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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...
Nokia Announces Lumia 920 & 820 Running Windows Phone 8
Nokia just announced its next-generation Windows Phone 8 devices: the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820. Both are pentaband devices (available in both LTE and HSPA+ versions later this year...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2012
Live from the Nokia/Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Press Conference
We just got seated for the Microsoft/Nokia Windows Phone 8 press conference in NYC. This is the first of many press events happening this week. There's a Motorola event...
49 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2012
Microsoft Reveals First Battery Life Specs for Windows RT Tablets
Yesterday Microsoft announced the final roster for ARM based Windows RT tablets expected to launch this year. We'll see Windows RT tablets from ASUS, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung, as...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/14/2012
Windows 8 Released To Manufacturing
Right on schedule, Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing on the first day of the first week of August. Microsoft has put out a full...
57 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2012
Windows 8 Gets A Launch Date: October 26th
After previously announcing that Windows 8 would have a retail launch sometime in late October, Microsoft has nailed down a final date: Friday, October 26th. The launch on a...
39 by Ryan Smith on 7/19/2012
Windows 8 To RTM In August, Retail In October
On the heels of last week’s announcement of Microsoft’s promotional Windows 8 upgrade pricing, Microsoft has announced a tentative delivery schedule for Windows 8 today at their Worldwide Partner...
19 by Ryan Smith on 7/9/2012Windows 8 Upgrade Will Cost Just $39.99
It's a move that the team from Cupertino has been using for the last several years, and it looks like Microsoft is going to give it a shot. In...
91 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/2/2012
Microsoft's Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco - We're There
We're inside the venue at Microsoft's Windows Phone developer summit in San Francisco. From the look of the posters we're in for some new features, including some facial recognition...
19 by Brian Klug on 6/20/2012
Microsoft Surface - We Go Hands On [UPDATE: Detailed Impressions]
Post-announcement, Microsoft took us to a backroom in Milk Studios to give us hands on experience with the Surface. They weren't lying, even the preproduction units feel awesome in...
161 by Vivek Gowri on 6/18/2012
Microsoft's Major Announcement in LA - We're There!
We're at Microsoft's major announcement in LA - it's been shrouded in secrecy, with Redmond only releasing venue details earlier today (a mere 5 hours before the start of...
26 by Vivek Gowri on 6/18/2012
Microsoft Announces Xbox SmartGlass Service For Windows 8, Windows Phone
While we’ll leave most of the E3 gaming announcements today to the gaming press, there is one bit of news that has come out of E3 that’s going to...
1 by Ryan Smith on 6/4/2012
Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Release Preview; NVIDIA & AMD Prep New Win8 Drivers
Closing out the month of May, Microsoft gave everyone an early present by putting up the final preview version of Windows 8, the Windows 8 Release Preview. Originally expected...
23 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2012
Media Center for Windows 8: An Add-on At A Nominal Price
AnandTech has been covering the Home Theater PC space since those halcyon days when Windows XP Media Center was rolling out, and the era of dual-core Pentiums promised tolerable...
99 by Jason Inofuentes on 5/5/2012
Windows 8 Release Preview Due in First Week of June
Microsoft has announced that the Windows 8 Release Preview, a near-final build of the upcoming operating system, will be available to the public in the first week of June...
38 by Andrew Cunningham on 4/24/2012
Microsoft Announces Windows 8 Product Editions
Microsoft Communications Manager Brandon LeBlanc has finally given us our first official information about product editions for Windows 8, which is now confirmed to be the product's actual shipping...
56 by Andrew Cunningham on 4/16/2012
Microsoft Talks Windows 8 Touch Experience on Windows 7 Tablets
Microsoft's Jerry Koh and Jeff Piira gave some insight into the Windows 8 touch experience in yet another Building Windows 8 blog post yesterday. They talked specifically about the...
18 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/29/2012
Microsoft Talks Screen Resolution in Windows 8, Suggests "Retina"-esque Tablets
Microsoft's David Washington has penned another informational tome on the Building Windows 8 blog, this one about Windows 8 and its support for varying screen resolutions. The above chart...
29 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/22/2012
In-Depth with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Windows has changed a lot since Windows 95 ushered in the modern era of the desktop operating system almost two decades ago—the underlying technology that makes Windows what it...
286 by Andrew Cunningham, Ryan Smith, Kristian Vättö & Jarred Walton on 3/9/2012
Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A Quick Look at Battery Life (Updated)
With each new operating system in recent history, Microsoft has promised better battery life. We tested this back in the early days of Windows 7 and found that while...
113 by Jarred Walton on 3/1/2012
Microsoft Demonstrates Windows to Go
Windows 8 supports installation to removable flash media via a feature called Windows to Go. Your apps, settings, and OS can all be installed to a USB stick and...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/29/2012
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