Valve’s new Steam Controller is a $99 game controller that went on sale in May (and quickly sold out). It has all the usual features like dual analog sticks, a D-Pad, ABXY buttons, and shoulder triggers. It also has some unusual features like two touchpads that make it easier to play some PC games. There’s […]
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Some gaming handhelds are so big that they can serve double-duty as laptop computers. The AYANEO Pocket MICRO 2 is at the other end of the spectrum. Measuring about the size of a modern smartphone, the little handheld has a 3.5 inch display with a 3:2 aspect ratio squeezed between a set of game controllers […]
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The ONEXPLAYER X2 is a handheld gaming PC with a big screen, a powerful processor with discrete-class graphics, and detachable controllers that let you use the system like a tablet. But it’s also an expensive handheld. It has a list price of $2099, although customers who pre-order ahead of an estimated July 7th ship date can pick […]
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The global RAM shortage has driven up prices for all sort of computers in recent months, even models that were supposed to be super cheap, like Raspberry Pi computers – most of which saw price hikes in April. So it’s interesting to see that Cytron is now selling some Raspberry Pi 4 Model B boards […]
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The Dasung Link 2 is a wireless E Ink touchscreen display that looks like a smartphone thanks to tis 6.7 inch display and pocket-sized design. But this isn’t a full-fledged phone. Instead it’s more like a portable monitor that’s meant to pair with your phone. Connect it to an iPhone or compatible Android phone and you can […]
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Just three months after introducing its most affordable laptop ever, Apple is increasing the starting price of the MacBook Neo. Originally priced at $599, the MacBook Neo is now selling for $699 and up. It’s still arguably one of the best laptops available in its price range. But it’s an example of how even a […]
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Apple may have just raised the starting price of its cheapest laptop to $699, but rivals are moving ahead with plans to offer cheap laptops with competitive features. The Dell XPS 13 Windows laptop with an Intel Core 5 320 Wildcat Lake processor launched earlier this month for $700 and up. And now Chuwi’s UniBook […]
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There are two ways PC makers can offer low-cost computers. One is to use newer components that are designed to be cheap. Another is to select older components that used to cost a lot of money, but which can now be purchased at a discount. So while many companies offering budget laptops and mini PCs have […]
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PC makers have announced RAMageddon-related price hikes so many times in the past year that it’s almost more newsworthy when a company doesn’t increase prices and blame them on rising component costs. Just this week we learned that the Steam Machine costs around 30% more than anticipated, Apple is increasing prices for Macs, iPads, and […]
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Over the past few years Valve has helped make Linux a viable platform thanks to the Proton compatibility layer that lets you play many Windows games on Linux, and the SteamOS operating system that powers the Steam Deck handheld gaming PC and the Steam Machine mini PC that’s launching this week. But you don’t need […]
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The Kubuntu Focus Ar GEN 1 is the first Linux laptop from the Kubuntu Focus team to feature an Intel Panther Lake processor that delivers the kind of graphics performance you’d expect from an entry-level discrete GPU. While there are several other Kubuntu Focus models that do have even higher-performance discrete graphics, those models are bigger, heavier, […]
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The Terramaster F4-425 Pro is a network attached storage system that looks virtually identical to the F4-425 Plus that launched last year. But while that model is powered by a 4-core Intel N150 processor, the new Pro version comes with either an Intel Core i3-N305 or Core 3 N350 8-core chip that should deliver a significant […]
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Amazon Prime Day is here again, and while the online retailer is promising big discounts on thousands of items, some deals are better than others… especially at a time when rising memory and storage costs are driving up prices for many consumer electronics devices. That said, if you’re in the market for a laptop, mini […]
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Zotac quietly unveiled a new fanless desktop computer with an Intel Wildcat Lake processor inside during Computex earlier this month. The ZOTAC ZBOX CI471 nano has a body that looks virtually identical to the ZBOX CI600 nano series that Zotac has been selling for eight years, but this new model is the first to be powered […]
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Valve’s Steam Deck is probably the most successful handheld gaming PC to date. Now Valve is expanding its hardware ambitions with the launch of a mini PC made for gaming. But there are a bunch of reasons to expect that the company’s first desktop computer might not make quite as big a splash. For one thing, […]
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More than two years after introducing a hacker-friendly smart speaker, Pine64 is now taking orders for its answer to the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod line of devices. The PineVoice* smart speaker has a lot of the features you’d expect from mainstream models. But it’s powered by a RISC-V processor and designed to work […]
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Gigabyte is introducing three new mini PCs with Intel Core Ultra (Series 3) Panther Lake chips inside. Available with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H 16-core mobile processor, the little computers may not have the discrete-class graphics you’d get from Intel Core Ultra X chips, but you do get plenty of expansion and […]
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The Orange Pi 6 is a single-board computer that measures 90 x 90mm (3.54″ x 3.54″) and features a high-performance 12-core Arm-based processor that delivers up to 45 TOPS of on-device AI processing performance. Launching more than half a year after the Orange Pi 6 Plus, this nonplussed model has a slightly more limited feature set, […]
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The Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 is an Android tablet that’s clearly made for media consumption. It has a 12.1 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel, 120 Hz display with up to 800 nits brightness and support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10. And there’s also a massive speaker on the back. In fact, Lenovo says this […]
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The UP WCL is a credit card-sized computer from AAEON that’s about the same size and shape as a Raspberry Pi Model B. But this model has an Intel Wildcat Lake processor instead of an Arm chip, support for up to 24GB of onboard LPDDR5 memory and up to 256GB of UFS storage. It doesn’t have built-in […]
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The new Dell XPS 13 may be one of the most interesting Windows laptops introduced so far this year, because it’s not only an affordable laptop that’s positioned as Dell’s answer to Apple’s MacBook Neo, but it’s also a thin and light notebook with premium features and optional support for higher-end specs… or at least, it will […]
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The Commodore Callback 8020 is a new phone that’s up for pre-order for $500 and which is expected to ship before the end of 2026. But it looks like a flip-phone from the early 2000s, and that’s intentional. Positioned as a distraction-free phone with a retro-inspired design that evokes Nokia handsets from the turn of the century, […]
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Google is now rolling out Android 17 to select Pixel phones, and the operating system will be available for additional devices soon. Some of the more noticeable changes include a new system for multitasking that will let you run apps in floating windows called “bubbles,” new security and parental control features, and a Continue On […]
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The MINIX N304-AI is a compact desktop computer with 16GB of LPDDR5x-6400 onboard memory, a 512GB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD, support for up to three displays, and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. MINIX hasn’t announced how much the new system will cost or when you’ll be able to buy one, but since it’s powered by an […]
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The Samsung Galaxy Book6 Edge is a laptop with a 16 inch, 2880 x 1800 pixel, 120 Hz AMOLED touchscreen display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-88-100) processor. It’s also the lightest weight of Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 series laptops, coming in at just 1.55 kg (3.42 pounds). But the Galaxy Book6 Edge is also an expensive […]
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The ONEXPLAYER X2 Mini Pro is a handheld game console with an 8.8 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel, 30 -144 Hz AMOLED display, detachable controllers, and the most powerful graphics currently available for a device this size. But with an AMD Strix Halo processor and at least 48GB of high-speed memory inside, it’s unsurprising that this […]
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These days you can play plenty of Windows games on Linux PCs thanks to Valve’s proton software. And a growing number of games that were originally made for Windows have also been ported to run natively on Linux. All of which is to say that if you really want to run an older PC game […]
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The Onyx BOOX Go 6 (Gen II) is an eBook reader with a 6 inch, 1448 x 1072 pixel E Ink display featuring 300 pixels per inch, a glass cover, capacitive touch input, and a front light with support for brightness and color temperature adjustments. I could have said the same about original BOOX Go 6, […]
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It’s been nearly six years since Apple released the first Macs with Apple Silicon. But up until now the company has continued to support older Mac laptop and desktop computers with Intel Inside. And the company has also you to run older applications made for Intel-powered Macs on newer models with Apple M series chips. […]
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It’s been more than two years since SanDisk announced plans to launch 4TB SD cards based on the SDUC standard. They haven’t actually arrived yet, so take this next part with a grain of salt, but during the Computex show in Taiwan earlier this month, SanDisk indicated that those 4TB SDUC cards really are coming […]
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