By balancing price, performance, portability, and design, the 13.5-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop became one of the best notebooks of 2017, and the company barely bothered to tweak that formula for 2018’s Surface Laptop 2. But with the just-announced Surface Laptop 3, Microsoft is actually changing the laptop’s design in a few key ways — including the long-awaited USB-C port so you can…
Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 packs a 10th-gen Intel CPU
October 2, 2019
Microsoft has good news if you just want a straightforward portable PC instead of one of its more exotic models: there’s a new Surface Laptop in town. The Surface Laptop 3 shares much of the familiar design (more on that in a bit), but there’s considerably more…
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 3 with AMD processor
October 2, 2019
At its Surface event in New York City today, Microsoft refreshed its Surface Laptop with updated specs, USB-C support, and AMD Ryzen 7. This is the first time a Surface device has been powered by AMD. Furthermore, while the Surface Laptop 2 only came in a 13.5-inch size, the…
A new bug is marring Lenovo’s otherwise excellent Smart Display. The bug, first spotted by Android Police, locks the device in a continuous update loop where it hangs at around 45 percent and then restarts. After restarting, it will attempt to install the same update again, only to once again get stuck.
Some Smart Display owners have been able to successfully bypass the bug by resetting…
Windows 10X may be Microsoft's OS for dual-screen devices
October 1, 2019
No, the leaks for Microsoft’s October 2nd event haven’t stopped yet. In a follow-up, well-known leaker Evan Blass has claimed that Microsoft will not only have a dual-screen Surface, but that it’ll be powered by Windows 10X, an operating system variant…
Yesterday brought the leaks of several new Surface products that may be announced at Microsoft’s big hardware event, including the Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, and an ARM-powered Surface 2-in-1 laptop. Now, leaker Evan Blass has spilled details about Windows 10X, said…
Apple confirmed in late September that it’s manufacturing the redesigned Mac Pro in its Austin, Texas plant. That might have been partly enabled by securing exemptions from Trump’s China tariffs for 10 out of 15 Mac Pro components made in the Asian country. What happened to the other five, you ask? Well, according Bloomberg, the US Trade Representative’s office has refused to…
Apple will pay 25 percent tax on five imported Mac Pro parts, thanks to Trump tariffs
September 30, 2019
The US Trade Representative’s office has denied Apple tariff relief on five parts for its new Mac Pro computer, as reported by Bloomberg. Each of the imported parts — the optional wheels, a circuit board for managing input and output ports, power adapter, charging cable…
HP’s Spectre x360 13 seems like an improvement in almost every way
September 30, 2019
HP’s Spectre x360 13 has undergone a fairly drastic makeover for 2019. It’s still very much a Spectre: the premium 2-in-1 has glossy edges, a cleverly placed power button, and one USB-C port embedded into its two diagonally cut corners. But HP has cut away a lot of the…
HP’s Spectre x360 packs a 4K display if you want it
September 30, 2019
HP is once again tweaking its popular Spectre x360 convertible lineup with a new 13-inch model. While the new x360 maintains the overall look of its predecessor, it’s 13 percent smaller. It also has less noticeable display bezels, with the top half of the computer featuring a 90 percent screen-to-body ratio where the 2018 model was only 78 percent display. At 2.8 pounds, the new Spectre is…
