Feb 12, 2021 10:13 EST
HP s website is currently having its President day sale, and this sale has significantly dropped the price of various laptops and desktops. Gamers or students may find this sale as a perfect time to buy a new gaming desktop or laptop. This article will look into five different devices, ranging from desktops, laptops, or All-In-One devices.
President Day s sale has significantly reduced the price of various devices, including laptops, desktops, or All-in-One devices
Some of the currently on sale devices include the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible, OMEN 30L desktop, and the HP EliteDesk 805 Mini-PC.
The HP Pavilion laptop features an Intel 10nm 11th generation mobility processor combined with Intel Xe Graphics along with a 256GB SSD, 8GB vRAM and a Full HD display for only $529. This thin and light 13.3 inch laptop is an absolute doorbuster for its price and has an incredibly long battery life (over 10 hours of continuous use). It also beats the Ryzen mobil
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The MSI Prestige 14 (starts at $1,099.99; $1,149.99 as tested) gets an Intel Evo update, bringing increased responsiveness and better battery life (along with Wi-Fi 6 and Thunderbolt 4 connectivity) to the company’s 14-inch ultraportable laptop. The design remains largely unchanged from last year s model, which came in a bold pink. Available in white or dark gray this time around, the all-aluminum chassis is incredibly thin and compact. When opened, the lid props up the keyboard to provide a comfortable angle for typing and better airflow for keeping the components cool. And with its new Intel Core i7-1185G7, the top processor in Intel s 11th Generation Tiger Lake series, the Prestige 14 needs all the help it can get to keep thermals in check. In testing, fan noise was a constant companion, which detracts from this otherwise well-rounded, powerful, and affordable ultraportable.
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It’s been more than 20 years since Intel released its last desktop graphics card, the Intel740, but as of yesterday the company is officially back in the discrete GPU game.
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Intel teamed up with Asus and a few other graphics cards partners to release its Iris Xe desktop GPUs for system builders who want to include the new card in their prebuilt PCs. The cards look a lot different from the prototype Intel showed off at CES 2020, especially the ones being provided from manufacturers other than Asus.
These new cards, originally codenamed DG1, are part of Intel’s Iris Xe graphics family, which power the 11th-gen Tiger Lake processors. The company has planned for a while time to release multiple desktop solutions, but Intel is still working on its Xe-HPG architecture, which will power the company’s future gaming GPUs and ideally rival Nvidia and AMD.
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Iris Xe graphics cards for OEMs.
The Intel Iris Xe is based on the Xe-LP architecture, featuring 80 EUs (Execution Units), 4GB of LPDDR4X memory across a 128-bit memory bus, and PCIe 4.0 x4. With support for up to 3 displays, this GPU is based on Intel’s 10nm SuperFin process node and, according to HardwareLuxx, has a 30W TDP design. Additionally, it supports Adaptive Sync, Display HDR, AV1 decode, and artificial intelligence capabilities through the DP4a deep-learning inference acceleration. Clock frequencies are still unknown, but it should sit between the 1350MHz of the higher-tier Xe-LP iGPU and the 1650MHz of the Iris Xe Max graphics card.
Best of CES 2021: socially distanced, but innovation nonetheless
CES 2021, like the times we’re living in, was an interesting one. Social distancing didn’t stop innovation. These are the best of CES 2021!
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Last year’s CES 2020 finally filled us with excitement as we’ve deemed it an extremely good show, and, arguably, one of its best iterations yet. This year’s CES 2021, however, due to the current events, was one of the strangest tech shows we’ve witnessed so far.
For the first time, the event didn’t take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and other locations scattered across the city’s major hotels, but it was more of an online, “socially distanced” event, with companies showing off their products and innovations via live streams. Thich has pretty much become the norm in 2020, and most probably for the remainder of 2021.