The display is arguably the second-most important piece of hardware in a laptop. After all, it’s the means by which you actually use the device. Yet displays are difficult to explain and understand. They can be measured, but most people are not familiar with what those measurements mean or how they relate to their own […]
The Dell Precision 5750. Dell The Dell Latitude 9510. Dell The Dell Precision 5550. Dell The Dell Latitude 9410 in a clamshell configuration. Dell The Dell Latitude 9410 is also available in a 2-in-1 convertible configuration. Dell Today, Dell announced updates to several laptops in its office (Latitude) and professional workstation (Precision) product lines, with […]
Enlarge / You’ll be able to buy a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with pre-installed and factory-supported Fedora Workstation 32 later this year. Lenovo It looks like Lenovo may upstage Dell as the big name in OEM Linux laptops—not counting specialty retailers like System76, of course. Red Hat and Lenovo are announcing pre-installed and factory-supported Fedora Workstation […]
Enlarge / Although the stand is very light, it’s stable once constructed. In this shot, we tried it out with the laptop on sideways. Jim Salter Standing desks are great, but even the add-on variety are normally far too big and heavy to travel with you. In the long, long ago—prior to COVID-19 isolation—I did […]
While your old computer might not be able to play the latest games or be fast enough for your daily tasks, it still is quite useful! After saving and transferring any valuable data, don’t dare think about throwing it in the trash. Instead, here are some great ideas about what to do with that old […]
Among the many PC makers on the market today, few stand as tall as HP. Formerly Hewlett-Packard, HP formed part of the vanguard of the home computer revolution, and to this day, this iconic brand still pumps out many of the best Windows machines (and even some Chromebooks now, too) that money can buy. Much […]
Losing your laptop or being a victim of theft can compromise your private information, not to mention that replacing a laptop can be pretty expensive. Thankfully, there are ways of figuring out where you left your laptop. Tracking a laptop doesn’t always work since you need to have some location and tracking settings enabled, but […]
The immediate takeaway on 10th-gen Comet Lake H-series: 45W TDP, four/six/eight cores with hyperthreading, very high turbo clockrates. Intel Corporation You’ll definitely want to pay attention to the asterisk at the end of “fastest mobile processor.” It’s referring to turbo clock speed, not necessarily overall performance. Intel Corporation Intel is leaning very heavily on the […]
Intel has launched its first laptop processors, the 10th Gen Core H-Series, that breaks the 5GHz barrier with speeds that range from 2.3GHz to 5.3GHz. It is targeting gamers and content creators. Or those who both play games and upload videos to YouTube — at the same time. The new Intel Core i9-10980HK processor is […]
Here’s a gallery of April 2020 laptops with the latest Nvidia Max-Q GPUs. First up, the Razer Blade Advanced, with an RTX 2080 Super inside. Razer The Acer Nitro 5, which will start at $ 999 with an RTX 2060 GPU. Acer The Predator Triton 500. Acer The ASUS Tuf. ASUS The newest HP Omen […]
There are quite a few computer brands around today, but only a couple are as iconic and recognizable as Dell. This company has long been at the forefront of the consumer PC revolution and has been making machines for students, professionals, gamers, and regular users alike for decades now, but this seasoned pedigree hasn’t stopped […]
Mark Coppock/Digital Trends Of all the computer brands on the market in 2019, few have proven as long-lasting as the iconic ThinkPad. Born in the ‘90s, IBM’s ThinkPad PCs were among the earliest consumer laptops out there, but ones that were specifically aimed at professionals and other tech enthusiasts (for whom the ThinkPad name still […]
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Yesterday, Microsoft held its annual Surface hardware event, and as usual, the company unveiled several new devices that are currently in the works. The latest announcements include news on the Surface Laptop 3. During the presentation, the company claimed that the third generation of the Surface Laptop would be a thin and “easily repairable” laptop. […]
The Spectre isn’t entirely bezel-less, but it’s close—HP says it has a 90% screen-to-body ratio at every angle. HP Inc. Hardware kill switches for Wi-Fi were never popular, but hopefully the webcam equivalent will do better. HP Inc. This year’s Spectre 13 is 13% smaller than last year’s. HP Inc. Today, HP announced that the 2019 […]