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It looks as though HTC is trying to fill the gap between Apple’s ultra-pricey Vision Pro and Meta’s way more affordable Quest 3 with its new Vive Focus Vision, an extended reality (XR) headset that boasts a “wealth of improvements and new features” for both gamers and enterprise users alike. As it pertains to the former, HTC claims its newest headset delivers the type of immersion that can be found in higher end headsets used

Two months ago, Micron launched one of the fastest M.2 2230 form factor solid state drives (SSDs) specifically for gaming handhelds, the P310 2230, under its Crucial brand. Now it’s bringing the Crucial P310 SSD lineup to desktops in full size form (M.2 2280) at attractive price points, so long as you look at street pricing and not the MSRPs currently listed on Crucial’s web store. “Micron’s Crucial P310 2280 SSD delivers blazing fast gaming-level

Technically, the summer season runs another couple of weeks. Fall is undeniably in the air, however, and the back-to-school season has begun in earnest in many parts of the country. Before we fully embrace the colorful changing of the leaves, crisp and refreshing air, and cool temps that are headed our way, let’s check out some sizzling hot deals that are on tap at Best Buy this weekend. Best Buy is in the final hours

Normally at this time of year, discrete graphics card shipments tend to decline, with Jon Peddie Research citing a 10-year average of a 7% drop. That gets chalked up to seasonality. In the second quarter of 2024, however, discrete GPU shipments bucked that trend and actually grew 1.8% compared to the previous quarter, according to JPR’s auditing. While that’s a small rise in shipments, it’s a pretty large reversal of what normally occurs in the

The last time Panasonic sold TVs in the United States around a decade ago, not long after it ceased production of plasma models. It’s a far different landscape these days, both in terms of display technologies and features (as well as pricing), and now Panasonic is teaming up with Amazon (and also Costco, to an extent) to once again start selling TVs stateside, this time with OLED and mini LED models up to 85 inches

There’s not a whole lot of mystery surrounding MSI’s next-generation Claw 8 AI+ handheld, as it’s been teased, showed off, and talked about several times up to this point. Nevertheless, following the launch of Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 processors, otherwise known as Lunar Lake, MSI has now officially announced the Claw 8 AI+. Sort of, anyway. We still don’t get official confirmation on a top-to-bottom list of specifications and features. However, MSI is laying

Intel is official with its Core Ultra 200V processor lineup, otherwise known as Core Ultra Series 2 (or Lunar Lake, if going by the architecture’s codename), and right on cue, its hardware partners have started announcing refreshed products build around the chip maker’s latest silicon. That includes Dell, which is trotting out a retooled XPS 13 with claims of up to 26 hours of battery life. Lunar Lake is a big deal for Intel, and

Ayaneo has been one of the more active participants in the handheld PC gaming console market, though up until now the bulk of its systems have been crowdfunded affairs with Indiegogo. That just changed—the Chinese manufacturer is apparently making a bigger push to infiltrate the US market, with two of its handheld consoles now available to purchase at Best Buy. The cheaper of the two is Ayaneo’s Next Lite, which is listed for $399 at

One of the best times to splurge on a gaming laptop without any guilt is when heading back to school. For one, these days you pretty much need a laptop (or at minimum, a capable tablet) for the school season, at least for college classes. And two, there are often timely deals as the summer season winds down. We’ve studied the landscape so you can ace your back-to-school laptop shopping with a handful of bargains.

While you’re kicking back and enjoying Labor Day weekend, why not take a moment to browse some timely deals? Now is a good time to be in the market for an Apple product, as there are bunch of discounted items on Amazon currently. We’ve gone ahead and rounded up what we feel are 10 excellent bargains, starting with a recurring deep discount on an iPad. We wrote about this one previously—it’s Apple’s 9th Gen iPad