MediaTek shared in a blog post that it will have chips in Google’s upcoming Googlebooks, joining Intel and Qualcomm. Interestingly, it mentions bringing Dimensity smartphone chips, not the Kompanio chips it already had in Chromebooks (and were quite good).
I don’t know why Google didn’t announce chip partners like it did laptop partners in its weird Googlebook tease.
Chromebooks solved a real need 15 years ago. I’m not sure Google’s new Googlebook solves anything.
Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkPad X13 Gen 7, launching this month with Intel Panther Lake and AMD Gorgon Point chips. The X13 starts at $1,499 and weighs as little as 2.03 pounds / 0.93kg. Lenovo also boasts the X13 scores a 9/10 repairability rating from iFixit.
New ThinkPad L14 and L16 models are launching alongside the X13, primarily for enterprise deployments.
Jaron Schneider of PetaPixel has a new piece in his personal Gunpla collection for me to be jealous of: a camera. The modified IUTD TBC (To Be Continued) 35mm film camera is hand-painted and decaled by Little Road Camera to mimic the original RX-78-2 Gundam.
I may have to do something extremely wicked… and order one of these.
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The Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra is a very expensive Windows laptop with some hard-to-overlook shortcomings.