Another company has decided to skip Mobile World Congress due to concerns over the global coronavirus outbreak. Graphics-chip maker Nvidia said late Friday that it’s shelving plans to attend this year’s MWC, the world’s largest mobile trade show. “Given public health risks around the coronavirus, ensuring the safety of our colleagues, partners and customers is our …
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Like the stairways at Hogwarts, the competitive field of graphics cards keeps shifting under our feet. When AMD introduced its newest GPU at CES, the Radeon RX 5600 XT, it claimed a noteworthy performance advantage — anywhere from 5 to 33%, depending on the game — over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which is Nvidia’s competitor in the top-quality 1080p …
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A laptop with a 17.3-inch screen isn’t the most versatile of systems. They are heavy and a bit unwieldy and certainly aren’t meant for joining you on your daily commute. Such a laptop makes sense, however, if you are looking to add another entertainment outlet to your home. Unlike a desktop PC, a desktop replacement laptop can be lugged from …
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Nvidia has lowered the price of its RTX 2060 Founders Edition graphics card to $299. The company confirmed the $50 price drop, spotted earlier by PCGamer, in an email Friday. In July 2019, Nvidia released an updated model of the graphics card, the RTX 2060 Super, for $399. The Super card essentially bumps up the specs from its predecessor to …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. One of the highlights of Asus‘ gaming announcements at CES 2020 — in addition to the new 360Hz and 1,400-nit PG32UQX ROG Swift monitors — is the ROG Zephyrus G14, a new 14-inch entrant in its thin-and-light Zephyrus line. But it’s …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Go bright, go big or go wide just about sums up Acer’s flagship gaming monitors that it’s introducing at CES 2020: a 1,440-nit HDR Predator X32, 55-inch OLED CG552K and 38-inch curved X38. So, something for everyone, or at least everyone …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Despite huge leaps in processing power, display tech and portability, laptops have had a hard time moving past the traditional clamshell design that has defined several decades of PC design. Even though we see dozens of new models every year at …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. We were impressed with HP’s Spectre x360 13 released toward the end of 2019. So much so that we gave it an Editors’ Choice award. Part of the reason for that is that HP managed to significantly reduce the footprint of …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. 2020 is likely to see more laptops designed to give you the instant-on performance and long battery life you get from your phone. And one of the first is the upcoming Acer TravelMate P6, announced at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. Weighing …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Higher screen refresh rates in a gaming monitor definitely help with competitive play. But as they climb, the likelihood that you can achieve a sustainable frame rate to match decreases, bringing unwelcome artifacts like tearing and judder — and thus the …
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