CES 2017 | Razer unveils concept laptop for multi-monitor immersive gaming

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Razer revealed a multi-monitor laptop computer concept that sets a new standard for immersive entertainment and multipurpose portable computing at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Dubbed “Project Valerie,” the system is the world’s first portable laptop with three built-in monitors. Each 17.3-inch 4K IGZO display is equipped with Nvidia G-Sync technology that is capable of producing the smoothest possible framerates and expansive 180 degree Nvidia Surround View gaming. Creative professionals can look forward to 100 percent Adobe RGB color accuracy and the greatest amount of screen real estate ever assembled in a single computer.

Project Valerie uses an automatic deployment mechanism designed by Razer. Each display mechanically slides out of the side of the main screen and adjusts into place, making it easy for users to deploy. With integrated multi-monitor support, users will no longer have to deal with the cable clutter from traditional desktop setups. The result is a clean gaming and working environment that’s just as easy to maintain.

“The complexities of a traditional multi-monitor setup are a thing of the past with Project Valerie,” says Razer co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan. “Equally important, the power of a desktop computer and graphics capabilities of three top-end monitors are included in the system. There is no shortcoming in the way of performance in the face of its amazing portability and features.”

Project Valerie adds to the professional capabilities of the new 17-inch Razer Blade Pro. The system was conceived with enthusiasts and power users in mind who want multitasking capabilities and desktop performance on the go. Packed with more screens than previously possible in a notebook, Razer’s Project Valerie is capable of handling virtually any PC task, anytime, anywhere.

The proposed system retains the iconic Razer design, while at the same time accommodating triple-monitors. A unibody CNC aluminum chassis measures just 1.5-inches thick and weighs less than 12 pounds. An included compact AC adapter is much smaller than similarly powered systems, furthering complementing Project Valerie’s mobility.

Project Valerie retains the remarkable thermal management system for which Razer’s line of laptops is known. A custom-designed fan and dynamic heat exchangers pair with a vapor chamber to maximize heat dissipation.

Project Valerie is the second Razer notebook to utilize Razer’s Ultra-Low-Profile Mechanical switches. Each switch features a true actuation and reset point. Key presses are registered with 65 grams of force, mimicking the feel of full-size mechanical keyboards. The keyboard, trackpad, extended monitors are also Powered by Razer Chroma, which unlocks a virtually endless array of dazzling lighting effects that can be customized by the user or synced to in-game events.

Similar to Razer’s newest systems, Project Valerie equipped with Nvida GeForce GTX 1080 exceeds the minimum hardware requirements of HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, making it one of the most immersive, mobile VR-ready devices for enthusiasts and developers.

“Multi-monitor desktop set-ups are becoming more necessary for professionals, creators, and gamers,” says Tan. “For the first time, we’ve engineered a solution that users can take with them. Project Valerie promises all of the functionality of three screens and none of the hassle.”

source: interaksyon.com

WORLD’S FIRST LIQUID-COOLED LAPTOP | Republic of Gamers pushes gaming to the extreme

MANILA, Philippines — Republic of Gamers (ROG), the World’s undisputed No. 1 gaming laptop, celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a bang with the much-anticipated launch of its most powerful laptop yet, the ROG GX700.

With unmatched specs and industry-leading innovations, the Republic of Gamers rocks the entire gaming industry with the ROG GX700′s liquid-cooled design — a world’s first — guaranteeing users a gaming experience like never before.

With such an incredible feat, the Republic of Gamers makes another unprecedented move by inviting only a select few to get to experience for themselves just how powerful and one-of-a-kind this gaming laptop is.

Only 20 of the country’s most avid and top gamers and hardcore users will only be able to exclusively get their hands on this limited-edition beast of a machine as it set to hit the Philippine shores. These very few, lucky individuals – collectively, the “Legendary 20” – will surely make history as one of the first people to experience the powerhouse gaming device that is the ROG GX700

The perks and the works: The ultra-exclusive ‘Legendary 20′

For the Legendary 20, the ROG GX700 is packed with an arsenal of accessories and items that will further highlight the exclusivity of this elite gaming group: an ROG Sica Gaming Mouse, ROG Command Case (a premium black luggage case that not only ensures that the ROG GX700 is kept safe, but also for the user to bring the ROG GX700 wherever you want in absolute comfort and style); a Personalized Legendary 20 Luggage Tag (a stylish bag tag that proudly displays the name of the respective owner) and finally, a Legendary 20 Jacket (a decked-out Legendary 20 signature-style jacket tailor-fit to the Legendary 20 member).

Aside from owning these items and the bragging rights of being one of the very few to own the majestic ROG GX700 not only in the Philippines, but also in the entire world, members of the exclusive Legendary 20 are also automatically entitled to top-notch perks and privileges including: VIP-access to any and all ROG-related events in the country, and participation in exclusive Legendary 20 activities, which includes a private DOTA tournament with an ROG endorser.

GX700 – Desktop class performance in a laptop 

The flagship GX700VO being the world’s first water-cooled gaming laptop is capable of overclocking because of its exclusive hydro overclocking system.

Powering up this beast is a powerful Intel Core i7-6820HK (Overclocking Unlocked) Quad-Core processor. When the laptop is docked to its water-cooling station, the said CPU can be overclocked to a remarkable 4GHz in stable voltage. In addition, the onboard 32GB DDR4 RAM at 2133MHz can also be overclocked as high as to 2800 MHz.

Of course graphics is also Best in Class. The ROG GX700VO is equipped with a desktop class NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 that has 8GB of GDDR5 VRAM. When water-cooled, it allows the chip to run in its full potential, thereby eliminating the bottleneck of low thermal headroom. Speed is not only in processing but also in storage on the GX700VO, which is packed with two 256GB NVMe PCIe SSD set-up in RAID0, allowing up to 3.5GB/s read/write speeds.

And highlighting the trump card of this notebook, the “Hydro Cooling System,” which made this notebook the world’s first water-cooled notebook, is the pinnacle of this year’s innovation for ASUS and ROG. Featuring two radiators, and a behemoth of fans with variable speed control through the built-in ROG Command Control Center software; the cooling module allows for the system to run cooler in idle, and be overclocked as wanted, or needed, and allows for a full desktop replacement for all those wanting to lug around a system that’s highly capable of Full-HD gaming.

source: interaksyon.com

MWC 2016 | Here is Huawei’s 2-in-1 style laptop

BARCELONA, Spain — Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei launched a 2-in-1 product that combines the mobility of a smartphone and productivity of a laptop at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona on Sunday, marking the firm’s latest step to expand its consumer business.

The device, called the Huawei MateBook, retails from 799 euros in the European market and 699 U.S. dollars in the U.S. market. It will be made available across international markets from April onwards through both retail and e-commerce channels.

The core device of the MateBook is a tablet with a detachable keyboard much like Apple’s iPad Pro, and runs Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 10.

It weighs 640 grams, compared to 713 grams for Apple’s iPad Pro and the 766 grams of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4, both of which are portable tablets known for their lightweight design. It has a 12-inch screen.

The Huawei MateBook has a high-density lithium battery, which lasts for 10 hours once fully charged. The product features a sixth generation Intel Core m-series processor aimed at handling the most rigorous business demands.

Built to operate on Windows 10, the MateBook also delivers tools and features offered by Microsoft Corp, including its latest browser, Microsoft Edge, and the Cortana digital personal assistant.

“We have decided to launch this product to answer the needs of business users. What makes our MateBook unique are are its compatibility and huge variety of functions,” said Glory Zhang, chief marketing officer of Huawei Consumer Business.

Although MateBook is being launched later than other comparable tablets, Zhang said it is no cause for concern because Huawei’s strategy is to bring to market products once the technology involved can best satisfy consumer needs.

“We are not so concerned about being the first in a market. For example, when we launched our smartphone, the market was already filled with many smartphone makers, but our high quality allowed us to win market share.”

“We have made good use of cutting edge technologies that we developed for our smartphone in our MateBook, which gives us a competitive strength,” Zhang says.

Huawei, founded in Shenzhen in 1987, has three core business areas. Its carrier business provides telecommunications services to operators like O2 and Telefonica, and it provides telecommunications services to corporate clients. Its third business area is consumer products.

In recent years its consumer business has picked up and has become a key factor in helping build the firm’s brand across international markets. Its core products include the Huawei smartphone and Huawei Watch.

Huawei is now the third-biggest player in the smartphone market after Apple and Samsung, and shipped 108 million smartphones in 2015, which represents a 44 percent increase in sales compared to 2014.

Now Huawei is looking to make a major play in the tablet sector. Globally, tablet shipments fell 13.7 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015, while shipments for detachable tablets reached an all-time high of 8.1 million devices, more than double from the same period in 2014, according to the research firm International Data Corporation.

The Huawei MateBook is being launched alongside the MatePen, which is used to write and draw on the MateBook. It has high sensitivity, can support graphics and mathematic functions and can be used as a laser pointer for delivering presentations.

The MateBook also has a one-touch unlocking system, which Huawei says is the fastest fingerprint recognition technology in the industry. Its technology supports 360 degrees sensitive identification, which leads to fewer identification failures than competitor technology.

The keyboard that accompanies MateBook features 1.5 millimeter keystroke and a Chiclet keycap design, which allows for larger key surfaces to minimize typing errors. The built-in touchpad uses multi-touch technology that supports finger movement and effectively combines comfort with function.

source: interaksyon.com

Dell Latitude E7440: Worth anyone’s business

Achieving better mobility with your notebooks is not only the boon for consumer devices nowadays.

What we are seeing is an influx of thinner offerings with a myriad of features targeted at the business
user.

This is what Dell’s business laptop — the Dell Latitude E7440 — is all about. It takes off from current consumer offerings, such as a thin chassis and an incredible matte 1920×1080 full-HD IPS 14” display, yet provides optimum security features you won’t find in just any other similar offering.

What impressed me first about the E7440 was its silver casing made of materials such as aluminum and magnesium alloy. Before even opening it, the E7440 looked sleek and sturdy — a treat for one to see or touch. It has a thickness of only 2.1 centimeters and weighs just over one and a half kilos, surely not a hassle for people on the go.

Its 1.9Ghz Intel i5-4300U CPU and 256-GB SSD was quite evident in its boot-up speed. In just about ten seconds, I am in my Windows 8.1 main screen, ready to begin my “stress test.” But, as I checked the available applications, none of any of the widely used PC apps were installed. Bummer. So I had to make a trial subscription to Office 365 to get the suite and freeware to continue with the review. Although,
most of the time I simply made do with Internet browsing.

One major setback was that it also did not have a built-in DVD drive, something that’s quite expected of a business laptop. As such, be ready with your portable external hard drive if you want to easily install your office programs or link to the office network or cloud to sync with your business applications.

However, all in all, I had no major problems — except for instances when the system froze and I needed to reboot. Also, logging in was a pain because I opted using my Live.com account to access Windows,  something I don’t recommend. Setting up a username and password from Windows 8 itself would do.

Apart from the usual Windows hang-ups, the E7440 gives the user the inherent mobility it espouses and the performance it touts with its 4GB RAM, allowing the flexibility of handling several complex computer tasks—enhancing images, watching videos online, accessing a hybrid cloud, completing office tasks, updating social media accounts, and even playing an online game (shhh…) at the
side- simultaneously, wherever I am (depending where the broadband signal is faster).

However, it did lag on several occasions, sometimes even at the login screen itself — when I had to wait for a good two minutes before I could type in my credentials. And when it began processing the subsequent requests, it again stalled for a good three minutes before the Windows 8 main screen finally appeared.




The business laptop

A good point for the E7440 is its attractive and vivid display. It boasts of a vibrant color contrast as RGB (reds, greens, blues) register on screen pretty well with incredible clarity and on vertical or horizontal viewing angles. It also offers impressive sound quality with its speakers (located at the bottom of the chassis) producing solid and loud audio levels without any tinge of distortion.

But, the keyboard was a lowdown—as it was too feeble to even follow our fingers’ instructions, flexing at the slightest amount of pressure. This oftentimes becomes irritating when you try to key in multitudes of characters at the shortest time possible, as it forces you to stop and correct what you
type.

In contrast, the touch pad offers an excellent interface to initialize programs with its smooth surface, which allows your fingers to easily traverse it. And, surprisingly, its pointing stick offers a good alternative, offering great accuracy.

Despite the obvious hang-ups, it is still worth paying a steep price for the Dell E7740 as it offers what any business user or traveller will look for in a laptop—easy to use, easy to bring along, and a solid performer they can rely on.

source: interaksyon.com

Asus unveils ‘detachable laptop’ Transformer Book T-100

MANILA, Philippines — ASUS recently introduced its new Transformer Book T-100 in the Philippine market, as the Taiwan-based hardware maker expects high demand for detachable laptops before the year ends.

During the launch, Armelle Baylen, deputy channel manager at Asus Technology Philippines told Interaksyon.com the introduction of T100 in the Philippine market would boost its sales during the Christmas season this year.

Asus is targeting to sell 6,000 units of T-100 for the months of November and December in the local market, she said, as the company is focusing as its main product during the Holiday season.

“The T100 will create a new product for the IT industry,” she said.


T100 is a two-in-one ultraportable laptop with a detachable 10.1 inch tablet HD display.

It has an Intel Atom ‘Bay Trail’ Z3740 quad-core processor and a detachable 1366 x 768 IPS display that can be used as a standalone Windows 8.1 tablet.

“It has slim design and durable finish and one of the lightest and 10-inch tablets around,” Baylen said.

The 10.5 mm thin tablet has a display that features IPS technology for a wide 178-degreee viewing angle.

Its lightweight keyboard dock has precision-engineered keys for comfortable extended use, plus a large multi-touch touchpad with full Windows 8 gesture support.

Bundled with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 and an unlimited Asus webstorage, the T100 is available in the market for P23,995 with 64GB internal storage.

At the same event, Asus introduced newest offerings in the new N series, the world’s first notebook with a Quad-Speaker Array and Subwoofer powererd by 4th generation Intel core processors, equipped with NVIDIA GeForce graphics for outstanding visual performance. While the introduction of the G750 gaming notebook comes as a full desktop replacement in a sleek notebook form factor without comprimisng performance.

For multitasking and entertainment, on the other hand, Asus unveiled the X550 notebook, which also powered by 4th generation Intel Core processor; together with its spun-circle finish and patterned palm rests, the X-series adds a touch of elegance to everyday computing.

source: interaksyon.com

Dell unveils new XPS 12 convertible ultrabook

MANILA, Philippines - Dell is helping customers touch the future with a refreshed portfolio of consumer PCs built for Microsoft Windows 8, designed to provide a more intuitive computing experience and address evolving customer desires.

Dell’s new systems deliver on the promise of new advances in computing: a leading-edge and intuitive touch experience, the security and manageability required by today’s always-on pace and the design aesthetic, style and precision workmanship that customers demand.

Dell has unveiled powerful addition to its industry-leading XPS brand of computers. Joining the award-winning XPS 13 ultrabook, and the XPS 14 and XPS 15 laptops, the new XPS 12 ultrabook enable both consumer and business customers to do more with their technology — from multimedia, entertainment and creation to full business productivity to transition seamlessly from home to office.

The XPS 12 convertible combines two devices in one: a powerful ultrabook plus a full-featured tablet. The XPS brand has a distinguished heritage of delivering the latest technology and thoughtful design for performance and craftsmanship without compromise.

Each product in the XPS portfolio is tailored for specific customer needs, and the newly unveiled products are designed to take advantage of emerging software and technology, with the same XPS brand attributes that customers expect from Dell.

“The XPS 12 represents the culmination of a deep understanding of the ‘Bring Your Own Device’ movement and insights gained from both our consumer and business customers,” said Christopher Papa, country manager of Dell.




“The new set of XPS 12 represents a milestone in our design and approach to user experience. Our vision for our XPS line of computers is not just about the device or technology, it’s about achieving the perfect balance of amazing design, end user productivity and IT enablement,” Papa added.

Dell tapped its heritage of offering unique and innovative solutions to create the XPS 12. The product features a novel and elegant flip hinge touch-screen display designed to take advantage of the W8 operating system advances for touch interaction.

The result is two products in one, providing the full functionality of an ultra-portable laptop with keyboard plus the convenience of a tablet.

The innovative flip hinge design can easily transition from laptop to tablet to laptop and features a full HD screen that provides 97 percent more pixels than a standard HD display. The result is an exceptionally crisp reading and photo and video viewing experience.

The XPS 12 features thoughtful design and attractive aesthetics, and is crafted from premium materials such as machined aluminum and carbon fiber, as well as Corning Gorilla Glass for durability.



Partners

“With Windows 8 re-imagined, we are bringing a no-compromise, immersive and personalized experience to our customers,” said Mon de los Reyes of Microsoft Philippines.

“The support from our partners is critical for the success of Windows 8. Dell is an important partner to Microsoft and we will continue to work together to transform lives through the power of computing technology,” De los Reyes said.

“Our life experiences are defined by our senses — by what we see, hear and touch. These human senses are also at the foundation of Intel’s vision for the ultrabook to deliver a no-compromise, must-have computing experience and we congratulate Dell on the launch of its new touch-enabled product range,” said Ricky Banaag, country manager of Intel Philippines.

“Dell has always been at the forefront of innovation in technology and we are glad to be a partner to Dell in the continuing evolution of the computing experience,” Banaag said.

The Dell XPS 12 is priced P65,990 at authorized retailers nationwide.

On-site service

All Dell products running with pre-attached Windows 8 come with an on-site service, a new after-sales service where a customer is rescued from problems encountered with the shortest turnaround.

“We want to make sure that we are able to attend to our customer right at their doorsteps. With the new system in place, response is within 24 to 48 hours,” said Alvin Go, product manager of Dell.

The steps are as easy as 1-2-3. First, call the Dell Tech Support at toll-free 1-800-1601-0062. The Dell Tech Support will then conduct a diagnosis and determine the problem. A Dell engineer on-site will solve the problem.

The Dell’s new on-site service is available nationwide.

To know more about Dell products, log on to www.dell.com.

source: philstar.com