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Dell Latitude 9420 review: pricey performance

The Verge

There’s the Dell Optimizer program which (in theory) learns your behavior over time and tailors everything from audio quality to charging speed accordingly. Dell says the Latitude is “leading the new age of intelligence.”. Dell also says that Optimizer will direct your bandwidth to videoconferencing applications while they’re in use.

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Dell XPS 17 review: big screen dream

The Verge

The XPS 17’s trackpad is about as big as you’ll find on a Windows laptop. Speaking of the trackpad, it’s about as big as you’ll find on a Windows laptop and works quite well. As Monica Chin pointed out in her review of the prior model , the XPS 17’s screen makes it very easy to put two windows side by side for comparison.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows

The Verge

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. And I definitely wanted to know about the decision to run Android apps on Windows. Nadella also mentions “aggregators” in the context of the Windows store.

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Chromebooks sales grew 275% in Q1; Amazon tablet shipments climb nearly 200%

GeekWire

Chromebooks in general posted record shipment numbers in the first quarter of 2021, with HP, Lenovo, Acer, Samsung, and Dell making up the top five vendors in the market. We’re also starting to see a few higher-end Chromebooks for more advanced users, at price points that rival or surpass a roughly equivalent Windows laptop.

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HP Elite Folio review: style over substance

The Verge

The Elite Folio is a lightweight, leather-covered, convertible Windows laptop powered by a Snapdragon processor with Arm architecture. Arm for Windows has certainly improved since we first reviewed the Surface Pro X in 2019. I remember trying out the first Surface Pro X in 2019, when Windows on Arm was painfully slow.

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Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 15-inch review: redemption

The Verge

But the more interesting comparison is to the M1 machines. For context, it’s almost a pound lighter than the 16-inch MacBook Pro, and over half a pound lighter than the lightest Dell XPS 15. That doesn’t mean the Laptop 4 is ugly; it’s just falling further behind other Windows laptops each year. inches thick and 3.4

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The best Chromebooks to buy in 2020

The Verge

Chromebooks can cover a wide variety of computing needs now, and a good Chromebook can be more useful than a mediocre Windows laptop. There are so many similarities between the offerings from Asus, Lenovo, Google, HP, Dell, and Samsung that a conspiracy-minded person might suggest they’re all sourcing their components from the same factory.

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