The replacement for the “trash-can” Mac Pro you can buy today won’t see the light of day until sometime in 2019. That was the big takeaway from an exclusive TechCrunch story story by Matthew Panzarino earlier this week, chronicling Apple’s strategy for making up years of neglecting the professional creative market. Read more: Meet the new Mac Pro The …
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Intel was stuck. In early 2017, the chipmaker’s new seventh-gen laptop and desktop Kaby Lake processors were barely faster than the year before. “Don’t be fooled,” I wrote. But this year, it looks like Intel’s priciest new chips have gained some real ground. On Tuesday, the company is announcing its first six-core, 12-thread chips for laptops — one of them …
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Dell already has the smallest 13.3-inch laptop, the new XPS 13. Now it’s given the XPS 15 a similar overhaul to make it the smallest 15.6-inch performance laptop available. And at 4 pounds (1.8 kg) it’s one of the lightest, too. Like the XPS 13, Dell achieved the 15’s smaller size by shaving off millimeters around its display, bringing the …
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If you didn’t realize — or forgot — that Samsung made gaming laptops, you’re not alone. The company launched the line last year at CES 2017, but received a somewhat mixed reception; some folks felt it was overpriced for its cheap-feeling body and run-of-the-mill components. Surprising for a company with premium mainstream laptops and phones. The reboot, the 15-inch Odyssey …
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Apple may start using its own chips in Mac computers as soon as 2020. The company is in the early stages of creating its own processors for the MacBook and iMac, which currently run on Intel chips, according to unnamed sources speaking to Bloomberg on Monday. Should this happen, the Mac computer line would have a similar processor strategy to the …
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What if I told you there was a desktop computer that could easily fit in any messenger bag, even hang off the back of your monitor, yet had enough power to drive a VR headset and play the latest games at 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution? What if I told you it had more ports than most desktops 10 times its size, too? …
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Best Buy is in the midst of a one-day flash sale featuring some pretty sweet discounts. Until 7:59 p.m. PT (10:59 p.m. ET) tonight, the retailer is offering aggressive pricing on a range of products including laptops, HDTVs, headphones, vacuums and more from brands including Apple, Bose, Dell and Beats by Dre. In many cases, we haven’t seen these kinds of …
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A new phone wasn’t the only dish on Xiaomi’s new menu on Tuesday. At its press conference in Shanghai, the Chinese company also introduced a new entry into its line of Mi Notebooks, and this one comes with specs suitable for gaming. Clad in black metal, the Mi Gaming Laptop 15.6, as the name suggests, comes with a 15.6-inch display. …
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It looks like the blockchain bug might have bitten Google. The tech colossus’ cloud computing group is working on a service that could let customers use the heavily hyped transaction processing technology, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Blockchain is a potentially disruptive technology to track assets and transactions in a digital record held collectively among many computers instead of a single centralized …
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Dave Patterson and John Hennessy, two San Francisco Bay Area professors now associated with Google, have won the computing industry’s top prize for revolutionizing processors with a technology called RISC. The pair won the 2017 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, a $1 million prize named after Alan Turing, the British researcher who famously helped crack German Enigma …
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