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Acer’s Predator X32 is a beastly monitor with a monstrous $3,599 price tag
Acer is getting ready to launch of trio of Predator gaming monitors, the smallest of which sports a 32-inch display—which also happens to be the most expensive of the bunch. It will be available in the second quarter of this year for $3,599 in the US, and €3,299 in Europe. What could possibly justify more than three and a half large on a gaming monitor? I'd like it to be attached to a robotic but ... Read more
2020-01-07 00:15:51
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X is a ridiculous 64-core CPU – and it's coming February 7
AMD has announced the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X at CES 2020, confirming its incredibly powerful enthusiast processor, with an unprecedented 64-cores – something we've never seen in a consumer CPU. This will offer a level of performance that is usually reserved for servers and data centers, and the CPUs they run on usually cost huge amounts of money. WIth the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, AMD wants to ... Read more
2020-01-07 00:15:51
CHROMEBOOK TABLETS GET SECOND LIFE STARTING WITH THE LENOVO IDEAPAD DUET
It wouldn’t be CES without a few pre-show surprises, and this year is no different. Google has gone and unvelied 3 new Chrome OS devices this year before the show even gets underway. All three have been on our radar, but now we have official names, some official pics, and a handful of official specs for the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, the ASUS Chromebook Flip C436, and the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chrom ... Read more
2020-01-07 00:13:33
Asus reveals world’s fastest 14-inch gaming laptop, and much more at CES 2020
Asus has revealed a whole load of gaming hardware at CES 2020, with both desktop PCs and laptops, the latter of which are headed up by a model the firm claims is the world’s most powerful 14-inch gaming notebook. That would be the Asus Zephyrus G14 which certainly packs a decent amount of power into a pretty slim chassis which is 17.9mm thick, and the device weighs in at a palatable 1.6kg. The G ... Read more
2020-01-07 00:13:33
HP Elite Dragonfly G2 promises 5G connectivity, 1000-nit touchscreen and an improved Sure View privacy filter
The Original Elite Dragonfly is barely half a year old and it's already getting a successor. The Elite Dragonfly G2 will be available next month with a couple of new upgrades over the previous generation. Firstly, the Dragonfly G2 will receive 10th gen Intel Comet Lake-U Core i3, i5, and i7 options whereas the first generation model was limited to Whiskey Lake-U. The reason to go with Comet Lake ... Read more
2020-01-05 19:37:22
Lenovo's latest Legion gaming laptop relies on an external GPU
Lenovo is kicking off 2020 with a gaming laptop that needs a companion to thrive. It's introducing the Legion Y740S, a slim 15.6-inch laptop (billed as Lenovo's "thinnest and lightest" gaming model) meant to couple with the company's first external GPU, the Legion BoostStation. It has some decent horsepower with up to a Core i9 processor, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB PCIe SSD, but you're stuck ... Read more
2020-01-05 19:36:39
Arlo’s new Floodlight Camera doesn’t need any wiring
Arlo is announcing its newest security camera, the Arlo Pro 3 Floodlight Camera, which has a plate of powerful LEDs to better light the area in the camera’s field of view. Unlike other floodlight security cameras, Arlo’s Floodlight Camera doesn’t require any wiring; it can run entirely on rechargeable batteries. The Floodlight Camera seems to share many of the same features as the Arlo Pro 3, inc ... Read more
2020-01-05 19:36:39
MSI details upcoming gaming monitors, PCs and AIO coolers ahead of CES 2020
We’ll start off with the new monitors set to appear, including the Optix MAG342CQR. This is the world’s first 1000R curved gaming monitor, representing MSI’s strong confidence in the curved monitor market. That confidence is backed up with data from analysts, which estimate that curved monitors make up 60 percent of the gaming monitor market at the moment. Other new monitors we expect to see incl ... Read more
2020-01-05 19:35:02
HP’s 15-inch Spectre x360 gets upgraded with smaller bezels and a good trackpad
Last year, HP overhauled the 13-inch Spectre x360 convertible laptop with some much-needed improvements: a slimmed-down design, reduced bezels, and a functional trackpad. At CES 2020, the company is bringing those same improvements to the larger 15-inch model, too. Much like last year’s Spectre x360 13, the differences between the old x360 15 and the new one are drastic: HP has massively reduced ... Read more
2020-01-05 19:35:02
macOS Catalina: How to master Dark Mode for Mac
Dark Mode for Mac premiered in macOS Mojave as a simple way to toggle the system appearance from the default bright theme. The new macOS Catalina release is a software update that improves how Dark Mode works with new features. The new OS version lets you schedule when Dark Mode is activated. This is based on sunset and sunrise by default. There are also ways to quickly toggle between light or da ... Read more
2020-01-05 19:32:51