Gigabyte joins the gaming laptop party with its P57 series
You've read the headline, and you're probably expecting to see a black monolith with weird angles and liberal use of red trim. Gigabyte's P57 gaming laptops mercifully don't follow that boring old route, though. The P57 series machines have an understated black aesthetic with a bit of orange trim that doesn't scream "720 noscope" from a mile away.
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SteamVR Performance Test grades PCs on their VR readiness
After HTC's price and pre-order announcement for its Vive VR headset this weekend, Valve has taken the wraps off its SteamVR Performance Test, a simple tool that lets aspiring VR junkies determine what kind of experience to expect from their PC. This test is free, and it doesn't require a VR headset to be hooked up to the host PC to run.
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HP's Elite x3 phone is a mighty morphin' productivity powerhouse
Microsoft has been talking about Windows Continuum—the ability to power a laptop or desktop-style PC experience from a Windows smartphone—for some time now. HP's Elite x3 is a Windows 10 phablet that's designed to deliver a fully realized version of that experience.
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Huawei MateBook goes after Surface Pro 4 and iPad Pro
There have been rumors that Huawei might be getting into the high-end mobile computer arena. Now, the Chinese company has proved those rumors true with the release of the its Surface Pro-esque MateBook convertible running Windows 10.
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LG unveils modular G5 flagship phone
LG has shown off the G5, its next flagship smartphone, at Mobile World Congress. The phone comes with the kind of high-powered specifications we've come to expect in flagship devices, but it adds a swappable battery and a degree of modularity to the mix.
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Samsung Galaxy S7 brings back microSD slot and waterproofing
Samsung taketh away, and Samsung giveth back. That may be most succinct way to describe Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, the latest phones in its Galaxy S lineup of flagship handsets. Where the Galaxy S6 phones did away with Samsung staples like microSD card slots, removable batteries, and water resistance, Samsung says it listened to customers and brought water resistance and a card slot back to the S7 series.
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Updated: HTC Vive gets a $799 sticker price
HTC announced today that its Vive VR headset will cost $799. That price will include the Vive hand controllers, base stations, the headset itself, and a pair of ear buds according to an earlier report fromThe Verge. The final version of the headset will apparently be a bit more polished all around than the current developer hardware, and The Verge says it'll come with a built-in microphone, too.
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Talking Soft Machines with David Kanter: The TR Podcast 189
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- WCCFtech: AMD plans to "spice up" GDC and Nvidia may demo Pascal
- Vulkan benchmarks at Ars Technica UK: A boost for AMD and Nvidia, but there's work to be done
- TechCrunch: Apple apologizes and updates iOS to restore iPhones disabled by Error 53
- AppleInsider: New 4" iPhone to run Apple's A9 chip, 'iPad Air 3' to sport A9X - report
- ZDNet: Microsoft rolls out Windows 10 'Redstone' build 14267 to Fast Ring testers
- VG24/7: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Awakening lands on PC, Xbox One in two weeks
- Academy Membership honors 19th D.I.C.E. Awards Winners
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Transcend's SSD370 solid-state drive reviewed
As we discussed recently, triple-level cell (or TLC) NAND is all the rage in SSDs these days. Many SSD manufacturers are hopping aboard the TLC train, hoping to cut costs and fatten their margins. But some customers are loath to buy in because of the perceived speed and endurance compromises TLC brings with it. Fortunately for those pickier enthusiasts, the MLC SSD market is still very much alive. Players both large and small continue to update and refine their MLC offerings as processes mature and new NAND makes its way down the assembly line.
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Deals of the week: several SSDs and a hot-clocked GTX 970
Howgh! Sitting Metalhead has travelled the plains of online deals, and now he has brought you his hard-earned catch. Today's bounty has plenty of SSD deals, a cheap overclocked GeForce GTX 970, and a few assorted odds and ends.
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Need for Speed has a need for good hardware
Just last week, Ghost Games announced that Need for Speed would be arriving for PC on March 15th. Now, the developer has released the system requirements gamers will have to meet to get their drift on.
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The Tech Report Podcast is live on Twitch
The Tech Report Podcast is recording live on Twitch. We're talking Soft Machines' VISC processors with David Kanter. Watch us here, or join us on our Twitch page:
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The Tech Report Podcast live stream returns this evening
If you hadn't already heard, The Tech Report Podcast live stream is returning this evening. I'll be discussing Soft Machines' VISC architecture and the performance numbers the company released recently with special guest David Kanter. You can join us on Twitch at 9:30 ET/6:30 PM PT to listen in and ask questions in the chat.
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CAT S60 smartphone comes with a built-in FLIR thermal camera
Remember that awesome FLIR sensor that Jeff got for his iPhone? Much like the GAU-8 Avenger is so awesome that the military decided to build the Warthog around it, CAT (Caterpillar) decided to make a phone around that FLIR cam. Nod politely to the badass CAT S60 phone.
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