The Razer Blade lineup of laptops has had one main complaint (besides the size of the bezels on the older models) and that is the battery life. Now, I just recently got the new Razer Blade 15 (which you can check out my walkthrough on here if interested) and decided it was a good opportunity to see if Razer made any improvements in the battery department and ended up going down a rabbit hole of […]
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Microsoft just released the Surface Go, their latest new product in the Surface lineup, and they were kind enough to let me check it out. As is the usual here, that means I’m going to try and do my complete walkthrough on it. If you aren’t familiar, a complete walkthrough is where I try and go through every feature on the device so you guys are better prepared should you be interested in maybe buying
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The Razer Blade 15, the long-awaited redesign to the Razer Blade, is finally here and there’s one unique feature that makes it even more appealing: it’s upgradeable. What I mean by that is that you can buy the Razer Blade 15 from Razer in any of the RAM and SSD configurations and, should you feel the urge, you can easily upgrade the RAM or upgrade the SSD to increase the performance or storage. Besides the
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If you haven’t seen them before, Qualcomm and Microsoft partnered up to create a new line of PC called the ACPC with Windows running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset. ACPC stands for always connected PC, I would have gone with Snapbook, but whatever. The benefits of running a PC on the Snapdragon platform, usually designed for phones, is that it enables the laptop to be able to have up to 22 hours of battery life and
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Razer has finally updated their Blade lineup with the all-new Razer Blade 15. Smaller bezels, bigger screen, more power, more battery, and a new more square design make it the first big refresh to the Blade product line since it’s initial launch in 2015. I managed to get one and figured as is the usual here, I’d try and do a complete walkthrough on it. If you aren’t familiar a complete walkthrough of mine is where
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Today was Acer’s annual Next@Acer event where Acer showcases all of their new products in a rapid-fire presentation (the best kind of presentation?). Some of the devices worth noting are the Swift 5, the “thinnest 15.6″ laptop”; a new Helios 300 in white and gold, and some younger siblings of the monster we saw at IFA last year the Orion 9000. As usual, here’s my bulleted list of everything Acer announced for those out there
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So I’m not actually sure why you’d want to do this, as in I can’t think of any terribly important use cases, besides maybe using it to text from the computer, but it was still so cool and easy to do that I figured someone out there might want to use it for something and was worth me taking the time to make a video of it. So for this Tips and Tricks Tuesday, I’m going
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I was finally able to get my hands on it, the 15″ top of the line Surface Book 2. I’ve honestly always been a fan of the Surface Book (and frankly Microsoft’s new direction for their hardware) but could never pull the trigger on buying a Book (or any Surface computer really) because they’ve always lacked a powerful enough GPU for me to be able to edit footage on it. But now, with the Surface
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Windows 10S: faster, better battery life, and limited to Microsoft Store only apps. That last part doesn’t sound good but wait. Since it’s only store apps allowed they are vetted and optimized, and more importantly, are packaged in a way that they can’t affect Windows startup and are sandboxed from the rest of the system, much like MacOS. This is in comparison to regular exe programs that can basically do anything they want to your
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Huawei sent me, um, a present. No seriously it was wrapped and everything. Let’s see what it is. Turns out, we have the Huawei Matebook X. I did an article when they announced this new laptop of theirs along with a couple of others a few weeks ago and have to admit I was a little excited about them. So before I do a full review, let’s just do a quick unboxing and go over
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Windows laptops have gotten pretty inexpensive over the years. And more importantly, they’re cheap but decent. No longer do you need to choose between a cheap crappy Windows computer or a high-end gaming machine. One such laptop is being hailed around the web as the best laptop for under $200 and it’s called the HP 14-an013nr… yeah, not the best name, but, regardless, here’s why if you only have $200 to spend on a new laptop,
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You might have seen my video on all the changes of the new Surface Pro compared to the Surface Pro 4 that I posted recently while at a Microsoft Surface demo event, or even the post I did as Microsoft announced the new device in China last month but since Microsoft was kind enough to give me a Surface Pro to film I figured I’d do what always is the right thing to do when
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Ever since I updated to the new Creator Update on my Windows 10 laptop, I’ll be sitting at a cafe, writing as usual, and then all of a sudden my computer just dies. No warning, just in the middle of a sentence, black screen. After doing a little research it turns out that it’s not an issue with the battery, but it is an issue with something the Creator Update decided to just turn off
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Computex has been nuts this year with announcements. First, a new Android device from the original founder of Android, Intel’s crazy 18-core processor, and now, Qualcomm and Microsoft just announced they’re partnering to bring Windows to the ultra-mobile ARM-based chipsets. Why you ask? Well, there’s a lot of benefits to putting a real PC OS on a Snapdragon chipset: Tiny, light-weight laptops Snapdragon 835 being used initially so will be pretty powerful actually Better battery life
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Today seems like a good day for laptop announcements apparently. Alongside Microsoft announcing their new Surface Pro in Shanghai, Huawei just announced their new Huawei Matebook in Berlin. Now, you might remember the name Matebook from last year when Huawei launched a 2-in-1 convertible tablet, and while one of the models they launched today is a successor to that device, two of the others are Huawei showing they want to make legit, serious laptops. The
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