Costco Black Friday 2018 ad Dell has been the first to see its Black Friday ads leaked online in the past couple of years, but its streak comes to an end in 2018, as Costco has just seen its ad posted to Black Friday deal sites. The retailer is known ...
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IFA 2018: Acer announces Chromebook 514 with premium features, $349 price tag
Acer Chromebook 514 Adding to the list of Chromebook announcements at this week’s IFA trade show in Berlin, Acer is launching the 514 Chromebook to join new units from Dell and Lenovo. Like Dell’s new Inspiron Chromebook 14 and Lenovo’s Yoga Chromebook, Acer’s model is a “premium” Chromebook, with touches ...
Read More »Lenovo introduces five new Android tablets, starting at $70
Lenovo Tab E8 Android tablet It’s no secret that the tablet market continues to crater, falling 13.5 percent just in the second quarter alone, but manufacturers continue to give it the old college try. Samsung just released the Galaxy Tab S4, and Lenovo is making a big push with a ...
Read More »Intel brewing up Coffee Lake NUC mini desktop PCs for pre-order
Intel Coffee Lake NUC mini-PC After launching the VR-ready Hades Canyon NUC earlier this year, Intel is back with another upgrade to its barebones mini-PC lineup. While not as powerful as the Hades Canyon Next Unit of Computing, which managed to squeeze an Nvidia discrete graphics card into its svelte ...
Read More »Lenovo Miix 630 ARM-based 2-in-1 Windows tablet goes on sale for $900
Lenovo Miix 630 There may be some life left in the tablet form factor, at least on the Windows side of things. Joining the new $399 Microsoft Surface Go is the Lenovo Miix 630, announced at CES but finally going on sale starting yesterday. The Miix 630 is notable for ...
Read More »Compulab releases MintBox Mini 2 PC with Linux Mint 19 pre-installed
MintBox Mini 2 As promised back in March, Compulab has launched its MintBox Mini 2, the latest iteration of its tiny desktop PC running the Mint Linux distribution. The biggest upgrade from the original Mini, as we reported at the time, comes in the processor department, as AMD is abandoned ...
Read More »Atari VCS gaming console Linux mini-PC finally available to pre-order
Atari VCS Onyx edition If you’ve been following along with the continuing saga of legendary gaming brand Atari’s latest venture — a living room game console and Linux based PC that was originally dubbed Ataribox before morphing into Atari VCS — you’re well aware that it’s had more false starts ...
Read More »Dell refreshes Precision laptops with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed
Dell Precision 3530 mobile workstation It’s been a little over a year since Dell updated its Precision mobile workstation line, which is notable for its inclusion of the Ubuntu flavor of Linux as an operating system option alongside Windows 10. But last week, the company refreshed the laptop lineup without ...
Read More »Intel boosts class-leading speed with Optane SSD 905P drives
Intel Optane SSD 905P It’s barely been six months since Intel rolled out the Optane SSD 900, high-performance solid-state drives for workstations and performance PC enthusiasts using 3D XPoint memory, and already the company has released the 905P series to improve on its predecessor. As with the 900 family, the ...
Read More »Atari's Linux-powered VCS console gets pre-order date, $199 starting price
Atari VCS The Atari VCS (formerly known as Ataribox) is edging closer to no longer being vaporware with the company’s announcement today that it will finally be available for pre-order. The video game console/mini-PC combo is slated to go on sale on May 30 via crowdfunding site Indiegogo. Even better, ...
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