AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 chips take the fight to corporate laptops
AMD has hit two home runs with its mobile Ryzen 4000 line, and now it’s hoping for a third by moving into corporate laptops. On Thursday, AMD released three new Ryzen Pro […]
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The Full Nerd ep. 139: Nvidia’s next-gen Ampere GPU, AM4 controversy, RIP upgradable laptops
In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray talk about Nvidia’s newly revealed Ampere graphics architecture before wallowing in disappointment. Brad kicks things off […]
The Full Nerd: AMD’s chief gaming architect talks Ryzen 4000 laptops, SmartShift, and PC innovation
In this special edition of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, and Adam Patrick Murray are joined by Frank Azor, the Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD and Alienware’s co-founder. […]
AMD SmartShift technology will not appear in more laptops until 2021
If you were waiting for another laptop besides the Dell G5 15 SE gaming laptop to feature AMD’s new SmartShift technology this year—don’t hold your breath. Smartshift, which can dynamically shift performance […]
Acer overhauls Predator gaming laptops with 10th-gen CPUs, RTX Super GPUs, and ultra-fast displays
Earlier this year, Acer debuted Intel and Nvidia’s latest and greatest parts in the fearsome, yet portable Predator Triton 500—a $2,600 laptop loaded with just about everything you could ask for. Now […]
The Full Nerd ep. 143: Macs ditch Intel, GeForce RTX 2080 Super laptops, Batmen ranked
In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray dive into a new world where Apple ditched Intel and Nvidia’s potent GeForce RTX 2080 […]
AMD inside: Lenovo’s latest Legion gaming laptops, desktops deploy Ryzen CPUs
If you need yet more proof that AMD’s modern Ryzen processors are on a roll, consider Lenovo’s latest move. This week, the company added Ryzen options to five different Legion gaming systems, […]
AMD demos how fast Ryzen 4000 laptops are in Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro acceleration usually gets love from Nvidia’s CUDA and Intel’s QuickSync, but AMD has joined the party too. The company posted a blog on Tuesday morning highlighting that the recent […]
Dell quietly fixes charging issues with some XPS 17 9700 laptops
Updated with forum reports that the fix requires a hardware swap. Dell confirmed that charging issues with some of the company’s new XPS 17 9700 laptops, as well as some of its […]
Intel’s Alder Lake chip pushes performance, then battery life, for laptops
Intel’s Alder Lake chip will build upon its predecessor, the first hybrid core known as Lakefield, by prioritizing performance over battery life for thin-and-light laptops, small-form-factor PCs, and other compact designs. Announced […]
