Nieuw Vennep, Netherlands, May 19th, 2021 Portwell (www.portwell.eu) a world-leading innovator for Industrial PC (IPC) and embedded computing solutions, and an associate member of the Intel Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions Alliance, has launched its new ROBO-8115VG2AR. According to Brian Lai, Portwell’s product manager, ROBO-8115VG2AR is aimed at customers who are seeking an embedded desktop …
Connectivity: 802.11AX (2 x 2) & Bluetooth® 5.0
Design & Keyboard
As the name implies, the Yoga 9i is a 2-in-1 form factor which means the hinge allows the display to flip all the way around to the back, allowing the laptop to transform into a massive tablet or flip over into tent mode for watching videos.
Along the left edge are two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt support and Lenovo’s proprietary charging port while the right edge houses a single USB A port and the power button. Since this laptop built for heavy-duty media creation, it’s disappointing to see that Lenovo decided not to include an SD or even a microSD card slot for those who need to transfer files to the laptop from a camera. This is especially consuming when you see microSD card slots on many of Lenovo’s cheaper laptops and even some of their Chromebooks despite the fact that ChromeOS really isn’t built for media editing.
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All Specs
It s not that Lenovo offers more ThinkPads than you can shake a stick at it s just that it would take a very long time to shake that stick at them all. The ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 (starts at $896; $1,039 as tested) is a business laptop aimed at small offices, priced below the enterprise ThinkPad T and premium ThinkPad X series (in other words, overlapping the ThinkBook series). It s a 14-inch slimline with many of the ThinkPad virtues, such as a first-class keyboard and MIL-STD 810H durability. But it s on the heavy side for a 14-inch laptop; it has only one USB-C and one USB-A port (not counting an outdated USB 2.0 port); and the power adapter steals the USB-C port. Lenovo laptops regularly earn four or four and a half stars in our review ratings, but this one falls a bit short.
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Intel had already launched the first iteration of Tiger Lake some time ago on the 10nm SuperFin process and it was a work of art. It had a single-core score in Cinebench that was the only x86 processor to beat the Apple M1 but had one major flaw: it was limited to just 4 cores. Now, the company has rolled out an 8-core version, dubbed Tiger Lake H on its mature 10nm process and the results are spectacular. After spending almost a decade on 14nm, Intel finally has powerful mainstream processors out on a sub 14nm process.
Intel launches 8-core Tiger Lake H processors on the 10nm process, 19% performance gain over last generation