Desktops

Acer has a new gaming notebook in store, and it’s designed for budget-conscious gamers. Meet the new Acer Nitro 5, hitting store shelves this summer. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Alastair Marr Surround sound. The future of audio, the only way to experience your movies, games, TV and music, right? Well, actually, no. Sure, surround is great at times, but usually, good old-fashioned stereo will do fine. Surround setups need lots of speakers and lots of cables, and everything has to be in exactly…

By Cat Ellis Claws Mail is an open source email client with more bite than most. It’s not quite as slick as rivals like Mailbird Free, but whatever it lacks in polish it makes up for in speed and flexibility. It’s made primarily for Linux, but there’s also a port for Windows users, with an…

By Harry Domanski When Jaybird released the Jaybird X2 wireless headphones, they quickly became a favorite for athletes and casual listeners alike. Their reputation grew thanks to rugged construction, impressive sound quality and, above all else a respectable price that just kept dropping. The appropriately named X3s carry the Jaybird torch onwards, improving on almost…

Intel wants its proprietary Thunderbolt 3 interface to become widespread as much as possible. To that end, it just announced plans to make it more accessible to third-parties, an important step in the burgeoning high-speed interface future. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Microsoft is launching a new Surface Pro successor, with almost the same set of features as its predecessor except for the improved processors and graphics. Here’s how the new Surface Pro and Surface Pro 4 compare. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

Huawei has officially unveiled its new MateBook X and it looks like a solid MacBook Air rival, sporting powerful specs and a sleek ultrabook design. Here’s what you need to know about specs, options, and pricing. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Huawei tried to break into the U.S. market last year with the MateBook, to poor results. The company is looking to bounce back with new laptops in the MateBook line. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

Microsoft officially unveiled its latest Surface Pro, boasting major improvements on all fronts. The new Surface Pro boasts Kaby Lake processing power, 50 percent longer battery life than its predecessor and more exciting specs, ready to take on Apple. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Cat Ellis Photoshop Express is a free, pared-back version of Adobe’s industry standard photo editor designed for making quick tweaks to images before you share them on social media. It’s ideal if you want to pretend that sunset yesterday was a little bit more dramatic, the sea was a little more blue when you…

By Jon Porter Every audio brand under the sun likes to claim that their products seamlessly blend form and function, but the BeoSound Shape are quite unlike anything we’ve seen before. At first glance the sound system looks like an art installation. It’s a cluster of hexagonal tiles, arranged as you see fit to achieve…

By Joe Osborne Samsung wants to make the 2-in-1 device work – you could say it’s crucial to the Apple-trouncing ecosystem the company wants to build. The company’s latest attempt at that is the Galaxy Book, a spiritual successor to its Galaxy TabPro S of last year. The Galaxy Book, frankly, doesn’t do a ton…

By James Peckham Best known for making phones, Huawei is now starting its process of entering the laptop market with two new products. There’s the MacBook Air competitor with the MateBook X, with a super slim metal body and sexy 13-inch display, and then there’s the much more dull Huawei MateBook D. The MateBook D…