Desktops

By Gabe Carey Sleek and stylish, Huawei’s first non-touch Ultrabook is replete with a handful of record-breaking characteristics. For starters, it’s the smallest 13-inch laptop in the world measuring in at 28.6 x 21.1 x 1.25cm (11.26 x 8.31 x 0.49 inches; W x H x D) and packs the thinnest bezel, too, at 0.17…

HP has officially shown off its line of new and revamped 2017 laptops and tablet. Are there any updates of note on these? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Gabe Carey If you’re looking at this and wondering why you would buy a 2-in-1 laptop from Panasonic, much less one that’s 1.8-inches (4.6cm) thick and weighs 6.1 pounds (2.8kg), the Toughbook 33 isn’t for you. This is, through and through, an enterprise machine with the mobile workforce in mind. That means the target…

Microsoft has some bad news for fans of Linux. The company clarified that Windows 10 S, which powers the Surface Book, will not run Linux distributions. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Mike Williams InMotion is a popular US-based company which has provided a wide range of web hosting services for more than 15 years. InMotion has several shared hosting plans, all marketed as ‘Business’ products. That might put you off if you’re just a regular home user, but it’s just a label – they could…

By Henrietta Rowlatt Introducing the Asus UX310UA. A laptop that’s pretty much the same size, price and weight as Apple’s recently updated, and dearly loved MacBook Air. And with the Air having being cast out as the, pardon the pun, bad apple of the laptop family, is Asus ready to wear the coveted Air crown?…

By Cat Ellis As developer AOMEI notes, backups are always the best defense against ransomware, including the WannaCry virus that hit systems worldwide last week. However, that knowledge isn’t always enough – if you’re going to get into the habit of backing up your valuable files regularly, it needs to be as quick and effortless…

By Seth G. Macy Building a personal gaming computer is a rite of passage for any PC gamer, but sometimes it’s just easier to have someone else do all the work. The MSI Aegis 3 is one of these pre-built systems that has the hardware to satisfy any PC gamer’s needs, living and breathing inside…

By Gabe Carey When Dell refreshed its 13-inch flagship laptop late last year, many immediately wondered of the whereabouts of a certain 15-inch version. After all, while the Dell XPS 15 of last year was fine and dandy, it wasn’t without a few hiccups that ultimately set it back. For starters, the battery life on…

By Desire Athow As far as Chinese tech companies are concerned, broadly speaking, there are three categories. Firstly, the big hitters like Huawei or Lenovo, that can afford to charge premium prices for their products. Then there are the firms which cannot charge premium prices because they don’t have the relevant quality products, and lastly,…

By Mike Williams VPNs can seem a complicated technology, packed with low-level geeky details that hardly anyone understands, but check the TunnelBear site and you’ll quickly realise this service does things differently. The Canadian-based company doesn’t drown you in jargon. There’s no talk of protocols, no mention of encryption types, barely any technical terms at…

AMD’s monster of a processor, code-named Threadripper, will feature 16 cores and 32 threads. Additionally, the company has unveiled its new line of mobile processors known as Raven Ridge. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Cat Ellis DropBox, iCloud Drive and other file storage services have their joys, but they’re a pale imitation of what FTP clients like FileZilla can do. FileZilla can light up a slovenly FTP server; it picks up aborted downloads seamlessly if the connection is dropped and the Keep Alive system retains a usable link…

By Cat Ellis SoftMaker FreeOffice is a free Microsoft Office alternative available for Windows and Linux, with a companion app for Android devices. SoftMaker FreeOffice offers effortless editing of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. It can also export files in EPUB and PDF export. FreeOffice contains three apps: TextMaker for documents, PlanMaker for spreadsheets…

By Cat Ellis Some PDF readers are laden with extra tools like highlighting, secure document signing, encryption and optical character recognition. That’s brilliant, but sometimes all you want to do is read a document as quickly as possible. That’s when you need SlimPDF Reader. According to its developer, SlimPDF Reader is the world’s smallest desktop…