Acer Predator 21 X, a monster gaming laptop with curved screen 21 inches

Acer Predator 21 X

We spent a Gamescom 2016 discovering real monsters in portable : giant screens, bold designs and many Nvidia card art. There we did not see Acer, whose family Predator always has something to say, the reason is that it has saved the most powerful for this IFA 2016

Called Acer Predator 21 X and is a beast you look where you look, but clearly strong or differentiation is on the screen: it is the first notebook that decides to have an integrated chassis curved screen, following the prevailing fashion in monitors and televisions. If the curve is a good idea or not, we have already spoken on other occasions, but seeing it in a “portable” device is not something that we had happened.

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ASUS finds the balance between power and size in the Republic of Gamers GL502

ASUS GL502

GamesCom 2016 with lots of computers laptops monstrous, in which the size was right and what mattered was to make room for the new graphics Nvidia, now we are going to present one of the most balanced teams, the ASUS hand and Republic of Garmers.

This is the Strix GL502VS, and GL502VM variant, some laptops have no problem to calm the demands of the players, but also takes care of the design and dimensions to make a pretty decent set, much along the lines of what makes Razer. Before going into more detail say that we have a team of 15 inches.

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For Intel the death of 3.5mm makes sense with the arrival of USB-C

Intel

It seems a fact that the famous 3.5 – millimeter jack for headphones is used disappears and this 2016 is the beginning of the end. Commercial proposals as the Moto Z, which is not the first to do so, as well as an approach in HTC 10, and rumors that tell us that the next iPhone will no headphone jack; today all adds Intel, who says that the future is in the USB-C adds.

During a session in its developer conference, Intel showed future capabilities that will be implemented in USB 3.0 and 3.1 interface, used in the USB type C, as a new type of video standard as well as the possibility of transmitting digital audio.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 10 for laptops: The same power for games and virtual reality

Nvidia GeForce GTX 10

We knew there was not much for this and already here the new graphics Nvidia, contrived to get into tight spaces and portable will see in many places. Although I have ahead some things these last days, we now have all the important details about the so-called Geforce GTX 10.

In principle, there are three models with little to envy to the powerful desktop proposal. Yes, there is the important nuance in which Nvidia emphasizes: here there is no special designation for graphics notebook, or an “M” or a “Mobile” in the name. Santa Clara firm wants the call in the same way as they are practically the same thing.

These GeForce respond to the same name, and have the same specifications: GTX 1080, 1070 GTX and 1060 GTX. It is something I have spent many years trying to do and the current technology allows them to take the plunge. We can mainly blame Pascal and manufacturing technology, which is also capable of generating power 70% higher than the graphics Maxwell devised for laptop world.

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Do you want to know more about Xiaomi laptop?

Xiaomi laptop

We stick months waiting for this became official and almost by surprise, we found the laptop Xiaomi, the first Chinese brand. Good design and specifications for a device with Windows 10 in which grace would be in the price, as is usual in the product catalog of Beijingers.

Apart from the keyboard, does not seem to bring one of these clunkers is as complicated as a mobile phone, so there are many people interested in learning more about them. I speak in plural because they are two, a 13.3-inch model, and a smaller one with 12.5 inches, both with their differences.

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Acer Aspire S 13, powerful and attractive ultrabook at a competitive price

Acer Aspire S 13

A few months ago Acer presented its new range of portable premium Aspire S 13. The Taiwanese company usually noted for offering economic alternatives, so it is very interesting to know what were capable in the field of professional ultrabooks with a proposal whose configuration more expensive hardware does not exceed thousand dollars.

To answer this question we have been testing for a few days one of the most powerful versions of this device, equipped with i7-6500U processor, 8GB of RAM, 13.3-inch screen and hard drive 512GB SSD. Will there be achieved a good performance against alternative several hundred dollars more expensive.

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KiloCore is the first chip with a thousand processors within Minimum consumption for the divide and conquer

KiloCore

A microchip with 1,000 independent and programmable processors – which also might call centers – has been designed and created by the University of California, in collaboration with IBM. A more focused project to be energetically very efficient at multitasking, which beat speed records.

Our protagonist is called KiloCore and implements a possibility that leaders like Intel had already put on the table. Welcome is parallel processing is the basis of mobile devices and desktop that live with us, but then to reach such a number of processing units, have to coordinate well to make the imagined performance.

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7 ways to recover the key to your WiFi if you forgot it

WiFi

Our memory is not infallible, and may on occasion you have found with the need to remember the password for a WiFi network to which you connect to another computer soles. It’s not the end of the world if you have not signed up passwords, since computers store all passwords that you use.

You just have to know where and how to look, and so today we’ll have seven ways with which to retrieve the keys of WiFi networks that you soles connect to your computer with Windows, Mac OS X and GNU / Linux. We also say some basic trick and even an application to expedite the process.

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Your laptop should reject USB-C accessories which are not suitable, the USB-IF proposes a new specification

USB-C accessories

The adoption of the standard USB Type-C is in full swing, it is becoming easier to find devices, also in accessories. There are many advantages in this new type of connectors, since they are reversible, so they can carry more energy devices, going through a higher data transfer rates, which make them suitable even for work with video streams.

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