PC & Laptops

Acer Chromebook 514 Adding to the list of Chromebook announcements at this week’s IFA trade show in Berlin, Acer is launching the 514 Chromebook to join new units from Dell and Lenovo. Like Dell’s new Inspiron Chromebook 14 and Lenovo’s Yoga Chromebook, Acer’s model is a “premium” Chromebook, with touches ...

Lenovo Tab E8 Android tablet It’s no secret that the tablet market continues to crater, falling 13.5 percent just in the second quarter alone, but manufacturers continue to give it the old college try. Samsung just released the Galaxy Tab S4, and Lenovo is making a big push with a ...

Intel Coffee Lake NUC mini-PC After launching the VR-ready Hades Canyon NUC earlier this year, Intel is back with another upgrade to its barebones mini-PC lineup. While not as powerful as the Hades Canyon Next Unit of Computing, which managed to squeeze an Nvidia discrete graphics card into its svelte ...

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 ...