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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on, we’re all continuing to spend more time staying safer at home. And whether we’re working from home, helping our kids with their online schooling or simply just in need of a computer to order groceries on, now is the perfect time to invest in a laptop or desktop upgrade. From MacBook Airs to Chromebooks, find the perfect refurbished or renewed computer solution for your needs among these stellar options, some up to an astounding 61 percent off their usual price. Chromebooks Chromebooks have , thanks largely in part to their more affordable prices.
Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has wasted no time. While he won’t take over from Bob Swan until February, he’s already addressed Intel’s workforce in an all-hands meeting. According to , Intel told assembled employees that it might wait to announce any change to its manufacturing plans until Gelsinger is onboard. This is an interesting wrinkle to the overarching manufacturing situation, and it implies that Intel wants a CEO with an engineering background to examine the situation and possibly make the decision. Then again, the Oregonian reports Intel “may” postpone a decision, not that it would, so the issue may still be under discussion.
The is Samsung’s official new flagship smartphone with performance that rivals the best phones money can buy. This phone still won’t launch for a couple more weeks but you can pre-order it now and save up to $800. Depending on the offer you take, you may even be able to receive up to a $200 gift card as well. Just like the Galaxy S20, Samsung will offer three versions of the Galaxy S21 that mostly differ in size and a small number of features. All three phones are the same at heart relying on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC to drive performance to rival Apple’s iPhone 12.
We’ve been tracking the rise of RISC-V since the ISA debuted nearly a decade ago. While the highest-performing RISC-V CPUs are still far behind their x86 or ARM equivalents, the absolute level of performance you can get from a RISC-V core is increasing rapidly. Even better, especially for those who like experimenting with new architectures, the cost is coming down. It’s been possible to buy a RISC-V board before this, but the options have been limited, particularly for the money you’d spend. We discussed an expensive SiFive option last year — a quad-core chip, in that case — but there’s now a much cheaper Beagle board option.
SpaceX is busy ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station these days, but that’s not all Elon Musk’s aerospace firm is doing. It’s also gearing up for a Mars colonization effort and deploying a satellite internet constellation called Starlink. You can get Starlink internet in a few places, but Russia doesn’t want any of its citizens going through the SpaceX system as it expands. In fact, the country has floated the idea of or other foreign satellite internet services. Starlink relies on the same basic premise as traditional satellite internet — the subscriber on the ground has an antenna which they point upward to communicate with the space-based network.
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An extra monitor attached to a desktop workstation can make you more efficient, but laptops need to be portable. Designers have tried to shoehorn a second display into laptops for years, but Asus might have gotten closer than ever to making dual-screen laptops practical with the . These laptops will start at $1,000 when they begin shipping later this month. Asus has made a few devices in the ZenBook Duo line, which feature a secondary display above the keyboard and abutting the bottom of the primary display. The 2021 Asus ZenBook Duo lineup features 14 and 15-inch (technically 15.6-inch) models, both of which include the redesigned “ScreenPad Plus” hardware — that’s what Asus calls the secondary display.
