Dell is offering significant Cyber Monday discounts on a wide range of products including laptops, gaming laptops, desktops, and monitors, with deals up to 40% off, making it a prime opportunity for consumers to purchase high-performance hardware at reduced prices.
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Dell is offering significant discounts on a range of laptops, desktops, and monitors ahead of Amazon Prime Day, including a $100 discount on the Inspiron 7440 laptop, a $200 discount on the XPS 8960 desktop, and a $131.79 discount on the Alienware 34 Curved QD-OLED gaming monitor, making it a good time to upgrade your tech gear.
Despite the end of most Memorial Day sales, Lenovo still offers significant discounts on a range of laptops, desktops, and tablets, including the versatile ThinkBook 14 2-in-1, powerful ThinkPad P16, convertible ThinkPad L13 Yoga, all-in-one desktop ThinkCentre M90a Pro, compact ThinkStation P3 Tiny, and the Idea Tab Pro tablet, with prices substantially reduced for a limited time.
Dell is still offering significant discounts on a range of laptops, desktops, and monitors from their Memorial Day sale, including models like the Inspiron 16, XPS 14, XPS 13, Slim Desktop, Alienware Aurora R16, and the Alienware AW3225QF monitor, with savings up to $400 on some items, making it a good opportunity to upgrade your tech at reduced prices.
Dell has launched its Black Friday Sale early, offering significant discounts on its Inspiron and XPS lines of laptops and desktops. The Inspiron series, known for affordability, includes deals like a Dell Inspiron 15 with Intel Core i5 for $299. The premium XPS line features options like a Dell XPS 13 with a 3K OLED display for under $1,700. Desktop deals include an XPS Intel Core i7 for $599.99. Dell's sale also includes monitor deals and PlayStation console bundles, with some of the best offers available before Black Friday.
AMD has introduced a new series of semiconductors for AI-enabled business laptops and desktops, aiming to expand its share of the "AI PC" market. These chips are expected to be available in platforms from HP and Lenovo starting in the second quarter of 2024, enabling devices to run large-language models and apps powered by AI technology directly on the device. AMD faces competition from Intel and Nvidia in the market for AI PCs, as the demand for advanced semiconductors for AI programs continues to rise.
Cyber Monday offers a wide range of electronics deals, including laptops, desktops, monitors, TVs, robot vacuums, Apple products, printers, soundbars, and earbuds. Some notable deals include discounted laptops from Dell, Asus, and Acer, as well as discounted TVs from LG, Sony, and Samsung. Additionally, there are deals on robot vacuums from Shark, iRobot, and Ecovacs, as well as discounts on Apple products like AirPods, iPads, and MacBooks. Printers from Brother, Canon, and HP are also on sale, along with soundbars from Samsung, JBL, and Bose. Finally, there are deals on wireless earbuds from Apple, Beats, Google, and Bose.
AMD has gained CPU market share in desktops, laptops, and servers, according to a report from PC hardware market research firm Mercury Research. AMD saw increases in both unit share and revenue share, with gains of 5.8 percent and 4.1 percent in desktops, 3.8 percent and 5.1 percent in laptops, and 5.8 percent and 1.7 percent in servers, respectively. The report suggests that AMD's gains likely came at the expense of Intel, its main competitor in the PC industry. AMD attributes its success to the release of its 4th-gen EPYC and Ryzen 7000-series processors.
HP is offering up to 67% off on a wide range of laptops, desktop PCs, gaming rigs, and accessories during its Fourth of July sale. Customers can save an extra 20% on select HP, Hyper X, and Poly accessories when bundled with a PC or monitor. The sale has no set expiration, but it is recommended to place orders before July 4 to avoid missing out on savings. The sale includes some of the best laptops and desktops of 2023, such as the HP Pavilion Aero and HP Spectre x360, as well as accessories like mice, keyboards, monitors, printers, and the HP Reverb G2 virtual reality headset.
Apple has launched its second-generation Mac Studio with more power and capability than ever. The M2 Mac Studio can be configured with the M2 Max chip that first arrived with the 2023 MacBook Pro laptops or with the brand-new M2 Ultra chip. The M2 Ultra features up to a 20% faster CPU and 30% faster GPU than the M1 Ultra. Memory can be configured up to 192GB, that’s a 50% increase over the 128GB memory max with the M1 Ultra. The M2 Ultra can handle up to 22 streams of 8K ProRes video playback and compute up to an incredible 31.6 trillion operations per second.
Intel has reportedly scrapped the troubled Meteor Lake architecture for desktops, with the 14-core MTL-S Core i5 chip now expected to be based on the Arrow Lake architecture instead. An internal Intel client roadmap shared on Twitter suggests that the MTL-S has been cancelled, with the 14-core chip now potentially based on Arrow Lake. It is still unclear what Intel's 15th gen lineup of CPUs will look like, and there is no information yet on Meteor Lake processors for laptops.
Samsung has launched three new PC products in the domestic market, including the base Galaxy Book 3 laptop, an All-in-One monitor, and two new desktop PCs, all powered by 13th Gen Intel Core processors. The Galaxy Book 3 laptop shares the premium slim metal design of the Galaxy Book 3 Pro and comes in two color options. Samsung also announced one new All-in-One (AiO) PC and two desktop units, with dedicated NVIDIA graphics for better performance. The AiO has a 24-inch display with built-in speakers and a detachable "upgrade door" for memory upgrades. Prices range from $567 to $902.
NVIDIA has announced a wholesale update of their professional visualization product stack, including five new SKUs for professional laptops and a low-profile, small form factor optimized desktop RTX 4000 Ada Generation card. The laptop lineup includes the RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU, which is analogous to the consumer RTX 4090 for Laptops, and the RTX 2000 Ada Generation for laptops, which is analogous to the consumer RTX 4060 for Laptops. The desktop RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation is based on NVIDIA’s AD104 GPU and has a TDP of 70W.