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Update on AMD’s HD 7000M Lineup

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 ...

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The External Graphics Card Reappears: MSI GUS II

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 ...

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CES 2012 Gaming Laptop Roundup

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 ...

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Glasses-Free 3D Gaming Now a Reality

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 ...

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MSI GT783 (Also) ‘World’s Fastest Gaming Laptop’

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 ...

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MSI Launches GT685 with GeForce GTX 580M

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 ...

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Best 3D Gaming Laptops 2012

Jan. 2012 update: This article was originally published a few months ago, in the middle of 2011, and surprisingly little has changed considering the usually rapid development in the tech industry. As of CES 2012, we have seen some progress from Toshiba in the way of glasses-free 3D gaming, but ...

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How Much Video RAM Do I Need?

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 ...

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AMD Rolls out New Llano APUs for Laptops

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 ...

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Time for Better Laptop Dislays?

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 ...

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