Microsoft is working to bring its Kinect motion-sensing gadget to laptops. This applies to Windows 8 laptops, so it is still relatively far into the future.The Daily, which is the source of this story, has apparently had a look at a pair of prototype netbooks from Asus with the gadget ...

A Dell rumor site that has been pretty accurate in the past has just released some alleged specs for the expected update to the current Alienware lineup. The details are sparse, but some interesting info about the potential GPUs is available.That Dell is planning to release a number of updates ...

In an entertaining statement to Scandinavian hardware site Nordic Hardware, Nvidia said that the company "expected more from new architecture".  There is no question that Nvidia is currently behind AMD on the desktop GPU market, where AMD already has a next-gen product on the market--the 28nm ...

GPU-Z is a handy tool for looking up information on your graphics card, verify your overclocking efforts or even export the BIOS (in those rare cases when it isn't locked, particularly in a laptop).The latest version brings some additional features to the table, including support for the latest ...

There was ample disappointment when we figured out AMD was resorting to the old "trick" of renaming old GPUs instead of transitioning from the 40nm process to 28nm, along with the new Southern Islands architecture or Graphics Core Next (GCN).Nvidia is doing the same thing, and it probably has ...

Hooking up an external graphics card to your laptop is not a new idea. What's new with the MSI GUS II (Graphics Update System II) is that it connects over the Thunderbolt interface. No wait, that isn't new either, this was actually done with the latest Sony VAIO Z. Sony calls that one a "Power ...

Your humble correspondent it unfortunately not a CES correspondent this year, but the least we can do here is to round up the biggest gaming laptop news to comes out of the #1 consumer electronics trade show.Considering that Intel's next-gen Ivy Bridge platform is still months away, and that ...

Toshiba has just announced that its autostereoscopic 3D laptop, the Qosmio F755 3D, is now ready for actual gaming. While glasses-free 3D in any shape or form is mostly a novelty so far, Toshiba has been bold enough to launch a Nintendo 3DS size XL--a laptop with a parallax barrier display that ...

Interestingly, there are quite a few laptops on the market right now that are the "world's fastest gaming laptop". You can be absolutely certain that it's not the MSI GT783, however.Not that there's anything wrong with it--MSI's latest and greatest 17-inch G-series gaming laptop looks ...

15.6-inch laptops with the world's fastest mobile GPU aren't exactly a dime a dozen. Actually there has just been one so far, so this release is far more interesting than, say, the overblown hype surrounding the Razer Blade.The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M is considerably faster than anything you ...

MSI has just issued another press release concerning its 17.3-inch GT780DX--the latest model from MSI, which looks very attractive in terms of specifications and pricing. The only news this time, however, seems to be that MSI has doubled the amount of video RAM available to the included NVIDIA GTX ...

An AMD representative may have claimed that it's time to put an end to the Intel vs. AMD rivalry, but that time has yet to come--especially to entry-level gaming laptops.Even if AMD is not making much progress in the desktop segment, the situation in laptops is quite different. For the gamer ...