Acer announced four Chromebooks as part of the company’s global Next@Acer event on Wednesday. The new models include 14- and 15.6-inch clamshells — the Acer Chromebook 515 and 514 — as well as two 14-inch two-in-ones, the Chromebook Spin 514 and Spin 314. Shipments of Chromebooks exploded in 2020 from the pandemic and remained strong through the first half …
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Acer is growing its eco-friendly Vero product line to include new PCs and accessories made from recycled plastics and packaged in recyclable materials. The product announcements, part of the company’s global Next@Acer event on Wednesday, follow the recent release of the Aspire Vero laptop, which was announced at Acer’s last global event in May, and coincided with the launch of …
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Amazon has the latest HP Chromebook x360 for $360, which is $44 less than Walmart’s price on a nearly identical model, making it the best deal you’ll find for this Chromebook today. This is a two-in-one model that flips into tablet mode to suit your work style. It also has a 14-inch touchscreen. See at Amazon CNET hasn’t reviewed this …
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Acer’s Next@Acer fall product launch event, themed “Made for humanity,” highlighted “how Acer is helping make the ways we work, learn and play better for humanity and the environment.” Those ways include an expansion of its eco-friendly Vero line, which began with the Aspire Vero laptop, to more systems, plus four Chromebooks, a new Predator Orion 7000 gaming tower with …
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Apple’s already had a busy fall, releasing the iPad Mini, Apple Watch Series 7 and iPhone 13. Now, it’s got “one more thing” to show us. The tech giant announced a new online-only event planned for Monday, Oct. 18, at 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. UK and 3 a.m. Tuesday AEST. Apple’s event will be streamed live via the …
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Microsoft announced its latest premier two-in-one, the Surface Pro 8, at its Sept. 22 event and it’s now available to buy starting at $1,100. The Surface Pro hadn’t received a full update since October 2019, when the Pro 7 was introduced. That seems like eons ago — and even then it didn’t change much from the Surface Pro 6. Earlier this year, Microsoft …
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Samsung, one of the three leading edge processor manufacturers, had planned to start building a faster and more efficient class of chips in 2021, but instead the new design will instead arrive in the first half of 2022. The Korean electronics giant shared the schedule for the shift during its Samsung Foundry Forum on Wednesday. The slip means customers that rely on …
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In the decade since Steve Jobs passed away, on Oct. 5, 2011, the iPhone, Mac and iPad have helped turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies on the planet, with over a billion people now making Apple’s technology part of their daily lives. It’s a big change from 1997 when, after returning as interim CEO to an Apple …
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The 15.6-inch Aspire Vero is one of Acer’s first laptops to ship with Windows 11 alongside updated versions of its ultraportable Swift 5 and entry-level Nitro 5 gaming laptops. The Vero is entirely new, though. Well, not entirely new, as it’s Acer’s first laptop made from post-consumer recycled plastics, and it ships in packaging made from recycled materials that are also 100% recyclable. …
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system is rolling out today. The new operating system doesn’t have the most lenient requirements for people who want to upgrade compatible devices. To do so, you’ll need 64-bit processors selected, 4GB of memory, 64GB of storage, UEFI secure boot and TPM 2.0. Despite pushback from users, Microsoft said in an August blog post that it would keep …
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