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With 2021 coming to a close, it is time again to look back at the laptop market. Despite bumps from the COVID pandemic, the laptop ecosystem continues to flourish, delivering a bevvy of new products based on new platforms. For 2021, AMD launched their very successful Ryzen 5000 series products (codenamed Cezanne) featuring the latest Zen 3 CPU cores paired with AMD Vega graphics. Intel, still basking in the glow of the Tiger Lake launch in late 2020 continues to feature the 11th generation Core platform that is now over a year old. Based on the Willow Cove cores and featuring a much-improved Intel Xe graphics solution, Intel's solution still provides excellent performance and efficiency for the PC laptop space. The big news of 2021 was...
IFA 2017 Launch Press Conference Live Blog
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4 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2017Dell Updates Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming Notebook: GeForce GTX 1060 and Thunderbolt 3
This morning at IFA, Dell is taking the wraps off of their updated Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming notebook. The entry-level gaming laptop is receiving a bump in specifications as...
17 by Joe Shields on 8/30/2017Dell Updates The XPS 13 With 8th Generation Quad-Core CPUs
Dell has announced it is updating the XPS 13 with the just announced 8th generation Kaby Lake refresh. While we’re still waiting for 10nm chips to launch, the latest...
41 by Brett Howse on 8/29/2017Dell Enters VR Arena With "Visor" HMD
This week, Dell is announcing its own version of a virtual reality head mounted display (VR HMD) at IFA, the Dell Visor. With their first VR product, Dell is...
16 by Ryan Smith on 8/29/2017Dell Now Offers Aquantia AQtion AQN-108-Based 5 GbE Cards with Select PCs
Aquantia and Dell this week began to offer Aquantia’s AQtion AQN-108 5 GbE network controller as a build-to-order option for the OptiPlex 7050 workstations. Dell is the first major...
10 by Anton Shilov on 8/18/2017Dell Announces Updated Precision Workstation Lineup at SIGGRAPH: Refreshed Towers, Racks, and Laptop
This year, Dell is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their Precision Workstations. The first Precision workstation, the Workstation 400, was released in 1997 and consisted of a 128MB graphics...
29 by Joe Shields on 8/1/2017The Dell XPS 15 9560 Review: Infinity Edge Part Two
Near the end of 2015, Dell rolled out their new XPS styling cues, that were so successful on the XPS 13, to its larger sibling, the XPS 15. Thanks...
82 by Brett Howse on 7/31/2017Dell’s UltraSharp U3818DW Now Available: Curved 37.5”, 3840×1600, USB-C, $1499
Dell this week began shipments of its curved ultra-wide 3840×1600 UltraSharp U3818DW display. The monitor is the fourth screen of this size and with this resolution on the market...
17 by Anton Shilov on 7/21/2017AMD Threadripper 1920X and 1950X CPU Details: 12/16 Cores, 4 GHz Turbo, $799 and $999
Last night out of the blue, we received an email from AMD, sharing some of the specifications for the forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper CPUs to be announced today. Up until...
225 by Ian Cutress on 7/13/2017Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition Announced at E3, Available for Order July 27
Alienware this evening has announced their new Area-51 Threadripper Edition desktop at E3. The high-end gaming desktop offers up to a heady 16-core/32-thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor – marking...
16 by Nate Oh on 6/13/2017Dell Launches AMD-Powered Inspiron Gaming Desktop
Alongside their new all-in-ones, Dell is also taking the wraps off of a new gaming desktop tower this morning. Dubbed the Inspiron Gaming Desktop, the new gaming-focused system is...
16 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2017Dell Launches Inspiron 27 7775 AIO: 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7, Radeon RX 580, 4K LCD
Dell has introduced its first all-in-one PC based on AMD Ryzen microprocessor. The new Inspiron 27 7000-series expands options for those seeking for a system featuring AMD’s latest CPU...
13 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2017Rivet Networks Announces SmartByte for Dell Inspiron Systems
In recent quarters, we have seen a change in the laptop landscape of Intel and Realtek networking options. A few OEMs, particularly Dell, are now implementing Killer networking on...
11 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2017Dell Launches 'VR Ready' XPS 27 AIO: 4K, Core i7-7700, Radeon RX 570, 10 Speakers
Dell has launched a new version of their XPS 27 all-in-one gaming PC. The VR Ready flavor of the XPS 27 has the same 4K display and the same...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/27/2017Toshiba Demonstrates NVMe SSD With 64-Layer BiCS3 3D NAND
Toshiba's transition from planar NAND flash to 3D NAND flash memory has been a long, drawn-out process. Their BiCS 3D NAND architecture is on its third generation but has...
10 by Billy Tallis on 5/8/2017Dell Announces UP2718Q HDR Display, And Two InfinityEdge Displays
Right now, the National Association of Broadcasters conference is on, and Dell is using it to launch their latest UltraSharp display. The Dell UltraSharp UP2718Q is the company’s first...
28 by Brett Howse on 4/20/2017Dell To Offer Toshiba HK4 SATA SSDs In PowerEdge Servers
Toshiba is announcing today that Dell will begin offering Toshiba HK4 series enterprise SATA SSDs as a storage option for Dell's PowerEdge servers. Dell currently offers a wide range...
2 by Billy Tallis on 4/18/2017Dell’s Ultrasharp 30-inch 4K OLED Now On Sale: UP3017Q for $3500
One of the biggest bits of news to come out of CES 2016, over a year ago, was Dell announcing a new beacon in OLED monitors: a 3840x2160 panel...
65 by Ian Cutress & Brett Howse on 4/13/2017Dell’s 32-inch 8K UP3218K Display Now For Sale: Check Your Wallet
Back at CES in January, Dell announced the next step in personal screen resolution advancements. The recent rise of ‘4K’ (or more accurately, Ultra-HD at 3840x2160) monitors has shown...
94 by Ian Cutress on 3/24/2017The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 40: CES 2017
The annual CES show is always a mélange of announcements and sneak peeks for what is to come through the year. At the show we had most of our...
14 by Ian Cutress on 1/17/2017