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- Dell's Alienware Command Center Refreshed With Centralized Game Hub, Meticulous System Tweaking
- Microsoft Says Windows 10 PCs Running Haswell Or Older Intel CPUs Can Expect Significant Slowdowns Post-Spectre Patch
- Dell XPS 15 2-In-1 Pairs Intel 8th Gen Core And RX Vega Brawn With InfinityEdge Beauty
- Dell Dishes Up Ultrathin HDR Monitors And Portable Thunderbolt 3 Solid State Drives At CES
- Dell Mobile Connect Marries Your Smartphone To Your PC So You Never Miss A Notification
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Gameplay And Performance Review: An Addictive Masterpiece
- Microsoft Pulls Meltdown And Spectre Windows Security Patches That Bricked PCs, Blames AMD
- Western Digital Launches New My Passport Wireless And SanDisk Extreme Portable SSDs At CES
- HTC Announces Vive Pro Headset And Wireless Adapter For Greater VR Freedom
- Gigabyte Aorus 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Motherboard Uncovered And Hands-On At CES 2018
- PlayStation 4 Cumulative Sales Top 73 Million Following Strong Holiday Demand
- AT&T Deal To Sell Huawei Smartphones Falls Apart In 11th Hour
- MAINGEAR Crashes CES With New F131 Gaming PC And Exclusive APEX Cooling
- Oculus Announces Mi VR Standalone Headset At CES 2018
- Netgear Blankets CES With Nighthawk Pro Gaming WiFi Routers And Smart Security Cams
- Lenovo Debuts Snapdragon 835-Powered Miix 630 Windows 10 Convertible, Smart Display With Google Assistant
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Yoga, Tablet Strut Intel 8th Gen Muscle, Killer HDR Displays And Amazon Alexa
- D-Link Launches DIR-X6060 And DIR-X9000 802.11ax Ultra Routers For Gigabit WiFi Speeds
- Rivet Networks Unveils Killer 1550 Wireless-AC Module With Intel That Delivers WiFi Connectivity Up To 1.73Gbps
- Apple Releases iOS 11.2.2 And macOS 10.13.2 Security Updates To Counter Dangerous Spectre Exploit
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All News for January 2018
Dell has refreshed its Alienware Command Center software, which will come preinstalled on future Alienware notebooks and desktops. The goal with this visually overhauled software package is to bring all of your computer games and gaming rig tweaks into a single, unified interface.
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The PC industry is still trying to come to grips with the fallout from the revelation of the Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities. Meltdown only affects Intel processors, while Spectre -- the more serious exploit -- affects processors from Intel, AMD, and ARM. Hardware OEMs and OS manufactures have banded...
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Earlier this week, Intel unloaded its full arsenal of 8th generation Core i5 and Core i7 processors that are backed with AMD Radeon RX Vega M GPUs. The unlikely pair has delivered a mobile powerhouse chip package that combines excellent processing performance with GeForce GTX 1050-class graphics for thin-and-light...
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We have come a long way from the days of using bulky CRT monitors that were power hungry, heavy, and dominated our desktop real estate with their large footprints. As if to underscore the progress that has been made in the monitor market since then, among the many items Dell is showing off at the Consumer Electronics...
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Do you find yourself splitting your time between your PC and smartphone? Now that smartphones are basically ubiquitous, such a scenario is not uncommon, though it can be inconvenient. To help you utilize both rather than bounce back and forth between the two, Dell is introducing a complete wireless integration...
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The mega-popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, aka PUBG, is finally here in full release form. With its time in the Steam Early Access easy-bake oven complete, the inspiring battle royal FPS game is now ready for mass retail consumption with an impressive new map, new weapons, vehicles and lots more. Back in...
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Microsoft certainly meant well by releasing patches to address the serious Meltdown and Spectre chip security vulnerabilities that have been making news for the past week. However, the company's efforts to put the kibosh on Meltdown and Spectre had the unfortunate side effect of crippling many machines running AMD...
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Western Digital might be best known for its mechanical hard drives, but the company has not ignored the solid state drive movement. Proving that to be the case, WD unveiled a couple of SSD products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, including the My Passport Wireless SSD under its own branding, and the...
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In the wake of aggressive price slashing from the competition in recent months, HTC just showed the world that it is committed to VR, now and into the future. At CES, the company announced the Vive Pro, a upgraded version of the original Vive VR headset with a higher resolution and other tweaks, and a new wireless...
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AMD and its hardware partners are not letting any grass grow underneath their collective feet. That much was made evident at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where AMD announced its 2nd generation Ryzen and Threadripper processors. That means new motherboards are on the horizon as well. We had a chance to...
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Sony ended the year with a bang in regards to its PlayStation 4 console, tacking on 5.9 million unit sales during the holiday season. That strong finish propelled the PS4's lifetime sales total to a whopping 73.6 million units globally. Overall, it was one heck of a month for Sony, which just weeks before had topped...
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Huawei was set to have a big 2018 as it was finally expected to land a major U.S. carrier to sell its devices through a partnership with AT&T. The deal would have seen the Mate 10 Pro, Huawei's competitor to the iPhone X, available through a major carrier in the States for the first time. That deal has been cancelled...
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Just announced at this year’s CES 2018, a familiar name in the boutique PC scene, MAINGEAR, unleashed its drool-worthy new F131 Gaming Desktop with exclusive APEX Cooling. For many of us, a boutique PC will always be that out-of-reach supermodel or European supercar that is justifiably so far out of our league. Yet...
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Oculus has made a big announcement at CES 2018 with the unveiling of details on its partnership with Xiaomi and Qualcomm Technologies for the Chinese market. Oculus says that the deal will "deliver the next generation of VR products at accessible prices to people worldwide." One of the fruits of that partnership won’t be for the people of
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Netgear is showing off some of its new gear that will be on display at CES 2018 and among that gear is a new Siri-enabled Arlo Baby camera that looks like a bunny. Arlo Baby Camera is the world's first smart baby monitor according to Netgear and integrates with the Apple Homekit. The Arlo monitor is paired with an iOS...
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Back in early December, Qualcomm officially launched its Snapdragon 835 Mobile PC Platform for always-connected Window 10 PCs. Not only do all of these ultra-light notebooks and 2-in-1 convertibles feature full x86 emulation in Windows 10 and Snapdragon X16 gigabit-class LTE modems, but they also promise battery life...
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If you're a regular reader of HotHardware (which we're sure you are), then you know that we've long been fans of Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 family of products. Over the years, the family has grown to include the X1 Carbon, X1 Yoga and X1 Tablet. All three product lines are seeing updates at CES 2018, which keep them in...
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You Dawg, D-Link heard you like antennas, so it put some antennas on your antennas. The company has rolled out a pair of new Ultra Wi-Fi routers that are 802.11ax compatible. The products include the AX6000 Ultra Wi-Fi Router (DIR-X6060) and the AX11000 Ultra Wi-Fi Router (DIR-X9000), and D-Link says that both are...
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Rivet Networks today announced a new high-performance wireless module, the Killer 1550, that also happens to be the first one introduced as part of a collaboration with Intel. That is not a bad partner to have, and in this case, the result is a wireless module that meets and even surpasses gigabit wireless speeds...
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Late last week, Apple confirmed that its iOS-based iPhones and iPads along with its Mac computers are vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre exploits (which we have covered in great detail over the past week). At the time, Apple confirmed that it silently introduced “mitigations” in previous updates to iOS, macOS and...
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Rejoice PC gamers, as reported earlier, Acer and HP have partnered with NVIDIA to produce NVIDIA Big Format Displays (BFGD). But they are not alone. This is a full initiative from team green that will initially include a trio of partners, the third of which is ASUS.
NVIDIA has just taken the kimono off a potential...
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Samsung's 55-inch Flip Collaborative Display Is A Direct Response To Surface Hub And Google Jamboard
Samsung is jumping into the digital whiteboard business, offering a competitive solution to Microsoft's Surface Hub and Google's Jamboard. Like those big size displays, Samsung's Flip WM55H promotes collaborative digital engagement in the work place with a fancier solution compared to paper flip charts and analog...
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