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Nvidia RTX Spark vs. Gemini Spark: Which is the real future of AI?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is nothing if not passionate, and as he rattled off the impressive specs for the RTX Spark—a system-on-a-chip that’s powerful enough to run an army of AI agents on laptops and desktops—the outspoken exec described an audacious vision of our AI future. “Here’s my theory,” Huang said during Sunday night’s RTX Spark rollout. “I could totally imagine that…
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Dell’s $599 XPS 13 is coming for the MacBook Neo’s lunch money

Dell’s latest XPS 13 might not have set out to specifically challenge Apple’s MacBook Neo, but it arrives at the right time. Its $599 price for students directly challenges the MacBook Neo’s own $599 price, with either Intel’s latest “Wildcat Lake” or the more powerful “Panther Lake” processors under the hood. Better yet, the new XPS 13 sports an OLED display and a 17-hour battery…
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Acer’s new Intel gaming handheld picked a terrible time to show up

A year or two ago, gaming handhelds were the most exciting, fastest-growing segment in the PC market. So exciting that Acer announced a couple of models that I’m not sure ever actually landed at retail. But in 2026, as memory and storage shortages cripple the consumer PC market, things are a lot more complicated — just ask Valve. Acer’s back at Computex 2026, announcing a fresh gaming…
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Microsoft is putting Copilot on a productivity leash

Google made headlines a short time ago for a plan to expand its Gemini prompt box as it combines AI and search. Microsoft is taking a different tack: it’s also dynamically expanding its prompt box, but with an eye towards improving its productivity apps instead. Right now…
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I tested a 7-year-old laptop. Now I’m questioning the upgrade cycle

The first surprise came before I even opened a browser tab: The seven-year-old Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 booted faster than the brand-new laptops I tested it against. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Whenever laptop or chip makers don’t have much to say about how a PC improved from the prior generation, they trot out a tried-and-true comparison: How the new PC compares to one that is five…
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