But Sure View isn’t the only business-centric feature included on HP’s notebook. It also features a comfortable keyboard for productive typing and solid sound for post-work dance breaks. Unfortunately, the privacy-first panel suffers from poor color, and the laptop suffers from below-average battery life. However, if you are worried about being visually hacked, the EliteBook 1040 is a strong choice. Design The EliteBook 1040’s asteroid-silver, machined-aluminum body and the shiny, metallic beveled edge around the notebook’s base give it a stylish look and feel that match its $1,279 starting price....

Design At first glance, the HP Pavilion 15 looks like a bootleg Razer Blade procured in some shady back alley. The lid is made of a matte plastic with a chalky smooth finish and a dark gray, chrome HP logo. When I placed my hand on the lid to feel the texture, I was dismayed to discover that the black surface flexed downward at the slightest hint of pressure. A mutagen-green and black honeycomb pattern adorns the Pavilion 15’s palm rest, gradually transitioning into a solid black that makes up the rest of the keyboard deck....

Design The Spectre x2 sports an eye-catching black-and-copper machined aluminum design with a dark ash silver finish that pops when light bounces off, making it one of the most attractive 2-in-1 PCs on the market today. Unlike last year’s model, which used a stiff switch to activate the kickstand, users extend and retract the hybrid’s stainless-steel kickstand by manually moving it to the position they require. It’s a welcome improvement. As a tablet, the HP Spectre x2 weighs 1....

The design is going to inescapably draw comparisons to the AirPods Pro, but under that casing, Huawei has a number of unique features on offer. This includes the dual-driver technology that allows for a wide 14Hz-48KHz frequency range, enhanced ANC and a new feature called “Triple Adaptive EQ” that scans your ear canal and tunes your audio to it. Competition in the noise-cancelling earbuds market is fierce, so let’s take a closer look at what Huawei is bringing to the table....

Huawei has even incorporated some tech from its smartphone division into the MateBook X, in the form of a power button with a built-in fingerprint reader. Frankly, even though the company has a strong phone pedigree, the MateBook X took me by surprise. And if Apple, Dell and others don’t watch out, they might be trying to catch up to Huawei before too long. Design: Huawei has built a better MacBook Logos aside, if you got the MateBook X confused with Apple’s 12-inch MacBook, it wouldn’t be hard to see why....

A lump formed in my throat as my Oculus Quest 2 headset catapulted me into my first VRChat room — a bizarre social space where VR and PC users can mingle and be weird together. Before the simulated environment could fully load, I heard someone call out my username. Excited to have my first conversation, I opened my mouth to salute him — ‘til the greeter’s lewd gestures stopped me mid-hello....

There are five flavors of the latest 11th Gen H-series CPUs ranging from a Core i5 with six cores to a Core i9 packing 8 cores and 16 threads and capable of reaching a turbo clock speed of 5.0Ghz. Best gaming laptops of 2021Intel vs. Apple M1: Which chip is best for your next laptop? We’ll give you the rundown of these new 11th Gen H-series chips below, with performance comparisons against 10th Gen CPUs and AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs....