Laptop deals from Walmart’s 2017 Black Friday ad. With the release of Walmart’s Black Friday ad, the deals from the big three (Best Buy and Target as well) have been accounted for, and we can spot a couple of trends concerning PC sales for this holiday shopping season. One trend is that the race for […]
Target’s Black Friday ad shows sales on Apple’s iPad and iPad Pro, but not the iPad mini. With Black Friday now less than three weeks away, it’s time to get ready for the ads for the big guns to start appearing. First up is Target, who always moves a lot of Apple iPads during the […]
Laptop deals from Costco’s Black Friday ad Hot on the heels of Dell’s Black Friday plans being revealed, Costco has seen a pair of its ads leaked, including one with deals that start on November 17 and run through November 27. If you’re a member of the warehouse chain and are looking for a dirt […]
Dell kicks off the Black Friday ad reveal process for tech retailers. As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Dell has been the first tech retailer to have its Black Friday plans disclosed over the last couple of years — and this year is no different. The PC giant has “leaked” its deals for the […]
Intel Optane SSD 900P Gamers and other PC enthusiasts have been drooling over Intel’s Optane technology, which turbocharges solid-state storage so much that it can even be part of the memory pool with a computer’s usual DRAM. Unfortunately, they’ve only been able to get their hands on Optane technology as a “system accelerator” that works […]
HP ZBook x2 mobile workstation HP will be showing off the new ZBook x2 at Adobe’s Max conference today, raising the stakes for pro-level 2-in-1 devices after Microsoft announced its Surface Book 2 yesterday. While the Surface Book is clearly competing with Apple’s MacBook Pro in the creative class laptop space, HP is labeling the […]
With Black Friday now just a few weeks away, the websites that make their living off this time of year are predicting what shoppers might pay on November 24 for various items, including PCs and tablets. If you’re looking for massive price drops for the cheapest laptops, you’ll be disappointed, as $99 Chromebooks continue to […]
Intel has made several acquisitions and revamped its roadmap for deep learning. The new portfolio extends from Knights Mill and Lake Crest (Nervana) for training neural networks to Xeons, Altera FPGAs and Movidius vision processors for running these models. (I wrote about several of these in a post last week.) Now Intel has added another […]
At its iPhone X event last week, Apple devoted a lot of time to the A11 processor’s new neural engine that powers facial recognition and other features. The week before, at IFA in Berlin, Huawei announced its latest flagship processor, the Kirin 970, equipped with a Neural Processing Unit capable of processing images 20 times […]
Tanoshi’s child-friendly 2-in-1 Android laptop With the market shifting from tablets to 2-in-1 devices over the last couple of years, it’s certainly not surprising that system makers targeting kids would test out adding kid-friendly hybrid laptops to their lineups. (Certainly the rise of Chromebooks in schools have helped fuel this shift.) The Kurio Smart started […]