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Newegg Black Friday sale is live — save up to 50% on gaming laptops, monitors, GPUs and more
Is there any better way to kick off Black Friday deals than a wealth of gaming sales? That’s what Newegg is going for, and it has everything from laptops with RTX 40 series GPUs to 4K gaming monitors with amazing discounts on offer. Plenty of these deals deliver eye-catching value, such as the Asus TUF Gaming F17 with an RTX…
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Android’s Quick Share Now Works on ARM Windows Laptops
Google’s Quick Share, an app for transferring files between Android devices, Chromebooks, and Windows PCs, is now available for Windows PCs powered by ARM processors. This includes laptops with Snapdragon chips. The Quick Share app for Windows is available through Google’s website and is a convenient alternative to Microsoft’s Phone Link service. While Phone Link has much better system integration,…
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Extending corporate life of laptops by just one year can reduce harmful emissions by 25% – Computerworld
Extending the standard refresh cycle of laptops in a corporate environment can significantly reduce a workplace’s carbon footprint, according to new workplace sustainability research. However, challenges in ensuring the older laptops still meet Windows OS requirements, and other cost issues, could offset these environmental gains, experts said. The Atos Sustainable Workplace report, published this week and aimed at providing insights…
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Best Portable Chargers and Power Banks for Phones and Laptops
Some portable chargers can power your devices faster than others. This is largely determined by the kinds of ports the charger is equipped with and their max wattage output. Take a look at the port options on different models when shopping. Portable chargers are usually outfitted with USB-C ports and USB-A ports, which both can be rated for different…
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The Best Intel Lunar Lake Laptops in 2024
Intel has finally launched its Core Ultra 200V processors aka Lunar Lake chips. The new Core Ultra (Series 2) chipsets look very promising as they bring massive efficiency improvements without compromising performance. The new integrated Xe2 GPU is particularly powerful, and battery life matches even ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite laptops. So if you are interested, check out our list of…
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Google Is Bringing Live Translate to Chromebook Plus Laptops
Google has announced new smart features coming to Chromebook Plus laptops, including the Live Translate feature for automatic captions across the system. Live Translate has been available on Pixel phones, and now it’s coming to Chromebook Plus laptops. Like its Pixel counterpart, Live Translate on Chromebook Plus is a systemwide feature that’s not bound to any particular app. Instead, Live…
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8 ways to protect your Windows laptop’s battery health – Computerworld
Windows battery health step #6: Store smartly If you won’t be using your laptop for a while (or you’ve unplugged the battery and set it aside), you should take care when storing the battery. Remember: Laptop batteries don’t like being at 100% battery for a long period of time, and they definitely don’t like being at 0% battery, either. To…
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Get Ready for Cheaper ARM Windows Laptops
The first PC laptops with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips arrived a few months ago, and even though they’re not perfect, they offer fantastic power efficiency and battery life. Qualcomm has now introduced a new chip for less expensive PCs: the 8-core Snapdragon X Plus. Qualcomm just revealed the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core System-on-a-Chip (SoC), a new lower-end option in…
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How keep your laptop’s battery in good health
The rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power most of our laptops may be the most practical battery tech we have right now, but they naturally degrade over time as their ions flow back and forth — it’s an inevitable consequence of the way they’re built and the way they work. Eventually, the batteries can’t hold as much of a charge. Most…
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The best laptops of 2024
We test a wide variety of laptops each year here at The Verge, and many of them are very good. But you can’t buy them all. So I’ve done the very difficult (very difficult, trust me) task of selecting some of the best laptops you can get. Whether you’re looking for a Chromebook, a gaming laptop, a 2-in-1 convertible, an…
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