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Tech NewsGadgetsLenovo Makes Big Battery Life Claims for Its New Budget Gaming Laptops
This morning Lenovo announced a hefty overhaul to its gaming lineup. Which isn’t surprising. Everyone is refreshing their gaming laptops after new CPUs and GPUs were announced recently by Intel and Nvidia respectively. However, with a starting price of $730 Lenovo seems to be offering some of the most affordable laptops for gaming available right … Continued
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ReviewsLaptopsLenovo’s Yoga C740 Is a Damn Good Laptop for Under $1,000
It is a sad fact that 2-in-1s exist despite the fact that they’re never exceptional at being both a laptop and a tablet. Maybe it was a bad experience with a tablet that turned me off to the idea, not to mention I hate typing on anything but an actual keyboard. I have a gaming … Continued
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Tech NewsApple Says It’s A-OK to Use Clorox Wipes on Your iPhone
Apple has finally given users a clear answer as to whether it’s safe to use disinfectant on its products, and it turns out it’s perfectly fine to use 70 percent isopropyl alcohol wipes or Clorox disinfecting wipes to clean your phone. Last week, Gizmodo reached out to several leading gadget manufacturers and asked whether it … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Very Best Gadgets We Saw at CES 2020
It’s Saturday, CES is finally done, and over 150,000 people have fled Vegas for less light-saturated locales. We walked the show floor and went to every secret hotel meeting we could to find the best gadgets coming out of CES this year. These are nearly all products that will be available in 2020—no concept cars … Continued
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io9Lenovo’s New Avengers Augmented Reality Game Is a Glitchy Glimpse into a Future Past
For the past few years, hardware manufacturers and game studios have been valiantly trying to sell the public on the idea of virtual and augmented reality being a core aspect of the future of gaming. Their efforts have been in vain for the most part because, outside of hyper-controlled environments, entry-level gaming setups like Lenovo’s … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Extremely Tiny Gaming Laptop Recreates the ThinkPad’s Iconic Nipple As a Joystick
Aside from maybe Apple’s MacBooks, there isn’t a line of laptops with as much brand recognition as IBM’s ThinkPads—now manufactured by Lenovo. They’ve been around for almost 30 years now and were responsible for some real innovations in laptop design, including the TrackPoint nub in the middle of the keyboard that Paul Klinger has lovingly … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsDell Is Experimenting With Foldable Display Devices, But Don’t Expect a Product Anytime Soon
Folding is hot, my friends. Small phones that fold out into big tablets and small laptops that fold out into bigger tablets. First, a whole slew of phone manufacturers showed off folding phones at CES and Mobile World Congress, and last week, Lenovo showed a prototype dual-screen PC. All the major players in the consumer … Continued
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ReviewsForget Foldable Phones, Lenovo’s Prototype Bendy Screen Laptop Looks Sick
We’ve already seen the arrival of flexible phones like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X, and while the excitement around these gadgets may have been dulled somewhat by concerns about durability, that isn’t stopping Lenovo from taking bendy screen tech and applying it to something bigger. That’s where this thing comes in, and … Continued
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ReviewsLenovo and Google Figured Out the Perfect Alarm Clock
It took a couple of years, but we finally have the perfect application of Google Assistant—an alarm clock. The Lenovo Smart Clock with Google Assistant looks like a sibling to Google’s Home Hub and Home Mini. Only instead of being a hub for smart home control, or a dinky speaker with Google Assistant built in, … Continued
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ReviewsLenovo’s Cheap Android Tablets Double as Alexa Speakers
The tablet is lazy. At least that’s what Lenovo seems to think. The company believes tablets can be used for more than watching Netflix and playing Solitaire. So today, it’s launching two tablets (both under $300) that double as Alexa devices—complete with docks that double as Bluetooth speakers. The Lenovo Smart Tab M10 and P10 … Continued
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ReviewsY’all Ruined One of Lenovo’s Best ThinkPads
Okay you jackasses. We need to fight. Because starting this year the Lenovo Yoga Thinkpad X1—Lenovo’s 360-hinge version of the practically perfect X1 Carbon, is dropping the very light and durable all carbon fiber body and replacing it with heavier and lamer aluminum. And you are to blame. According to Lenovo, the decision to take … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsAdding a ThinkPad Nubbin to a Mechanical Keyboard Is an Incredibly Nerdy Hack
Keyboards, for reasons I’m still unsure of, seem to inspire a lot of nerdery. People will spend hundreds of dollars to tweak and customize their keyboards until they’re perfect. Or they’ll bust out some old keyboard parts and a knitting needle to add a ThinkPad-style trackpoint to an old mechanical keyboard. First noticed by Hackaday, … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy Do Laptop Makers Have Such Terrible Websites
It’s Black Friday, and you have read all the great reviews, enjoyed the plentiful buyer’s guides, and now you’re ready to pull the trigger a freaking laptop. Only when you go to the website of Dell, HP, Lenovo, or nearly any other laptop maker, you find yourself in a hellscape. These websites are clunky, crowded, … Continued
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ReviewsLaptopsThe Lenovo Yoga Just Keeps Getting Better
Lenovo’s line of Yoga laptops is well known and liked for the clever hinges that allow the devices to smoothly transform from a regular clamshell with a decent keyboard to a thick tablet. In particular, the Yoga made a name for itself with a slick “watchband” hinge that looks more like a fancy piece of … Continued
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ReviewsLaptopsLenovo’s Dual-Screen Yoga Book Is Painfully Close to a Breakthrough
Laptops haven’t changed much since 2012. Sure, they’re a bit sleeker, more powerful, and have slightly better battery lives. But after Microsoft conjured up the original Surface with its kickstand and detachable keyboard in 2012, it’s largely been five plus years of iterative improvements. That doesn’t mean companies aren’t trying though, because if you’ve been … Continued
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Tech NewsFeud Week, Dungeons & Dragons, Shooting Bigfoot, and IFA 2018: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Here at Gizmodo, we’ve just wrapped up Feud Week: A series on personality and business clashes in the tech world, scientific disputes, and whether or not to shoot Bigfoot. (I say let the big guy do his thing, unless it turns out it’s kidnapping people with mind-waves to make more Bigfoots.) Some have said that … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe New Lenovo Yoga Book’s Second E-Ink Display Is a Refreshingly Neat Idea
You wanted to love the original Lenovo Yoga Book. It had a pretty display, and its keyboard doubled as a pad for pen input, which besides just being neat also allowed it to be one of the thinnest laptops available at .38 inches. Plus, it cost just $500. But the original Yoga Book was profoundly … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsLenovo’s Slickest 2-in-1 Ditches Its Famous Hinge For Two Hidden Tricks
For the past three years, Lenovo’s flaghip 900-series Yoga 2-in-1s have been some of the best convertibles on the market. They were sleek, powerful, and had way more flexibility than a boring old clamshell, with essentially zero downsides. Thanks to their sophisticated watch-band hinges, Lenovo’s high-end convertibles also had a real sense of style and … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsLenovo Wades into the Smarthome Gold Rush with Some Very Cheap and Convenient Gadgets
Along with anything related to smart speakers and voice assistant integration, one of the biggest gold rushes in tech is the rapidly expanding smarthome market. And with companies both new and old trying to find a way in, there’s a lot of a confusion among consumer about which brands are legit. So naturally, Lenovo, with … Continued
