We’ve heard the rumors and seen the links, but on Sunday Samsung showed off its Galaxy Z Flip phone officially for the first time — at the Academy Awards, of all places. An ad playing early in the Oscars night showed the Galaxy Z Flip in action (though it didn’t actually name the phone), folding like Moto’s …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. In a packed ballroom at the Mirage hotel at CES 2020, a neon green logo beckoned me toward it like a siren calling to sailors in The Iliad. Fortunately for me there were no treacherous rocks waiting to send me to …
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Best Buy is currently running deep discounts on a number of mainstream laptops that can save you up to $300. Screen sizes range from 13.3 inches to 17.3 inches, and you’ll find a mix of traditional clamshell laptops and convertible two-in-one touchscreen models that can ping-pong between laptop and tablet modes. Four models, in particular, are at or near all-time …
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The clamshell is a classic for a reason. That screen-plus-keyboard design, hinged in the middle, is what almost every laptop has looked like for the past 30 years. Yes, people have tried to reinvent this wheel many times, often to great fanfare and with predictions of paradigm shifts, but at the end of the day, most of us are still …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Intel’s Project Athena is the chipmaker’s attempt to make sure you’re never skeptical of or disappointed by a PC maker’s battery life or performance claims for a new laptop. Announced at Computex 2019, the program takes the focus off the industry-standard benchmarks …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Despite huge leaps in processing power, display tech and portability, laptops have had a hard time moving past the traditional clamshell design that has defined several decades of PC design. Even though we see dozens of new models every year at …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Higher screen refresh rates in a gaming monitor definitely help with competitive play. But as they climb, the likelihood that you can achieve a sustainable frame rate to match decreases, bringing unwelcome artifacts like tearing and judder — and thus the …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. One of the highlights of Asus‘ gaming announcements at CES 2020 — in addition to the new 360Hz and 1,400-nit PG32UQX ROG Swift monitors — is the ROG Zephyrus G14, a new 14-inch entrant in its thin-and-light Zephyrus line. But it’s …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Go bright, go big or go wide just about sums up Acer’s flagship gaming monitors that it’s introducing at CES 2020: a 1,440-nit HDR Predator X32, 55-inch OLED CG552K and 38-inch curved X38. So, something for everyone, or at least everyone …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. My favorite gaming irony of CES 2020: Everyone’s declaring that consoles are dying — gaming belongs to the cloud now! — but some of the biggest gaming news of the show was Sony’s unveiling of the new PlayStation 5 logo with …
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