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Here are the maximum trade-in values (opens in new tab) for laptops now that Apple has bumped them up. MacBook: Up to $1,110MacBook Air: Up to $430MacBook Pro: Up to $2500PC or Chromebook: Up to $500 If you’re looking to ditch your desktop, an iMac gets you up to $2,500 and an Mac Pro nets you a maximum of $1,560. MORE: Apple’s Best MacBook Is Over 2 Years Old You can find out exactly how much money you’ll get for your machine by going to Apple’s trade-in partner, Phobio, inserting your device’s serial number and answering questions about the computer’s condition....

Google first announced its noise-cancellation vision for G Suite Enterprise and G Suite Enterprise for Education in April. “To help limit interruptions to your meeting, Meet can now intelligently filter out background distractions (opens in new tab)—like your dog barking or keystrokes as you take meeting notes,” the Google Cloud blog stated. How to use Google Meet for online teaching and distance learningForget Zoom, Google Meet is now free for everyone with 100-way video callsZoom gets a new game-changing feature — goodbye, Google Hangouts...

If you’re in the market for a laptop, there are good reasons you might want to go with the older model, but there are also many advantages to the new one. For example, the XPS 13 9360 has full-size, USB Type-A ports, while the 9370 has only Thunderbolt/Type-C connectors — but those ports can work with an eGPU. To help you decide which one is right for you, we’ve compared the Dell XPS 13 9360 to the Dell XPS 13 9370 in seven categories....

Through April 21, Best Buy is taking $150 to $200 off every 13-inch MacBook Pro (opens in new tab) configuration (excluding the Touch Bar models). Buy on Best Buy (opens in new tab) After discount, the base model (opens in new tab) starts at $1,149.99 ($150 under the Apple Store’s price), whereas the 256GB (opens in new tab) and 512GB models (opens in new tab) sell for $1,299.99 and $1,999....

Best Buy is selling the Surface Pro 7 for just $599 (opens in new tab) with the black Type Cover keyboard after a $360 discount. That’s the lowest price we’ve seen on the new tablet and matches Best Buy’s Black Friday deal. The $599 model has a Core i3 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. Other models are also heavily discounted, with a mid-tier model with a Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD (with the Type Cover) going for $330 off its retail price....

Design The Acer Aspire E 15 is lathered in a black, faux-aluminum cross-stitching, accompanied by a glossy, silver Acer logo. The interior is more of the same, with silver accents around the touchpad. While it has a somewhat premium aesthetic, the design isn’t exciting. Meanwhile, Asus’ VivoBook S15 crashes the party in style, with four distinct colorful designs: Silver Blue with Yellow Trim, Gunmetal Grey with Light Grey Trim, Firmament Green with Aquamarine Trim and Starry Grey with Red Trim....

Acer claims that the $1,250 Spin 7 (pictured), with a footprint of 12.8 x 9 x 0.4 inches, is the worlds thinnest ultraportable. It includes a 14-inch, 1080p display, 1.3-GHz Intel Core i7-7Y75 mobile CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. It’s also going all-in on USB Type-C with two of the new ports and no Type-A ports. MORE: Best Acer Laptops The 13.3-inch Spin 5 is a more affordable $650....

CPU: Intel Core i7-1165G7 GPU: Integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics RAM: 16GB Storage: 512GB PCIe SSD Display: 14nch, FHD IPS Touchscreen (1920 x 1080) Battery: 10:14 Size: 12.7 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches Weight: 2.6 pounds Acer Swift 3 pricing and configurations The Acer Swift 3’s base configuration starts at $729.99 and has an Intel Core i5-1035G4 processor, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, Intel Iris Plus graphics, and a 13....

And with a starting price of $249, it better offer a premium experience. With the combination of a high-resolution display, auto-adjusting brightness, Bluetooth capabilities, and being waterproof, it’s definitely on the right track. Oh, and it also looks nice, to top it all off. Made out of aluminum and glass, the Oasis is surprisingly lightweight for its size. It measures 6.3 x 5.6 x 0.1 inches and weighs only 6....

The Most Affordable Tablets Got More Affordable And while the Fire HD 7 now supports dual band networks (the previous only allowed for one), it’s still packing an 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi card. Why do we bring that up? 802.11ac is the industry-wide standard that all devices should pack in 2017. Fire Kids Edition Tablets Just as with the non-Kids editions, the 7-inch tablet’s packing a 1024 x 600-pixel screen whereas the 8-incher has a 1280 x 800 panel....

Researchers have found 13 critical security vulnerabilities in AMD’s Ryzen and EPYC processors that can infect the PCs with malware, give attackers access to important data, read and write files and take over chipsets entirely. CNET first reported on the issues. The vulnerabilities were discovered by Israeli security firm CTS-Labs, which gave AMD less than 24 hours’ notice before CTS-Labs disclosed the issues. (Standard security-research practice is to provide the vendor with 90 days’ notice....

Zen 3 and Ryzen 5000 laptops are due to market later this year, so if you’re looking for your next gaming or video rendering mobile workhorse, you’ll want to know why everyone’s talking about the latest Ryzen line. We’ve put together a guide for AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 CPUs to help you decide if these exciting new chips earn a place in your next laptop. 19% performance uplift, 24% more power-efficient At AMD’s Ryzen 5000 launch event in October 2020, CEO Lisa Su and CTO Mark Papermaster outlined key improvements for Zen 3 over the prior Zen 2 generation....

The new Android 13 release, available for a handful of Android phones, including Google’s own Pixel line in public beta, marks the second chapter of the OS’s Material You refresh, and instead of focusing on grand, ambitious overhauls like its predecessors, it addresses a few long-standing Android concerns. Android’s growing list of privacy tools, for instance, will soon no longer be scattered all around the Settings app and are now easier to find and understand under a revamped, unified screen....

Whether you need an Apple keyboard or Apple Pencil for your iPad or replacement spare charging cable, we’ve got your back. Apple wearable accessories like AirPods and Apple Watch help you get the most out of your Apple device, so we’re tossing them into the mix too. From keyboard cases to charges and accessories, here are the best Apple accessory deals we’re seeing right now. Apple accessory deals — Quick links Apple accessory deals 

Following hot on the heels of that leak is another report from DigiTimes with additional details regarding the launch timeframe and the possible scarcity of Apple Glass at launch (via Tom’s Guide). Apple Glass: Release date, design, features, price and moreMacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020) ReviewBest cheap headphone deals in May 2020 Apple Glass launch date debate The new report very much aligns with Prosser’s claims regarding the launch timeframe for Apple Glass as it indicates that the glasses will go into production sometime in the beginning of 2021, indicating a shipping date later in the year....

Looking to catch up on all the big announcements? Here’s everything you missed. MacBook Air with Retina Display After years of lying dormant, the MacBook Air is officially back. The refreshed Air will finally get a 13.3-inch Retina Display, as well as a slew of updated internals including 8th-gen dual-core processors and up to 16GB of RAM. The new Air’s 2050 x 1060 display touts four times the resolution of the previous model, offering a whopping 4 million pixels....

Best 5G laptops in 2021iPhone 12 Pro vs. iPhone 12 Pro Max: Which should you buy?The best phone deals in May 2021 This backs up Barclays analysts Blayne Curtis’s and Thomas O’Malley’s prediction that the Apple-designed 5G modem will appear in 2023. Previous reports have already indicated Apple was designing its own 5G chip since 2020, and it even looked like the tech giant was trying to nab a few engineers from Qualcomm....

The renders, which were published online by serial leaker Benjamin Geskin, show an iPad Pro with thin bezels all around. Most notably, the iPad in the picture doesn’t have a Home button. Instead, the tablet adopts a design similar to that of the iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max with a screen that nearly covers the entire face. That said, there’s one major difference between the iPad Pro in the images, which were earlier reported on by the Inverse, and the iPhone XS line: the notch....

The M1 shook the foundation of the industry, causing a ripple effect, as the Apple MacBook Air became a tiny, fanless, affordable laptop for content creators that offered photo and video editors a lightweight option that could handle their on-the-go workloads or at least allow them to start editing while in the field. It also made getting into content creating more affordable for everyone, including students. Once the first reviews for the MacBook Air with M1 started rolling out, it was clear that someone other than AMD and Intel could make not only a viable processor but also one that could change the processor landscape....