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8BitDo's second arcade stick is moddable, stylish and versatile
That’s right — 8BitDo’s Arcade Stick can be used wirelessly. The 8BitDo Arcade Stick is another brilliant blend of Nintendo heritage and modern video game sensibilities. The Arcade Stick is heavy, too. It’s been awhile since I used a fight stick.
The next MacBook Pro may bring back the MagSafe connector
Apple is planning a new design for the MacBook Pro that will mark the return of the the MagSafe charger.
Lenovo Japan president weighs in on how weird concepts make it to market
We've previously established that the NEC Lavie Mini -- that 8-inch laptop that doubles as a gaming machine -- is a charmingly weird concept that stands a solid shot making it production.
Qualcomm buys a startup founded by former Apple chip designers
Qualcomm has paid $1.4 billion for Nuvia, a startup founded by three engineers who worked on Apple’s A-series processors that power the iPhone and iPad.
Evernote's Home feature is a dashboard full of handy widgets
Home is a dashboard made up of widgets that allow you to access some of Evernote’s most useful features from one place. 
ASUS made its next wave of dual-screen laptops more practical
Dual-screen laptops have a tendency to feel more like novelties than proper workhorse machines, but ASUS was clearly proud of the approach it took with its original ZenBook Duo and Pro Duo. As usual, the ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED is the flagship of the bunch and can be configured with up to an Intel Core i9 processor, up to 32GB of RAM, up to 1TB of storage in the form of a PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD and one of NVIDIA's RTX 3070 mobile GPUs. No matter how you spec the Pro Duo, packs a 15.6-inch 4K OLED touchscreen, which certainly comes as good news for the gamers and creative professionals the Pro Duo is geared toward.
MSI updates its gaming laptops with new Intel and NVIDIA chips
MSI has updated its gaming laptops with Intel's latest 11th-gen Core chips and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 graphics.
CES has blessed us with a three-webcam laptop
Nexstgo's Avita Admiror II is a laptop made with livestreaming in mind. You'll find a "ring light" around the screen, along with three webcams at the top.
Mozilla brings its VPN to Mac and Linux
You can use the service on up to five devices with a $5/month subscription.
ASUS' new 32-inch monitor can handle 4K 120Hz games on next-gen consoles
ASUS has unveiled a ROG Swift PG32UQ gaming monitor that can handle your PS5 and Xbox Series X games at 4K and 120Hz.
Acer adds Ryzen 5000 CPUs to its Nitro 5 gaming notebook
The new machines also get NVIDIA's RTX 3080 GPUs.
NVIDIA’s RTX 30 series GPUs are heading to laptops on January 26th
As expected, NVIDIA announced that it's bringing its RTX 30-series of GPUs to laptops.
Lenovo's updated ThinkBook Plus packs a more practical E Ink screen
Pop quiz, hotshot: when's the last time you seriously thought about buying a laptop with a standard screen on one side and an E Ink display on the other? The big draw here is that the second display is, well, bigger: last year's ThinkBook Plus packed a 10.8-inch E Ink screen while this year's model uses a more spacious 12-inch panel that matches the 13.3-inch main screen's 2560x1600 resolution. Curiously, there's no word on Amazon partnerships this year, so while the Gen 2 appears to include an Alexa shortcut, it's unclear if you can read Kindle books on the external display again.
Lenovo's new gaming laptops have 16:10 displays for non-gaming moments
Lenovo has unveiled a flurry of updated Legion gaming laptops with taller screens, RTX 30 graphics and the latest AMD processors.
AMD's Ryzen 5000 laptop CPUs arrive with big performance claims
AMD just launched its new Ryzen 5000 mobile family with Ryzen H-Series CPUs aimed at gamers and content creators, along with the power-friendly U-series chips designed for thin and light ultrathin PCs.
AMD says RDNA 2 GPUs will come to laptops before July
The first laptops to feature GPUs with AMD’s new RDNA 2 architecture will come in the first half of 2021, CEO Lisa Su announced during the company’s CES 2021 keynote. Su also promised new desktop GPUs in the first half of the year. AMD is on track to launch the first notebooks with #RDNA2 in the first half of 2021, and you'll see mainstream RDNA 2 desktop graphics card designs in the first half of the year as well.
HP and Lenovo discuss the wild side of laptops in 2021
Every CES, we can expect laptop makers like Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer and ASUS to announce their latest products with the newest chipsets that Intel and AMD tend to announce at the show. HP and Lenovo are typically the two companies that bring us some of these more fascinating products. At Engadget’s virtual stage here at CES 2021, HP’s chief technologist Mike Nash and Lenovo’s chief customer experience officer Dilip Bhatia joined us to discuss how they come up with these ideas.
Watch LG's CES event in 9 minutes
Check out a rollable phone, Mini LED-powered QNED TVs and much more.
2020 was the best year for PC shipments in a decade
The PC industry ended 2020 with another strong quarterly performance, capping off one of the best years for computer sales in recent memory.
Mad Catz's new mice have mechanical switches with a 2ms response time
Mad Catz hopes that its new Dakota mechanical switches will entice you to think about gaming mice the same way you think about keyboards.

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