CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Desk goes up, desk goes down. Desk goes up, desk goes down. VersaDesk …
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High dynamic range is the latest tech trend in the TV world, with its brighter highlights and lavish colors. It produces a more dramatic improvement in image quality than 4K resolution, especially on a high-end TV. But if you consider TVs too small and prefer the huge images produced by projectors, I have some bad news. A bunch of new …
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If you don’t already, it’s time to get to know English inventor John Harrison. To mark April 3, John Harrison’s 325th birthday, Google is celebrating the man behind the first marine chronometer to calculate longitude at sea. To honor him, Google shows the inventor hard at work with his clock-making tools in Tuesday’s Doodle. Born in 1693, Harrison lived in …
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About midway through the March 27 on-stage presentation introducing the new 2018 iPad, Greg Joswiak, Apple’s VP of iOS, iPad and iPhone Product Marketing started talking about a software feature called Shared iPad. “Shared iPad allows a student to pick up any iPad off the school cart, tap on their name and once they log in, that iPad becomes their …
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If you’ve read any TV reviews lately, or anything about modern TV technology, you’ve likely come across the term “nit.” The short version is that it’s a colloquial term for a unit of brightness. That description might be enough for you. Lots of nits = lots of brightness, which helps the image look better in a bright room or with …
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Behold the majesty of the Viva Egoista 845, some might say it’s too large to be a headphone amp — it’s more akin to an integrated amp — but it’s gloriously over the top. No one needs an Egoista 845, but no one needs a 789 horsepower Ferrari either, but if you have the means, why not? I think of …
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You’d think that after launching the Huawei P20 Pro, a high-end phone with muscular specs that challenge the Galaxy S9, the world’s third-largest phone maker would bask in the glow and wait for preorder sales to rush in. Huawei’s P20 Pro, left, has three cameras on the back. Josh Miller/CNET But for the China-based Huawei, those preorders from the all-important …
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Apple promised it would let you tap into the power of an external graphics card with your late-model MacBook Pro, iMac Pro and 2017 iMac. That day has arrived: MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4 now officially supports eGPUs, letting you plug a box containing a desktop graphics card into a laptop or all-in-one PC to drastically up its graphics performance and …
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If you hate a phone with a screen notch, another alternative just bit the dust. The OnePlus 6 will have a notch. Yep, that’s a notch. OnePlus But if you’re worried that the screen cutout will be as noticeable on the OnePlus 6 as it is on the iPhone X, you can relax a little bit. OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei said …
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Best Buy is in the midst of a one-day flash sale featuring some pretty sweet discounts. Until 7:59 p.m. PT (10:59 p.m. ET) tonight, the retailer is offering aggressive pricing on a range of products including laptops, HDTVs, headphones, vacuums and more from brands including Apple, Bose, Dell and Beats by Dre. In many cases, we haven’t seen these kinds of …
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