Some gaming laptops go for heft and size, hitting us up with more power than any (current) game needs. The Alienware Area-51m and Origin PC Eon17-X comes to mind, as does the upcoming Asus Mothership. Others go for portability, sacrificing screen size and muscle for a smaller footprint, like the Dell G5 15. But what …
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One of the underappreciated parts of the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem has always been DeX, the platform for accessing apps and tolls on your Galaxy phone from the comfort of a keyboard/monitor/mouse setup. For its latest iteration in 2019 for the new Note 10 and Note 10+, the focus shifts to working with your PC, instead of trying to replace it. …
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Welcome to CNET’s The Best. This is our new show that tries to answer one simple question, “What’s the best?” In this first installment, we try to crown one laptop (premium midsize category, that is) as the king of the hill with the help of CNET Senior Managing Editor Dan Ackerman. Dan uses his years of expertise to put four notebooks …
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Rounding up some of the best budget 3D printers, I learned a lot about the art and science of printing. It’s not as simple as loading a 3D file, hitting print and sitting back, although the extra steps and follow-up work involved is well worth it if you want to create eye-catching stuff. These are some of the big beginner …
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Update, Nov. 13, 2019: Apple has introduced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro with a larger screen and improved keyboard. It completely replaces the previous 15-inch model. When Apple announced updates to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro in early July, most of the attention was paid to easy-to-spot differences: The lower price on the Air, the always-there Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro, …
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On this podcast, we talk about: CNET’s first tests of the Samsung Galaxy Fold foldable phone. The best laptops for battery life. A defense of Apple’s MacBook butterfly keyboard. Now playing: Watch this: What it’s like trying out the new Samsung Galaxy Fold… 6:23 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to …
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If you’re like me, you’re sitting in front of a laptop that’s seen cleaner days. No matter the make or model, it doesn’t take long for a laptop to start looking tired from a smudged screen and a filthy keyboard to dirty, dusty vents and ports. Some laptops, especially the latest MacBooks, have keyboards that are especially sensitive to dust …
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Apple products are rarely available at discount, but Best Buy this week has a number of MacBook Pro models marked down. The sale includes four different configurations (and two color choices) of the 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar, each of which is $200 off of its list price. And Amazon shoppers should know that two of the four …
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Best Buy is selling the new MacBook Air for $999. That’s the lowest price we’ve seen for this laptop, which Apple unveiled in October, and a $200 discount on the usual retail price for the entry-level model. The retailer has also discounted the higher-end MacBook Air model by $200, bringing its price down to $1,199. It comes with twice the storage capacity …
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Best Buy has launched discounts on a range of Microsoft hardware, including the Surface Pro, which remains the gold standard in the Windows tablet category. This sale is focused primarily on the Surface Pro and the Surface Laptop 2 — the second edition of Microsoft’s homegrown laptop and a member of CNET’s best laptop club. Though Best Buy is also …
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