Whether you’ve returned to the office or are working from home, upgrading to a new laptop can help increase your productivity and performance. If you’re getting by with an outdated laptop that’s lost a step or two, check out these discounted Lenovo laptops and two-in-one convertibles. You’ll find the latest flagship ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen …
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In the not-too-distant past, laptops with OLED displays were high-priced affairs geared toward graphics professionals engaged in creative work. Now, OLED displays can be found on mainstream laptops for anyone who might also enjoy stellar contrast and accurate, vibrant colors. How does an OLED panel achieve this goodness? A quick primer: The pixels in an OLED display can be completely …
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Samsung on Wednesday announced that a new gaming monitor called the Odyssey OLED G8 will become available in late 2022. With QD-OLED display tech, the Odyssey OLED G8 is Samsung’s first OLED gaming monitor. The 34-inch “ultra-slim” curved monitor has a 21:9 aspect ratio, 175Hz refresh rate and a 0.1-millisecond response time. “In addition to the rapid response time and refresh rate …
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If Apple isn’t going to make a 17-inch MacBook Pro, then someone else is going to have to. That’s what I always think when I see one of Dell’s big-screen XPS 17 laptops. The oldest XPS 17 review of mine I could find dates back to 2011, although I’ve been covering this particular product line (or its identically named antecedents) …
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“What a strange-looking MacBook.” That was my first thought when I first saw the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new M2 chip at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino during WWDC 2022. There wasn’t anything particularly strange about it — it looked like the last several models of 13-inch Apple laptops, both Pro and Air. But in the Apple Silicon era, I’ve …
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Asus on Tuesday unveiled the ROG Swift 500Hz, the world’s first 500Hz Nvidia G-Sync display. The 24-inch gaming monitor‘s ultrafast refresh rate is designed with competitive gaming at 1080p in mind. It didn’t reveal the price or release date for ROG Swift 500Hz. “The ROG Swift 500Hz draws frames more than eight times faster than typical 60Hz displays in a …
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Acer Next, the company’s May announcement event, dropped a multitude of products on us — mostly a raft of refreshes. We saw updates to existing models including the Spin 5, Swift 3 and Predator gaming laptops with current-generation processors and some design tweaks. One move in particular stands out, though: Acer’s expanding its SpatialLabs technology to bring glasses-free stereoscopic 3D …
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There have been a few larger two-in-one laptops with hardware powerful enough for PC gaming. But they’re typically made for media creators, such as HP’s Spectre x360 16, so gaming is just something they can do, not what they’re built for. The ROG Flow X16 that Asus announced on Tuesday is a full-fledged gaming two-in-one with components and cooling strong enough …
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Lenovo announced its latest high-end Legion 7 series gaming laptops on Tuesday. At the top of the line are the Legion 7 and 7i, which Lenovo said are the world’s most powerful 16-inch gaming laptops. A pair of thinner, lighter versions, the Slim 7 and 7i, were also announced. The Legion 7 (AMD) and 7i (Intel) feature a 16-inch 2,560×1,600-resolution …
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Asus announced several new Zenbook and Vivobook laptops Monday as part of its Pinnacle of Performance event. Like other PC makers, Asus is updating current models with AMD Ryzen 6000-series and Intel 12th-gen Core processors. And you’ll see a lot more OLED displays available for its laptops this year, too. But with Asus, it’s always the things you won’t find …
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