Offering both Google Assistant and Android TV, the JBL Link Bar is one of the most feature-packed, and most delayed, sound bars on the market. Originally scheduled to debut in 2018, JBL’s voice-controlled combo sound bar-streaming box is finally on sale for $400. The JBL Link Bar is a do-everything Frankenstein: an HDMI-connected sound bar …
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Who doesn’t want to play on a screen with sky-high contrast, super-saturated colors and zippy pixel response? That’s what you get with an OLED display. But it’s not all fun and games, as I discovered after spending a couple weeks with an OLED-equipped Alienware m15. The configuration we went hands-on with isn’t available to buy: you can only get this …
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Prime Day is done, and Walmart‘s sale was scheduled to end two nights ago. Some deals have disappeared, but many Summer Savings discounts are still available. If you’re in the market for a Nintendo Switch, TV, Chromebook, iPad or Apple Watch, it’s worth a look. We’ve identified some of our favorite deals below. Last updated at 8 a.m. PT on July 19 …
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Google has announced that YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Kids apps are now available on Amazon’s Fire TV streamers and TVs worldwide, after 18 months of hostility and user workarounds. The companies announced the truce back in April, which also includes the ability for Amazon Prime Video apps to connect to Google Chromecast streamers and Android TV from today. The official …
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The battle rages on. A week before AMD was scheduled to deliver the details about its new Navi-generation midrange graphics cards, the Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT, rival Nvidia announced bumped-up “Super” versions of its directly competing RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 at slightly lower prices than AMD had publicly revealed for its new cards. So two days …
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There’s no doubt that we’re living in a golden age of PC gaming. The 4K, HDR graphics on games like Metro: Exodus and The Division 2 put their console counterparts to shame, and amazing new hardware from Nvidia and AMD, led right now by Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards, and even new RTX “Super” GPUs, are blowing away previous performance benchmarks. …
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I hope you didn’t just buy a new Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card. If you did, you might be somewhat peeved about the company releasing replacements for several models before the old ones have even celebrated their first birthday. The three new “Super” versions — the GeForce RTX 2080 Super, 2070 Super and 2060 Super — slip into the line …
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You can never have too many overlays — that’s got to be someone’s motto. At least Nvidia’s made one that seems pretty useful for trying to figure out why your $800 graphics card is more spud than speed demon. The company’s new FrameView utility could help answer some other questions too: Why cut scenes are rendering as if half the …
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Best Buy has gaming laptop deals that rival those you’ll find on Amazon as Prime Day draws near. You’ll find discounted mobile rigs right now at Best Buy from Alienware, Asus, Razer and others just as we’re starting to see pre-Prime Day laptop deals on Amazon. You can scope all of Best Buy’s gaming laptops on discount here. Below are …
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Dell is slinging some deals on its high-end laptops that make them more approachable. If you’ve been pining for a huge, high-power gaming laptop, there are discounts worth investigating on Dell’s site for two of its own Dell-branded units along with an Alienware model. All three are large, 15-inch laptops. There’s also a discounted Alienware desktop if you want more …
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