Month: July 2016

This might just be a coincidence, but several different retailers are offering some great deals on Lenovo laptops and convertibles today. Woot is running a ThinkPad sale, Best Buy is discounting a few models in its weekly ad. And B&H is selling the Miix 300 2-in-1 tablet for $50 off.

Here’s a roundup of some of the day’s best deals, with a heavy emphasis on Lenovo computers.

Lenovo laptops and convertibles

• Lenovo ThinkPad 11E notebook w/Core i3 Skylake/4GB/192GB for $340 – Woot
• Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11E touchscreen convertible w/Celeron N2930/4GB/500GB for $270 – Woot
• Lenovo Flex 3 11.6″ convertible touchscreen laptop for $200 – Best Buy
• Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon w/Core i5 Broadwell/8GB/256GB for $1040 – Woot
• Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 300 2-in-1 Windows tablet w/Atom Z3735F for $180 – B&H
• Lenovo IdeaPad 100S 11.6″ Windows notebook for $125 – Best Buy
• More Lenovo ThinkPad laptops on sale for $200 and up – Woot

Other Windows computers

• Refurb HP Spectre X2 12″ 2-in-1 tablet w/Core M7/8GB/256GB/Verizon LTE for $700 – Woot
• Dell XPS 13 w/QHD+ touchscreen display/Core i5/8GB?256GB for $920 – Adorama (via eBay)
• More refurb convertible & 2-in-1 notebooks for $180 and up – Woot
• Intel NUC barebones mini-desktop w/Core i5-4250U for $329 – NeweggFlash

Chromebooks

• Asus Chromebook Flip w/2GB/16GB for $229 – Best Buy
• Acer Chromebook 14 w/Celeron N3160/4GB/32GB for $269 – Best Buy
• Lenovo N21 11.6″ Chromebook w/Celeron N2840 for $170 – Woot

Apple stuff

• Apple iPad mini 4 for $300 and up ($100 off) – Best Buy
• Apple MacBook Air 13″ w/Core i5/8GB/128GB for $800 – Best Buy
• Apple MacBook Air 13″ w/Core i5/8GB/256GB for $1000 – Best Buy
• Google Chromecast (1st gen) for $19 – Groupon
• Refurb Roku Streaming Stick (3500XB) for $26 – Groupon
• Google Chromecast (2nd gen) for $30 – Best Buy
• Microsoft Wireless Desktop 850 keyboard and mouse for $23 – Best Buy

You can find more bargains in our daily deals section.

Continue reading Deals of the Day (7-25-2016) at Liliputing.

Laut einer Erhebung beziehen Softwareentwickler selbst nach vielen Jahren Berufserfahrung moderate Gehälter. Doch auch bis dahin ist es ein langer Weg: IT-Berufseinsteiger mit maximal drei Jahren Berufserfahrung und abgeschlossener Ausbildung kommen auf durchschnittlich 31.000 Euro. (Gehalt, IT-Jobs)

US officials want Love to face charges of hacking NASA, the FBI, and the US Army.

It’s been less than a month since Amazon started selling two deeply discounted smartphones that come with ads on the lock screen and notification tray. Unsurprisingly it didn’t take long for someone to root the Moto G4 Prime Exclusive and eliminate the ads on that $150 version of the phone.

But Amazon also offers an even cheaper phone: the BLU R1 HD Prime Exclusive has a starting price of just $50 when you buy the ad-supported model (an ad-free version sells for $100 and up).

Continue reading Amazon & BLU’s $50 smartphone hacked: Root & custom recovery now available at Liliputing.

As Yahoo sells to Verizon, CEO thanks team behind Yahoo’s “transformation.”

Der US-Hersteller Ford hat angekündigt, in den USA alle Modelle des Jahres 2017 mit seinem Car-Entertainment-System Sync 3 anzubieten – das sowohl Apples Carplay als auch Android Auto unterstützt. Die Chancen auf eine gute Verfügbarkeit in Europa dürften damit ebenfalls steigen. (Automotive, Auto)

In mehreren Großräumen waren Mobilfunk und das mobile Internet bei Vodafone ausgefallen. Die Störung ist noch nicht überall behoben. (Mobilfunk, Vodafone)

Google is rumored to be working with HTC on two new Nexus smartphones for 2016. A series of leaks have suggested that one will feature a 5 inch, 1080p display while the other has a 5.5 inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel screen.

Now another leak apparently confirms that the smaller phone, code-named “Sailfish” will have a 1920 x 1080 pixel display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (or maybe Snapdragon 821) processor, among other things.

Continue reading Another Google Nexus “Sailfish” leak confirms 1080p display, Snapdragon CPU at Liliputing.

Die Raumschiffe können vermutlich wie geplant abheben: Das Entwicklerstudio Hello Games muss keinen Rechtsstreit wegen der Algorithmen von No Man’s Sky fürchten. Und Sony hat sich zur Notwendigkeit eines Plus-Abos geäußert. (No Man’s Sky, Sony)

The PGS handheld game PC looks good on paper: it has two screens, physical gaming buttons, support for up to 8GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage, and support for both Windows 10 and Android 6.0 software.

But when Portable Solutions started a Kickstarter campaign for the project, a lot of people started wondering if the PGS was too good to be true… especially given the facts that the company had never produced hardware before, only had a prototype hobbled together from existing computers made by other companies, and only sought to raise $100,000 (which seemed like an unreasonably low figure, given the amount of work it’d take to bring this sort of computer into the world).

Continue reading PGS handheld gaming PC Kickstarter campaign cancelled at Liliputing.