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Asus is the manufacturers' version of an early adopter. Its new 3D laptop is the first real gaming laptop to get a 3D makeover. This is provided by Nvidia's excellent solution 3DVision, which requires a 120Hz screen to work and comes with a pair of wireless goggles. It is somewhat ...

The Alienware m11x was one of the big surprises at this year’s CES. Some have called it a gaming "netbook", but that’s neither accurate or fair. Instead it’s a decidedly unique 11-inch CULV-based laptop with an Nvidia GeForce 335M – a faster graphics card than the one in the latest Arrendale ...

If having last year's model doesn't bother you, you can currently get a fast 17-inch gaming laptop – the Asus Republic of Gamers G71GX – with 6GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 260M for a "mere pittance".I stumbled on this one by accident while browsing for new laptops and there were only a couple of ...

Considering that the Core i3 is four-threaded and only lacks the Turbo Boost feature compared to the Core i5 and i7, the i3 is still faster than the vast majority of Core 2 Duo's. But if you want the best you want the best. Tom's Hardware ran an interesting comparison the other day that ...

Asus has officially introduced a new 14-inch model called N82J that should appeal to gamers looking for powerful specs in a svelte package. Interesting features include Nvidia Optimus hybrid power, USB3 and a quad-core i7 CPU. Despite the specs, it’s not an overly large machine, and a weight of ...

To breathe new life into its mobile video card drivers, Nvidia has elected to bestow them with a new name: “Verde”. Several performance improvements are also promised with the latest release.It took a while, but now both AMD and Nvidia are now shipping drivers that work with laptops without ...

I’m not sure why I insist on torturing my computers with all these benchmarks, but if it’s any consolation it seems like a common affliction among hardware geeks. Running Unigine Heaven on my lowly 9600M-equipped laptop wasn’t exactly an encouraging experience, but here’s a new version ...

Asus has huge variety of its “Republic of Gamers” gaming laptops, but most of them are variants of the same model albeit with a different model number and (slightly) different specs.  The Asus G51jx-X3 differs in the fact that it comes with a Core i5 instead of the more powerful (and expensive) ...

Nvidia says that a version of its drivers may cause overheating. The warning applies to the 196.75 version drivers for its GeForce graphics cards. According to Nvidia, the buggy drivers could cause overheating and lead to Windows crashes. Apparently it has something to do with the fan powering down ...

Notebookcheck.net reports from CeBIT 2010 that MSI has yet another interesting gaming monster in the pipeline – this one is a 16-inch (16:10) quad-core machine named GT660. MSI has offered up gaming laptops before, but apparently the manufacturer has taken a flair for uber-performance laptops and ...