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If you’re shopping for a budget Chromebook, you probably know what to expect: a fairly low-resolution display, not much storage, so-so battery life. All that’s OK if the intended user is, say, a middle-school student who just needs to work on assignments in Google Classroom. But if that Chromebook can also double as an Android …

During the COVID-19 crisis, Chromebooks have helped countless students and workers stay connected while stuck at home. That would have been hard to imagine 10 years ago, when the the first Chromebooks were announced on May 11, 2011.  Back then, no one expected a lot from them. After all, they came on the heels of the Netbook era, when low-cost, low-power laptops were …

Thin, thinner, thinnest. While Intel launched its 35-watt Tiger Lake H series chips at CES to tee off what the company calls “ultraportable gaming,” laptops incorporating it like the Acer Predator Triton 300 SE tend to go smaller as well. Though we don’t know exactly how thin or light Alienware’s forthcoming X17 is — though we do know it’s based …

Shopping for a laptop? Good deals can be hard to find these days because the pandemic sent everyone home for a year. The ensuing run on laptops made affordable ones about as scarce as the PS5. Good news: Sub-$1,000 laptops still get marked down to even better prices occasionally, though, and right now there’s a trio of solid laptops on …

After years of struggling to keep up with competitors, Intel will adopt their core strategy by making other companies’ chips for them, new Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday. Intel largely has focused on making its own chips, but that’ll change with the new and independent Intel Foundry Services business unit. If the shift works, it’ll mark a major turnaround …

The Acer Swift 3X might not look all too different from the PC maker’s regular Swift 3, and that’s because it isn’t. The X in the name is to let you know what’s inside: Intel’s Iris Xe Max, its first discrete graphics processor in more than 20 years. Combined with its 11th-gen Intel Core processor, the Swift 3X is elevated from …

Even though Razer’s laptops are generally built for gaming, we regularly recommend them to anyone looking for a high-performance Windows laptop with MacBook-like design and build quality. The Razer Book 13 takes the Razer design we love but skips the gaming vibe altogether (well, almost) and aims for office and school use instead.  Not that you couldn’t open up a …

Digging through Mac rumors can be a thankless task. They tend to be filled with as much idle speculation and projected wish-fulfillment as genuine information. But some Mac leaks and rumors are worth paying attention to. Earlier this month, just as CES 2021 was wrapping up, both Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed new MacBook Pro laptops were coming in …

What I like most about the ZenBook Duo 14 is that you really can’t tell from the outside of the laptop what you’ll see when you lift the lid. Despite opening and closing it countless times at this point, I still get a kick out of seeing its secondary 12.6-inch touchscreen rise from above the keyboard to meet the bottom …

I’ve relied on Apple laptops since 2004, when my older brother convinced me to give them a try. But in 2015, I stopped buying them all together. It’s not because I’m cheap, or that I’d switched away from Apple’s Mac software. I was participating in a not-so-silent protest against what I think was one of Apple’s biggest-ever design mistakes: Six …