We wrote about it in July, but the 45Wh, 45W battery is here in all its Super Famicom glory (find a photo next to a mini Super Famicom in my gallery).
For the early-bird price of $40, I like it, but wish they’d fit charging prongs... or magnets... or done a little more with the screen... or avoided dipping to 5V when you use both ports.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d totally wear the green or blue. There’s just something about this specific photo’s bone-wrapped-in-someone’s-peeled-face vibe... Can’t quite put my finger on it!
But Ive’s magnetic button, with a piston that magically fills a donut hole, does sound cool — and a lot like the awesome buttons that let you swap Apple Watch straps.
There’s never been a cheaper, easier-to-use DJI drone than the $200 Neo for self-flying selfies.
But I’m so torn. The foldable $350 HoverAir X1 seems better for my social video needs. It filmed my opening shot below! But I love soaring with FPV goggles, which Hover can’t do. Maybe I’ll wait and see if DJI sells a budget FPV bundle.
The ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, which launched as a Snapdragon laptop, will get a $1,699 AMD Zen 5 variant in October with an undisclosed Ryzen AI Pro chip.
North America won’t get: €699 IdeaPad Slim 5 with AMD Ryzen 7000; €1699 Yoga Pro 7 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 and a 14.5-inch 600-nit OLED; €999 ThinkBook 16 Gen7+ with Ryzen AI 9 365.
It features Qualcomm’s new budget 8-core chip underneath a 16-inch 2K 60Hz, 300-nit IPS display — with “up to” 32GB RAM and 1TB storage. It does come standard with an big 84Wh battery.
Lenovo’s other new Qualcomm is the $850 IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1. It has a brighter 14-inch 400-nit OLED display, but a smaller 57Wh battery and only one USB-C.
Good news: Lenovo’s 14-inch ThinkPad X1 Carbon and 15-inch Yoga Slim 7i now have Intel Lunar Lake chips alongside 2.8K OLED screens and twin Thunderbolt 4 ports. Lenovo says the 2.16-pound Carbon is its lightest ever.
Weird news: They’re both now “Aura Edition” laptops, which apparently means software like focus modes, posture alerts, and “Smart Share” — tap an iPhone or Android to your laptop to share photos.
Samsung’s entry into the Microsoft Copilot Plus AI PCs was the weirdly throttled (and pricey) Galaxy Book4 Edge, but here’s a new 15-incher with Qualcomm’s budget 8-core chip, plus a Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360 backflipper with Intel’s Lunar Lake.
No prices yet, but both boast over 24 hours video playback; the Book5 has a 16-inch, 3K 120Hz OLED display that claims 120 percent DCI-P3 color.
Technically, panel manufacturers showed 600Hz screens years ago, but I believe Acer’s the first to actually announce one with the Nitro XV240 F6! It’s coming early 2025 for $600.
With a 1080p TN panel, it’s a stretch even for competitive gamers. We already had 540Hz screens and 500Hz screens — and the difference between even 360Hz and 600Hz is well under a millisecond. Besides, OLED has better response times.
