LG’s 4K OLED televisions are getting into the game with Nvidia G-Sync support, which will enable the South Korean company’s TVs with 55-inch screens and bigger to keep pace with PC games. Nvidia G-Sync is already available on many computer monitors, including 65-inch displays from Acer, HP and Asus, but LG will offer the first OLED TVs featuring …
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If you’ve ever reached for your phone instead of your laptop simply because it’s faster to wake up, unlock and start working, new laptops like Lenovo’s Yoga C940 might change that. The company’s flagship 14-inch two-in-one is one of a handful of Intel Project Athena devices announced at IFA 2019 aimed at making laptops perform more like your phone. The …
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Acer launched its Concept D line of creator-focused systems in April, which included the unique Concept D 9, based on the Predator Triton 900 gaming system, as well as more traditional clamshell Concept D 7 and 5, similarly based on a couple of the company’s gaming laptops. At IFA 2019, Acer expanded the line to include a $1,000 entry-level model, …
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It’s a paper battle between two professional monitors that haven’t even shipped yet: the Apple Pro Display XDR and the 32-inch Asus ProArt PA32UCG. Both promise the world for video editing: a peak brightness of 1,600 nits (and sustained full screen of 1,000 nits), true 10-bit color covering at least 99% of P3, reference color profiles in hardware, support for …
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Have you been waiting for a powerhouse Titan RTX-class graphics processor to make its way into a 15-inch laptop? Well, Nvidia and Asus crammed the workstation equivalent, the Quadro RTX 6000, into a relatively small space just for you. Asus’ new ProArt StudioBook One is the first laptop (ahem, mobile workstation) based on Nvidia’s Ace reference design, which puts all the …
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It was an odd IFA for laptops. IFA is normally a very mainstream show known for announcements like “world’s thinnest laptop.” And while there were a lot of new releases for general-purpose laptops from companies like Acer, Asus and Dell, the majority fell into the ho-hum-Comet-Lake-refresh category — existing designs incorporating Intel’s less-interesting 10th-generation CPUs. Instead the big debuts were …
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Well that didn’t take long. Just hours before Asus announced its Zephyrus S GX701 will be its first gaming laptop available with an amazingly fast 300Hz display, Acer slipped into its IFA 2019 press conference that the slim Predator Triton 500 will have a 300Hz 15.6-inch display of its own. A laptop display with a refresh rate that fast is …
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Gamers can gear up and save this week during Intel Gamer Days. The sale includes a variety of systems, components and peripherals from a number of manufacturers and retailers — from Alienware and Amazon to Velocity Micro and Walmart — and ends on Sunday, Sept. 8. You can check out all of the Intel Gamer Days product deals here. Below …
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Razer’s refresh of its Blade Stealth 13 ultraportable laptop skates into fall on Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake processors with a quad-core Core i7-1065G7 U-series processor, a Mercury White alternative to basic black (and pink!) and new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 discrete graphics to replace its MX150 options. The white version replaces the entry level model at a slightly higher price — …
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After a long two years, Wacom has updated its MobileStudio Pro 16 Windows tablet (the company calls it a “pen computer”) bumping the processor up a couple generations from dual core to quad core (Core i7-8559U) and the graphics processor up a generation to an Nvidia Quadro P1000. It’s now a lot faster, its USB-C connections have bulked up to …
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