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Asus G701VI Notebook is for VR

by Bob Raikes

Asus has launched the Republic of Gamers G701VI notebook for game players, especially VR. The notebook includes an overclockable Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU with 8GB of VRAM. The PC has a 120Hz 17.3″ …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 44

OWC Dock Adds Features Missing from MacBook Pro

by Bob Raikes

Quickly on the heels of the new MacBook Pro announcement by Apple last week (Apple Event Introduces New Mac Book Pro), OWC has announced a Thunderbolt dock that supports dual UltraHD displays via Thunderbolt, …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Thunderbolt| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Warranty Week Checks Notebooks

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the Warranty Week summaries on warranty for consumer electronics over the last few weeks. Now the site has reported on retail notebook warranties in the US. 18 major retail chains were …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 43| warranty

AMD Promoting New Pro 400 Series Graphics

by Bob Raikes

AMD has formally released the Radeon Pro 400 Series Graphics which are in the MacBook Pro that Apple announced last week (Apple Event Introduces New Mac Book Pro). AMD said that the chip was …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Dell’s Black Friday Offers Leaked

by Bob Raikes

Black Friday is always the source of a lot of deals for US consumers and this year, Dell was one of the first to let slip what it plans. There will be a $149.99 …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Apple Event Introduces New Mac Book Pro

by Bob Raikes

Apple streamed its event from Cupertino on Thursday, and in high video quality, so we logged on to get the news. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, started by showing a video of an Apple …

Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 42

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MacBook Pro to Adopt USB-C?

by Bob Raikes

Japanese blog site, Macotakara suggests that the expected new MacBook Pro range will drop conventional USB ports, but will have three USB type C connectors and Thunderbolt 2. The site also repeats the rumour …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| USB| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Gaming Market Buoyant Around the World

by Bob Raikes

In the lead up to IFA, GfK highlighted that the gaming market segment of the global PC market was buoyant and it said that the desktop segment of the gaming market globally had increased …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Quanta Posts September Results

by Yvette Raikes

Quanta Computer reported September turnover of NT$78.59 billion ($2.5 billion), down 22% YoY, with Q3 sales falling 19% YoY to NT$223.7 billion ($7 billion). For the year to date revenue was NT$628.74 billion ($19.8 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Quanta| Vol 23 - Issue 40

HP Shows New Consumer PCs and Monitor

by Bob Raikes

HP has released a range of new consumer products in time for the holiday season with an update to the Spectre360x, a new Envy 13 notebook and a 27″ AIO and monitor. The new …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Lenovo Building Notebook Inventory?

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes reports that Lenovo may have as much as five months’ inventory of notebooks and may use this inventory to try to take share from HP, which is reported by IHS to have relatively …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Alienware Joins Gaze Notebook Market

by Bob Raikes

Alienware sneaked a notebook, the Alienware 17, with gaze recognition into the market while we were tied up with IFA and joins Acer in using the technology. Features that are enabled by the Tobii-based …

Tags:Game Playing| Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 40