I never recommend people buy laptops under $250. That’s even more true if you’re talking about Windows laptops rather than Chromebooks. As a laptop reviewer, I just can’t in good conscience recommend that people buy these old, cheap laptops that will inevitably end up in the trash in a few months.
But this year, there’s an absolutely killer deal on a laptop that overcomes that advice. As part of the counter-programming for Prime Day 2024, Buy at Best Buy , a laptop with an OLED screen, for $235. You read that right — $235. That’s $515 off the normal price.
This Zenbook 14 comes with an OLED panel, making it the cheapest laptop I’ve ever seen not using a standard IPS display. OLED takes the whole visual experience to another level on a laptop of this type, and it’s completely unheard of. OLED panels have excellent contrast, accurate colors, and a wide color gamut. Not only is this OLED but it’s also a sharp panel, coming in at a resolution of 2880 by 1800. Again, that’s astounding for a $235 laptop.
Beyond just the excellent display, laptops comes with a large touchpad and tons of ports — despite being just 0.67 inches thick. It comes with HDMI, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a USB-A port, and an SD card slot.
If the laptop has a downside, it’s the CPU. It uses a two-year old Intel Core i5-1240P. It’s not that this is a bad processor by any means, it’s just that it’s a bit old at this point. The device also only comes with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. But so long as this laptop is used only for fairly basic tasks, I don’t think you’re going to be disappointed.
So, whether you need a portable laptop for travel or something more suited for college students, I can’t imagine finding a better laptop around this price.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.