President’s Day isn’t until this Monday, but Best Buy has already rolled out a big sale — with some deals that might earn your vote. The full online list is here, but I’ve rounded up what I consider to be the cream of Best Buy’s sale crop. These prices will be in effect through Monday, …
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Chipmaker Nvidia announced at CES 2019 that new gaming laptops running mobile versions of its RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080 graphics cards would start shipping by the end of January. The good news is they have. The better news is the prices are starting to come down on older laptops with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 10-series GPUs, which are still generally …
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Lots more Chromebook owners now can quickly get online even when there’s no Wi-Fi. A feature called instant tethering previously let people with Google’s own Chromebooks and phones quickly get online using their phone’s mobile network. Once it’s set up, it’s just a matter of by tapping a notification to connect. Now instant tethering is spreading beyond Google’s own devices. …
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Are you ready for deep blacks on your laptop? Samsung’s almost ready to deliver them unto you. The company says it plans to enter mass production of the new 15.6-inch 4K OLED panels in mid-February, bringing wide color gamut, reasonably fast and high contrast to higher-end consumer and gaming laptops this spring, like the HP Spectre X360 15 and Razer Blade …
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Every major PC maker has a division that makes PC gaming desktops and laptops, from Dell’s Alienware brand to HP’s Omen line. But at an event like CES 2019, it’s a bad idea to sleep on the smaller boutique PC makers who often bring new and interesting prototypes to the show. Origin PC’s sweet sixteen Origin PC has been building …
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The global PC market returned to its familiar downward slope in the fourth quarter, according to preliminary numbers from market analysts. PC makers shipped 68.6 million personal computers in the final quarter of 2018, a decline of 4.3 percent compared with the same period a year earlier, market researcher Gartner reported Thursday. IDC reported similar results, tallying 68.1 million PC …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Laptops were big business at CES 2019, not a surprise to anyone who has followed the show over the past several years. It’s usually a very popular category with dozens of new products, but I’ve rarely seen a year so packed …
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CES 2019 marks the first time AMD has ever given a keynote at the international trade show — so naturally, you’d expect the company’s debut conference to be packed. On Wednesday morning, AMD President and CEO Lisa Su didn’t disappoint, talking up the company’s upcoming third-gen Ryzen desktop CPUs, the new Epyc Rome chips for data centers and how, in …
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Google was as visible as any company at CES in 2019, with loads of promotion, integrations with other companies and product announcements of its own. Its Chrome operating system got some love, too, featured in a handful of new laptops and convertibles from Acer, Asus and HP. Marking one of the most significant milestones for the operating system in years, AMD announced …
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For its new Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 Black Edition, announced at CES 2019, Dell created a new hinge design that allows you to store the computer’s full-size active pen right at the top of the keyboard. Drop the pen in the garage and it magnetically holds it in place. The hinge rotates so the pen remains accessible regardless of the …
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