Today you can save on some well-made HP laptops that would be perfect for schoolwork. Some of these can also handle a little gaming, making them a lot of fun to have after all the work is done. With its fast Intel Core i7 processor, HP’s 15t laptop has excellent performance for everyday tasks. It’s also fairly inexpensive at the moment, marked down from $799.99 to just $579.99. If you have an extra $50, you can also upgrade the notebook with a 1080p display. Built with one of AMD’s new hexa-core Ryzen 5 4500U processors, this laptop should have excellent performance for everyday tasks.
Tesla’s lithium-ion battery technology is already the envy of the automotive industry, and the company may be moving even further into the lead soon. A new report from Reuters claims Tesla in late 2020 or early 2021. That’s not the official name, of course, but it’s a reference to how much longer the cells can operate before failing. That’s about twice the average lifespan of current lithium-ion batteries. Tesla has been working with Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL). Reuters reports the first cars with the new battery will be released in China, which is a market in which wants to gain a foothold.
There’s a rumor going around that the new OnePlus 8 camera can see through objects in a sort of x-ray effect. It can’t — that’s not what it does — but it does provide some slight visibility through a handful of otherwise-solid objects, thanks to what appears to be a built-in camera defect. Whether or not you consider this a feature, therefore, may depend a great deal on what kind of problems it causes for your other images (if any). To see the feature in action, activate the “Photochrom” filter and point the camera at the right kind of object.
The first 5G phones have launched over the past year, and you might even have one now that Qualcomm has pushed OEMs to include the next-generation tech on all flagship devices. However, you probably don’t have a quantum 5G phone. Yes, that’s a thing thanks to a partnership between South Korea’s SK Telecom and Samsung. It’s also, surprisingly, not as useless as it sounds. The is the first and only smartphone with a Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) inside. The device itself is based on the mid-range Galaxy A71 5G, which Samsung has already launched in numerous markets sans quantum technology.
In advance of Memorial Day weekend, today there are several strong deals to be had on Dell PCs. Of note is the company’s powerful Alienware Aurora gaming desktop that comes equipped with an Nvidia RTX 2080 Super graphics card. Dell’s Alienware Aurora pairs a fast Intel Core i7-9700 processor with an immensely powerful Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card, giving it all the muscle it needs to run modern games with high graphics detail. The computer also comes with a 2TB HDD alongside a 256GB SSD and 16GB of DDR4 RAM, making it a well-rounded system.
Memorial Day weekend is just about to start, and the holiday deals are already rolling in. Today you can grab one of Apple’s 2019 10.2-inch iPads from Amazon with a $79 discount. This makes Apple’s most affordable iPad even more so at just $249.99 for the 32GB version. Apple’s 2019 iPad features the company’s A10 processor that first debuted in the iPhone 7 at the end of 2016. Although that makes this tablet’s hardware a few years old, you get get the performance of this former flagship with a large high-def screen and with 32GB of storage space at a surprisingly affordable price.
Google’s annual I/O conference was supposed to happen this week. Alas, like many other gatherings, it’s been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. We expected all the I/O announcements to come by Friday, but it’s looking like Google may postpone some of its most important ones. Documents from Vodafone indicate the hotly anticipated Pixel 4a launch has been . Last year, the launch of the Pixel 3a coincided with Google I/O, and leaks this year made it look like the 4a would be the same. However, Google canceled not only the physical event but also the online I/O conference it initially promised.
Memorial Day is just a week away, and if you’ve got your eye on a new computer, today’s the day you want to buy. Currently, you get a premium Lenovo Yoga laptop marked down to just $779.99. Lenovo’s versatile Yoga C740 notebook features a 1080p touchscreen display that can be rotated around to put the system into tablet mode. The Yoga C740 also features a sleek aluminum body and a fast Intel Core i7 processor. Right now you can get it from Lenovo marked down from $929.99 to just $779.99. Just use promo code SNEAKPEEKMD7 at checkout.
With a new console generation on the horizon, Microsoft, Sony, and gamers are all collectively bracing for the impact on next-generation console storage capacities. While it’s true that game sizes have grown for decades, what we’re seeing for the first time with this upcoming generation is that hard drive / SSD sizes really aren’t increasing all that much to keep pace. The Xbox Series X will offer a 1TB SSD, which is the same capacity as the (though vastly faster) and only 2x larger than the Xbox One in its launch configuration back in 2013. The problem is, of course, game sizes haven’t merely doubled since then.
