News style articles about announcements that happened recently. This is mostly for temporary things.
The HP EliteBook X G2 will be available in a number of configurations and is targeted as one of HP’s higher end laptop series (not as high as the ZBook Series, but still good). There will be several different models with different options of course. The HP EliteBook X G2a will have 55 TOPS NPU and the latest AMD Ryzen™ AI processor. The HP EliteBook X G2i will have Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors for …
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There are a lot of consumer grade laptops coming from HP this year and a variety are being shown at CES 2026. We’ve got a variety of OmniBooks such as the OmniBook Ultra 14, OmniBook X Series, OmniBook 7 Series, OmniBook 5 Series, and OmniBook 3 Series. Some of which will be available in “Flip” form factors for the Tablet PC convertible features. The OmniBooks will be available in a wide range of sizes and …
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HP got a number of CES 2026 awards for some of their existing computing and consumer electronic technology this year. My favorite is the HP ZBook Fury of course as that’s an extremely powerful mobile workstation. I reviewed the G8 version some years ago, and the latest version is equally as impressive with an easily removable back panel and tons of upgrade options. Here’s a list of HP’s other award winners this year. HP EliteDesk …
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I love it when electronic hardware manufacturers get innovative even if it’s already been done several times in the past. There’s a new Pocket PC or Ultra-Mobile PC or Mini-PC that’s gotten nicely funded over on Kickstarter. Traditionally, “Pocket PC” was Microsoft’s term for “Palm-sized PCs” running the Pocket PC operating system embedded on smartphone sized devices or PDAs (personal digital assistants) at around the turn of the century. This is a full Windows 11 …
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We got to see a demonstration of a cool ComfyUI template that NVIDIA created to showcase how quickly their RTX 5090 GPU can process image generation locally on a laptop computer. Most people think we need a high-end server farm in the cloud to do all of these new “Artificial Intelligence” imagery, video, and text generation, but there are numerous smaller models that can actually run locally and can run pretty nicely if you have …
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, recently tweeted a long post that complains about “What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.” He’s referring to the internet as a whole but may not realize the hypocrisy of his statements. A number of countries are starting to implement laws enforcing privacy violating technologies such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning …
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