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HP spring sale: Save $300 on laptops and get 20% off accessories

Best Buy currently is running a number of discounts on midrange laptops, but HP has a deal on mainstream Pavilion laptop that’s better than anything you’ll find at Best Buy. And if you want to use your current self-quarantine situation as a reason to pick up a gaming laptop, I also found a great deal …

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Working (or gaming) from home? Save on gear from Lenovo

Lenovo‘s spring sale continues this week, offering steep discounts on laptops and PCs and gear you need to work from home. It’s not, however, all work and no play — Lenovo’s gaming laptops are also included in the sale. Lenovo offers instant savings on many of the laptops and PCs on its site, and you can save more with with …

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Apple will reportedly sell a new Mac laptop with its own chips next year

Apple will start selling Macs that use in-house processors in 2021, based on ones in upcoming iPhones and iPad Pros, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The company is apparently working on three of its own chips, suggesting a transition away from traditional supplier Intel. The initial batch of custom chips won’t be on the same level as the Intel ones used in …

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Working from home? Save $300 on 2

Have you been forced to turn your old laptop that was previously used primarily for checking email and watching Netflix into an honest-to-goodness work computer? Is it straining to keep up with its new and expanded role as you work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus? If your laptop sounds like a jet engine when you …

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Nvidia, Intel’s new laptop chips and tech aim to improve gaming, video editing and more

This is shaping up to be a busy week for laptops targeting gamers and creators. Monday, we saw the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, the first with AMD’s flagship eight-core consumer mobile chip and first AMD-based laptop with discrete Nvidia RTX graphics. Today, Intel announced its competing 10th-gen Core H series, which is headlined by a new octa-core/16-thread i7 processor, the …

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Apple’s new MacBook Air and iPad Pro: New floating case, trackpad support and lidar

Apple stores outside of China may be closed, while employees work from home as part of self-distancing efforts to stem the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the world’s largest consumer electronics company from releasing new products. On Wednesday, Apple introduced an updated iPad Pro tablet and a MacBook Air laptop, both of which are available to order online starting …

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Get ’em before they’re gone: Google cuts prices on Pixel Slate

The Pixel Slate will soon be a collector’s item. Google announced last year that it’s getting out of the tablet game, making the current crop of Pixel Slate tablets the company’s last. There are three models in the Pixel Slate line, and Google has slashed the price at the top and bottom. The entry-level model is now $499. The midrange …

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Top 5 laptop pet peeves

In its idealized form, your laptop is untethered, free to embrace its potential as a mobile computer, going from lap to desk to table at will. In reality, we’ve got to pause and plug these suckers in sometimes, which is where one of my top computer pet peeves comes from.  We’ve all figured generally where the space bar should be …

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Save $300 on laptops from HP, MSI or Samsung at Best Buy

Best Buy currently has a number of laptops on sale with discounts that can save you as much as $300. We’ve picked out four computers with the maximum savings. They range from $1,000 convertible laptops from HP and Samsung to a $1,700 gaming powerhouse from MSI. And these aren’t last year’s models. No, these are current configurations with modern components. …

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Hybrid laptop deals: Take home a 2

Here’s a neat trick: getting a midrange two-in-one laptop at a budget price. Best Buy and HP have slashed the prices of three two-in-one laptops that boast well-rounded, mainstream configurations. At their current sale prices, they’re in the budget price range of $550 to $600. Granted, these three models from HP, Lenovo and Samsung feature CPUs that are a generation …

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