They generally weigh around 3 pounds, have no optical drive, and range in price from $300 to $450. If you are on a tight budget or don’t need much more than a portable machine with good battery life that is capable of email, web surfing, and simple document creation then this is the route to go. Lenovo ThinkPad X120e Lenovo’s first machine based on the AMD Brazos platform, the 11....
We’ve been using 3DCenter’s data as a benchmark for graphics card prices for a while now. Although it only uses retail selling prices in Germany and Austria, they’re still a good indication of global trends. The latest results show that average GPU prices in the countries have now fallen to their lowest points since 3DCenter’s records began at the start of last year. Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series is now going for 9% under MRSP, while AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series has fallen even further, down to 14% beneath the Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price....
The Financial Times obtained documents indicating a legal challenge from the head of Arm China, which is jeopardizing the main British company’s plans for an initial public offering (IPO). It’s is the third such challenge in a nearly two-year battle. SoftBank is opting for an Arm IPO after regulators blocked it from selling the company to Nvidia for $40 billion last week. However, Investors may have trouble valuing Arm because it has been unable to oust the head of the Chinese division....
The Lenovo-branded software includes Lenovo Vantage Technology (LVT), VeriTouch and IdeaTouch. The first of these is accessible via software or the dedicated button on the keyboard, which activates a drop-down menu at the top of the screen with links to the Application Experience Center, System maintenance Center and Help Center. Under Application Experience Center you’ll find a CD/DVD burning software from CyberLink branded as Power2Go, while System Maintenance Center gives you access to OneKey Recovery and Driver & Application Installation and Help Center merely gives you more information about LVT in general....
As this is a family-oriented system, it comes loaded with a wealth of gaming and educational programs. In total, I counted a staggering 40 pre-installed applications. Normally this would cause a ton of concern but given the nature of the system and the fact that some games are actually quite fun, there is little to complain about. Lenovo utilizes a custom user interface known as Aura. It’s through this UI that you can launch all of the installed games, apps, and so much more using the virtual jog wheel....
To that end, Lenovo’s latest entrant in the hybrid marketplace looks to address some of these issues, also replacing the modest and not very successful Windows RT-based Yoga 11. The Lenovo Yoga 11S is described on the company’s website as a groundbreaking multimedia mini ultrabook, measuring just 11.6-inches, the convertible is a bit lighter than the Yoga 13 (although not by much) at 3.08 pounds. What it lacks in size compared to the larger Yoga 13, however, is reflected in the price tag as it starts at just $749....
As expected, 16:9 videos don’t fill the entire screen; rather, such standard-fare films are flanked by black sides in order to maintain a proper aspect ratio. I did not find this distracting though, as videos essentially retain their full size anyhow since the 29EA93 has a vertical height of 1080 pixels. Ultra-wide vs. dual monitor configurations Would I trade in my dual 27-inch setup for a single 29EA93? No. Admittedly though, the 21:9 monitor does serve as an adequate stand-in for dual monitors under a number of usage scenarios....
Known as the D8000, Lian Li’s latest enclosure is also built on the HPTX form factor, which was created by EVGA in 2010 amid growing enthusiast demand for boards even larger than EATX or EEATX – extended versions of the ATX standard, which maxes out at seven expansion slots and dimensions of 12 x 9.6" (305 x 244mm). EVGA’s ‘Super Record 2’ HPTX motherboard measured 13.6 x 15" (345 x 381mm) and could accommodate two Dual QPI LGA1366 socket CPUs (e....
I’ve built many high-end gaming systems using tons of different processors, motherboards, graphics cards and even storage drives. Although I used a different case each time, they were all full-size ATX cases, making them quite cumbersome. Massive ATX cases offer obvious benefits: more room means better airflow, which leads to cooler hardware and improved overclocking results. Large chassis also provide users with more hardware options, such as multi-GPU configurations. The only significant downside to larger cases (besides higher prices) is their weight....
The first menu lets you switch between the G502’s on-board memory for saving profiles or the host computer. Saving to the mouse has a few advantages, namely that these profiles won’t be lost in the event of a format or if you take your mouse to game on a different system. You can customize the profiles once you decide where they are going to be stored. Logitech offers three profiles that can be saved onto the G502....
Even with AMD’s recent driver update, the GTX 980 Ti still enjoys a serious performance advantage over the Fury X, delivering 24% more frames on average. The 980 Ti looks very comfortable with a 71fps minimum while the Fury X dropped down to 54fps and the standard 980 slightly slower again at 53fps. It’s not often you see the GTX 970 beating the R9 390X with ease but that’s the current situation here....
Theoretically, any format that can be hardware accelerated will give a sizable battery life advantage, as GPUs tend to be more efficient at these tasks than the CPU. On top of this, a codec that compresses to a lesser degree should be more battery life friendly, and lower resolutions will be advantageous as well. All of these come with trade-offs though. Less compression equates to a larger file size, which on devices with limited storage means fewer videos can be stored....
MegaCortex surfaced in 2019 as a purpose-built ransomware targeting corporate networks that used domain controllers to spread. According to The Malware Wiki, MegaCortex encrypted user files with AES encryption. A read-me file accompanying infections indicated that the only way to restore access to locked data is with a private key that victims would need to purchase from the hackers. Fast-forward to October 2021 when authorities arrested a dozen individuals linked to more than 1,800 ransomware attacks across 71 countries....
Speaking during a panel about the VR technology at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday (via Insider), Cox said Meta believes that “one day that computing platform will be as important as the smartphone has become in our lifetimes.” Cox said Meta has been trying to build a virtual reality product line for almost a decade that is affordable, accessible, and impressive. The idea is for it to be incorporated into a broad range of areas, from social experiences and fitness to gaming, medicine, and drug development....
It was back in November 2020 that Micron first started shipping the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory. The company said it expected the technology to find its way into industries such as autonomous vehicles, in-car infotainment systems, and mobile storage, as well as client/data center SSDs. 176-layer 3D NAND is now shipping in Micron’s 2400 series Gen4 QLC SSD, which the company says offers 33% higher I/O speeds and 24% lower read latency than its previous-generation drive featuring 96-layer tech....
Microsoft Exchange is again experiencing a security risk involving hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide. Unknown bad actors are exploiting two new vulnerabilities intending to install an encrypted backdoor never before seen in the wild. The hackers are suspected to be China-based. The new zero-day flaws were first discovered by Vietnamese security company GTSC when researchers detected malicious webshells on customers’ networks related to a vulnerability in the Exchange software....
On Wednesday, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 preview build to Insiders on the Dev Channel, which includes several fixes under the hood, some cosmetic changes, and a new video editing tool that will supposedly fill the hole left by the discontinuation of Movie Maker. However, the new Insider build also has some additional functionality that isn’t immediately visible. According to Rafael Rivera — one of the developers behind the EarTrumpet volume control app — Microsoft may be taking another shot at enabling tabs in File Explorer....
On that same day, Xbox lead Phil Spencer penned an email to his staff in which he said that he was “disturbed and deeply troubled by the horrific events and actions” at Activision Blizzard. He said that he was evaluating “all aspects” of Xbox’s relationship with Activision Blizzard. Two months later, Microsoft paid $68.7 billion for the company. It’s now managed as part of the Microsoft Gaming division, of which Spencer was appointed the CEO....
Machine learning algorithms designed to generate uncanny or bizarrely surrealistic images are taking the tech world by storm, and things will only get more complicated in the future. Case in point: there’s a new version of Midjourney –a “totally new” AI architecture –which is just the beginning of a journey towards “something deep and unfathomable.” Like with DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and other AI algorithms, Midjourney can take a simple or very complex text prompt and turn it into a composite image....
Release Date: Q2 2011 | Genre: First-person shooter | Also on: PS3, Xbox 360 Brink takes place on the Ark, a man-made floating city at sea that was designed as a prototype of the perfect city, with renewable resources and no pollution. However, as the threat of a global environmental crisis become real, many refugees enter the city growing its population to the point that there aren’t enough resources to go around....
