Tag Archives: HDMI

LAPTOPS & ULTRATHIN ULTRABOOKS
Samsung Unveils Its $200 Chromebook 3 Featuring Intel Braswell

As I type on my Chromebook, the notion that more and more folks are hopping on the Chromebook train comes as no shock to me. These cheap PCs, particularly loved by students and business folk, are built well, and with … Continue reading

 

MINI / NANO PCS
Asus’s New VivoMini VC65 PCs Feature Four 2.5-Inch Storage Drives

What has Asus been up to lately? Besides launching some great new laptops, their own Chromebit, ZenWatch 2, and ZenFone Zoom? If you’re thinking there couldn’t possibly be more for one company to put out at a time you’re wrong. … Continue reading

 

DELL
Dell Brings out the Best in Its Bigger XPS 15 9550 Series

Sure, laptop sizes seem to be getting thinner and sleeker, we even saw a phase of very small-screened devices for a while. Turns out, not everyone liked typing on an itty bitty 10.5-inch device, and trying to have multiple windows … Continue reading

 

LAPTOPS & ULTRATHIN ULTRABOOKS
The LG Gram “Coming to America” Is a Force to Be Reckoned With

LG making a new laptop is a big deal. In U.S. markets, the Korean tech giant is normally known for its big, fancy flat screen and curved television sets (which include LED, OLED, 4K, and smart), and of course, popular … Continue reading

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
Acer Built a Modular PC, the Revo Build Series, Which Snaps Together Magnetically

Usually, building your own PC tower meant you had to have at least a moderate level of knowledge about computer parts. I mean, who wants to pick out hard drives, tower cases, and other components, just hoping they would fit … Continue reading

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
The New Acer Aspire v 15 Nitro Is a Solid Entry-Level Gaming Laptop

Acer launched their line of Aspire V 15 Nitro entry-level gaming laptops last year, and the new installment (VN7-591G-76JG) is even more affordable than its predecessor while still managing to improve the overall performance. This is a laptop that was … Continue reading

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Lenovo Joins the Ranks of Pocket PCs with Their New $129 Ideacentre Stick 300

Lenovo announced their tiny PC on a stick this week, joining the ranks of companies like Intel and CTL which debuted their own similarly tiny devices earlier in the year. While Lenovo is not the first kid on the block … Continue reading

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
This Tiny Windows 10 PC Is Inside a Tiny Power Adapter

Among the many Windows 10 pieces (laptops, notebooks, desktops) coming our way, Microsoft wanted to show off something interesting during this week’s Computex conference. Dubbed the Quanta Compute Plug, this device isn’t your ordinary PC. It’s an alternative, but fully … Continue reading

 

MINI / NANO PCS
Vensmile W10 – a Different Look to The “Mini PC”

Technology keeps getting smaller, it seems there’s virtually no limit to what you can fit into a hand-held device. We’re used to seeing a lot of HDMI streaming dongles, like the Roku or Chromecast, entering the picture. Now, computers-on-a-stick, like … Continue reading

 

DELL
Wire-Free Laptop Computing with Dell’s New Wireless Dock

In the age of using tablets, phablets, and smartphones for everything, isn’t it sometimes a bummer to come home to your wired laptops and desktops? All those cords and cables sometimes make you want to just keep playing on that … Continue reading

 

LAPTOPS & ULTRATHIN ULTRABOOKS
What We Know About Acer’s New Predator Line of Gaming Devices

This week, during the company’s press conference, Acer announced a new line of gaming devices including a monitor, 2 notebooks, a tablet, and a desktop computer. You may know that Acer hasn’t really been a gaming company up until recently. … Continue reading

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
The Hisense Chromebook: Can It Be This Cheap and Good?

Last week, Google announced its brand new Chromebit PC-on-a-stick dongle, as well as a slew of new affordable Chromebooks to look forward to. The two initially touted as the most affordable Google-powered laptops yet, the Haier and Hisense Chromebooks, are … Continue reading

 

INTEL
Microsoft’s Soft Reveal of Its New PC Dongle

The trend of bringing your PC to your living room is a thriving one. There’s the Steam Box, which brings gaming, streaming, and media entertainment to your television. Then there’s simple HDMI dongles like the Google Chromecast, Roku, and Mozilla … Continue reading

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
MIPS Creator CI20 Launches for $65

Back in late 2014, Imagination Technologies, an Apple GPU supplier, announced the release of its own MIPS-based, single-board computer to compete with the so-loved ARM-based Raspberry Pi. The MIPS Creator CI20 came with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM … Continue reading

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
HP Promises High Performance Gaming in Slim Omen Laptop

For a while now, since the 90’s actually, we’ve considered a brand called VoodooPC when thinking about gaming computers. HP picked up the brand in 2006, but now, Voodoo is long since gone. Now, HP decided to build its very … Continue reading