Laptops
While we've been expecting the availability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to be around the middle of this year, Lenovo has announced two new 'AI-powered' notebooks for the Windows on Arm platform. Announced is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen 14 and the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 both feature Qualcomm's latest 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor, ushering in a new era for Microsoft's Windows on Arm platform. Lenovo aims to target content creators and business professionals with these new models. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite processor looks set to try to change the adoption of the Windows-on-Arm devices, with a critical focus on providing AI capability on device, which promises up to 45 TOPs of performance solely from the Hexagon NPU. Powered...
Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014
It has been five years since we did a benchmark of the various web browsers and their effect on battery life, and a lot has changed. Our testing then...
112 by Stephen Barrett on 8/12/2014
Short Bytes: Intel's Core M and Broadwell-Y SoC
Intel has slowly been feeding us information about their upcoming Broadwell processors for a couple years now, with the first real details kicking off almost a year ago at...
31 by Jarred Walton on 8/12/2014
Khronos Announces Next Generation OpenGL Initiative
As our regular readers have already seen, 2013 and 2014 has been one of the most significant periods for graphics APIs in years. While OpenGL and Direct3D have not...
22 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014
OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, & More
Taking place this week is SIGGRAPH 2014, the graphics industry’s yearly professional event. As the biggest graphics event of the year this show has become the Khronos Group’s favorite...
4 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014
AMD Kaveri Laptops Sighted
While AMD's Kaveri APUs initially launched on the desktop at the beginning of the year, for many the APUs looked like a better fit for laptops and notebooks. In...
42 by Jarred Walton on 7/28/2014
MSI GE60 Review: Mainstream Mobile Maxwell
When NVIDIA launched their first Maxwell GPU, the GM107, back in February, they ushered in a new level of performance efficiency for desktop PCs. Given these improvements in efficiency...
64 by Jarred Walton on 7/17/2014
Evaluating Samsung's QHD AMOLED Displays
Recently, a package showed up at my door. While this is normally not worth talking about, the Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A happened to be in the box. For those...
71 by Joshua Ho on 7/16/2014
The LG G3 Review
While the enthusiast segment is no stranger to LG smartphones, for the most part LG hasn’t received nearly the amount of attention that Samsung has. At first, it doesn’t...
174 by Joshua Ho & Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/4/2014
A Closer Look at Android RunTime (ART) in Android L
With the latest I/O conference, Google has finally publicly made public its plans for its new runtime on Android. The Android RunTime, ART, is the successor and replacement for...
137 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/1/2014
HP Labs: the Science of Technology
Recently HP invited journalists from a variety of publications down to their Houston location for a tour of the Science Labs – facilities and labs dedicated to designing, testing...
15 by Jarred Walton on 7/1/2014
First Impressions and Hands On of Android L
Today, Google finally posted the system images for Android L on the Nexus 5 and 7, so I decided to take a look at them to see what’s going...
64 by Joshua Ho on 6/26/2014
Google Announces Android Auto at Google IO
Along with news about Android L and Android Wear, Google also announced a new vehicle focused initiative called Android Auto at this year's Google IO. Android Auto is Google's...
18 by Brandon Chester on 6/25/2014
HTC Commits to Android L For One (M7) and (M8)
In a rather surprising move, HTC is the first OEM to promise an update to Android L. HTC has stated that this policy is part of their HTC Advantage...
11 by Joshua Ho on 6/25/2014
Razer Announces Micro-Console Running Android TV
Today, Razer is one of the first OEMs to announce an Android TV solution. It seems that this will compete with systems such as the Amazon Fire TV and...
8 by Joshua Ho on 6/25/2014
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review
I can't believe it's only been sixteen months since I published our review of the original Microsoft Surface Pro. It feels like longer but that's likely because Surface RT...
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HP ZBook 14 Review: Mobile Workstation Meets Ultrabook
What do you get when you cross an Ultrabook with enterprise features including an optional professional OpenGL GPU? This is apparently the question HP's engineers were asking, and the...
66 by Jarred Walton on 6/20/2014
T-Mobile Unveils Unlimited Music Streaming and unRadio
T-Mobile has been a significant disruptor in the US operator business as of late with John Legere at the helm. Previously, they’ve gotten rid of contracts, introduced free global...
32 by Joshua Ho on 6/18/2014
T-Mobile Announces Test Drive, A Free Trial for a Week
Today, T-Mobile announced that they have already rolled out wideband LTE to 16 markets and VoLTE to 15 markets, with 100 million people currently covered by the 15 VoLTE...
9 by Joshua Ho on 6/18/2014
Qualcomm Atheros Launches FSM90xx SoCs for LTE Neighborhood & SMB Small Cells
Today, Qualcomm Atheros is announcing a new line of SoCs targeted at residential deployments, along with small and medium business. The FSM90xx line is similar in purpose to the...
0 by Joshua Ho on 6/11/2014
Liveblogging with the Surface Pro 3
While we don’t have the full Surface Pro 3 review up yet, I’d figure that it’s worth posting some thoughts on it. For those that didn’t follow our WWDC...
35 by Joshua Ho on 6/4/2014
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