Sure, HP’s launching two new Omen gaming desktops with updated designs. Yes, it’s also updating its current-generation components and releasing its first IPS gaming monitor. But what about that new Omen logo? Omen is the company’s mainstream gaming line. It targets grownups with jobs who play traditional games, don’t necessarily identify as Gamers and aren’t …
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After teasing new laptops with QLED displays and wireless chargers built into trackpads last October, Samsung’s new line of Galaxy Book laptops are now available. Called the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex, Galaxy Book Flex Alpha and Galaxy Book Ion, all three laptops take advantage of Samsung full HD QLED displays and 10th-generation Intel processors. Samsung’s Galaxy Book Flex Alpha. Samsung …
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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 on an HP Omen system. …
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USB 4, the next incarnation of the ubiquitous data-transfer technology, will be fast and versatile enough to let you plug a very high resolution 8K display in to your PC. That’s because it’ll accommodate DisplayPort 2.0, the newer version of a standard widely used to connect external monitors. The move, which industry groups announced Thursday, means USB will be a …
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Intel on Thursday led its annual deluge of new consumer desktop processors with a speed demon intended to bliss out overclockers who’ve been stockpiling liquid nitrogen along with toilet paper. The 10-core Core i9-10900K, with its claimed peak single-core frequency of 5.3GHz, tops this year’s 10th-gen range, which is based around Intel’s 14nm Comet Lake-S architecture. The rest of Intel’s …
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It’s slim pickings for budget laptops at the moment with the combination of the coronavirus outbreak causing supply chain issues and prepandemic office dwellers picking up a cheap laptop to work from home. If your budget can stretch past $500, however, you’ll find a greater number of midrange laptops in stock. Such a machine is not only more powerful and …
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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 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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Apple on Thursday announced a small change to MacOS and how the operating system manages the long-term battery health of MacBooks. The feature, simply called battery health management, will be available in MacOS Catalina 10.15.5, first appearing in a dev build, later coming to a public beta of 10.15.5, and finally being released to the public later this year. According …
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For the most part, Lenovo kept the spring refresh of its Legion gaming laptops and desktop relatively low key and under the hood, with the de rigueur updates to the latest Intel processors (and the addition of AMD Ryzen options), Nvidia GPUs and faster screens. The company did upgrade most of the systems with a new keyboard, dubbed “Legion TrueStrike” along with a …
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