Woot is a great source for finding deals on a great many things, but it’s usually more miss than hit with laptops. The majority of laptops on the site feature severely outdated or underpowered components, which sours the deal no matter how low the price. Woot has a refurbished HP Pavilion x360 convertible laptop on …
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The Gigabyte Aero 15 won an Editors’ Choice Award last fall on the strength of its excellent OLED display and its wealth of color-management tools. These features make the Aero 15 a winner for creative pros, but it also has a few items that will draw the attention of gamers. It features RGB keyboard lighting along with software for monitoring …
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Apple on Monday added a fresh graphics option for its 16-inch MacBook Pro: AMD’s new Radeon Pro 5600M GPU. It offers a higher performance than the current Radeon Pro 5300M and 5500M GPU options, but it’ll cost you at least $700 more. The 5600M GPU’s 8GB of HBM2, or second-gen high bandwidth memory, should make it considerably faster than the …
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Don’t let a touchy touchpad ruin your opinion of a laptop that’s otherwise in fine working order. You can extend the life of your laptop with a few, simple tweaks to its touchpad. Whether your touchpad is dead to the touch or is acting skittish — registering unintended gestures while failing to recognize your intended swipes, pinches, taps and clicks …
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The Asus ROG Zephyrus is the company’s thinnest, most compact gaming laptop. Despite its trim dimensions, which pack a 15.6-inch display into a 14-inch chassis, the ROG Zephyrus doesn’t sacrifice performance. It offers the latest silicon from AMD and Intel as well as GPUs from Nvidia’s current GeForce RTX line. Read more: Best laptops of 2020 The RTX 2060 is …
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The Asus ZenBook 13 laptop has been out for more than two years, so it’s not packed with the latest technology. Its glossy chassis is a fingerprint magnet, and its shallow keyboard might not agree with your typing style unless you’ve spent some time seated in front of the butterfly keyboard of MacBooks of yore. But like a MacBook, it oozes style with …
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Best Buy is offering discounts on a wide variety of gaming laptops. I’ve picked out three that I think are the best deals, and each hits a different price point, from an entry-level, big-screen Acer model to a sleek, thin and high-powered Razer Blade. In between is an Asus gamer that sits in the sweet spot, delivering excellent value for your gaming …
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If you are in the market for a high-end, two-in-one laptop that can operate as a laptop and tablet, Best Buy currently has a pair on sale — an Asus ZenBook Flip and Lenovo Yoga C940 — that can save you $250. Both are 15-inch models better suited for laptop mode, where the large display provides plenty of screen real …
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Saying Amazon is difficult to beat on price is like saying Michael Jordan was difficult to beat on the basketball court. It rarely happens, or happened. Newegg, however, wants to be the Bad Boy Pistons of computer retail: It has a handful of deals on gaming systems that are better than what is currently offered on Amazon. Namely, two MSI …
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It’s been 50 days since I started quarantine at home with my kids. I’m surrounded by creative tools… but I’m not often that creative right now. Oliver Jeffers, a celebrated children’s book author and illustrator, has written a number of books I read to my kids all the time. Stuck is a personal favorite. His science book, Here We Are: …
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