Category: personalcomputing

Intel is losing against AMD

[ad_1] A rapid rise Ever since AMD launched the Zen architecture just over three years ago, it has progressed at a relentless pace. At the time, Intel’s $1,100 8-core i7-6900 seemed like it had all the cores you’d ever need. However, AMD moved the goalposts, unveiling the 8-core Ryzen 7 1800 at a much lower […]

Save up to $400 on Razer Blade laptops at Amazon

[ad_1] Blade 15 Razer offers several different configurations of the Blade 15, but the model we think offers a good mix of internals for the price is the RTX 2070 Max-Q variant with 256GB solid-state drive and 144Hz display. Amazon is selling this version for $2,000, down from $2,400. While that’s still a lot to […]

Facebook’s Portal devices are each $50 off for Black Friday

[ad_1] Portal Amazon plans to discount both the black and white models by $50, making them $130 as opposed to their usual $180. Engadget’s Nicole Lee gave the redesigned Portal a 79 when she reviewed it in October. She liked the device’s tight integration with both Messenger and WhatsApp, as well as its rich video […]

The Echo Flex is Amazon’s Alexa gateway drug

[ad_1] Instead of something that looks like a speaker, the Echo Flex is a wall plug that you can fit into any outlet (. It’s fairly small at only 2.8 inches tall and 2.6 inches wide, and it doesn’t obscure the other outlet when plugged in. Since it’s not reliant on taking up any horizontal […]

Valve’s Steam Controller is dead

[ad_1] While most reviewers originally wrote the Steam Controller off as too weird, Valve sold over 500,000 in the first six months. It became one of the most configurable gaming devices — you could play Street Fighter V strictly with motion controls or Serious Rocket League with the grips programmed for acceleration/brake and drift/boost. What […]

‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ comes to Steam on December 5th

[ad_1] This won’t address glitches within Red Dead itself, but it is a start. It’s also an acknowledgment that the game industry’s attempts to reduce its dependency on Steam (and increase profit margins) can only go so far. Whether game creators like it or not, many gamers prefer to have all their games in one […]

The Sensel Morph creative touchpad is discounted for Black Friday

[ad_1] If you’re new to the Morph ecosystem, you can pick up bundles for $50 off. The best go-to for newbies is probably the base system plus one overlay, which is $199 instead of $249. All accessories qualify for a buy-one-get-one-half-off deal, so you can stock up on overlays, cases and cables. Plus, all Sensel […]

‘Quake II RTX’ update delivers more realistic ray-traced visuals

[ad_1] The upgrade expands just where you’ll see ray tracing kick in, too. It’s now visible on security monitors, and you can even see hall-of-mirrors recursive reflections on certain surfaces. Performance might also improve depending on your system. You now have the choice of dynamic resolution scaling that will try to maintain 60 frames per […]

AMD’s 64-core Threadripper 3990X arrives in 2020

[ad_1] The 3990X will likely be AMD’s workstation answer to its server-oriented EPYC 7742. As such, it’ll have eight chiplets with eight cores each, while the 24- and 32-core 3960X and 3970X CPUs we saw earlier have four chiplets with four and six cores, respectively. We still don’t know if the 3990X will have eight-channel […]

Microsoft updates developers on designing apps for dual-screens

[ad_1] As 2020 draws closer, we’re also slowly nearing the debut of dual-screen devices from Microsoft and others. Now that the Surface Duo and Surface Neo have been revealed, the company’s next step is to help developers get their software ready for the new devices. While deeper details will have to wait until early next […]