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We can barely believe our eyes – a laptop for just $300? It’s not a Chromebook, either. The Dell Inspiron 15 is currently discounted by a whopping $180, with the price hitting an unbeatable level. 

As you might have noticed, Microsoft and Qualcomm are pushing hard for Windows machines running on the latter’s new Snapdragon chips. Pretty much every major laptop manufacturer just announced new Arm-based models coming this summer. And Intel, the reigning champ of PC chips, isn’t taking this news lying down. PCWorld’s Gordon Mah Ung breaks it down in our latest YouTube video.

Microsoft launched its Surface Pro (2024) tablet and the Surface Laptop (2024) as part of a major coming-out party for both the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite as well as Windows on Arm, part of Microsoft’s evolution into an AI-centric company.

To date, PC vendors have shipped AI PCs. On Monday, Microsoft announced the next step in the AI PC’s evolution, the Copilot+ PC, and announced AI-powered Windows 11 features like Recall.

It never rains, but it pours. It seems like every major PC manufacturer is on board with Microsoft and Qualcomm’s push for Arm-based laptops, and HP is no exception. The first two models, coming as soon as next month, are the OmniBook X and the EliteBook Ultra. Both are rocking the ubiquitous Snapdragon X Elite 12-core CPU.

Today marks a historic day for the Dell XPS 13: it’s the first Dell XPS 13 notebook without an Intel chip inside. But no, it isn’t an AMD Ryzen chip. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite powers the new XPS 9345, instead.

Today might be the coming-out party for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips and a sizeable number of laptop partners, but Intel wants to remind you that it will reveal its next-gen Core Ultra mobile chips, code-named “Lunar Lake,” in roughly a week’s time.

Microsoft and Qualcomm are going full steam ahead in their push to bring Arm-powered Windows machines to the mainstream, and they’ve enlisted Lenovo’s help. The company is bringing introductory models from both its consumer and business lines, the Yoga Slim 7x and ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, respectively.

We’ve seen Windows-based PCs built around Arm processors before, but this year Microsoft and Qualcomm are pushing for a new generation of more powerful, more efficient machines. And OEMs are onboard in spades. Acer’s first new laptop running on the updated SoC designs will be the Swift 14 AI — and yes, “AI” in the name means it’s packing a Neural Processing Unit (NPU).

Samsung sells a lot of stuff, and it sells it directly on its own web store. While the best deals are often to be found at retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, this week Samsung is keeping the savings for itself. The “Discover Samsung Summer Sale” is offering deep discounts on pretty much everything the company makes, but we’re particularly interested in laptops and monitors here at PCWorld.

If you have an older TV or yours isn’t delivering the streaming experience you’re hoping for, you should know that the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K is now available for just $29.99, down from its regular price of $49.99. This deal is exceptional, as we’ve only seen a lower price during Black Friday sales, making it an unbeatable opportunity to enhance your streaming experience.

One of the coolest things about USB-C tech is its ability to output standard video, and combine it with charging and data for a single-cable solution when you plug your laptop into a monitor. Alas, those monitors still command a serious price premium. Which is why this deal for an HP 27-inch 1440p monitor, complete with USB-C powers, is so sweet. It’s going for as little as $130 today.

120 hertz? Kid’s stuff. 240? Barely competent. eSports players won’t take a second, super-fast glance at a new gaming monitor unless it’s 300hz, preferably 500hz and worth a mortgage payment. But a new TCL panel might just blow every gaming monitor on the market out of the water. At the Display Week conference, the company showed off a 1000Hz LCD for the first time.

If you’re looking for an eco-friendly power solution for your summer adventures, we found a great discount just for you. The EcoFlow Delta 2 Portable Power Station, paired with two 100W solar panels, is now available for just $819, down from $1,299. 

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