Bigger, faster and, yes, more expensive computers are coming to CES 2019. A lot of that will be driven by Nvidia’s new laptop graphics cards, known (unofficially for now) as the RTX 20-series. There will also be plenty to see on the more modest end of the price spectrum, from Chromebooks to budget two-in-one hybrids. …
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This year, we reviewed dozens of laptops all across the spectrum of price and power. But, as 2018 draws to a close and we prepare to see loads of new systems at CES 2019, there are still several noteworthy laptops on our testing bench. Here are brief hands-on impressions of a few, along with preliminary test results and photos. In …
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Shopping for a new laptop? As a general rule I tend to prefer a 13.3-inch screen (or thereabouts) for easy portability, but if you primarily work at a desk, want a numeric keypad or just like planty of space for spreadsheets, video or multiple windows, you’ll need a 15.6-incher. Like this one: For a limited time, you can get the …
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Nvidia’s Titan cards have always walked a fine line between the gamer-oriented GeForce and the professionally targeted Quadro. They’re basically Quadro-power cards with GeForce-capability drivers. That historically plops them into the really, really expensive gaming GPU category or on the lists of video professionals who demand speed and value more than certification. The new $2,499 Titan RTX, a Turing-architecture-based card that …
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Welp, it’s a wrap. Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 are solidly in the rear-view mirror, and all those great sales on Chromecast, Roku, Nvidia Shield TV and most Fire TV streamers are over too. They’ve assumed their standard pricing, starting at $30 for the Roku Express and $35 for Chromecast and others. Deal hunters who don’t mind the Fire …
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Newegg is still going strong with the deals for Cyber Monday. Following up on some monster discounts for Black Friday, Newegg has solid sales on a range of computer stuff: gaming rigs, motherboards, a la carte processors, hard drives and other components from your favorite brands like Asus, Samsung, HP and Acer. The 40 best Cyber Monday 2018 deals still available +57 …
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The US now can claim the top two machines on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, as Sierra, an IBM machine for nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, edged out a Chinese system that last year was the very fastest. The Top500 list ranks supercomputers based on how quickly they perform a mathematical calculation test called Linpack. …
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Alienware levels up its Area-51 line of top-end gaming desktops with the second-generation versions of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper CPUs; the Area-51 R7 Threadripper Edition now offers the Threadripper 2920X (12 cores) and 2950X (16 cores) in addition to the existing 1900X (8 cores). Graphics options now include the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti cards, overclocked, in single and …
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Android TV is taking another stab at the living room. Unlike the $35 Google Chromecast, Google’s big-screen Android TV operating system appears only on relatively expensive devices, namely the $200 Nvidia Shield and Sony TVs, for example. Today Google aims to close the price gap a bit by building Android TV into a new device. The Xiaomi Mi Box S …
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Repeatedly calling it “the world’s best gaming processor,” Intel on Monday launched the ninth-generation Core i9-9900K, its flagship mainstream unlocked, overclockable CPU with eight cores, intended to appeal to gamers and that most nebulous of market segments, creators. It’s joined by ninth-gen versions of the Core i7 and i5, an 18-core i9-9980XE for people who need workstation power but not …
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