Over the past few months I’ve been hearing that shortages of Intel chips has been driving PC makers to consider alternatives. A representative from one Chinese PC company I spoke with at CES told me the company wouldn’t be able to get the Gemini Lake chips they need to bring their new product to market […]
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Brad’s CES 2019 mobile reporting kit report card
For much of the past week I’ve been wandering around Las Vegas with my latest mobile reporting kit. That includes an HP Spectre x360 13 inch laptop, a Google Pixel 2 smartphone, a Canon PowerShot SX50 camera, and a few other odds and ends. So how well did that kit work out covering the 2019 Consumer […]
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MSI squeezes NVIDIA RTX 20-series graphics into its compact gaming desktops
MSI is introducing a bunch of new gaming laptops and desktops during CES this week, including thin and (relatively) light notebooks with support for features up to a 144 Hz display and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics. But the company is also squeezing the latest high-performance Intel and NVIDIA components into it small […]
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ECS is positioning its tiny Liva computers as AI machines (as well as commercial or entertainment PCs)
1 Comment on ECS is positioning its tiny Liva computers as AI machines (as well as commercial or entertainment PCs)ECS is showing off its latest small form-factor computers at CES this week. That includes updates to existing models with newer, faster processors as well as a a few models with brand new features — including a mini PC with support for Amazon’s Alexa voice service and another that uses a camera and Intel’s Movidius […]
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Onyx is launching two new E Ink devices with Wacom pen support, adjustable color temperature
3 Comments on Onyx is launching two new E Ink devices with Wacom pen support, adjustable color temperatureOnyx plans to begin shipping two new E Ink devices in March. The new 10.3 inch Onyx Boox Note Pro and 7.8 inch Onyx Boox Nova Pro both have 1872 x 1440 pixel E Ink displays and support for finger or pen input — you fan flip pages or navigate menus with your fingers, or […]
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AMD’s 3rd-gen Ryzen chips (for desktops) coming in mid-2019
AMD’s first 7nm Ryzen processors are coming this year. The company has announced that it’ll begin shipping its the new desktop chips in mid-2019. The numbers get a little confusing from there: we’re looking at the chip maker’s 3rd-Gen Ryzen chips with Zen 2 CPU cores. And AMD showed off an early model that features […]
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Alcatel 1X is a $120 budget phone with dual cameras
A year after launching a $120 smartphone with not-entirely-awful specs called the Alcatel 1X, TCL is doing it again. The company is showing off a new Alcatel 1X (2019) smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and while it’s not a premium phone by any stretch of the imagination, it doesn’t look half […]
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Hands-on with the Nubia X dual-screen smartphone
The Nubia X is about as close to a truly bezel-free phone as I’ve ever seen. Sure, there are still some slim black borders around the screen, but they’re really, really small. In fact, the top bezel is so small that there’s no room for a camera. So Nubia put an extra display on the […]
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Royole shows off flexible displays for foldable phones (and more)
A few months after Royole introduced the first real smartphone with a foldable display, the company is showing off the Royole FlexPai at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It’s basically a 7.8 inch Android tablet that you can fold in half to use as a phone… but it’s a funny looking one. The device […]
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Gigabyte’s new Aero 15 “AI Laptop” uses machine learning for better performance
Gigabyte’s Aero 15 laptops are designed for gaming or professional use and they’ve got the horsepower to prove it. The latest model is available with up to an 8th-gen Intel Core i9-8950HK processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics. But it’s still a relatively compact machine: it measures just 14″ x 9.84″ x 0.74″ […]