Lenovo has a wave of new Legion gaming laptops at CES 2021, with overhauls across its entire lineup that all have three things in common: AMD’s latest next-gen Ryzen 5000 processors, Nvidia’s next-gen RTX GPUs, and intriguing starting price points. The flagship of the new 2021 lineup is the Lenovo Legion 7, which upgrades to […]
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Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 has an even bigger and better E Ink display on the lid
Lenovo is continuing to try to make the “laptop with a Kindle glued to the lid” aesthetic work at CES 2021, announcing the ThinkBook Plus Gen 2. It ups the ante from the original ThinkBook Plus with a bigger and better 12-inch E Ink panel on the lid, with a faster refresh rate, higher resolution, […]
Nvidia announces $329 GeForce RTX 3060, available in February
Nvidia is announcing its new $329 GeForce RTX 3060 card today. While the company only just introduced an RTX 3060 Ti for $399 last month, this latest RTX 3060 addition is designed to replace the aging GTX 1060 Pascal cards that many PC gamers are still using today. The RTX 3060 will include 12GB of […]
Airbnb says it’s working to block Capitol attackers from returning to Washington, DC
Ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on January 20th, Airbnb has announced actions it’s taking to prevent members of the violent mob that attacked the US Capitol on January 6th from returning to Washington, DC. At the top of the list, Airbnb says it will ban people who were involved in the January […]
Nvidia answers AMD’s Smart Access Memory with its own boost to frame rates
Nvidia is officially launching its own resizable BAR support, which promises increased performance gains in some games if you’ve got the right CPU, motherboard, and graphics card. Resizable BAR has been part of the PCI Express specification for years, but AMD only recently made it an important feature to support with the introduction of Smart […]
Amazon pulls white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries alongside QAnon purge
Amazon store listings for the infamous white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries have been removed, replaced with a “page not found” message, indicating the item is no longer available for purchase. Amazon has seen pushback from critics in recent days for its decision to sell the novel, which The Los Angeles Times specifically called out […]
Acer’s new Predator Triton 300 SE is an ultrapowerful, ultralight gaming laptop
Intel and Nvidia have both announced new PC parts that promise a new wave of ultralight gaming PCs with unheard of power. And Acer is already here to make those promises a reality with its new Predator Triton 300 SE gaming laptop, a 17.9mm thin, 3.75 pound gaming laptop that can be configured with Intel’s […]