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Project Athena: A new era in laptop innovation
It has been a while since Intel used a naming strategy to define standards. Things like “Intel Inside” had a significant marketing impact and helped Intel achieve a dominant market position. Now Intel wants to “revive” its glory days with a campaign called “Project Athena”. Project Athena is a set of standards that Intel wants to set…
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Display trends of 2019: OLED
For those not accustomed to what LED and OLED mean, a little background information might be helpful. LED stands for light-emitting diode. These are small solid-state devices that make light via the movement of electrons through a semiconductor. In practice, strips of tiny LEDs are placed at the bottom of the display, which emit light…
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Display trends of 2019: HDR (High dynamic range)
Read why HDR matters.
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Display trends of 2019: High refresh rates
Why 240Hz does not matter yet.
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ASUS TUF FX505DU review
Review of the Asus TUF FX505GU. Great for gaming, not that great for anything else.
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What are Nvidia Creator Drivers and Nvidia Studio?
We explain what is Nvidia Studio Driver and what is Nvidia Studio.
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Video cards: new features and gimmicks (2019)
New video card features
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15 inch 144Hz displays
Since 2018, most gaming laptops come with a Full HD IPS-type 144Hz display. We want to elaborate a bit on these displays. Up until March 2019, all laptops that have displays with the following specifications: Size 15.4 – 15.6 inch Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FullHD) Technology: IPS-type Refresh Rate: 144Hz sRGB: > 90% Use one…
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HP Zbook Studio G5 review
The HP Zbook Studio G5 is undoubtedly a great machine with excellent build quality, a stunning display and decent graphics performance.
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New mobile Nvidia RTX cards
Nvidia just released yesterday its new mobile RTX cards for laptops. It’s not entirely clear how these cards will perform since officially, laptop builders will be able to implement them in a variety of power configurations. By our estimates, the lowest possible RTX 2080 Max-Q laptop configuration will perform about 25% slower than the best…
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