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With the announcement of Intel’s Alder Lake H series of laptop processors, MSI is one of the first out of the gate to announce their refreshed gaming laptop series featuring the newest Intel processors. As one of the market leaders in gaming notebooks, MSI has some new tricks up its sleeves to boost performance even further. New this year for MSI are some key software features to boost performance across the lineup, as well as functionality. As an example, MSI will offer a new Smart Auto Power system to adjust the laptop performance levels based on what application is running, rather than relying on the end user to configure the settings manually. For users that want to tweak their own system, the manual system will...
CES 2012 Recap: The Week in Review
Tomorrow will be our last day at CES but we've still got a lot more to cover. If you haven't been following our extensive coverage on Pipeline, I've grouped...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012Super Talent: Demos PCIe-based RAIDDrive upStream and RAIDDrive II SSDs
It’s a bit sad, really: SATA 6Gbps ony a couple years old and already we’re seeing SSDs push the limits of the interface. While the SATA spec will eventually...
5 by Jarred Walton on 1/12/2012Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX, Droid 4, and Lapdock 500 Pro Impressions
Anand and I stopped by Motorola this afternoon and got to spend some time with a number of the handset-maker's newly announced products, including the RAZR MAXX, Droid 4...
15 by Brian Klug on 1/12/2012Some Thoughts on SandForce's 3rd Generation SSD Controller
I spent a few minutes talking to SandForce in between meetings today and got a general idea of what a third generation SF controller might look like. The SandForce...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012Updated: ASUS Eee Pad MeMO ME370T Shipping in Q2 2012
ASUS originally introduced its 7-inch Eee Pad MeMO tablet at CES 2011, but today it is announcing that in Q2 of this year it'll be available in North America...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on 1/12/2012AMD's Lightning Bolt: Low Cost Thunderbolt Alternative for USB 3.0/DP
One of the things I love the most about AMD is the balance it provides to Intel. While I've spent much of CES looking for Thunderbolt products and lamenting...
69 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012TI Wireless Charging - New Chipsets and 10W charging for Tablets
This morning we stopped by TI's power management group to check out what all they had in store, and got to check out some demos of their new second...
18 by Brian Klug on 1/12/2012AMD's Trinity APU at CES, Shipping in Mid-2012
AMD has a bunch of cool stuff to show off at this year's CES. The first is the most expected: a demo of its upcoming Trinity APU. The demo...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012Cooler Master and Thermaltake Continue to Expand
Even though Cooler Master and Thermaltake are two very different companies and very different brands, they compete in similar markets and much like Corsair and my waistline, they're expanding...
5 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/12/2012Corsair Continues to Expand
Corsair has been making a tremendous number of waves over the past year, as announcements made at last year's CES are beginning to come to fruition. They continue to...
9 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/12/2012Checking in with the Boutiques
This year's visit with representatives from some of the custom-build computer boutiques has been enlightening, if for no other reason than to highlight the sometimes extreme differences between each...
3 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/12/2012More Shots of the HTC Titan II & Nokia Lumia 900
We covered the launch of HTC's Titan II and Nokia's Lumia 900, the first two AT&T LTE devices running Windows Phone 7.5. We're meeting with Nokia later today but...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Brian Klug & Manveer Wasson on 1/12/2012TI Shows Off OMAP 5 & ARM Cortex A15 at CES
We weren't allowed to take photos but we've just seen TI's OMAP 5 reference platform up and running Ice Cream Sandwich with full GPU acceleration enabled. The 28nm chip...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on 1/12/2012The First Thunderbolt Speed Bump: Likely in 2014
One of the most interesting use cases for Thunderbolt is as a connection to an external GPU for thin and light notebook users, especially Ultrabook/MacBook Air users that are...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012Motorola Droid 4 Early Test Data Confirms RAZR Internals and Software
Motorola has produced a lot of phones in the last several months that iterate the same hardware platform. While this is typical of a manufacturer (just look at the...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012Cactus Ridge: Understanding the New, More Affordable Thunderbolt Controller
Eagle Ridge, Image Courtesy iFixit When we first published the details of Intel's 2012 line of Thunderbolt controllers we pointed out that the specs of the two new controllers...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012j5Create Wormhole Switch Brings KVM and File Sharing Across Mobile and Desktop
j5Create first revealed their Wormhole Switch as a simple way to control and share files across two Windows PC's. Connect both ends of the included cable to the separate...
1 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012Canonical Brings Ubuntu To Televisions
Canonical, a services and software company that backs open-source projects like Ubuntu, recently announced they would be moving to compete in the Smart TV space. The project, called Ubuntu...
3 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012Belkin Brings Home Automation, TV and Thunderbolt Solutions to CES
Belkin's product portfolio stretches across a huge range from A/V and networking solutions to iPod and Kindle cases. Their CES both focused primarily on their home electronics products with...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012Dune HD Pro : A Premium Entertainment System using the Sigma Designs SMP8910
Dune HD is one of the most respected middleware developers in the media player scene. By exclusively restricting themselves to Sigma Designs, they have managed to produce an...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2012