PC & Laptops

Lenovo Miix 630 There may be some life left in the tablet form factor, at least on the Windows side of things. Joining the new $399 Microsoft Surface Go is the Lenovo Miix 630, announced at CES but finally going on sale starting yesterday. The Miix 630 is notable for ...

MintBox Mini 2 As promised back in March, Compulab has launched its MintBox Mini 2, the latest iteration of its tiny desktop PC running the Mint Linux distribution. The biggest upgrade from the original Mini, as we reported at the time, comes in the processor department, as AMD is abandoned ...

Atari VCS Onyx edition If you’ve been following along with the continuing saga of legendary gaming brand Atari’s latest venture — a living room game console and Linux based PC that was originally dubbed Ataribox before morphing into Atari VCS — you’re well aware that it’s had more false starts ...

Dell Precision 3530 mobile workstation It’s been a little over a year since Dell updated its Precision mobile workstation line, which is notable for its inclusion of the Ubuntu flavor of Linux as an operating system option alongside Windows 10. But last week, the company refreshed the laptop lineup without ...

Intel Optane SSD 905P It’s barely been six months since Intel rolled out the Optane SSD 900, high-performance solid-state drives for workstations and performance PC enthusiasts using 3D XPoint memory, and already the company has released the 905P series to improve on its predecessor. As with the 900 family, the ...

Atari VCS The Atari VCS (formerly known as Ataribox) is edging closer to no longer being vaporware with the company’s announcement today that it will finally be available for pre-order. The video game console/mini-PC combo is slated to go on sale on May 30 via crowdfunding site Indiegogo. Even better, ...

TigerDirect’s Black Friday ad Longtime online tech retailer — and Newegg competitor — TigerDirect has had its modest three-page Black Friday ad leaked, adding even more HP PC deals to a lengthy list (including from the manufacturer itself). In particular, TigerDirect has a pair of HP laptops and a desktop ...

Fry’s Electronics Black Friday ad. Fry’s Electronics is a long-time regional electronics retail chain with numerous locations in California and Texas and outposts in several other Southern, Western, and Midwestern states. That’s a shame for people living in other states, as the store’s Black Friday deals have typically required an ...

Deals on Apple Macs from Best Buy’s Black Friday ad. Updated on November 24: As expected, Apple’s Black Friday plans don’t include any discounts on the actual products. Instead, it’s providing store gift cards with the purchase of many items at the regular price — and on Friday only. For ...

One of Amazon’s Black Friday deals of the day is a sale on gaming desktops and laptops. Amazon’s Black Friday deal page is a sprawling mess that requires endless scrolling and filtering to see everything that’s available. Now that Black Friday itself is here, let’s cut through some of the ...