Google was as visible as any company at CES in 2019, with loads of promotion, integrations with other companies and product announcements of its own. Its Chrome operating system got some love, too, featured in a handful of new laptops and convertibles from Acer, Asus and HP. Marking one of the most significant milestones for the …
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Acer has been an active player on the Chromebook scene for years, and has regularly stretched the conventions of the category. In 2015, the company introduced the first Chromebook OS laptop with a 15.6-inch display — a size that has become common since. And with the new Chromebook 315, announced today at CES, Acer has another breakthrough under its proverbial belt: …
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Making its debut at CES 2019, the HP Chromebook 14 is the world’s first AMD-powered Chromebook running on either an AMD A4 or A6 processor with integrated Radeon R4 or R5 graphics. Chromebooks — laptops that run on Google’s web-based Chrome OS — are a growing part of the global PC market. AMD’s processors typically offer more value than competitor …
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AMD’s early CES 2019 announcements brought us some updates on its laptop processors, which include a targeted attempt to capture some of the growing cheap Chromebook market, slightly faster mobile Ryzens and a promise to keep everyone’s AMD laptop drivers up to date with the latest zero-day game-release optimizations. Sadly, the news didn’t include the much-anticipated, high-performance 7-nanometer Navi GPUs or the …
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For gamers who dare to be different, Asus has added AMD-based versions of its more traditional Intel/Nvidia-based FX505 and FX705 budget gaming laptops here at CES. In theory, the AMD models should be even more budget-friendly than their linemates, but that’s not always the case. They’re slated to ship by the end of March, but Asus hasn’t provided any pricing. Key …
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AMD on Thursday announced a new version of its Radeon RX graphics card. The company says the Radeon RX 590 delivers a higher core clock speed than the RX 580 — and up to 20 percent more “performance-per-dollar” than other cards. Like the older RX 580, the new GPU is based on AMD’s fourth-generation Graphics Core Next architecture but uses …
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Blackmagic’s next Apple Mac graphics accelerator, the Blackmagic eGPU Pro, will feature an AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics processor. The unit is designed for Macs with a Thunderbolt 3 port — such the new Apple MacBook Air — and Blackmagic says it has 22 times the graphics performance of a 13-inch MacBook Pro. Blackmagic The tall desktop device was designed in …
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While it was promoting its new MacBook Air and iPad Pro models onstage, Apple stealthily updated its larger 15-inch MacBook Pro model with an option to upgrade to AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 and 16 discrete graphics in addition to the last-generation Radeon Pro 560X. The new graphics won’t be available until late November, though, and we don’t yet know …
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Alienware levels up its Area-51 line of top-end gaming desktops with the second-generation versions of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper CPUs; the Area-51 R7 Threadripper Edition now offers the Threadripper 2920X (12 cores) and 2950X (16 cores) in addition to the existing 1900X (8 cores). Graphics options now include the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti cards, overclocked, in single and …
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Double the cores, double the fun! AMD’s highest-end processor jumps from 16 to 32 cores in the new Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, based on AMD Zen+ architecture, slated to ship on Aug. 10. At the end of August, the current 16-core flagship, the 1950X, gets its 2nd-generation upgrade to the 2950X but a demotion to middle-of-the-line of AMD’s high-end processors. For …
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