Microsoft’s Copilot PC+ initiative launches on June 18, when the first PCs with NPUs meeting the company’s minimum requirements for on-device AI performance hit the streets. On these laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus or Elite professors, Windows will be able to leverage the NPU for things like upscaling photos, providing real-time transcripts...

The first laptops with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus chips will be available starting June 18th. Over the past few months Qualcomm has released benchmarks and some limited details about its new processors, which it says offer best-in-class performance-per-watt. Now the chip maker has provided additional technical details...

The MINISFORUM EliteMini UM880 Pro is a small desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, support for up to four displays, an OCuLink port, and two 2.5 GbE LAN ports. And the MINISFORUM EliteMini UM890 Pro is a nearly identical system, except it has a Ryzen 9 8945HS processor. MINISFORUM isn’t offering the little computers […] The post...

The Asus ROG Ally X handheld gaming PC is available for pre-order for $800 and it will begin shipping in July. With a bigger battery, more memory and storage, and an updated design, it’s a noticeable upgrade over the original ROG Ally… but it has the same processor and display so it’s not that big an […] The post Daily Deals (6-13-2024) appeared...

When Google unveiled ChromeOS more than a decade ago, the company made it clear that this was an operating system designed for desktop and laptop computers, while Android would continue to be its smartphone and tablet OS. But over the years the lines have gotten blurry. These days there are some tablets on the market […] The post Google further blurs...

The DC-ROMA was the first first laptop to ship with a RISC-V processor. It first launched in very limited quantities in late 2022, and became more widely available the following year. But with a 1.5 GHz StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor and shipped with support for OpenKylin or Debian Linux operating systems. Now the makers of the […] The post...