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Intel has gone and quietly unveiled several Core 200H series processors for laptops, which we were not expecting to officially surface until the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month. Perhaps in an effort to get ahead of the leaks, the newest non-Ultra models are here now, and they arrive without...
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Ever since we first heard about AMD's Strix Halo APUs, we've been wondering exactly what kind of products would make use of them. After all, these parts are high-powered, with the top-end Ryzen AI MAX processor coming in with sixteen full-fat Zen 5 CPU cores and a massive 40-CU GPU on a single package. It's reasonable...
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If you've been waiting for a great deal on a game console, multiple flavors of the Sony PlayStation 5 are being discounted at the moment. Sony has teamed up with Epic andFortnite, the popular free-to-play game, and have a discounted bundles available. For example, the Fortnite Cobalt Star Disc Edition of the PS5 is...
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It isn't every day that a major chipmaker launches a whole new class of product. Intel arguably did this with its "Lunar Lake" processors, the first consumer x86 chips with on-package memory. AMD's now set to do it too, but instead of on-package memory, the company is launching an absolutely massive...
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You may recall that, just last Thursday, we cast a dubious eye toward the story reporting that Intel's 18A process yields were on the order of 10%. The numbers simply didn't add up; Intel had already reported a defect rate of less than 0.4 defects per square centimeter. As we said back in September...
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You may recall that we stopped by Lenovo's booth at IFA Berlin earlier this year and sneaked a peek at some of its upcoming ThinkPad and Yoga laptops. One of those modelsthe ThinkPad Carbon X1 Aura Editionhas launched in China, and one thing what makes it stand out among a sea of laptops and 2-in-1...
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Hey, if Black Friday can start early, why not Cyber Monday? If you (or maybe your kids) are dying for a gaming laptop, right now is a decent time to pick one up, as new-generation hardware inches toward the market and sellers are desperate to move last-generation machines. We have some pretty great deals here...
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Tis the season for giving, and there is no better gift for the techie in ones life than more ports, right? If you agree, then check out these Black Friday deals on docking stations from brands like Plugable, Sabrent, and OWC that we've rounded up.
Plugable Thunderbolt 4 Dock
The Plugable Quad Display Dock for quad...
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Every gamer on the planet knows that next-generation graphics cards are on the horizon, with NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 50 series hogging the lion's share of headlines (Intel could beat AMD and NVIDIA to the punch with Arc Battlemage, though, with an ASRock Arc A580 recently leaking on Amazon). This means...
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We're tentatively looking forward to the launch of Intel's second-generation Arc graphics cards (codenamed "Battlemage") with earned enthusiasm, as the showing from the Xe2-based integrated GPU in the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors was quite strong. Despite the fact that discrete Battlemage hasn't...
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This is a great time to be in the market for a gaming PC, be it a laptop or a desktop. Why is that? The reasons are two-fold. First, with new hardware on the horizon (like the GeForce RTX 50 series), you can bet that retailers want to make room on store shelves for incoming products. And second, Black Friday...
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Once upon a time, the idea of gaming on a machine without a discrete graphics card was basically a laughable proposition, at least if you were trying to play anything other than decades-old titlesor other light weight games like Peggle (remember that gem?). That time has long past, and now we have an entire class of...
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Yes, we're not yet two full weeks into November, and also yes, the Black Friday deals and promotions have already begun to appear (like discounts on the Galaxy S24 FE and iPhone 16 bargaiins, as well as a massive discount on TCL's 98-inch behemoth of aTV). We suspect things will ramp up this week and as we further...
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When we tested laptops based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors, we were very impressed overall with the performance and the battery life, as both were objectively excellentmostly making good onQualcomm's claims.
One sore spot in our testing, though, particularly around the top-end Snapdragon X...
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If you read that headline and thought, "hey wait, isn't the 285 already out," then you forgot to look at the letter. The Core Ultra 9 285H is an unannounced mobile processor from Intel based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Intel hasn't said anything about mobile Arrow Lake yet, but the first benchmark...
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To understand this post, you're going to have to understand who Framework is. A company founded in January 2020, Framework sells highly-repairable laptops, with readily available replacement parts and standardized designs, where possible. The company will sell you an assembled, ready-to-go laptop if you...
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Cooler Master Cooling X PC: As Configured - $3,999 Cooler Master used its decades of case, cooler, and PSU design experience to create a custom, compact liquid-cooled powerhouse, with great build quality and a price tag to match. Attractive design Excellent build quality Strong performance Compact yet powerful Good...
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Gaming laptops have become highly competent machines that can compete with some high-end desktops. Thanks to GPUs such as NVIDIA's flagship (for a little while longer) mobile GeForce RTX 4090, performance can be reasonably close to desktop GeForce RTX 4070 Ti levels. As such, with the release of the...
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Do you need to upgrade your PC gaming battle station with a racing wheel or other peripheral? Or maybe you're in the market for a gaming laptop or handheld, like Lenovo's Legion Go. If so, then consider Best Buy's weekend gaming sale to be fortuitous timing. It's a three-day event that actually began yesterday...
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Not only are there are handful of laptops available based on Intel's latest Core Ultra Series 2 lineup, otherwise known as Lunar Lake, but they're mostly all relatively affordable models. There are several options hovering around the the $1,000 mark, the least expensive of which is the ASUS Vivobook S 14...
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HotHardware's very own Dave Altavilla is on site in Maui, Hawaii, at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit where the chip company has revealed its latest Snapdragon 8-family of processors, known as "Snapragon 8 Elite" due to their inclusion of the same powerful Oryon CPU core used in the speedy Snapdragon X Elite...
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Coinciding with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite unveil, a new flagship processor for Android devices, ASUS is teasing new high-end hardware of its ownthe ROG Phone 9 for gamers. The two products are linked, as the next Android gaming handset from the ASUS Republic of Gamers division is confirmed to feature Qualcomm's...
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