NVIDIA's 64GB DGX Spark goes on sale from six PC makers on October 23 at $4,999, about $2,000 to $4,000 below in-stock 128GB units today. Two clustered units cost more than one 128GB machine, so the purchase makes most sense for agents on models that fit in 64GB.
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Nvidia's DGX Spark 64GB ships October 23 from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI, with the same GB10 chip as the 128GB model and half its memory. Teams comparing it with cloud token bills now start by asking how much of their workload fits in 64GB.
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Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus and Acer put Google's merged ChromeOS and Android OS in stores on October 4, priced from $899 to $1,299, with a 16GB memory floor and a desktop mode that so far covers a short list of apps.
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Five flagship laptops arrive with mandated chips, a 16GB RAM floor and ten years of quarterly updates. The software is a native Android stack carrying ChromeOS's browser behaviour and security architecture.
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Eclypsium tracked 158 infrastructure advisories between August 25 and September 17. The exploited maximum-severity flaws it highlights are authentication bypasses in Cisco's Firewall Management Center and Identity Services Engine.
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Pre-orders opened on 22 September for a $899 Android laptop that Google says uses ChromeOS's Titan root of trust and on-device malware detection, with five OEMs named and Qualcomm confirming silicon for Dell and HP.
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Google is replacing ChromeOS with a laptop brand that other companies build, and the part it supplies is the Gemini software layer. That makes the app surface the thing product teams have to judge.
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Pre-orders opened for Googlebooks from Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Dell and HP, with units shipping October 5. The continuity Google demonstrated moves a draft from an Android phone to the laptop, one direction only.
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The Verge's hands-on describes a laptop meant to do for Android phones what the MacBook does for the iPhone. The handoff, app casting and phone file browsing at the centre of that pitch all require a handset already running Android 17.
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GooglebookOS arrives on premium laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo with an average starting price of $1,199. Google detailed the chips, the chassis and the Gemini features the machines run.
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Continue On, the Files app and Cast My Apps are what a Googlebook has that an ordinary laptop does not, and all three of them reach into an Android phone. That dependency decides who should buy one.
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Chrome Unboxed handled all five launch machines from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo at Google's New York preview. The cheapest is Acer's $899 convertible and the ASUS is $1,299, with premium materials throughout.
Publishers:chromeunboxed.com
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Android Police spent about an hour with all five Googlebook laptops and found the phone handoff convincing in a Google-run demo, plus an app plan that runs through the same Play Store search the site calls a big problem.
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Rick Osterloh's own laptop is a 16GB Dell XPS Googlebook, one of five machines launching on Googlebook OS. The Verge's account of how the project began is also a record of two earlier attempts to join ChromeOS and Android.
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The launch hardware comes from Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Dell and HP on Intel or Snapdragon silicon, and PCWorld's reviewer found that the features justifying the price depend on the buyer already carrying an Android phone.
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Engadget's hands-on with the Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo machines found at least 16GB of memory in every one, two chip architectures across the five, and a lid light array developers cannot program yet. Pre-orders are open.
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Google's new Googlebooks run on the Android stack, after a product manager told SlashGear that separate codebases left ChromeOS chasing phone features. ChromeOS stays on for enterprise, education and entry-level buyers.
Publishers:slashgear.com
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Fast Company puts a 40% to 60% discount on certified refurbished enterprise gear and tells buyers never to touch a used drive or battery. Both parts are already inside the off-lease laptop. The second owner pays to swap them.
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Nscale's New York listing filing counts a $44.6 billion Anthropic agreement in a $103.4 billion contract book, and the filing says the company had not secured binding financing for it. First-half revenue was $140.6 million.
Publishers:theminermag.com
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The Verge tested 8GB and 16GB XPS 13 units, both with 512GB SSDs, and recommended the $999.99 one. Dell has since moved the $699.99 entry price onto a 256GB machine and added $100 to both tested builds.
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