Rumor has it that Apple's next generation MacBook Pros will receive a considerable makeover in the display department. It certainly wouldn't hurt if other manufacturers followed the lead.When even tiny new ultrabooks and tablets are getting better quality displays with IPS (In-Plane Switching) and ...

As far as publicity stunts go, the PC gaming peripherals manufacturer Razer has certainly done a good job with their (perhaps) soon-to-be-released Blade gaming laptop.The Blade is definitely a cool-looking laptop that looks sort of like a black version of the 17-inch MacBook Pro, but with ...

Many of us were hoping that the first batch of new mobile graphics chips from AMD that are being rolled out right now (in the new Envy laptops, among others) would be built on the new 28nm process and bring some genuine improvements to the mid-range segment. Those expectations were thoroughly ...

199 per cent better to be precise, according to Intel. Ivy Bridge will replace Sandy Bridge as the company's first processor on the 22nm production process and will be launched somewhere around March/April. While power efficiency and to some extent overall performance will be improved in the ...

The GeForce 290.36 (beta) drivers were just released by NVIDIA for laptops and desktops alike and besides a few fixes over the previous version, the highlight is the addition of the ambient occlusion for Skyrim and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. This adds another layer of realism to the games, ...

Some readers no doubt remember the Switchblade--a concept 7-inch gaming netbook/handheld gaming console that Razer introduced at CES back in January. It was powered by an Intel Atom processor and an unknown graphics solution (although NVIDIA's ION chip was pretty much the only candidate at the ...

"Leaked" is usually something of an overstatement in these circumstances, as it often just involves someone taking a look at the ".inf" file in publicly available drivers. It is nevertheless always interesting to see what AMD and NVIDIA are up to in  the graphics department--particularly at this ...

The original Envy 15 was an incredibly fast 15-inch laptop when it was launched in 2009. It borrowed the MacBook Pro design put replaced the hardware with a (then) vastly more powerful 1st-gen quad-core Core i7 CPU coupled with a high-end AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4830 (later HD 5830). On the downside ...

It looks like NVIDIA has finally started to see sense about the pricing on their fastest mobile GPU. So far the main competitor from AMD, the Radeon HD 6990M –one that beats the GTX 580M in a fair share of games and benchmarks – has been selling for about $300 less than its rival, making its NVIDIA ...

Unless Commodore USA is secretly planning to release a new version of the "portable" Commodore SX-64 (pictured below), this isn't a laptop, but the latest version does use a mobile CPU to reach beyond the 1MHz clock speed offered by the original. A quad-core, Sandy Bridge Intel Core i7-2720QM ...

In spite of rumors to the contrary, HP is not going to sell out it's PC division Personal Systems Group (PSG). Apparently it was up for discussion, but the company decided against it. It was HP's CEO Leo Apotheker (who has now apparently been given the boot), who for some reason or other raised the ...

After a brief blackout at Apple Stores worldwide, it turns out that the Macbook Pro series has been given a few upgrades. Most notably, even the "entry-level" MBP 15 has been given a better video card--the AMD HD 6750M--same one as in the former top model but with just half a gigabyte of VRAM. The ...