PC & Laptops

Lenovo 500e Chromebook As part of its educational announcement yesterday, Microsoft unveiled a new low-cost Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 and priced to compete with Chromebooks in the classroom market. But, ironically, Lenovo itself was busy announcing additional new education notebooks, some of which include Chromebooks. The device that Microsoft ...

Apple’s own T2 co-processor inside the iMac Pro desktop. A new Bloomberg article is reporting that Apple plans to expand the number of Macs using its own co-processor chips this year, a move that could foretell a future where Intel is no longer inside Apple’s computers. According to the report, ...

KDE Slimbook II Linux laptop A little more than a year ago, Linux developers KDE and a Spanish hardware manufacturer joined forces to offer the KDE Slimbook, a 13.3-inch laptop running a Ubuntu-based OS with mid-range specs and a mid-range price. Now KDE is back with the Slimbook II, which, ...

Lenovo Yoga 730 It’s been less than six months since ZDNet reviewed the Lenovo Yoga 720, the then-latest version of its popular convertible laptop. But as highly thought of as that hybrid was, Lenovo is already back at MWC with an upgraded version. Predictably dubbed the Yoga 730 series, the ...

Atari VCS Legendary game company Atari set retro hearts aflutter last year when it launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for something called the Ataribox, a living room device running Linux and supposedly combining the features of a PC with a video game console — complete with some Atari classic games. ...

Linux Mint Mintbox Mini 2 The original Mintbox Mini is one of the best PCs available if you’re looking for a Linux-based tiny desktop. That’s in part because it runs the Mint flavor of Linux desktop, which ZDNet’s own Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has called “the best of the best” of ...

Intel Hades Canyon NUC It’s a classic case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend: While Intel and AMD are rivals when it comes to processors, they both have a common target in Nvidia when it comes to computer graphics. Though Intel has made strides in improving the ...

Intel Hades Canyon NUC It’s a classic case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend: While Intel and AMD are rivals when it comes to processors, they both have a common target in Nvidia when it comes to computer graphics. Though Intel has made strides in improving the ...

Linux Mint Mintbox Mini 2 The original Mintbox Mini is one of the best PCs available if you’re looking for a Linux-based tiny desktop. That’s in part because it runs the Mint flavor of Linux desktop, which ZDNet’s own Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has called “the best of the best” of ...

Atari VCS Legendary game company Atari set retro hearts aflutter last year when it launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for something called the Ataribox, a living room device running Linux and supposedly combining the features of a PC with a video game console — complete with some Atari classic games. ...