The Good: Terrific performance, beautiful display, overclockable GPU and CPU, doesn’t get too hot The Bad: Really short battery life, so-so audio, this particular mechanical keyboard feels strange, dated design, Wi-Fi connectivity issues Who it’s for: Pro gamers, aspiring pro gamers, VR enthusiasts, streamers The Short: The Lenovo Legion Y920 is a red-hot 1080p gaming laptop, even if it’s weighed […]
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VR backpacks! They’ve been a thing ever since MSI showed theirs off last year at Computex, and since then, we’ve seen plenty of others. By putting a high-powered PC in a backpack form factor, users can wear these to get a full range of motion with their VR experience — those wires going from a VR […]
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With Moore’s Law changing and Intel taking longer to shrink their transistors, there’s been talk of silicon becoming a thing of the past in the semiconductor industry. If silicon’s days are indeed numbered, it looks like it’s going to go out with a bang — thanks to a couple brand new, lucrative, and very power hungry […]
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The most surreal and deeply fascinating moment of Computex 2017 took place yesterday during the Nvidia press conference, when over a dozen virtual robots tried to slap hockey pucks into nets. It was a demonstration of how autonomous cars will learn how to drive themselves in the future. We can explain! Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was […]
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Remember when you had to settle for a so-so gaming laptop because you really didn’t want to lug around a 12-pound behemoth? Nvidia just made that compromise unnecessary. At his Computex 2017 keynote in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed Max-Q, a new design approach to the company’s GPUs that enable shockingly thin and light […]
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Amazon’s Alexa has been the big winner at CES 2017, forcing Google to play from even further behind. With the announcement of Google Home last year, we saw Google try to get in on the smart home assistant game, but since then, Amazon has only extended their lead by getting Alexa working with virtually every […]
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Over the past year, gamers looking to build their own PCs have consistently been told to wait. This is what they were being told to wait for — NVIDIA announced their newest graphics cards this past weekend, and they not only blow past the previous top tier cards, they’re somehow much cheaper. I sure hope […]
