out a pair of faster processors for thin-and-light laptops and the 5G M.2 module for laptops, the Intel 5G Solution 5000. (Computex was canceled in 2020.) The 5G module, which went into testing in August, is intended …
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Every spring, around the same time as Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Acer holds its Next@Acer global press conference where it unveils its latest products for PC gaming and content creation, as well as stuff for everyone else who uses a computer. This year’s livestream took place Thursday, and the company served up the usual mix of a few notable products sprinkled among a …
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