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Samsung Series 7 Gamer Updated
Samsung’s entry into the gaming laptop segment, the Series 7 Gamer, was showcased during CES with a relatively impressive feature set and a promise that it will ship to the U.S. The hardware specifications have already been updated and for some reason Samsung has dropped the option for a 3D display on the Series 7. [...]
Nvidia’s Next-Gen Kepler GPUs Shipping to Laptop Manufacturers
Not only is Nvidia’s latest 28nm “Kepler” GPU parts shipping to laptop manufacturers, the latest news is that it will end up in ultrabooks.
Kinect Coming to Laptops
Microsoft is working to bring its Kinect motion-sensing gadget to laptops. This applies to Windows 8 laptops, so it is still relatively far into the future.
Rumor: Alienware M14x R2, M17x R4 and M18x R2 Upcoming
A Dell rumor site that has been pretty accurate in the past has just released some alleged specs for the expected update to the current Alienware lineup. The details are sparse, but some interesting info about the potential GPUs is available.
Nvidia ‘Positively Surprised’ by HD 7900
In an entertaining statement to Scandinavian hardware site Nordic Hardware, Nvidia said that the company “expected more from [AMD's] new architecture”.
Measure ‘Quality’ with GPU-Z 0.5.8
GPU-Z is a handy tool for looking up information on your graphics card, verify your overclocking efforts or even export the BIOS (in those rare cases when it isn’t locked, particularly in a laptop). The latest version brings some additional features to the table, including support for the latest (sort of) mobile GPUs from Nvidia [...]
Update on AMD’s HD 7000M Lineup
There was ample disappointment when we figured out AMD was resorting to the old “trick” of renaming old GPUs instead of transitioning from the 40nm process to 28nm, along with the new Southern Islands architecture or Graphics Core Next (GCN).
The External Graphics Card Reappears: MSI GUS II
Hooking up an external graphics card to your laptop is not a new idea. What’s new with the MSI GUS II (Graphics Update System II) is that it connects over the Thunderbolt interface. No wait, that isn’t new either, this was actually done with the latest Sony VAIO Z.
CES 2012 Gaming Laptop Roundup
Your humble correspondent it unfortunately not a CES correspondent this year, but the least we can do here is to round up the biggest gaming laptop news to comes out of the #1 consumer electronics trade show.
Glasses-Free 3D Gaming Now a Reality
Toshiba has just announced that its autostereoscopic 3D laptop, the Qosmio F755 3D, is now ready for actual gaming. While glasses-free 3D in any shape or form is mostly a novelty so far, Toshiba has been bold enough to launch a Nintendo 3DS size XL–a laptop with a parallax barrier display that produces 3D imagery [...]
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