As AMD continues to encroach on Intel’s previously dominant position inside gaming PCs, the Santa Clara company has responded with Intel Gamer Days, a week-long celebration of giveaways and deal to help cement brand loyalty. The timing is fortuitous as we’ve just unveiled our list of the best gaming laptops and budget gaming laptops, many […]
Panasonic Toughbook 55 Panasonic’s Toughbook lineup of rough-and-ready laptops is highly regarded for workers requiring mobile computing under demanding conditions. ZDNet’s Sandra Vogel reviewed the semi-rugged Toughbook 55 at the end of 2019 and found that it “has a lot going for it.” It has even more going for it now that Panasonic has updated […]
Intel “Beast Canyon” NUC 11 Extreme Kit Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) platform has been around long enough that it’s probably lost its “next” status, but that doesn’t stop the company from continuing to churn out new versions as its Core processors get refreshed. With each new iteration of the NUC, we can expect […]
Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 Although Chromebooks were originally designed to be inexpensive laptops that were light on resources thanks to their reliance on Google’s Chrome OS, there is definitely a segment of the market that provides higher performance systems at a higher price tag, of course. There’s a question as to just how large that […]
Lenovo ThinkStation P350 Tiny Though nowhere near as visible as its laptop offerings, Lenovo’s business PCs are still an important part of the company’s computer stable, harkening back to the early days of IBM’s systems, long before the Chinese manufacturer acquired those assets. So news like this week’s launch of the company’s ThinkStation P350 desktop […]
LG Gram Best known for its HDTVs and appliances, the South Korean manufacturer LG ventured into the laptop market over five years ago with its Gram notebook, a portable system given its name thanks to its light weight (less than a kilogram). Despite its high price and newcomer status, the premium Gram line has survived […]
Acer Chromebook Spin 514 Acer rolled out the 514 Chromebook back in 2018 as an upscale alternative to the budget systems to which the Chromebook name is often tied. With its $349 price tag and touches like a metal chassis, 1080p display, and Corning Gorilla Glass touchpad, it was looking to split the difference between […]
Asus Fanless Chromebox While its Chromebook announcements at CES 2021 received more fanfare, Asus continues to support the Chromebox platform for desktop PCs built to run the Chrome OS. Its new Fanless Chromebox is designed to support commercial and industrial applications with a tiny, rugged form factor that packs Intel processors inside along with updated […]
Tablets designed to run the Chrome operating systems have had a rocky road, especially compared to the runaway success of Chromebook laptops. Like Chromebox desktops, Chromebook tablets are few and far between, with occasional big splashes only to fade away as they fail to connect with the market. One of those splashes came last year […]
Vaio Z If the Vaio Z sounds familiar, you may be recalling Sony’s ultraportable laptop that was launched over a decade ago. That was when the electronics giant was firmly involved in the PC market, but that came to a close in 2014, when Sony stopped producing computers and sold off that part of its […]