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Skyrim Laptop Requirements – Is it Playable on Your Laptop?

If you have a laptop with integrated Intel graphics, you can pretty much forget about playing Skyrim on it with decent quality settings. It will start (we've tried), but no amount of tweaking will get it past very low settings – even with the latest Sandy Bridge IGP (HD Graphics 3000).On the ...

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Big Price Cut on the GTX 580M

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 ...

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Deal: $500 Off HP Pavilion Laptops

HP has just launched a coupon for Pavilion laptops configured at $1,399+ that takes $500 off the regular price tag and includes free shipping. This one might might come in handy if you have been planning on getting a high-end configuration of the dv6t or dv7t Quad Edition laptops.HP's ...

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New C64 Kicks Performance Up a Notch

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 ...

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Laptop Graphics Card Top 10 (December 2011)

It's difficult to get a comprehensive overview of the mobile GPU market, and the manufacturers (as in: AMD and NVIDIA) are not making it any easier by frequently updating the names whether or not there are any relevant changes compared to the predecessor. It is also important to remember that ...

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HP Keeps PC Division

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 ...

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The MacBook Pro 15 is Catching up: Now More Gamer Friendly

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 ...

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Next-Gen 28nm GPUs in Volume Production

The semiconductor manufacturer TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), with customers that include AMD and Nvidia, reveals that the company has started "volume production" of chips at 28 nanometers. These new chips are primarily intended for use in next-generation graphics processors. ...

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Nvidia Releases 285.62 WHQL Drivers

Everyone sitting on a laptop with an Nvidia GPU should have a look at the latest Verde notebook driver update that were released today, which brings a number of improvements to quite a few games--most notably it is recommended for Battlefield 3 because it contains performance improvement and solves ...

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MSI GT780DXR/GT680DXR First to Receive New Intel Chips

The only just released versions of MSI's gaming laptop lineup with the new and more powerful Nvidia GeForce GTX 570M are due for another upgrade. Intel's halfway refresh of its Sandy Bridge (2nd-gen Core) processors will apparently find their way into MSI's laptops pretty soon. Other manufacturers ...

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