Skip to main content

Waterfield Has HP Up Its Sleeves

When Hewlett-Packard unveiled its mammoth Dragon notebook computer with a 20.1-inch screen last week, you may have been thinking to yourself “Hey, even if I had the arm and shoulder strength to take that with me wherever I go—I have nothing to carry it in!”

Now, Waterfield Designs can solve at least half that problem for you, announcing it has updated its SleeveCase line of neoprene-and-nylon notebook cases to accommodate not just HP’s Dragon notebook, but 12 other HP notebook models as well.

Recommended Videos

“The first step to protecting your laptop is to have the correct-fitting case to cushion it while in transport,” said Waterfield Designs’ founder Gary Waterfield, in a statement. “Our SleeveCases hug your computer and the neoprene inner shell provides shock-absorbing qualities. People eager to purchase HP’s new laptops can protect their new investment safely and stylishly with one of our new SleeveCases.”

The SleeveCases feature a ballistic nylon shell with a neoprene interior customized for a snug fit with particular computer models—check out the custom sizing chart for your notebook model. Users can choose to add a front flap for additional protection, or a strap for carrying the SleeveCase as a bag unto itself, rather than tucked as a sleeve into another bag or tote. SleeveCase users can also add a PiggyBack pouch for accessories like power adapters, mice, and cables.

The basic SleeveCases are priced from $39 to $41, with a front flap adding $15, a shoulder strap adding $18, and the PiggyBack pouch going for $22. Cases for the new HP notebooks will be available in June.

Geoff Duncan
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Geoff Duncan writes, programs, edits, plays music, and delights in making software misbehave. He's probably the only member…
AMD Ryzen AI claimed to offer ‘up to 75% faster gaming’ than Intel
A render of the new Ryzen AI 300 chip on a gradient background.

AMD has just unveiled some internal benchmarks of its Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. Although it's been a few months since the release of the Ryzen AI 300 series, AMD now compares its CPU to Intel's Lunar Lake, and the benchmarks are highly favorable for AMD's best processor for thin-and-light laptops. Let's check them out.

For starters, AMD compared the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 to the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V. The AMD CPU comes with 12 cores (four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c cores) and 24 threads, as well as 36MB of combined cache. The maximum clock speed tops out at 5.1GHz, and the CPU offers a configurable thermal design power (TDP) ranging from 15 watts to 54W. Meanwhile, the Intel chip sports eight cores (four performance cores and four efficiency cores), eight threads, a max frequency of 4.8GHz, 12MB of cache, and a TDP ranging from 17W to 37W. Both come with a neural processing unit (NPU), and AMD scores a win here too, as its NPU provides 50 trillion operations per second (TOPS), while Intel's sits at 47 TOPS. It's a small difference, though.

Read more
We gave the Lenovo Legion 7i gaming PC four stars — it’s $600 off today
The Lenovo Legion Tower 7i at a side angle.

In one of its early Black Friday deals happening right now, Lenovo has cut the price of the Lenovo Legion Tower 7i by 19%. That means instead of paying $3,150, it’s down to $2,550 for a limited time. It’s a high-end gaming PC and easily one of the best gaming PC deals around right now. If you’re looking to game in style for a long time to come, here’s what it has to offer.

Why you should buy the Lenovo Legion Tower 7i
Lenovo makes some of the best gaming PCs around and it’s a name you can depend on. With the Lenovo Legion Tower 7i, you get a 14th-generation Intel Core i9-14900KF processor paired up with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and 1TB of SSD storage. The star of the show here is its Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super graphics card with 16GB of dedicated VRAM. That CPU and GPU combination is quite the powerful pairing, so you can enjoy high-end gaming performance for a long time to come.

Read more
Perplexity to introduce sneaky ads alongside its AI answers
Someone holding an iPhone 14 Pro, with Perplexity AI running on it.

It was only a matter of time. "Answer engine" startup Perplexity AI announced on Wednesday that it will begin experimenting with inserting advertisements into its chatbot responses starting next week.

Rather than a standard ad you might be familiar with, however, the platform will instead start showing ads to users in the U.S. in the form of "sponsored follow-up questions and paid media positioned to the side of an answer," from the company's advertising partners. Those include Indeed, Whole Foods, Universal McCann, and PMG.

Read more