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Throughout 2020, Eve Devices has been teasing its second Eve V, a crowdsourced 2-in-1 designed, at least in part, by committee. Now we know the price and specs, but it’s not shipping until Q3 of 2021. CPUIntel Core i5-1135G7 or Intel Core i7-1165G7GraphicsIntel Iris Xe GraphicsMemory16GB or 32GB LPDDR4x-4266MHzStorage512GB or 1TB NVMe SSDDisplay13.4-inch, up to 4K UHD+, 16:!0 HDR, IGZO IPSKeyboard and PenIncludedNetworkingWi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, LTEPorts2x Thunderbolt 4, USB 3.2, 3.5 mm headphone jack, micro-SD card reader, Nano-SIM (on some models)Cameras720p webcam, 5MP rear cameraOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro As we had learned earlier, Eve has gone with Intel’s 11th…

In general, this is a terrible time to buy a high-end graphics card. It’s hard to find an RTX 3080, 3070 or 3090 card, because they’re constantly sold out. AMD’s Radeon 6000 series cards are launching soon, but there’s a great chance that they’ll be sold out just as quickly as their Nvidia-powered counterparts. However, as we are in the thick of the holiday deals season, there are still great deals on cheap graphics cards to be had. Most of the savings we’re finding are on low to mid-range cards that haven’t been directly replaced yet. We’re talking mainly about…

Arguably the most important component in any computer (along with the graphics card if you’re a gamer), your CPU has the most impact on performance. If you’re planning a new PC Build, perhaps one of the best PC builds, anytime soon, this holiday deals season should yield some good processor discounts, all of which we will be tracking below. So far, we’ve seen solid deals on current-gen chips from Intel, as well as AMD’s 2nd and 3rd Gen Ryzen chips. The brand-new Ryzen 5000 remained nearly impossible to find in stock at all. And here at the tail end of…

When it comes to the SSD market, there’s Samsung, and then there’s everybody else. While there are dozens of SSD brands, many of which make drives that appear on our best SSDs list, for many shoppers only a Samsung SSD will do. Perhaps that’s because, as one of the leading manufacturers of NAND Flash memory, Samsung has the ability to make its own chips and controllers at a large scale. From the low-cost SATA-based 860 EVO to the mid-range PCIe NVMe 970 EVO and the top-of-the-line PCIe 4.0 980 PRO, Samsung has drives in every market segment. With the holiday…

The Samsung CHG90 is a whopper of a monitor with 49 inches of real estate, and now it’s only $699 from Microsoft for Cyber Monday, a $200 discount. That’s a nice deal for a 32:9 widescreen monitor (it’s four feet wide) that operates at a speedy 144 Hz refresh rate, but be aware that this panel debuted back in 2018, but great price reductions over time have given the monitor a long lifespan.  The CHG90 has a resolution of 3840 X 1080 spread across its 13.3-inch high panel, basically creating the same amount of viewable screen as two 27″ monitors…

GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (Image credit: Nvidia)Nvidia (via Notebookcheck) is giving away a GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition as part of a Holiday contest. The latest render of the mid-range Ampere graphics card raises one big question: Has Nvidia decided to kill off the 12-pin PCIe power connector? Theoretically, the 12-pin PCIe power connector opens up the possibility for a maximum power delivery up to 648W. From the beginning, the connector was already a bit of overkill since no modern graphics card sips that much power. Even AMD’s infamous Radeon R9 295X2, rated with a 500W TDP, didn’t come…

Gigabyte’s and its Aorus gaming brand only got into the monitor business a couple of years ago, but the company is no amateur when it comes to making great displays. Case in point: the Aorus CV27Q, a 27-inch curved, 165 Hz screen that is one of the best gaming monitors you can buy and a favorite for 2K gaming. This week, Best Buy has one of the best Cyber Monday monitor deals: the Aorus CV27Q reduced to $369 from its regular price of $459. For that sum, you get a panel that has a 1500mm curve and supports HDR10 and…

Dell’s XPS 13 laptops have always had a place among the best Ultrabooks and left fans hungrily awaiting deals on these devices. The XPS 13 9310, the first XPS 13 to use a Tiger Lake chip, is no exception, and its recent release means that previous models like the XPS 13 9300 will probably be going on sale soon. That’s why, with Cyber Monday deals season upon us, we’re listing all the best sales we can find on these laptops in their various configurations. Amazingly, if you’re willing to go for the older of these models, you can score a…

Whether you’re using a MacBook Pro or another laptop with Thunderbolt 3 or USB-C connectivity, you need a good docking station that can both charge your computer and pump data out to multiple monitors over a single wire. Plugable’s new TBT3-UDZ dock is likely your best choice and it’s now available for just $189 at Amazon for Prime members,  a saving of $110 off the MSRP of $299. Most Thunderbolt 3 docking stations cost well over $200 so finding one of the best for less makes this one of the best Cyber Monday tech deals around. Cyber Monday deals: see…

ASRock and Razer are getting ready to announce two high-end Razer Edition motherboards for AMD’s latest Ryzen 5000 processors. The boards will be based on AMD’s B550 and X570 chipsets, will provide all the premium capabilities that ASRock’s Taichi motherboards support, and will also feature Razer’s proprietary Razer Chroma RGB lighting.  ASRock’s lineup of Razer Edition motherboards will include at least two models, the B550 Taichi Razer Edition as well as the X570 Taichi Razer Edition, according to findings of @momomo_us/Twitter. The motherboards have already been listed (1, 2) by at least one online store in Japan, so their launch is likely…

Arguably the most important component in any computer (along with the graphics card if you’re a gamer), your CPU has the most impact on performance. If you’re planning a new PC Build, perhaps one of the best PC builds, anytime soon, this Cyber Monday deals season should yield some good processor discounts, all of which we will be tracking below. So far, we’re seeing some solid deals on current-gen chips from Intel, as well as AMD’s 2nd and 3rd Gen Ryzen chips. The brand-new Ryzen 5000 series processors provide epic upgrades in performance (see our review of the Ryzen 9…

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a favorite among mainstream productivity consumers and business users, thanks to its lightweight design, amazing keyboard and long battery life. As we enter holiday deals season (yes, it’s a season now), we’re eagerly watching deals on one of the best Ultrabooks you can buy. That’s why we’re making a page dedicated to deals on the two newest ThinkPad X1 Carbon models, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 and ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7. The Gen 8 is the most recent, and packs your choice of 10th Gen U-series Intel processors. The Gen 7, meanwhile, mostly…

Apple and Qualcomm are certainly not the only adopters of the Arm architecture that develop system-on-chips for PCs. Rockchip, a major fabless chip developer from China, is working on its high-end RK3588 SoC that promises to bring together performance and low power consumption. Rockchip expects its RK3588  to address various kinds of performance-hungry applications, including high-end tablets, laptops, AR/VR, televisions, and even NVR (network video recorder) surveillance systems, according to a report from CNX Software that cites information revealed at the Rockchip Developer Conference (RKDC).  Modern high-end SoCs for flagship smartphones and tablets already offer compute performance comparable or exceeding that of…

My LN2 Pot got an imprint of the 5950X burned into it.  (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware)The Ryzen 5000 series CPUs from AMD landed a few weeks ago, and after I’ve had about two dozen liquid nitrogen (LN2) overclocking sessions with chips with various core counts, the records are starting to fall. These chips are just flying!  I would go as far as to say the marketing hype and multi-day-info-trickle that was the release actually undersold how good these processors are. I’m not just comparing Team Red vs Team Blue here, but Team Red mainstream vs Team Red high end desktop…

ROG Maximus XII Apex (Image credit: Asus)Resizable BAR (Base Address Register), the technology behind AMD’s Smart Access Memory (SAM), isn’t exclusive to Ryzen owners anymore. Asus has released an entire wave of new firmwares for various Z490 motherboards that enable the Resizable BAR feature. The firmware, which sports the 1002 version number, is fresh out of the oven as Asus evidently uploaded it just yesterday. The firmware is currently in the beta stage so there might be some bugs here and there. It also lacks a detailed description of the changes. We can, however, confirm that the 1003 firmware effectively…

When it comes to the SSD market, there’s Samsung, and then there’s everybody else. While there are dozens of SSD brands, many of which make drives that appear on our best SSDs list, for many shoppers only a Samsung SSD will do. Perhaps that’s because, as one of the leading manufacturers of NAND Flash memory, Samsung has the ability to make its own chips and controllers at a large scale.  From the low-cost SATA-based 860 EVO to the mid-range PCIe NVMe 970 EVO and the top-of-the-line PCIe 4.0 980 PRO, Samsung has drives in every market segment. With the holiday…

LG’s 42.5-inch 4K 43UN700-B monitor has an expansive IPS panel with plenty of real estate, and you can purchase this monitor today for $569, which is $130.00 below MSRP and the lowest the monitor has ever been at retail. It also comes with free shipping, which is a plus given the monitor’s absolutely massive size.  I personally own the previous-gen model of this monitor, and it’s hard to overstate how much the extra panel real estate has boosted my own productivity. With that in mind, you do have to accept that this panel isn’t a high refresh rate model –…

A mechanical keyboard is something a lot of casual typists don’t consider, but like how snagging a nice mattress can make all the difference for your sleep,  it’s one of the easiest ways to make your typing experience more efficient and comfortable. Maybe the reason it doesn’t occur to a lot of people is because so many of the best mechanical keyboard are decked out for gaming, but there are great typing options for productivity, too. Take the Das Keyboard 4C TKL, which is now at its lowest price ever: $111. The Das Keyboard 4C TKL is an RGB-less, aluminum-paneled,…

If you’re wondering where and how to buy an RTX 3080 or RTX 3070 card, your chances of succeeding in what’s left of 2020 seem slim. Most stores are constantly sold out of the GPUs and barring incredibly good luck or success from a Raspberry Pi-powered bot,  you could be celebrating Valentine’s Day without one.  However, if you’re willing to buy a prebuilt, Alienware Aurora PC, you could be playing Cyberpunk 2077 in 4K with ray-tracing on when the year’s most-anticipated game launches in early December. And believe it or not, Dell has the the Aurora configurations with RTX 3080…

If it’s raw performance you’re after, a desktop is always the best option, but not everybody has the space for a full setup. In that case, laptops are a viable alternative for small apartments, but they often command a steep premium. Not today though. We spotted a brilliant Black Friday laptop deal on MSI’s GL65 Leopard gaming laptop, which comes packed with an Intel Core i7 CPU and Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics at a price of $1099 — $300 down from its regular price.   MSI GL65 RTX 2070, 144 Hz Laptop: was $1399, now $1099 at Amazon This fully-loaded laptop…