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An all-white 14-inch Nitro V AI gaming laptop switches up Acer's marketing but keeps the NVIDIA RTX 4050 GPU.
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HP has done it again. Just last year, it launched a redesigned flagship Windows 11 all-in-one desktop, and this year it has refined that product into the world’s first Copilot+ all-in-one PC
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Today at CES, Qualcomm announced its new Snapdragon X processor. The company aims to bring fast performance as well as efficient battery life to a wider market by designing the chip with mainstream and budget laptops in mind, which could make $600 Snapdragon PCs a thing.
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Intel is already sampling its next-generation core, Panther Lake, Intel’s new co-chief executive told reporters at CES 2025 on Monday morning. It will ship in the second half of 2025.
Intel is already sampling Panther Lake to customers, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel’s head of Intel Products and its newly appointed co-chief executive, said during her CE
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Today at CES 2025, Acer announced their newest Nitro V AI lineup of gaming laptops infused with artificial intelligence. Not only are they designed to consume less power (and extend battery life), but they also feature AI-powered graphics thanks to Nvidia’s DLSS 3.5 technology.
AI really is an all-consuming thing, huh? Let’s jump into the details.
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Branding is important. Corporations spend millions of dollars every year to make sure that words like “Tacoma” and “Sleep Number” press the right buttons in your brain. And Dell has spent decades putting that same work in for terms like “XPS,” “Inspiron,” and “Latitude.”
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Here at PCWorld, we really dig Acer’s Swift Go laptops.
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The rumors were true! AMD unveiled the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT during the company’s CES 2025 keynote on Monday, powered by the next-generation RDNA 4 architecture with a new AI-focused version of FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) in tow.
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AMD has launched what one executive called “the most advanced mobile X86 processor ever created” at CES 2025: The Ryzen AI Max and AI Max+, with absolutely massive capabilities to run graphics and AI workloads.
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AMD has typically pushed the envelope in performance, but at CES 2025, the company is also expanding in another direction, with cheaper, lower-performance Ryzen AI 300 and even a Ryzen 200 family that the company is encouraging both consumers and commercial customers to buy.
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AMD launched the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D mobile processor for gaming laptops at CES 2025, staking its own, bold claim as the world’s best mobile processor for gaming and content creation.
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Grok 3 took 10X compute power to train than Grok 2.
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AMD announced its two flagship Ryzen 9000-series X3D processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, with the 16-core 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X3D leading the way with the potent Zen 5 architecture paired with AMD’s dominating game-boosting X3D technology to provide 128MB of L3 cache, all of which AMD says makes it the world’s best CPU for gaming and creator workloads.
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AMD has launched its Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 200 series of mobile processors at CES 2025 at Las Vegas, debuting a total of 15 new models, across the PRO and non-PRO stack for mainstream and commercial laptops. The company also shared new benchmarks results, showcasing the performance of its Ryzen AI 7 350 against Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V and Qualcomm’s X Plus X1P-42-100.
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AMD announced its Ryzen 9000HX series of laptop chips here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, including its flagship model that it bills as the world’s best mobile processor for gaming and content creation.
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No more Inspirons or XPS for Dell as it rebrands its consumer products as Dell, business and enterprise become Dell Pro, and workstation devices get Dell Pro Max branding.
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Vero 16 laptop ups the eco-friendly ante, at least on paper, with a chassis that the company claims is constructed of 70% post-consumer plastic and a “bio-based oyster shell material.”
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The LG press conference is kick
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https://www.techradar.com/pro/finding-workplace-harmony-navigating-noise-in-the-return-to-the-office
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https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-reveals-surprise-plan-to-spend-usd80bn-on-ai-data-centers
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JMGO's latest projectors promise to shine at CES
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The entry-level Snapdragon CPU has finally arrived, the Snapdragon X is a budget-friendly 8-core AI PC chipset.
https://www.laptopmag.com/ai/copilot-pcs/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-announcement-ces-2025
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Intel unveiled a bunch of new mobile and desktop processors from the Core Ultra 2 Series at CES 2025, including some monster HX-series hardware that can be overclocked. Yes, it even has an NPU inside for AI work.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/cpu-gpu-components/intel-core-ultra-series-2-hx-announcement
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Google is bringing its Gemini AI assistant to smart TVs in a bigger way this year, with the ultimate goal of getting people to pay for it in some way.
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Pawport is back at CES with the latest version of its smart pet door, now offering a two-door system for improved security, sleek aesthetic options, and a suite of features designed to make it easier to let pets out while still keeping homes safe and energy-efficient.
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Lockly unveiled an ambitious expansion of its home security product lineup at CES on Monday, signaling its intent to make waves in an increasingly crowded market.
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Jasco, the maker of some of our favorite smart lights, is at CES this week to show off its latest smart plus and wall switches, all of which come with a key feature: Matter support.
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Have you ever let out an audible groan when an app on your TV asks you to type something?
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