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If you're into computers and the stuff that goes inside them, it's hard to do better than Computex. The tech industry descends on Taipei every year, and Taipei always gives back with the latest in PC gaming gear, laptops, and CPUs with so many cores.
High-powered gaming PCs. Processors with more cores than you can handle. Absurdly fast GPUs. Thin-and-light laptops with power to spare. A glimpse at the future of PCs. These are the Windows Central Best of Computex 2018 awards.
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MSI's reputation as a leading gaming PC maker has never been in question. But they're starting to branch out into other areas of the PC market, starting with the thin, light, and rather reserved PS42.
I've long dreamed of a notebook style device with dual touchscreens. The long-dead Microsoft Courier concept promised just that, and ASUS has restocked the tinder of my future laptop fever dreams with the delightfully bonkers Project Precog.
ASUS's new ZenBook Pro offers a bunch of great stuff, like an Intel Core i9 processor and GTX 1050 Ti graphics card, or a super-color-accurate 4K display. It also, for some reason, has a trackpad that is a screen.
The ZenBookS is too thin for the old-school rectangular USB-A ports. But it does offer the latest Core i7 processors, a sharp 4K display, and Thunderbolt 3 — all in a package that's lighter than a Dell XPS and thinner than an Apple MacBook.
With bold colors and a lifting hinge, the ASUS VivoBook S brings some design to the mid-range laptop crowd.
The new ROG Strix Hero II and SCAR II bring the intense gamer styles and hardcore gamer specs you expect from an ASUS gaming laptop. And so many lights.
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These are the best Windows laptops we saw at MWC 2018!
Whoever said that business laptops have to be drab, boring affairs never said anything to HP.
At first, glance not much has changed, but a thorough internal update means the Yoga 730 convertibles are ready for business — even if they aren't particularly exciting.
Do you hate the mere concept of bezels? Do you wish your laptop's screen reached all the edges, even the bottom one? Then the new Huawei Matebook X Pro might well be the laptop for you.
We went to CES and we saw some amazing things. Here are our favorites!
Wireless mice have been a thing for a while now. But what about a high-precision wireless gaming mouse without a battery to weigh it down? Enter Razer's Mamba HyperFlux.
Too many speaker systems mess around with your audio. They play with the EQ, they mess with the stereo balance, they don't play your music, your games, and your movies true to the input. Razer's Nommo speakers aim to correct that.