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 should add however that AMD’s Fusion platform is gaining backers among computer manufacturers for bringing solid performance and graphics to thin and light laptops without having to sacrifice too much battery life, so you can expect to see some or their latest design wins in our daily news coverage as well as in the forthcoming update of this guide. When shopping for a new laptop it’s important to know beforehand how you plan to use it....
Traditionally I’d use a bunch of programs to monitor all these stats, including SpeedFan and Fraps, gathering info through pop-ups or windows on a second monitor. Then I was sent an LCDSysInfo - a small 2.8-inch LCD gadget that can be configured to show various stats - and monitoring my PC became significantly easier. If you haven’t heard of the LCDSysInfo don’t be surprised, it’s the relatively unknown project of a Hong Kong-based hardware development team (ColdTears Electronics), and software developer Ezequiel Gonzalez....
The ThinkPad Edge notebook that we’ll be looking at today is part of an all-new series from Lenovo announced early this year at CES. The ThinkPad Edge blends some of the things we liked on the IdeaPad with the power and legacy of ThinkPads. Aimed at style- and budget-conscious business users, this system features some firsts from Lenovo, like a new keyboard layout and a low entry price for ThinkPads at just $579....
In our lab for testing is the 42-inch variant of the LG C2, the smallest model you can get and a new size option for this year. It’s still using LG’s OLED technology, and arrives with a 4K resolution at up to 120Hz, which these days is rather modest for a 4K gaming display. The LG is primarily designed as a TV with full smart functionality, however it also includes important gaming features like variable refresh rate support and a low input lag mode....
LG Display writes that the solution uses its film-type exciter technology, creating sounds by vibrating off display panels and various materials inside the car body to enable a rich, 3D immersive sound experience. The vibrating panel, developed alongside an unnamed global audio company, is only about the size of a passport (150mm x 90mm), and its thickness of 2.5mm is around the same as two coins stuck together. At 40g, it’s around 30% of the weight and 10% of the thickness of a conventional car speaker, which tends to be large and heavy due to components such as the voice coil, cone, and magnet....
The front selfie camera is again a Sony sensor, this time the IMX208 1/6" 2.1-megapixel sensor with a wide f/2.0 lens. Both cameras are capable of 1080p/30 video recording, although the rear camera can record at 4K as well. One obvious talking point from the G3’s camera setup is the ’laser autofocus’ system. Sitting next to the lens is a small blacked-out section dedicated to the laser autofocus array, although you might be disappointed to discover the lasers used don’t use the visible light....
In response to the criticism, seven higher-level eBay employees—David Harville, James Baugh, Stephanie Popp, Brian Gilbert, Stephanie Stockwell, Veronica Zea, and Philip Cooke—devised a harassment campaign against the couple. The group’s retaliation against the Steiners involved sending them a preserved fetal pig, live spiders and cockroaches, and a funeral wreath. Fake social media accounts were also created to harass the pair online and post their address. The things we order from eBay while drunk The Department of Justice charged the employees in 2020....
The Core i7-980X Extreme is currently the fastest consumer-level chip money can buy and yet it’s been overclocked a full 1 GHz. Three GTX 480 cards in SLI is complete overkill unless you are running a high resolution 2560x1600 monitor or plan to run multiple displays. Nvidia is touting 3D Vision pretty heavily these days, but even if you don’t care about 3D, Nvidia Surround (a.k.a. triple monitor support for games) is a very rewarding experience if you have gone this far already....
Pumping the resolution up to 1440p really hammers performance and now we are looking at just 53fps on average from the GTX 980 Ti with a 46fps minimum. Despite that, the 980Ti was still 23% faster than the Fury X which averaged just 43fps. For a minimum of 30fps at 1440p with all the eye candy turned up, gamers will require an R9 390X or GTX 970. We also see that you can achieve playable performance with the RX470, 4GB RX 480 and 3GB GTX 1060, if only just....
That wasn’t the case with MoH: Airborne, which I picked up solely for benchmarking purposes but then I found it difficult to pull myself away from the game. I can’t recall the last time I was motivated enough to play a single player campaign from start to finish, so when I heard about the 2010 version of Medal of Honor I instantly looked into pre-ordering the game. Developed by EA’s Danger Close and DICE, this latest installment is simply titled “Medal of Honor....
Neither of these cameras is particularly impressive, falling well below the Moto G 2015 in terms of overall quality. Luckily, Meizu has managed to outperform the terrible cameras in the Umi Touch, but in general what the m3 Note provides is below what I’d expect from a $170 device in 2016. I have a number of issues with the 13-megapixel rear camera, some of which relate to the hardware itself....
The Wall Street Journal reports that anonymous sources claim Meta has fired or disciplined over two dozen employees and contractors for improperly taking over user accounts over the last year. In some instances, hackers bribed people with account access. When most people think of account stealing, they likely imagine hackers using tactics like phishing, malware, and social engineering. However, another method involves bribing employees or contractors to hijack targeted accounts....
The problem is here is that high-end GPUs are limited by the 60fps cap and anything equal to or faster than the GTX 780 can also hit the cap when comparing minimum frame rates. If we look back at games such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Grand Theft Auto V, Battlefield Hardline, Evolve, Dying Light, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Alien: Isolation and even Batman: Arkham Knight, all averaged over 60fps in our game tests....
If you’re a Windows 10 user who downloaded and installed the KB5014666 update, released on June 28, 2022, you might notice that your USB-connected printer can no longer print anything. According to Microsoft, the issue can cause Windows 10 to show duplicate copies of printers installed on a device. These typically have a similar name and the suffix ‘Copy1.’ But the bigger problem is that applications referring to the printer by a specific name cannot print....
Microsoft employs more than 9,000 people full-time in China, around 80% of whom are research and development specialists and engineering technicians. The company has announced that its recruitment drive will bring that number above 10,000 across the next year. Microsoft’s plans extend beyond adding more employees in China. The Windows maker, which has offices in 13 Chinese cities, will also upgrade its campuses in Beijing, Shanghai, and Suzhou over the next three to five years....
Microsoft’s chief people officer Kathleen Hogan announced the policy change in an email to company staff. All US salaried employees will receive unlimited time off, which Microsoft is calling Discretionary Time Off. “How, when, and where we do our jobs has dramatically changed,” Hogan wrote in the internal memo, seen by The Verge. “And as we’ve transformed, modernizing our vacation policy to a more flexible model was a natural next step....
Microsoft is planning to retire its Soundscape iOS app early next month, but it is not going away entirely. The app tells you where you are and what direction you are going and is based on data from OpenStreetMap, which is a collaborative map of the world created by people and is free to use under an open license. When walking down a sidewalk, for example, Soundscape can read aloud the names of stores, parks, streets and intersections as you approach them....
Microsoft started rolling out the Windows 11 2022 update, also known as the 22H2 update, in over 190 countries in late September. As is always the case with updates of this size, users started running into problems, including Blue Screens of Death and game performance issues such as stuttering, G-Sync being affected, and audio anomalies. Some, but not all, of the game stuttering was caused by a separate driver issue....
The x264 HD Benchmark showed similar trends as the A8-3850 again outpaced the Core i3, this time by an 11% margin for the first pass test. Even the A6-3650 outpaced the i3 on the second pass. The Intel rig garnered an edge in TMPGEnc v4.0 Xpress, taking 548 seconds while the A8-3850 took 613 seconds – a 12% gap.
