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Lenovo's take on Google's Nest Hub has a built-in camera

September 5, 2019
Lenovo is fully embracing its recently found identity as a part-time smart home device maker by announcing three new smart displays here at IFA 2019. First is the Smart Display 7, which expands the company’s existing lineup of Google-based connected displays by adding a small 7-inch version. The other two are the Yoga Smart Tab and Smart Tab M8 — 10-inch and 8-inch Android tablets…
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Acer’s $14,000 Predator Thronos Air is a chair fit for gaming royalty

September 4, 2019
What do you get the gamer in your life that has everything? And we mean absolutely everything. If you ask Acer, the answer is the company’s new Predator Thronos Air Gaming Chair. Unveiled at this year’s IFA Berlin, the Thronos Air is a more affordable version of the Thronos Gaming Chair Acer announced at IFA Berlin 2018. At $13,999, the Thronos Air is a full $6,000 cheaper than its…
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Acer adds RTX Quadro power to its high-end ConceptD laptops

September 4, 2019
Acer is chasing the creative professional with the pro-grade line of ConceptD laptops it launched in April. These powerful notebooks with rich, accurate displays come in eye-catching designs that help them stand out even as other laptops up their style games. When the series…
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Acer’s Predator Triton 300 is its new entry-level gaming laptop

September 4, 2019
With waves of GPU upgrades and Intel processor refreshes keeping things interesting, gaming laptop competition has never been fiercer. In a bid to pick up gamers not quite willing to spend thousands of dollars on their rig, the Predator Triton 300 keeps the thin-and-light credentials of the series (this one is just 2.3kg), and ties together a 9th-gen Intel Core i7 with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX…
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Windows 10 will let you reinstall the OS from the cloud

August 31, 2019
To date, reinstalling Windows has meant using a local copy — either something already stored on your PC (and thus at risk of going bad) or something external. Soon, though, it might just be a matter of grabbing it online. On top of changing tablet mode, the latest…
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Microsoft disables automatic tablet mode in the latest Windows 10 beta

August 30, 2019
Microsoft has always had a tablet mode for 2-in-1 Windows 10 PCs — including its own Surface products — but that could be changing. In the latest Insider 18970 beta release, Windows 10 no longer automatically offers to enter tablet mode when you remove a keyboard. While the finger-friendly square tile interface is still available, you need to manually activate it by going into the…
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