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At CES 2026, HP is showing off some new laptops powered by the latest chips including Snapdragon X2 Elite and Intel Panther Lake coming this year. Oh, and there are some Chromebooks too. HP’s consumer ...

Something weird is happening in the nebulous corporate space between Best Buy and Hewlett-Packard. HP and BB seem to be BFFs, at least when it comes to affordable laptops, as they’ve been offering ...

Major laptop vendors have quietly removed hardware decode support for the H.265/HEVC codec in several business and entry-level models, a decision apparently driven by rising licensing fees. Users ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

Best Buy's second batch of Black Friday Doorbuster deals is available now through November 9. On the gaming side, the marquee deal is an HP Victus 15.6-inch gaming laptop for only $480. Normally $780, ...

The HP Omen 16 is a serious piece of hardware, combining the Intel Core i9-14900HX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU in a 16-inch laptop that doesn't weigh a ton. Options galore, too, right up to ...

A great demonstration of what Ryzen AI 395 Max+ machines can offer. Remarkably powerful, yet it can still last a long working day on a single battery charge. Makes Intel Core Ultra 200 machines look ...

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I don’t know what parallel universe we woke up in, but right now you can score a powerful RTX 5060 gaming laptop for just $1,050. The HP Victus is on sale at Best Buy with a crazy $320 discount! If ...