Acer on Thursday morning held its annual showcase for new laptops, PCs and accessories, known as Next @ Acer. From the stage at New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard, CEO Jason Chen said the company chose the location for being “up-and-coming,” which is likely how the company would like to see itself. The company announced a dizzying array …
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The upcoming USB 4 will restore a useful feature we lost with the technology’s modernization: USB hubs that let you multiply the utility of a single port on your PC. USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, is a remarkably successful standard more than two decades old now. It’s spread far and wide, but the newer USB-C technology doesn’t work well …
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The global market for personal computers continued its years-long downward spiral in the first quarter, according to preliminary numbers released Wednesday by market analysts. Worldwide shipments of PCs, including desktops, notebooks and workstations, declined 3% during the first three months of 2019, compared with the same period last year, market researcher IDC reported Wednesday. Market researcher Gartner tallied the same …
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Apple products are rarely available at discount, but Best Buy this week has a number of MacBook Pro models marked down. The sale includes four different configurations (and two color choices) of the 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar, each of which is $200 off of its list price. And Amazon shoppers should know that two of the four …
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Microsoft, having given up on its own core browser technology, has released test versions of its Edge browser built instead on the same foundations as Google’s Chrome. “In these first builds we are very much focused on the fundamentals and have not yet included a wide range of feature and language support that will come later,” said Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s …
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The future of 5G on the iPhone is getting messy. Starting in 2016, Apple used chips from both Intel and Qualcomm to power its iPhone’s modem, connecting it to 4G cellular networks. But in 2018, the company switched entirely to Intel’s wireless chips for its $999 iPhone XS, $1,099 iPhone XS Max and $749 iPhone XR. And it’s believed the …
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There are two deals on two-in-one laptops at Best Buy worth noting right now. Both convertibles supply a roomy 15.6-inch touchscreen that can rotate a full 360 degrees to go from laptop to tablet mode and back. The HP model is a midrange configuration, and the Dell is a beast. Also, Echo Dots ($40 at Target) are on sale. Let’s …
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Do you need a workstation CPU? That’s the main question you need to answer before shelling out $5,000 (£4,899, AU$7,299) for the entry-level configuration of the Apple iMac Pro rather than a top-level configuration of the new iMac. There are other considerations, but the CPU is ultimately what the decision comes down to. Because the iMac is now powerful enough …
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If Apple’s new iMacs don’t fit into your all-in-one budget, then you might consider a Windows-based all-in-one alternative for less. And right now is a good time for such considerations. Best Best this week is running a sale on all-in-ones from Asus, Dell and Lenovo. Like the iMac, these systems boast a space-saving design that puts the PC components not …
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On Sunday Microsoft quietly made a change to its Surface Book 2 line. An entry-level 13.5-inch model now comes with a quad-core eighth-gen Intel i5 processor. This is a considerable power bump from the existing dual-core seventh-gen Intel i5 CPU but without any raise in price. The upgraded entry-level model starts at $1,499, while the older one has dropped $200 …
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