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Gaming laptops were once the Rodney Dangerfield of computers — they got no respect. Many were much more expensive than comparable desktop gaming rigs, despite having worse performance and less flexibility. Worse, many were laptops in name only, with back-breakingly big bodies, and some of the worst design elements ever pulled from the adolescent sci-fi …

I felt like a dancer in the dark of a Las Vegas patio lounge, ducking, swooping, leaning and spinning. But I was actually trying to get a closer look at the Red Ranger. I was testing the full-motion tracking capabilities of Qualcomm’s mobile VR headset during a demo at CES 2017. Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 835 processor is designed for headsets …

How often do you buy a new TV or smart fridge? (Probably not often.) But how quickly do your appliance’s smarts go obsolete? The Intel Compute Card — a credit-card shaped PC just announced at CES 2017 — is a stab at making upgrades for big, bulky devices far more easy. While it’s not quite small enough to fit in …

At CES 2017, Intel has announced a major (but largely expected) expansion of its current CPU lineup, with the addition of several new and more powerful seventh-generation Core i-series processors. We’ve already seen and tested a handful of laptops with processors from Intel’s seventh-generation of Core i-series chips, sometimes known by the code name Kaby Lake. But, those late-2016 systems, …

Now playing: Watch this: Intel’s latest chips aren’t that great 1:12 Kaby Lake. Kaby Lake. Kaby Lake. If you read tech news, you may seeing that phrase an awful lot this week: it’s what Intel calls its latest seventh-generation processors for laptop and desktop PCs. But before you get all excited about a PC with the new processors, there’s something …

If Microsoft could go back in time, I’ve a pretty good idea what would happen. CEO Satya Nadella would hand his younger self the code for Microsoft’s new Win32 on ARM emulator. It’s the missing piece of the puzzle that could finally let Microsoft build Windows phones, razor-thin tablets and tiny laptops that people might actually want to buy. It …

Strange but true — when we went looking for a Windows alternative to the new 15-inch MacBook Pro, only one laptop stood out. Right now, the Dell XPS 15 is the only machine with portability and performance to match Apple’s largest laptop. Problem is, its CPU and graphics are about to be a year out of date. It looks like …

After years of development and millions of advertising dollars spent to convince us that a tablet could plausibly replace a laptop, Microsoft finally delivered the goods with the Surface Pro 4 in 2015. Equipped with robust processing power, a perfectly sized display and just-right aspect ratio, and a few critical add-on accessories, the current generation solidified the Surface’s position as …

Fitbit’s latest earnings reports weren’t good at all. Pebble sold itself at a firesale price (to Fitbit) and cancelled its future watches. Microsoft, Motorola and Intel appear to have halted (or at least suspended) their wearable product lines. The Samsung Gear S3 slid into the holidays with a whimper, not a bang. And while Apple claims it just had its …

Now playing: Watch this: Tech titans turn out for Trump 1:25 For President-elect Donald Trump, it’s kiss-and-make-up time. Trump met with more than a dozen executives from the biggest tech companies in the US — a roundtable fraught with potential for awkwardness given Trump’s repeated attacks on tech and the philosophical disagreements he has with some of the executives. The …