Since the Xiaomi 17 Ultra was released, I’ve been looking for reviews that really talk …
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CES: HP’s 2026 Award Winners
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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Viaim RecDot Wireless Ear Buds Review: Audio Recording with AI Processing
Wireless earbuds for listening to audio and using video conferencing software are very common these days. It seems like every tech company makes a variety of wireless earbuds in various price ranges as accessories for you to buy. So it’s kind of hard to differentiate. While something like the Angry Miao Cyberblades brings in a flashy Chroma flair paint job and extra low latency radio frequencies, Viaim is differentiating with some new functionality. The Viaim …
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OmniOne – Pocket PC’s are back!
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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HP Envy 6552e Printer Review: a consumer all-in-one printer with instant ink
In my experience, printers have always been the most annoying tech product to deal with. The moving parts, managing the ink levels, loading paper, connecting computers, installing software drivers, getting the settings right. It’s always been a complicated affair. Does the HP Envy 6500 series make things easier? Maybe a little. Read on to see how the HP Envy 6500 series printer holds up. What’s in the Box The packaging includes the printer, quick start …
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The HP OmniBook 5 Next Gen AI Laptop looks really nice
I got a little hands-on time with the new HP OmniBook 5 AI laptop the other day and it looks really nice. First of all, it’s very light at 2.98 pounds. Secondly, it’s got the world’s longest battery life in a consumer AI PC laptop at about 34 hours of constant video playback. That’s pretty awesome, and it’s due to the Snapdragon X Elite processor with the ARM architecture and Windows Home for ARM operating …
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NVIDIA shows off AI image generation speed on their mobile RTX 5090
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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