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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 ...

At long last we've been able to get our hands on what is currently the fastest 15.6-inch gaming laptop in the known universe. This all depends on how it's configured of course--there are basically no pre-built configurations, only custom versions, but the fact that it can be equipped with either of ...

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, ...

The best deals of the year are here, and we have meticulously sorted the wheat from the chaff in the gaming laptop segment. As it turns out, there are quite a few great deals available on excellent machines. There are different limitations in terms of expiry date, stock and/or coupons redeemed and ...

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 GT780DX-406US is the latest and most heavily equipped version of MSI's 17-inch gaming rig. It comes with the latest Intel Sandy Bridge refresh--the quad-core  i7 2670QM, which operates at 2.2GHz instead of 2.0GHz in its predecessor. In Turbo Boost mode it overclocks to 3.1GHz instead of ...

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 ...