Dell’s premium XPS line showcases the company’s most innovative designs with the latest hardware like the new XPS 15. It’s the world’s smallest 15.6-inch performance laptop, Dell says, with the footprint of what would normally be a 14-inch laptop, and it has a starting weight of 4 pounds (1.8 kg). Dell also shed as much …
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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 …
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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 …
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The next time — or the first time — you go shopping for a laptop with at least an Intel Core i7 H-class processor, 16GB or more RAM, 512GB or larger SSD and an Nvidia RTX GPU, it may bear an “RTX Studio” sticker as part of a new program Nvidia announced at Computex 2019. But that high-powered laptop, such …
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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 …
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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 …
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Nvidia’s early Computex announcement of its Turing-architecture mobile Quadro GPUs, headlined by the RTX 5000, may not have its typical accompanying flurry of partner system launches. But given that these promise to be pricey systems for a niche set of creators, well, “flurry” is relative. Among the the first 17 snowflakes to fall with Nvidia’s new RTX Studio badging are …
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Huawei isn’t just in trouble. China’s premiere maker of Android phones and networking equipment is in the kind of trouble that could break its business and detonate its ambitions of surpassing Samsung to become the world’s largest phone brand by 2020. Despite being banned from working with US companies, Huawei is confident its phone business will continue to grow without …
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In today’s roundup, we’re dissecting Apple’s latest patent filing, which reveals new details of a revamped Touch ID that could come to the next generation of iPhones. We’re also breaking down all the most important changes to the new MacBook Pros, including what the company’s doing about the keyboard. And in case that wasn’t enough, Apple also sent out WWDC …
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AMD turned 50 this year, and it’s celebrating the old-fashioned way: By drastically improving its processor architecture. At Computex 2019, the chipmaker announced a slew of new processor units, both central and graphics, running its new 7nm architecture. On the CPU side is the Zen 2 range, while the GPUs fall under the new Navi umbrella. The “one last thing” …
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