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A budget laptop has to walk a very fine line. Cut too many features, and it’s going to offer disappointing performance and be annoying to use, no matter how low the price. Get too ambitious, and feature creep will drive the price up so much that it’s not a budget laptop at all anymore.
The back-to-school season has a different feel now than in the pre-pandemic days. Today, hybrid learning is a given for many students, and having a reliable computer is table stakes for even grade schoolers, not just high school and college students.
Alienware has not been the type of company to shy away from outlandish, expensive, and sometimes gaudy case designs.
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When it came out in 2019, the HP Elite Dragonfly was easily one of the best laptops out there for traveling businesspeople. It was thin, light, powerful and flashy enough to show off at high end coffee shops or wherever rich people congregate. However, because of the vPro platform and a host of features that made it…
Laptop design has evolved beyond its clamshell origins in the past few years, with the introduction of dual screens, convertibles, and foldable displays, but its the laptops that failed along the way that gave us some of the most fascinating features. From Compaq and IBM in the ‘90s to Lenovo and Asus in more recent…
It’s a controversial take, but sometimes I think Microsoft Edge is my favorite browser. I like the PDF viewer and Edge’s built-in “read-aloud” capability. And coming soon, Edge will be able to upscale low-resolution YouTube videos, like scrapes of old episodes of MTV’s Real World.
