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1. The current MacBooks are extremely outdated. If you’re like most people, you’re going to hold onto your laptop for three to five years (or even longer), unless it breaks. If you buy a MacBook that’s long-in-the-tooth today, it will have a giant overbite when you’re still using it as your daily driver in 2019. Now, think back to spring 2015. Uptown Funk topped the charts, Furious 7 was No. 1 at the box office and Apple offered its most recent and very minor MacBook updates....

What makes this TV stand out of the rest is that it feature’s LG’s QNED technology, which stands for Quantum Dot Nanocell Color Technology. This means that this TV is working to deliver richer, more accurate colors as well as better brightness and contrast. For the nerds out there, QNED makes use of 30,000 ultra-tiny LEDs in the backlight (far more than the amount found in existing LCD TVs) to achieve this....

To help you decide whether Lenovo’s laptop is right for you, here are six reasons to buy the ThinkPad T470 and two reasons to skip it. Typing on the ThinkPad T470’s awesome keyboard is like playing violin on a Stradivarius or driving a Porsche. With its highly-tactile feel, there’s just no better tool for editing documents. The keys have an extremely-deep 2 mm of travel (60 to 65 mm is typical) and require a strong 70 grams of force to actuate (60 to 65 grams is typical)....

RTX Studio is an initiative to combine powerful hardware with optimized software so that content creators can have a smooth experience when using software like Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk or Unity. To be eligible for the program, laptops must have at least 16GB of RAM, Core i7 or Core i9 CPUs, and Nvidia GPUs ranging from the RTX 2060 to the new Quadro RTX 5000-series chips. So far, 17 laptops from top manufacturers are RTX Studio-certified, which means they’ll come with an RTX Studio badge and ship with custom Nvidia APIs and drivers that maximize performance when rendering, video editing and processing animations....

I’ve been thinking about upgrading from my five-year-old 15-inch MacBook Pro and wondering whether the new model is right for me. While the 2017 MacBook Pro’s clicky keyboard has more travel than its immediate predecessor’s, I didn’t know if I wanted to trade away the keys — which have far more movement and comfort — in my 2012 model. Was Apple’s Touch Bar the tappable gift that the company had promoted, or just a gimmick?...

We’re just days into the new year and this is one of the best monitor deals we’ve spotted so far. The Aopen Fire Legend PG7 series display by Acer is one of the best portable monitors around. Packed with USB-C and Mini HDMI ports, it lets you easily extend your computer display or connect to a camera, smartphone, and other devices. It features a 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) panel with rapid 144Hz refresh rate and 8ms response....

To help you pick, we’ve listed all the Acer lines below, with standout models from each. Behind the numbers and terms Acer laptops generally fall into a simple naming convention, as the Aspire R 15 is 15 inches, and the Predator 17 is 17 inches. The exception to this pattern comes with single- and triple-digit products, such as the Swift 7, a super-thin 13-inch notebook, and the TravelMate P648, whose initial digit signifies its class, ranging from 7, meaning premium, to 1, being entry-level....

The Taipei-based OEM boasted that its new gaming Chromebook features a lot of tech that matters to gamers, including 12th Gen Intel Core processors, a zippy 120Hz display, an RGB keyboard with anti-ghosting technology, advanced DTS audio, and more. Chromebook 516 GE: Acer’s first gaming Chromebook The Acer Chromebook 516 GE comes with up to an Intel Core i7-1260P processor, up to 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM, up to 256GB of PCIe NVMe SSD storage, and a 16-inch, 2560 x 1600-pixel display with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 16:10 aspect ratio....

We aren’t being told the specific CPU inside Swift 5, only that it is a “next-gen Intel Core” processor that uses graphics based on the new Xe architecture. This, of course, is referring to Intel’s upcoming Tiger Lake CPUs, which should bring significant improvements to graphics performance. I reviewed the previous Swift 5 a few months ago and was impressed by its long battery life and ultraportable chassis. With a few minor adjustments, the Swift 5 could be a legitimate contender against our top picks, like the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Dell XPS 13....

Design Call it a weapon of slim destruction. Acer is clearly winning the fight for the thinnest notebook. Weighing 2.6 pounds and measuring 12.9 x 9.3 x 0.35 inches, the Swift 7 makes the HP Spectre 13 (2.4 pounds, 12 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches), LG Gram (2.2 pounds, 12.7 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches) and Huawei MateBook X Pro (2.9 pounds, 12 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches) look thick around the middle....

Best headphone deals in May 2021Apple AirPods Pro 2: Price, release date, features, and moreWhy you should get the Apple AirPods Pro According to Apple (via The Verge), lossless audio won’t be supported on any AirPods model, even if the AirPods Max are plugged in. While Apple only supports Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) over Bluetooth, meaning its wireless earbuds weren’t expected to support lossless audio, its more expensive headphones can be connected via Lightning-to-3....

Right now at Walmart, the AirPods Pro are available for just $197 (opens in new tab) — a discount from the $219 list price that takes it to a very attractive price point! Best wireless earbudsBest headphone deals Apple AirPods Pro deal Need more proof of how good Apple’s earbuds are? Our 4.5-star AirPods Pro review should give you more peace of mind about how good this offer is! They offer an impressive sound stage with clear, balanced levels, along with awesome noise cancellation for audio playback and calls....

Best gaming laptopsBest Dell laptopsBest gaming laptop deals Design The original Alienware x17 was a vision in Lunar White and x17 R2 carries on that tradition. Sporting Alienware’s Legend 2.0 design, the x17 R2 is all sleek lines and rounded corners. And as pretty as the notebook is with its blink-and-you-might-miss-it pearlescence, the heart wants what it cannot have –– in this case, it’s the off-black tint that Alienware lovingly calls Dark Side of the Moon....

Buy Fire 7 Tablet (opens in new tab). Buy Fire HD 8 Tablet (opens in new tab). Buy Fire 8 Tablet with Show Mode Dock (opens in new tab). When you snap your Fire tablet into the Show Mode Dock your tablet will change interfaces to one that imitates the Echo Show. With Alexa at its disposal, you can instantly share song lyrics, show recipes and get the weather with a single voice command....

Design Display While reading an issue of G.I. Joe: The Crown Jewel of the Hasbro Universe in the Comics app, I found the screen just as ideal for reading graphic novels. Not only does it provide high resolution for clear text, but the slate is also similar in size to a physical trade paperback. The HD 10’s panel is significantly more colorful than its competitors’, producing 104 percent of the sRGB spectrum....

What’s the hold up? Kuo said that Apple is working on fixing software-related issues, so before it rolls out the mixed-reality headset to the public, it wants to ensure all the flaws are addressed (h/t 9to5Mac). Apple AR/VR headset reportedly delayed to late 2023 Apple allegedly planned to name its mixed-reality headset’s operating system (OS) “realityOS,” but Apple is reportedly settling with “xrOS” instead. Why the name change? According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple believes that the xrOS name is more fitting of the headset’s software capabilities....

But now, Apple has sweetened the pot by increasing the maximum trade-in value for its iPad Pro and iPhone 11 lineup. The best cheap iPad deals for April 2021Find out the best tablets in 2021iPad Pro 2021: Price, release date, specs, and more Spotted by MacRumors, the iPad Pro now has a maximum value of $580, increasing by $45 from its previous $535. This conveniently lines up with Apple’s rumoured iPad Pro 2021 which is set to launch this April....

June 26 Update: Apple’s just updated every MacBook Pro – except this non-Touch Bar model. That means you should check out our 15-inch vs 13-inch 2019 MacBook Pro face-off to see which model is the best fit for your needs. If you wanted an adaptive, multi-touch screen above the keyboard that provides all sorts of nifty shortcuts, you’d have to fork over $1,499 for the Touch Bar model. Is the more affordable new MacBook Pro we reviewed worth it?...

Apple just gave the iPad its own OS name: meet iPadOS. Craig Federighi made this change official at WWDC 2019, after leaks spilled the beans earlier that day. Here’s everything you need to know about iPadOS, which launches this fall. The public beta just launched today and you can install it on your own iPad by following these steps. Curious about the next step for the Mac? Check out our macOS Catalina beta review....

The company states the cloth is made from “soft, nonabrasive material,” which probably means microfiber, but Apple makes it sound like it was discovered on Mars by a rover and sent back to Earth just for Apple users. The product description continues, “the Polishing Cloth cleans any Apple display, including nano-texture glass, safely and effectively.” Apple then lists every product they’ve ever made as being compatible with the polishing cloth — but here’s a hint: it works for non-Apple products, too!...