HP is once again giving its school Chromebooks an overhaul, and they’ll be particularly good news for teachers who bristle at the thought of mangled keyboards. The Chromebook 11 G8 EE, 11A G8 EE, x360 11 G3 EE and 14 G6 all have full-skirted anchored keys that are more “pick-proof” — a curious kid should have a harder time prying off the Shift key when the teacher…
Right on schedule, Microsoft today launched its new Edge browser based on Google’s Chromium open source project. You can download Chromium Edge now for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS directly from microsoft.com/edge in more than 90 languages. This is Edge 79…
Microsoft ends support for Windows 7: What you need to know
January 15, 2020
Microsoft’s support for Windows 7 ends today. This is by design: Microsoft provides at least a decade of support for its operating systems, split into two distinct types. Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, hit RTM status on July 22, 2009 and general availability on…
If the $5,999 base version of Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro wasn’t enough for your personal or professional needs, the company had no shortage of options to cover the bases — a fully tricked-out $52,599 version included enough CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, and extra video rendering horsepower to sate the most demanding video professionals. Today, Apple officially opened orders for an even more deluxe version…
Apple's next MacBook upgrades could be coming soon
January 13, 2020
Last year’s 16-inch MacBook Pro felt a bit like a return to form. While the latest iteration of Apple’s flagship laptop didn’t address the love-it-or-hate-it (but mostly hate-it) Touch Bar and an obnoxious lack of connectivity, it did have a much better…
Thermaltake just introduced a gaming headset that’s as much about showing off as it chatting with your gaming buddies. The Riing Pro RGB 7.1 steps up the competition against rival headsets with two-zone lighting you can control with both Alexa and Razer’s Chroma…
No, that’s not a Razer Phone 3 in the photo, but it’s a Pixel 3a XL wedged between two halves of a new Razer gamepad. Following the Junglecat, Razer chose CES to launch the Kishi controller, which plugs straight into your Android (via USB-C) or iPhone for lower latency and hence faster response. Obviously, this can be life or death in world of competitive mobile gaming, especially with…
Razer embraces 5G with its Sila home router concept
January 7, 2020
Turns out, not even Razer is immune to the hype surrounding 5G right now. In addition to its tiny, modular Tomahawk desktop, the company also revealed today it’s been working on a home 5G router thanks to a little help (otherwise known as “some grant…
A bit earlier this week, Intel gave us an early look at its NUC 9 Extreme, the latest in a long and fascinating line of super-compact PCs. It’s bigger than the NUCs (or Next Units of Computing) we’ve seen in the past, but that extra size means this is the first…
Dell debuts an AMD Ryzen version of its G5 gaming laptop
January 6, 2020
Dell is expanding its G5 gaming laptop line with an unusual addition: AMD hardware under the hood. Its new G5 15 Special Edition will run on AMD’s new “Renoir-H” Ryzen laptop processors and Radeon RX 5600M graphics, giving you solid mid-tier performance if you don’t care much for the Intel/NVIDIA combos that often dictate gaming portables. Not surprisingly, there’s…
