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HP is giving its OmniBook laptops a Snapdragon X2 chipset and OLED displays. The revamp aims to emphasize stronger overall performance and longer battery lives -- up to as much as 45 hours. HP will ...

The new EliteBooks announced at CES 2026 are more easily repaired and offer all the CPUs. And then there's the EliteBoard, which is something you've not seen before. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at ...

Instead of spreading its Omen name to more products, it’s elevating the accessory brand HyperX to… everything. Instead of spreading its Omen name to more products, it’s elevating the accessory brand ...

At CES 2026, HP is showing off some new laptops powered by the latest chips including Snapdragon X2 Elite and Intel Panther Lake coming this year. Oh, and there are some Chromebooks too. HP’s consumer ...

Rumor mill: HP's EliteBook X G2 laptops will feature AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm processors within a single chassis family, offering enterprise buyers access to three major CPU architectures under one ...

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Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.