Oh, i7-8656U we hardly knew ye. So much water under the bridge — all those lakes — since we first tested you a mere eight months ago in the Razer Blade Stealth and already you’ve been replaced by a younger model who looks very, very much like you. The new Comet Lake-architecture CPUs don’t promise …
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Qi wireless charging is one of the best conveniences to arrive for gaming accessories: I’ve used HP’s Photon and Outpost mouse and mousepad duo, and I’m hooked. At Gamescom 2019, HyperX is launching into Qi with its first round of compatible wireless accessories and a dual-pad charger. A new keyboard, plus Xbox One and PS4 headsets, are on the way …
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At Gamescom 2019, Samsung follows up its Space Monitor with a Space Gaming brother that really sounds like an aptly named 32-inch version of the 27-inch nongaming model. They both have a 144Hz refresh rate and QHD (2,540 x 1,440) resolution, though the gaming version supports AMD FreeSync adaptive-refresh technology for synchronizing game frame rates with the display. It’s slated …
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Alienware jumps into Gamescom 2019 with a spate of product updates. Highlights include the company’s 55-inch OLED gaming display — the Alienware 55 OLED Gaming Monitor — with a high refresh rate of 120Hz and bearing a higher price of $4,000 when it ships at the end of September, a new version of its Alienware 34 34-inch curved monitor (AW3420DW) …
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With Google’s Stadia cloud-gaming service launch only months away, it shouldn’t surprise me that Nvidia’s almost ready to release its big competitor, GeForce Now, into the wild. In one of its many announcements at Gamescom on Monday, the company revealed “the sun is starting to set on the free beta period.” It’s possible that the company’s been waiting for one of the …
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Adobe Fresco makes me wish I had talent. The company’s iPad Pro app for painting and sketching also makes me wish the Apple Pencil had a softer nib, but hey, one dream at a time. Now playing: Watch this: Adobe announces Fresco for Surface Pro 3:30 There are a lot of painting apps littering the App store, most of which …
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Samsung’s summer Unpacked event, traditionally the company’s annual unveiling of its big-screen Galaxy Note line of phones, brought us the Galaxy Note 10. We went into the event with some big expectations for it. The event took place just weeks after the company announced that the Galaxy Fold will relaunch sometime in September after fixing problems with the screen. But the Note, which …
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Over the past year or so we’ve seen a flurry of creative-focused laptops launched with “Pantone Validated” screens. Asus‘ ZenBook Pro and more recently Acer’s Concept D lines, for instance. But much of the marketing seemed to imply that a color-credible Pantone sticker meant a laptop had a general-purpose color-accurate display. How did this come about? The number of people who care …
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You’ll soon be able to step up your offline mobile viewing on YouTube Premium from 720p HD to real HD. Google confirmed to us on Friday that it’s started to roll it out the ability to download 1080p video for offline viewing to Android and iOS users “in most Premium markets with more to come soon.” Android Police noted back in …
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Intel’s finally unveiled the mobile Core CPU product lineup based on its 10th-gen Ice Lake architecture, and suffice it to say that buying a laptop in the coming months probably just got a little more complicated. Expect to hear about the first models around the IFA show the first week of September and to be able to start shelling out …
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