Thanks to their acquisition of ATI, AMD has remained competitive in the graphics market with their Radeon series of GPUs. On the processor side, not so much; laptops with mobile AMD CPUs have led a quiet life in the budget segment, with performance that has barely been able to compete with Intel's ...

The latest bid on the rumored Alienware M14x is that it has already been reviewed by a Chinese website. If this is real--and it certainly seems to be, as this has been quoted by PCMag, Geek.com and others already--the 14-inch Alienware is indeed on the way and it comes with a quad-core 2nd-gen Core ...

Fujitsu has hardly made a name for itself in gaming laptops, but the company is promoting its new Lifebook NH751 as just that. It's a sturdy 17-inch desktop replacement with one of the latest quad-core Sandy Bridge Core i7 CPUs inside, plus an Nvidia GeForce GT 525M.This GPU does not belong in ...

Nvidia's 3D Vision initiative has been quite successful, partly because it has no real competitors, but also because it's a good product that works seamlessly with most games. It is worth noting that it is not a plug-and-play product; besides a compatible GeForce video card, you also need a monitor ...

MSI has just issued a press release with some interesting news and some releases that we were already aware of, including the GX680 and the new G-series laptops.The interesting part is that the Sandy Bridge-equipped GT680 is back, which MSI announced already ahead of CES but was delayed due to ...

AMD has just released new video card drivers. As many of you are no doubt aware, you don't have to hack these drivers to get them to work on your laptop anymore--all Mobility Radeon cards are supported by default. If you have a laptop with switchable graphics, i.e., integrated Intel/dedicated ...

MSI was of course also affected by the glitch in Intel's 2nd-generation Core CPU lineup (Sandy Bridge). Thus it took a while before we say any signs of what MSI called the "fastest laptop ever" ahead of CES. Now that the latest Intel platform is back on track, MSI is introducing the GX680, with a ...

The rumors about an upcoming Alienware M18x are nothing new. But the Dell rumor mill has been busy lately; besides the gargantuan desktop replacement there's also rumor of a svelte 14-inch Alienware M14x in the making, plus an update to the existing 11.6-inch M11x.The last one is the least ...

MSI is jumping on the Sandy Bridge bandwagon with a couple of new laptops in the manufacturer's G series. Interestingly, the press release is labeling both the new GE620 and GR620 as "blazing performance gaming laptops" in spite of the fact that the GR620 only comes with Intel's measly integrated ...

The new Sandy Bridge versions of the HP Pavilion series - the 15.6-inch dv6t and the 17.3-inch dv7t - have been given a boost in the graphics department. Instead of a Mobility Radeon HD 6570M, base models of the dv6t and dv7t are now shipping with an AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6770M.It's hard to ...

There's been rumors going around for weeks now that Dell is working on a new flagship in its Alienware armada. The alleged new laptop would be the 18-inch Alienware M18x, but Dell has consistently denied any and all rumors of such a device.A couple of things point to the contrary, though, ...

UPDATE: The M17x R3 was initially affected by the Sandy Bridge glitch and taken off Dell's website, but now it's back! Dell is also sweetening the deal by adding the Mobility Radeon HD 6970M as an optional upgrade--a considerably faster GPU than both the Radeon HD 6870M and GeForce GTX 460M, ...