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The inexpensive Google Chromebooks have been gobbling up laptop market share like gangbusters, but this nice little Windows 10 laptop from HP aims to take back a good chunk of it.
Like a Chromebook, the HP Stream (#ad) is primarily a cloud-based laptop that leverages the flexibility of cloud storage to make all of your documents and files available to all of your devices regardless of where you might be at any given moment. [Read more…]
This is an interesting era in the world of laptop computers. Gaming and business laptops just keep getting faster and more powerful while ultrabooks keep getting smaller, thinner and lighter.
And at the same time, it seems that the laptops in the middle are becoming more or less forgotten.
That being said, I believe these mid-range traditional-style laptops still have a valid place in the world. I recently had the opportunity to check out one such laptop, and came away thinking pretty highly of it. [Read more…]
Laptops are getting thinner and lighter all the time, and that’s a great thing. After all, when it comes to portability, smaller and lighter is always better.
That being said, PC manufacturers face a real challenge when trying to find ways to keep reducing their latest laptops’ size and weight without drastically sacrificing features, performance and durability.
With their fantastic Zenbook line, ASUS seems to be meeting that challenge better and better with every new laptop they design. [Read more…]
External USB hard drives give us tons of flexibility when it comes to storing large amounts of data and sharing it among multiple devices, but they tend to be quite fragile.
Drop one on a hard surface and the drive will likely be damaged beyond repair.
Well, now you won’t have to worry about that any longer because the folks at Transcend have developed a 1 TB external USB hard drive (#ad) that can withstand a moderate drop without sustaining any damage. [Read more…]
Mid-range laptops keep getting better while prices are lower than ever, and that’s a great thing for consumers.
I recently had the opportunity to check out the HP 15-ay011nr 15.6″ Full-HD Laptop, a powerful new mid-range machine that offers plenty of bang for the computing buck.
The heart of this laptop is its powerful Intel Core i5 6200U, 2.3GHz, Dual-Core CPU and 8GB of RAM. This is a potent combination that makes Windows 10 really fly, and I found this to be one of the fastest sub-$500 laptops that I’ve used to date. [Read more…]