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If you were hoping Apple’s leap into OLED touchscreens was going to come without a price rise, it looks like Wednesday is going to be a rude awakening.

Chromebooks are some of the most appealing low-cost laptops out there, but no computer will suit your needs forever. Rather than let yours lie around and collect dust, there are quite a few ways to get more use out of a old Chromebook. With some, you can even save money by adding functions that would…

For recent generations of students, Chromebooks are ubiquitous: Google’s handy, budget-friendly laptops have become classroom fixtures across the US and beyond, handling everything from homework to essays and assignments.

Most laptops aren’t built around a touchscreen. Some manufacturers offer it as an added extra, or a costly upgrade, but it’s rarely a central part of the design. With the award-winning Dell XPS 13, touchscreen support comes as standard, meaning you get access to intuitive touch controls whatever you’re doing, and a laptop that’s built…

From the first touchscreen MacBook to an OLED iPad mini, here’s everything Apple is expected to announce next week.

The extra 8GB costs $200 on the XPS 13, which is much cheaper than replacing the laptop.

Apple’s next product launch event is taking place on October 28 in Los Angeles, where we expect the company to launch a touchscreen MacBook Pro, an OLED iPad mini and more.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sung the praises of Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra, describing it as “so beautiful” and “incredible”.

If you’re a fan of OLED, there’s an exciting new acronym you need to know: FLiPP. It stands for FMM-Less innovative Pixel Patterning, and the FMM bit refers to fine metal masks. Those are normally used in OLED manufacturing to precisely place the organic emissive materials.

Rumors of an OLED touchscreen MacBook have been brewing for years, but it looks like it’s finally happening. Apple started inviting media to an “all-day product launch” in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, where the new touchscreen MacBooks, refreshed iPad mini, and M6 MacBooks will be unveiled, as reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.