Pros Bright, high-performance HDR screen Performs well for the price Cons Big, heavy brick for a 14-inch laptop Meh battery life and performance on battery Screen occasionally flickers The introduction of newer processors like Intel’s 14th-gen H series doesn’t preclude laptops with the older 13th-gen chips from being worth buying, especially as their prices drop. The … Read more
$700 at Lenovo Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO 3i 27-inch all-in-one desktop: $700 Save $150 Show more (3 items) On of the great things about a desktop setup , is that it’s often a lot cheaper for the same sort of specs, so you can save yourself some money, or get a lot more return on your … Read more
If you’re looking for a low-cost, full sized laptop that can handle all of the basics, Best Buy has you covered with this excellent Chromebook deal. The Acer Chromebook Plus 515 usually lists for about $400, but right now you can get your hands on one for just $279. That’s a $120 discount. Just note … Read more
Given how saturated the market is with excellent laptops, it can be a bit daunting for folks to find something they like. Between all the solid 2-in-1 laptops and the high-end gaming ones, it’s hard to find a good deal on something that’s going to last you a long time. To help out, we’ve gathered … Read more
TL;DR: This refurbished Acer N7 C731 Chromebook (Intel Celeron N3060, 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC) is down to just $56.99 (reg. $289) as of Dec. 25. That’s a savings of 80% for a limited time. When you need an extra computer for everyday tasks or to give your older child a device to stream shows and … Read more
While Windows laptops are generally solid devices, when you get to the lower end of the budget scale, the quality tends to take a dip. That’s mostly because Windows itself is quite a bit resource-hungry, so when you don’t have a lot of RAM or a good processor, you can get a lot of slowdowns. … Read more
Intel’s latest chips boast big performance gains, but never mind any of that. What would be a normal annual chip refresh announcement from one of the world’s biggest silicon developers has put the biggest emphasis yet on onboard PC AI, with the latest Intel Core Ultra line as part of the current Meteor Lake chipsets … Read more
SAVE 31%: The lightweight Acer Swift Go 16 (Intel Core i5-1335U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is just $549.99, down from $799.99, at Amazon. That’s a savings of $250. We deal with a lot of heavy stuff as adults. Unfortunately, some of the heavy stuff is unavoidable. But some of it is within our control. If … Read more
Whoa! The Acer Nitro 5, packed with delicious internals that can handle triple-A gaming, blew my mind. This is a sub-$1,000 gaming laptop, so naturally, I didn’t want to get my hopes up. However, the Nitro 5 is arguably one of the best cheap gaming laptops on the market. It’s even better than the MSI … Read more
With Black Friday just around the corner, now is one of the best times of the year to upgrade your gaming setup. Walmart’s Black Friday sale is already live, and you’ll find hundreds of deals and games, hardware and much more. That includes a whopping $114 off this 27-inch Acer Nitro gaming monitor, dropping the … Read more