Chinese hardware company Linglong has announced a surprising new product — a powerful mini PC hidden inside a foldable keyboard. When closed, the device measures just 15cm x 10cm and weighs 800 grams, but it houses an AMD Ryzen 7 8840U processor with up to 32GB RAM and 1TB of storage. The keyboard even includes a mini touchpad, meaning the only peripheral missing is a display.
A portable computer without a display might seem a little odd, but you’re probably surrounded by more potential displays than you think — phones, tablets, TVs, monitors, VR headsets — all of these can be connected to the keyboard PC. This means you can use your phone on the go, connect to the hotel TV while traveling, or hijack any monitor at work. To help you connect to any display you want, the device has a USB 3.0 port, a USB 4 Type-C port, a USB 3.2 Type-C port, and Bluetooth. It even has a fan inside to keep things cool.
Linglong claims its keyboard PC can handle 10 hours of light office work, six hours of media playback, and around four hours of gaming. One thing to keep in mind about these numbers, though, is that they don’t consider the kind of display being used. If you connect to a display that needs to borrow power from the computer, for instance, your battery life will decrease by quite an amount.
Mini PCs are a growing niche, but in many ways, they provide answers to questions that most people just never ask. Most of us, when we need to take a computer somewhere, simply grab a laptop and a size-appropriate bag to carry it in. Maybe we’re not that excited about dragging it around with us all day, but that’s just what we have to do.
Mini PCs, on the other hand, seem to be aimed at people whose desire to leave their bag behind outweighs the need to take the computer. Instead, they want to happily slip their mini PC into their back pocket and just hope that wherever they’re going has peripherals that will be comfortable to use. (And no, connecting your keyboard PC to a smartphone would not count as comfortable.)
But even if the pocket PC sounds great to you, there’s also the price to consider — the 16GB/512GB version will cost $645, and the 32GB/1TB version will cost $780. These aren’t prices for the international market, however. Currently, Linglong only has plans to sell 200 units to beta testers in China, and we don’t know if or when sales will begin worldwide.
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.