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ASUS Presents Be Ahead Launch Event at CES 2021

by Artem Alekseenko

ASUS co-CEO Samson Hu announced the latest lineup of laptops, displays and entertainment solutions at the Be Ahead virtual launch event during CES 2021. Recognized as the best laptop brand of 2020 by Laptop …

Tags:Asus| CES 2021| Notebooks

Asus Adds OLED Notebook with Secondary Screen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Asus has a new version of its ZenBook Pro Duo, the 15 OLED (UX582), that has a new tilting ‘4K’ secondary tilting full width touchscreen. The ‘ScreenPad Plus’ is a 14″ …

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Lenovo Updates its ThinkPads & Legion Notebook

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo has announced the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, said to be the thinnest ThinkPad ever, at 11.5mm thick It has a 3:2 aspect ratio 13.5″ touch 2256 x 1504 display with …

Tags:CES 2021| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Lenovo| Notebooks| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

Samsung Pushes OLED for Laptops – with Under-display Camera

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Display has released a video showing a new under-OLED camera for laptops. This enables very narrow bezels and a 1mm lid thickness, saving 50gms in weight vs an LCD. What …

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MacBook Pros Will Scrap Touch Bar

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Mac quoted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo as saying that all new 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro models will have the OLED touch bar removed, with physical function keys only. The MagSafe …

Tags:Apple| Keyboards| Notebooks| OLEDs| Touch

Acer Introduces Nitro and Aspire Notebook with AMD or Nvidia

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Like Asus, Acer launched new gaming notebooks with higher rated displays at the Virtual CES. Nitro 5 with Nvidia RTX 3080 and 15.6″ or 17.3″ displays from $749 (but higher spec …

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Sensel Unveils Groundbreaking Haptic Touchpad At CES 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sensel of Sunnyvale, California, said at the virtual CES that it has a new haptic touchpad that integrates capacitive touch, force field technology and its own direct drive haptics. The touchpad …

Tags:Haptics| Notebooks| Touch

Samsung To Push OLEDs for Laptops

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to DSCC for pointing me to a move by Samsung to boost the OLED panels it plans to supply for notebook applications. Digging around, I found the video below …

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Lenovo Can’t Dodge 2-in-1 Hinge Case

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Law360 reported that Lenovo can’t dodge a putative class action claiming it sold defective two-in-one computer devices, a Maryland federal judge has ruled, saying the company’s assertions that the devices are …

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