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HP Envy x360 (2020) review: AMD wins again

The Verge

The best laptop under $1,000 This year’s HP Envy x360 is a big deal. Traditionally, the Envy line has been HP’s midrange option; it’s a rung above the budget Pavilion, but a rung below the flagship Spectre. The displays on HP’s midrange laptops have knocked it out of the park in the last few years, and this Envy is no exception.

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HP’s high-resolution Reverb G2 is a $699 headset for VR gaming

The Verge

HP and Microsoft have announced a new version of their high-resolution Reverb virtual reality headset, aimed at VR gamers rather than businesses. The original Reverb suffered from cloudy visuals , but HP is promising that new lenses and panels will clear that problem up. HP and Microsoft built the G2 with input from Valve.

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HP Elite Dragonfly Max review: pretty fly for a steep buy

The Verge

Both have been upgraded to 11th-Gen Intel processors and DDR4 memory — HP tells me they’re aimed at “mobile users who loved Dragonfly, but want an even faster and smarter device”. Lenovo has adopted the roomier 16:10 and 3:2 aspect ratios on a number of its premium ThinkPads, and HP should do the same with the Dragonfly.

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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

percent of computer users still are on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft no longer supports it for free. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. It won’t cost you a penny. Try Mint out.

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You can now sign up to test Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR

The Verge

The new Microsoft Flight Simulator is an immersive beast of a PC game, and we can only imagine how immersive it might get in VR — but you might not have to imagine much longer, because Microsoft has just opened signups (via Eurogamer ) for a closed beta of the virtual reality experience.

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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. “That is exactly what we’re going for,” he said.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: HP/Microsoft do an Extreme Make-Over of a.

Sean Daniel

HP/Microsoft do an Extreme Make-Over of a Not For Profit Organization. Families For Effective Autism Treatment of Washington (or FEAT WA) , was the first winner of the HP & Microsoft Extreme technical make-over. HP also improved their networking infrastructure with the HP ProCurve 1810G-24 switch. Windows 7. (47).

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