Desktops

By James Peckham Huawei is a Chinese manufacturer best known for its selection of high-end phones such as the Huawei P10 or Mate 9, but now the company is expanding into laptops too. The MateBook X is the company’s first attempt at making a laptop and it’s positioned as a competitor to the Apple MacBook.…

By Matt Hanson At 32-inches, the BenQ EW3270ZL Eye-Care Monitor is one of the largest monitors you could plonk on your desk, but for an asking price of £440 (around $570, AU$770) it’s not the most expensive. BenQ has an excellent pedigree when it comes to monitors, so to get this size of monitor for…

By Jason Cipriani Lenovo’s Yoga 720 is a 2-in-1 laptop/tablet hybrid that can easily fool you into thinking it was designed specifically to be either dedicated device. A fingerprint sensor seamlessly integrates with Windows Hello, regardless of whether it’s in laptop mode or even with the keyboard folded to the back when it’s used as…

Since last year, HP has been trying to make a surge back into the gaming space with the Omen line of PCs. HP is going to build that line with some revamps and new computers. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Joe Osborne Until someone figures out lag-free, wireless virtual reality (VR) from a PC or develops an standalone headset that can match PC-grade VR, we’re going to be stuck with backpack PCs. Knowing this, HP has gone and crafted arguably the most impressive one yet: its new HP Omen X Compact Desktop. First seen…

By Nate Drake QA has been around for 30 years and offers a tremendous amount of courses for professionals to gain certification and new skills. The company has also won numerous awards, and is an official partner of Microsoft, Cisco and VMware. Its website includes eight Linux courses, including this one – Linux System Fundamentals…

By Desire Athow Here’s a Chinese manufacturer that has decided to stick to what it does best rather than diversify. Teclast only designs and sells tablets (and their close cousins, 2-in-1 convertibles) when its rivals flog smartphones, laptops, mini PCs and countless other products. Focusing on one core category of device has led to Teclast…

By Gareth Beavis We’re big fans of the first iPad Pro 12.9, and to see it rebooted is a great thing. Yes, it was a bit expensive (and that hasn’t changed much with the unveiling of the iPad Pro 2 12.9, as it’s colloquially being termed) but it did something no other iPad did. That…

By Nate Drake The Lynda platform, which is owned by business networking website LinkedIn, hosts dozens of Linux-related courses, including the Linux Foundation Certified System: Essential Commands (Ubuntu) course. The course focuses on mastery of the basic commands involving administration of the Ubuntu OS, one of the most popular flavours of Linux. LFCS: Essential Commands…

By Gareth Beavis The new iPad Pro 10.5, or iPad Pro 2 to others (and how we’re referring to it here) has finally been announced – and it’s bringing a raft of features that Apple hopes makes it even more of a competitor to the common laptop. The main thing that’s different about the iPad…

Despite what you may have heard, Moore’s Law isn’t dead yet. IBM has announced a chip the size of a fingernail that can hold 30 billion transistors. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Nate Drake CBT Nuggets is an online learning platform hosting dozens of training courses from big players like Cisco. The website claims the organisation started selling short IT training DVDs on eBay and that has snowballed into the international training portal which the site is today. Payment of a monthly fee (around $84 per…

By Nate Drake VTC is an online learning platform specifically geared to help trainees improve their software skills. The Introduction to Linux course is designed to welcome newcomers to Linux and provide them with some basic knowledge of the operating system. The only prerequisite for the course is a basic knowledge of IT, such as…

AMD has now announced price cuts for its Ryzen 7 chips ahead of the Ryzen 9 Threadripper series launch date. If you’ve been looking for a cheap and compelling Intel Core alternative, look no further than AMD. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Nate Drake The Linux Academy is an online platform offering access to dozens of Linux-related courses. This Linux Essentials course has been put together by the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and can be accessed via the Linux Academy website. Registration requires a valid credit card and will give you a free 7-day trial to…