Awesome Computers

The latest version of Samsung’s Galaxy Book now has Gigabit LTE for always-on connectivity. It also has a built-in kickstand, a 12″ AMOLED display, two USB-C ports, a microSD port, a 3.5mm jack and still comes with a keyboard and the S Pen stylus. Drops 11/2/18 for $1000.

The Razer Blade 15 laptop now comes in a standout limited-edition Mercury White finish that goes well with the company’s other white peripherals. There’s also a more affordable base Blade 15 that has a 60Hz display, single zone RGB lighting and GTX 1060 GPU.

Goodbye chunky Alienware laptops. The upcoming m15 has a 15.6″ screen yet looks more like a 13″ laptop thanks to its thin side bezels. It comes in 1080p or 4K variants, has 8th Gen Intel CPUs and maxes out with a GTX 1070 GPU. Drops 10/25/18 starting at $1299.

It is the distant future. The year 2000. Lazy Game Reviews looks at How to Find Anything on the Internet, a CD-ROM guide from 2000 that’s packed with videos on navigating the Web and the browsers of the time. Prepare to chuckle and dive in.

Microsoft improves its premium all-in-one PC. It’s faster, and the Surface Studio 2’s 28″, 4500 x 3000 resolution touchscreen display is now brighter and has more contrast. Its storage maxes out with a 2TB SSD, while its GPU can be either a GTX 1060 or a GTX 1070.

Microsoft’s powerful and beautiful Surface Laptop has been upgraded with 8th gen Intel CPUs, twice as much RAM – now 8GB – on the base model and improved cooling. Its unique alcantara cover now comes has a slick matte black option.

With the Spectre Folio, HP aims at people who want to own an elegant and stylish computer. The laptop and tablet hybrid is clad in full grain leather that extends to the touchpad. It has a Core i5 or Core i7 CPU, up to 16GB RAM, up to 2TB SSD, and a nano SIM slot.

The age of affordable SSDs is finally upon us. Coming later this year, Lexar’s NS100 SSDs will start at just $30 for the 120GB capacity model. There’s also a $50 240GB model and a $90 480 GB model. The SSDs promise up to 550MB/s read speeds.

Lenovo will be releasing what appears to be an officially-licensed desktop PC that resembles the NCC-1701A Enterprise from Star Trek. Inside is a projector, a 9th gen Intel Core i9 CPU, a GTX 2080 GPU, up to 32GB RAM and up to 3TB storage. Photos via My Drivers.

Smartphones and tablets pack computing power in a small form factor. But if you prefer the look of a desktop computer, watch this brief clip from Creativity Buzz, showing how to build a tiny PC with just a few inexpensive parts. Full build details here.

Kano’s Computing Kit Touch teaches kids and electronics beginners about the parts of a computer and the basics of programming by building a touchscreen PC from scratch. It’s based on the Raspberry Pi 3 and comes with over 100 challenges and stories.

Boost your desktop computer’s storage with the latest edition of Seagate’s Barracuda Pro hard drive. The 7200rpm drive has a massive 14TB capacity and is the fastest 3.5″ drive on the market, with a 256mb/s transfer rate and a 256MB cache.

ASUS’ upcoming Zephyrus S gaming laptop is only 0.6″ thick and weighs just 4.6 lb. But it has a 15.6″ 144Mhz 3ms 1080p screen, Core i7 CPU, GTX 1060 or GTX 1070 Max Q GPU, up to 24GB RAM and up to 1TB NVMe SSD. Drops 8/31/18 for $2000+.

Lenovo’s new P1 laptop is for those with demanding needs for performance on the go. The 15.6″ laptop weighs under 4 lb thanks to its carbon fiber and magnesium alloy case, yet packs a Core i7/Xeon CPU, up to 64GB RAM, up to 4TB SSD and an NVIDIA Quadro P2000 GPU.

The latest update to Origin’s light and slim gaming laptop sees thin bezels on its 1080p display, Intel 8th Gen CPUs, and a GeForce GTX 1050Ti or 1060 GPU. The 2018 EON15-S also has a USB-C port, two display ports, an HDMI port and individual RGB keyboard lighting.

The latest version of GPD’s tiny Windows laptop. The Pocket 2 features a faster processor and a better keyboard. It now has a microSDXC slot, a USB-C port, a USB-A port and a cooling fan that you can turn off, all in a package that’s lighter than the original.

AkBKukU wanted to celebrate Windows 98’s 20th birthday in style. So he dug up unopened computer components and peripherals from 20 years ago and put them together to make a brand new yet instantly obsolete gaming PC.

Apple finally got with the times and updated its MacBook Pro Touch Bar laptops with faster new 8th gen Intel processors. The 13″ has quad-core CPUs while the 15″ has six-core CPUs. They also have an improved keyboard and a True Tone display that adjusts to ambient lighting.

Microsoft is out to make tablets look like a bad deal with the new Surface Go. It’s a Windows-based 2-in-1 that has a 10″ 1800×1200 screen, 9h battery life, a USB-C port, and a microSD slot. It will be available starting 7/10/18 for $399. An LTE model will arrive late 2018.

Digital Storm’s mid-tier gaming laptop may not look flashy or modern, but it’s what’s inside that counts, and what the company is asking for it is very reasonable. The Equinox 15 has a 1080p 144Hz screen, a 6-core Core i7 CPU, GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU, and upgradable RAM and storage.

Quick Look is one of the most useful features on Macs, letting you preview a file’s content just by pressing the spacebar while you’re on a Finder window. Paddy Xu’s QuickLook imports the exact same feature to Windows 10. It works with both documents and media files.

The ASUS ZenBook Pro 15 UX580GE has a 5.5″ touchpad that’s actually a second display. It has native apps like providing touch controls for Microsoft Office, a calculator, and a media player, and you can actually extend your display to it as well. Drops 7/2018 for $2299.

FozzTexx offers a flashback to what life was like for computer users in the late 1970s. Check out the sleek styling and cutting edge monochrome screen on that TRS-80 Model II, complete with 8″ floppy drive and acoustic coupler! They left out the modem squeal, so here you go.