All of the laptops and desktop PCs announced at CES 2017 – The Verge

This Dell 2-in-1 laptop can wirelessly charge through its keyboard

2017-01-06T17:11:25-05:00

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Wireless charging remains an elusive concept. It pops up here and there, often for mobile devices using special cases, and yet many solutions are painfully incomplete or too cumbersome for consumers to care. The Dell Latitude 7285, a new 2-in-1 business laptop announced yesterday at CES, uses a clever method to bypass wireless charging's pernicious roadblocks to deliver a true solution. Dell claims it's the first fully fleshed-out version of the feature for laptops.

The trick is in the keyboard. The Latitude 7285 is a 2-in-1 hybrid. That means 100 percent of its components fit inside the tablet display, which can be attached to one of three …

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Dell put 10 speakers inside new XPS 27 all-in-one PC

2017-01-05T13:31:44-05:00

Dell XPS 27

Making a distinctive and uniquely appealing desktop PC is a daunting task nowadays, but not an impossible one. Dell's approach to this challenge, unveiled with the 2017 XPS 27 all-in-one, is to go for audio overkill. This new desktop has six speakers staring down the user - four covering the mid and bass frequencies, plus dedicated tweeters in each corner - along with two more down-firing, full-range speakers and a pair of passive radiators. I say overkill, but audio has been generally a neglected aspect of desktop PCs, with makers expecting people to buy separate speakers or use headphones, so Dell is tapping into an opportunity to deliver …

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Dell’s 8K monitor is a sublime $4,999 luxury for the pros

2017-01-05T13:31:27-05:00

Dell UP3218K

If CES is a preview of the future, then give me more of this particular flavor. Dell today announces a new 32-inch, 8K desktop monitor with 1.07 billion colors, aluminum construction, 100 percent coverage of the AdobeRGB and sRGB color gamuts, and a monster $4,999 price. The UP3218K has a resolution of 7680 x 4320 (for a pixel density of 280ppi), which is as many pixels as you'd get from four 4K displays or 16 Full HD panels.

Speaking to The Verge ahead of Dell's unveiling at CES, the company's Frank Azor, general manager for the Alienware and XPS brands, joked that the UP3218K could be considered a reasonable purchase if rationalized as bu …

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Samsung gets into the gaming PC game with odious Odyssey laptops

2017-01-04T17:00:01-05:00

Samsung Notebook Odyssey | Vlad Savov

Gaming laptops are one of the things that every PC maker has prioritized at this year's CES, with big names like Lenovo, and now Samsung, starting whole new sub-brands of gaming PCs. Samsung's answer to Lenovo's Legion is the Notebook Odyssey. The Odyssey begins with a 15-inch laptop in February and a 17-inch behemoth in April, both of which look like rejects from Alienware's design interns. There's an upsettingly high degree of unoriginality about these laptops, which could easily bear Acer's Predator or Asus' Republic of Gamers branding - they're both cookie-cutter gaudy monstrosities.

Attractive only insofar as they attract the eye

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Samsung found the courage to put a full-size HDMI port on its 13-inch ultrabook

2017-01-04T17:00:01-05:00

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The 2017 edition of the Samsung Notebook 9 comes with the claim of being the world's lightest 13-inch laptop, and at only 1.8 pounds / 820 grams of weight, it probably merits the title. I tried it out here at CES 2017, and what's interesting about it to me is how little Samsung has compromised in terms of connectivity with this new laptop, endowing it with full-size HDMI and two USB-A ports along with the new hotness that is the thinner and smaller USB-C.

Just look at the side profile of the new Notebook 9: display excepted, the chassis of this laptop is barely any thicker than the ports it provides. There's a certain sense …

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LG claims its new Gram 14 laptop has 23 hours of battery life

2017-01-04T11:45:01-05:00

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LG's latest attempt to blend ultra-thin design with high-end performance may have solved one of the company's most pernicious problems. The Gram 14, announced today at CES, is similar to its predecessor in many ways. There is now a touchscreen option, but the device is just as thin and weighs the same as the 2015 model, coming in at just 2.16 pounds. That's still light enough to retain the weight crown for its size class. Yet the real differentiator this go around is battery life. LG claims the Gram 14 tops out at 23 hours on a single charge.

It's a bold claim, especially considering the flaws of the original Gram, itself a pretty brazen Ma …

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Asus’ new 14-inch business laptop is even lighter than Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon

2017-01-04T06:30:54-05:00

Along with a slew of other PC announcements at CES this year, Asus has unveiled a handsome-looking 14-inch "business notebook" that it claims is the world's lightest - weighing in at just 2.3 pounds. That's lighter than even Lenovo's 2017 ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2.5 pounds) which also has a 14-inch display and is one of our favorite new laptops around.

But what makes this AsusPro B9440 a business notebook as opposed to, you know, just an ordinary laptop? Well, nothing really, apart from the fact it has a magnesium-alloy chassis to keep it lightweight as well as durable. (Surely something you'd want in any laptop). Asus points to its spill-resis …

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OWC’s USB-C dock adds ports, but makes your new MacBook Pro thicker than the 2012 model

2017-01-03T19:00:35-05:00

USB-C laptops are still largely unexplored territory, and the form factors the docks and dongles we use to connect old gear to these new laptops is still very much in the air. But one idea that seems to be cropping up for the laptops of tomorrow is sticking a huge, bulky attachment to restore some old functionality.

As thick as the 2012 MacBook Pro

OWC is the latest accessory maker to try this strategy, with its DEC USB-C dock for Apple's new MacBook Pros. And while there's not a ton of information as to what ports with DEC will offer beyond a USB-C port to connect to a MacBook Pro and an SD slot, AppleInsider is reporting that the Dec will …

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Dell put a GTX 1050 GPU in a $799 gaming laptop

2017-01-03T17:13:13-05:00

The race is on to build a really great gaming laptop around Nvidia's new GTX 1050. Nvidia's already greatly improved the headroom of gaming laptops by shipping basically unaltered 1080, 1070, and 1060 cards for laptops, instead of scaled down mobile versions. Now the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti are continuing that trend more or less, and making more portable designs possible.

Dell's new Inspiron 14 and 15 7000 series are just spec bumps of last year's models, but the new 1050 and 1050 Ti cards in them are a huge upgrade for gaming. Each laptop is available with either a seventh-gen Core i5 7300HQ or Core i7 7700HQ quad core processor, but most …

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This $99 gadget gives your MacBook a touchscreen

2017-01-03T14:30:24-05:00

Apple's steadfast refusal to outfit its MacBook line with a touchscreen option is a well-known industry holdout. We'd much sooner get a massive, 15-inch iPad Pro than the company go back on its years of anti-Microsoft marketing, and the awkward half measure of the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar.

So for those eager to swipe their fingers on the display of an Apple notebook, there is one option. AirBar, a magnetic sensor that sits below the bottom edge of a laptop's display, will grant you all the glory of a touchscreen device for just $99.

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The gadget supposedly emits an invisible light field that allows standard screens to receive input from han …

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