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AMD closed its Computex announcements with a “one last thing” reveal of a 12-core CPU, the Ryzen 7 3900X. Just a few weeks later at its E3 press conference, AMD one-last-thinged us again. This time it one-upped itself with a 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X desktop CPU slated to ship in September for $749. The company also …

PCs are dogged by tradeoffs. It’s hard to use your laptop all day on battery, get real work done during a two-minute break waiting for your train, or work hard when you’re not plugged into an electrical outlet. Intel noticed. The giant chipmaker is leading a multi-company, multiyear effort called Project Athena to address those tradeoffs. Athena’s goal: Make us …

I’m writing these words on an iPhone as I stand in line at a McDonalds knockoff in Taiwan. I’d rather be away from my phone, but alas time is short and this article won’t write itself. I just got out of Intel’s Computex keynote and in a moment I’ll have to zip across town to another convention center. Subsequent lines …

Ambling about a sea of graphics cards, monitors and RGB headphones on the crowded Computex show floor in Taiwan, I was stopped in my tracks by this keyboard from Azio. The Retro Compact Keyboard is a mechanical Bluetooth keyboard made with genuine leather and a copper brushed metal frame. It has a battery life of around nine months, Azio says, …

As bad as excessive exposure to artificial blue-light wavelengths may be, the current mainstream fix of shifting the screen display to yellow doesn’t cut it. Even if your eyes find it restful, it can be aesthetically unpleasant to look at and can be useless if you’re streaming video, photo editing, or performing other tasks that require accurate colors. Dell’s first …

Laptops have gotten thinner and smaller, but their basic design hasn’t really radically shifted. Intel thinks that will change within two years.  At Computex 2019, the chipmaker brought several proof-of-concept devices that show what laptop makers like Asus, Dell and HP can do with its tech. The common denominator across the devices? Dual screens. Keyboards, it seems, will soon be so …

Alienware launched its “Legend” laptop design overhaul at CES with the monster Area-51m. At Computex 2019, the company revealed an updated generation of its thin gaming laptops sporting that same design, the Alienware m15 and m17, along with some must-have performance updates and new options. The company also announced a pair of budget headsets to keep its lone pricey model …

Thanks to Nvidia’s Max-Q design graphics cards, gaming laptops have become much thinner and lighter in recent years. But “thin and light” is the opposite of how you’d describe MSI’s latest beast. Unveiled at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, the MSI GT76 Titan sacrifices portability for power. It’s a 17.3-inch laptop that can be configured with an Intel Core i9-9900K …

The centerpiece of Asus‘ 2019 Computex press conference on Monday was the ZenBook Pro Duo, a high-end laptop that sports two 4K displays. But that doesn’t mean its less expensive laptops didn’t get some love, too. Asus’ ScreenPad is a phone-sized screen that doubles as a trackpad. First introduced in last year’s ZenBook Pro 15, it’s been improved (it’s now …

It seems 2019 is turning into the year of the dual screen. But while companies like HP with its Omen X 2S are just coming around, Asus has already marched on to its second generation. Its new flagship ZenBook Pro Duo pairs a 15-inch 4K OLED display with a second full-width IPS touch screen above the keyboard, which Asus dubs “ScreenPad …