- Snapdragon X CPU Powered Microsoft Surface Laptop 6 13.5″, 15″ & Dell Inspiron 14 Plus Laptops Leak Out Wccftech
- Qualcomm is coming for Intel’s biggest market: PCs Yahoo Finance
- Qualcomm responds to benchmark cheating allegations — Snapdragon X Elite/Plus benchmarks claimed to be fraudulent (Updated) Tom’s Hardware
- Qualcomm Intros Snapdragon X Plus, Details Complete Snapdragon X Launch Day Chip Stack AnandTech
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Qualcomm Says That Laptops With The Snapdragon X Elite Will Be Able To Run Most Games, But Developers Will Still Be Given Three Options – Wccftech
- Qualcomm Says That Laptops With The Snapdragon X Elite Will Be Able To Run Most Games, But Developers Will Still Be Given Three Options Wccftech
- Qualcomm says most Windows games should “just work” on its unannounced Arm laptops The Verge
- Unlike Apple’s chips, Qualcomm’s X Elite Arm CPU will run Windows games just fine using x64 emulation — native ARM64 code will give best performance Tom’s Hardware
- Qualcomm claims Windows games ‘just work’ on its new Arm laptop chip PC Gamer
- Qualcomm says most Windows games will work on its latest Arm laptop chipset Engadget
Computing ‘paradigm shift’ could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single component – Livescience.com
- Computing ‘paradigm shift’ could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single component Livescience.com
- Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers ScienceAlert
- Scientists unveil PC breakthrough that gives 2x speed without hardware upgrades TweakTown
- An Ingenious New Process Could Make Computers 2x Faster—Without a Hardware Upgrade Popular Mechanics
- Researcher discovers novel way to double computer speeds for free — but there is an obvious catch and it may only work with Nvidia GPU and Arm CPU for now Yahoo! Voices
Gaming Laptops, Desktops, And Monitors Are Already Steeply Discounted Ahead Of Black Friday 2023 – GameSpot
- Gaming Laptops, Desktops, And Monitors Are Already Steeply Discounted Ahead Of Black Friday 2023 GameSpot
- Amazon deal pushes 360Hz gaming monitor below $600 as MW3 and Black Friday loom PC Guide – For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News
- Forget Black Friday, this gaming headset deal gets you a premium wireless set for a record low right now TechRadar
- Don’t miss this huge clearance sale on gaming laptops — from $550 Digital Trends
- RX 6800 gaming GPU gets a hefty price cut in Amazon deal well before Black Friday PC Guide – For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News
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Intel Meteor Lake CPUs With Up To 14 Cores, Raptor Lake Refresh With Up To 24 Cores For Next-Gen Laptops – Wccftech
- Intel Meteor Lake CPUs With Up To 14 Cores, Raptor Lake Refresh With Up To 24 Cores For Next-Gen Laptops Wccftech
- Intel Raptor Lake Refresh performance leak suggests up to 8% gain in single-core and 15% increase in multi-core workloads vs 13th gen Raptor Lake Notebookcheck.net
- Intel Meteor Lake specs leak lists 14 CPU cores and 8 Xe-Cores based on Xe-LPG architecture VideoCardz.com
- Intel Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs To Feature Support On Z890, B860 & H810 Motherboards Wccftech
- Intel Meteor Lake CPUs: everything we know so far TechRadar
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Lenovo’s Latest Line-up of New Yoga Laptops Empower Creators from Inspiration to Expression – Lenovo StoryHub
- Lenovo’s Latest Line-up of New Yoga Laptops Empower Creators from Inspiration to Expression Lenovo StoryHub
- Lenovo launches new Slim Pro and Yoga laptops for creative professionals TechSpot
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 6 Ultrabook with AMD Ryzen 7000 series CPUs and USB4 connector announced gizmochina
- Lenovo unveils a bunch of thin and light consumer laptops with Intel and AMD processor options Liliputing
- Lenovo unveils the Slim Pro 9i, a thin-and-light laptop with a mini-LED display and NVIDIA RTX 40-series graphics Windows Central
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Hunter Biden seeks federal probe of Trump allies over laptop
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, asked the Justice Department in a letter Wednesday to investigate close allies of former President Donald Trump and others who accessed and disseminated personal data from a laptop that a computer repair shop owner says was dropped off at his Delaware store in 2019.
In a separate letter, Hunter Biden’s attorneys also asked Fox News host Tucker Carlson to retract and apologize for what they say are false and defamatory claims made repeatedly about him on-air, including implying without evidence that he had unauthorized access to classified documents found at his father’s home.
The request for a criminal inquiry, which comes as Hunter Biden faces his own tax evasion investigation by the Justice Department, does not mean federal prosecutors will open a probe or take any other action. But it nonetheless represents a concerted shift in strategy and a rare public response by the younger Biden and his legal team to years of attacks by Republican officials and conservative media, scrutiny expected to continue now that the GOP has taken over the House.
It also represents the latest salvo in the long-running laptop saga, which began with a New York Post story in October 2020 that detailed some of the emails it says were found on the device related to Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. It was swiftly seized on by Trump as a campaign issue during the presidential election that year.
The letter, signed by prominent Washington attorney Abbe Lowell, seeks an investigation into, among others, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, Trump’s longtime lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani’s own attorney and the Wilmington computer repair shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, who has said Hunter Biden dropped a laptop off at his store in April 2019 and never returned to pick it up.
The letter cites passages from Mac Isaac’s book in which he admitted reviewing private and sensitive material from Biden’s laptop, including a file titled “income.pdf.” It notes that Mac Isaac sent a copy of the laptop data to Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, who in turn shared it with Giuliani, a close ally of Trump’s who at the time was pushing discredited theories about the younger Biden.
Giuliani provided the information to a reporter at the New York Post, which first wrote about the laptop, and also to Bannon, according to the letter. Hunter Biden never consented to any of his personal information being accessed or shared in that manner, his lawyer says.
“This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s private and personal information,” the letter says, adding, “Politicians and the news media have used this unlawfully accessed, copied, distributed, and manipulated data to distort the truth and cause harm to Mr. Biden.”
Mac Isaac declined to comment when reached by The Associated Press on Wednesday evening. Costello, asked to comment on behalf of him and Giuliani, called the letter “a frivolous legal document” and said it “reeks of desperation because they know judgment day is coming for the Bidens.”
A lawyer who represented Bannon at a trial in Washington, D.C., last year did not immediately return a call seeking comment. A Fox News representative had no immediate comment.
The letter to the Justice Department was addressed to its top national security official, Matthew Olsen. It cites possible violations of statutes prohibiting the unauthorized access of a computer or stored electronic communication, as well as the transport of stolen data across state lines and the publication of restricted personal data with the intent to intimidate or threaten.
It also asks prosecutors to investigate whether any of the data was manipulated or tampered with in any way.
“The actions described above more than merit a full investigation and, depending on the resulting facts, may merit prosecution under various statutes. It is not a common thing for a private person and his counsel to seek someone else being investigated, but the actions and motives here require it,” Lowell wrote in the letter.
A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.
Separate letters requesting investigations were also sent to the Delaware state attorney general’s office and to the Internal Revenue Service. Spokespeople there did not immediately return emails seeking comment.
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Associated Press writer David Bauder in New York contributed to this report.
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Galaxy Book 3 First Look: Samsung’s Pro Laptops Are Leveling Up
This story is part of Samsung Event, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Samsung’s most popular products.
At Samsung’s Unpacked event Wednesday, the electronics giant announced the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra laptop alongside its latest flagship Galaxy S23 phones.
Like Samsung’s top Galaxy Ultra phones and Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra tablet, the Ultra laptop will have the best performance, a ton of features and a killer display. But like the other Ultra devices, the Ultra laptop might be more computer than you need. Samsung also has the Galaxy Book 3 Pro and Pro 360, which are a notch below the Ultra in performance, but have a lot of features in common, along with their own added extras.
The Galaxy Book 3 Ultra (pictured) and Pro models can use Galaxy Tab tablets as a wireless secondary display.
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The Galaxy Book 3 Ultra is the star, though, and thankfully it fixes two things I didn’t like about the otherwise excellent Galaxy Book 2 Pro models. One issue was their displays. While they had great-looking AMOLED panels, they were 16:9, 1080p widescreens; most premium laptops use higher-resolution 16:10 panels that give you more vertical space. The 16-inch Galaxy Book 3 Ultra makes the jump to 16:10. It’s still an AMOLED panel, too, so you’re going to get amazing color and contrast. Plus it has a 120Hz refresh rate for smoother-looking video; its resolution is 2,880×1,800 pixels.
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The second issue I had with the Book 2 Pro was that Samsung didn’t offer any options for discrete graphics and frankly, if you’re going to call something “Pro” you should offer something stronger than integrated graphics. That doesn’t change with the Book 3 Pro models, but the Ultra will have either an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 or 4070 graphics chip and they’ll be paired with a 13th-gen Intel Core i7 or i9 processor, respectively, giving the Ultra some pro-level laptop performance.
Those components drive the price up considerably, with the Core i7 and RTX 4050 configuration starting at $2,400 and the Core i9 and RTX 4070 pairing going for $3,000. (Pricing and availability weren’t announced for the UK or Australia, but the entry price converts to £1,950 and AU$3,400.) You get a lot of other great features for those prices like a 1080p webcam, a quad-speaker audio system, a fingerprint reader on the power button and a larger 76-watt-hour battery. The Ultra also has more ports than the Galaxy Book 2 Pro, with a USB-A port and HDMI 2.0 output joining its two Thunderbolt USB-C ports, microSD card slot and headphone jack.
The good news is almost all of these things trickle down to the Pro models, with the big exceptions being the Core i9 processor and the discrete graphics. The nice thing about that is the 16-inch Galaxy Book 3 Pro laptop is 4 millimeters thinner and it’s about a half pound lighter than the 16.5-mm thick, 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) Ultra. The Galaxy Book 3 Pro will also be available in a 14-inch size that’s just 2.6 pounds (1.2 kilograms).
The Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 two-in-one (pictured) and Pro laptop are identical except for the hinges.
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There’s also a 16-inch Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 two-in-one, which is large for a two-in-one, but since it comes with one of Samsung’s excellent S Pens, you’ll have a lot of room to draw or take notes, plus it’ll make a nice digital whiteboard for meetings. And again, all of the features like the high-res webcam, port assortment and quad speakers on the Ultra are here, too. It’s also the only model to come with optional 5G wireless.
Also, just like earlier Galaxy Books, the new Ultra and Pro laptops are made to work with other Galaxy devices. Things like sending files back and forth between your phone and laptop are easy. You can, for instance, start working on a file on your Galaxy phone and finish up on the Galaxy Book. Or you can use a Galaxy Tab S8 as a wireless external display to extend the laptop’s screen. Your Galaxy Buds can automatically switch between devices as well. This extra layer of interoperability is something Apple does well with its iPhones, iPads and MacBooks, and Samsung is quickly catching up with help from Intel and Microsoft. These laptops have enterprise-level security, too, since they meet Microsoft’s secured-core PC requirements.
There is one thing that Samsung kept the same as the previous generations and that’s the overall look. They’re nice and clean, if a bit unexciting, especially compared to Samsung’s phones, which come in several colors — these come in graphite or beige. Build quality is improved, though. They’re sturdier, stiffer and stronger, which is certainly a plus even if they’re a bit heavier because of it.
The Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Ultra and Pro and Pro 360 laptops are available to preorder now through Samsung’s site and the Pro models are expected to start shipping on Feb. 17.
Giant Laptops Are Dominating the Future of Gaming
High-performance gaming laptops used to be heavy and clunky. But over the years, laptop makers have slimmed down display bezels, millimeter by millimeter, to give us gaming laptops with larger displays in more compact bodies. 16:10-ratio panels have also become the norm, replacing the 16:9 ratio. Though the displays would get bigger, going from 15.6 inches to 16 inches, the laptop stays the same size or can even sometimes get more compact. And who can argue with getting more screen in a smaller body?
Now the same thing is happening to 17.3-inch gaming laptops. At CES 2023, a new batch of 18-inch gaming laptops was announced from Alienware, Acer, Asus and Razer. Also, while Lenovo, HP and MSI didn’t unveil any 18-inch models for the show, I’m certain that won’t be the case for long.
Wide-screen, 17.3-inch displays aren’t extinct yet, though. Acer announced updated Nitro gaming laptop models with Intel and AMD processors, while Asus refreshed its Strix Scar 17 and Strix G17 models for 2023 as well. But with Acer, Asus and others loading up on new 16- and 18-inch gaming laptops, it looks like the days are numbered for 17.3-inch models (and 15.6-inch ones too). Here’s the first crop of 18-inchers that showed up for CES 2023.
Also read: Best Gaming Laptops at CES, From Performance Beasts to Budget Gems
Asus ROG Strix Scar 18
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We’re not surprised to see Asus be one of the first to announce an 18-inch gaming laptop; the company is regularly ahead of the curve. The ROG Strix Scar 18 (it also comes in a 16-inch model), uses the extra size for higher-performance components and a powerful cooling system to take advantage of all they can do. The preproduction model we saw had a semitransparent keyboard deck so you can see what’s inside.
Read more about the ROG Strix Scar 18.
Acer Predator Helios 18
Acer
The Predator Helios 18 will feature the latest 13th-gen Intel Core processors, Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series graphics, enhanced cooling and beautiful big displays, plus a whole lot of lights. Along with the new processors and GPUs, they’ll support up to 32GB of DDR5-4800 RAM and up to 2TB in PCIe Gen4 NVMe solid-state drives in RAID 0. The Helios 18 will come with three 2,560×1,600-pixel display options with a 165Hz or 240Hz refresh rate, or a Mini LED panel with a 250Hz refresh rate, 100% P3 color gamut and a peak brightness over 1,000 nits. There’ll also be an entry-level 1,920×1,200-pixel display at 165Hz.
Read more about the Acer Predator Helios 18.
Razer Blade 18
Razer
Razer is billing the Blade 18 as the ultimate desktop replacement, and it might just be. It’s certainly going to be one of the thinnest and most powerful 18-inch laptops available, with up to a 13th-gen Intel Core i9 HX processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics. It’ll have a 1440p-plus 240Hz display with 100% P3 color gamut coverage.
Read more about the Razer Blade 18.
Alienware m18
The m18 is an impressive 18-inch laptop, which you can load up with your choice of Intel or AMD processors and Nvidia or Radeon graphics. To keep the components cool, Alienware used seven heat pipes and four fans, while keeping the same body thickness as last year’s m17. The m18 has a full-size keyboard and number pad with optional Cherry MX mechanical keys, plus dual user-replaceable DDR5 SO-DIMM slots and up to 9TB of potential storage. Alienware will offer it with either a 165Hz 2,560×1,600-pixel resolution or a 480Hz 1,920×1,200-pixel resolution.
Read more about the Alienware m18.
Giant 18-inch Gaming Laptops Dominated CES 2023
For years, laptop makers have toned down display bezels, millimeter by millimeter, to give us gaming laptops with larger displays in slimmer bodies. They’ve been moving from 16:9 widescreen displays to taller 16:10-ratio panels, too. So far, for gaming laptops, this meant a 15.6-inch model would be updated to a 16-inch display, but the actual body size roughly stays the same.
Now the same thing is happening to 17.3-inch gaming laptops. At CES 2023, a new batch of 18-inch gaming laptops was announced from Alienware, Acer, Asus and Razer. And though Lenovo, HP and MSI didn’t unveil any 18-inch models, I’m certain that won’t be the case for long.
Wide-screen, 17.3-inch displays aren’t extinct yet, though. Acer announced updated Nitro gaming laptop models with Intel and AMD processors, while Asus refreshed its Strix Scar 17 and Strix G17 models for 2023 as well. But with Acer, Asus and others loading up on new 16- and 18-inch gaming laptops, it looks like the days are numbered for 17.3-inch models (and 15.6-inch ones, too). Here’s the first crop of 18-inchers that showed up for CES 2023.
Also read: Best Gaming Laptops at CES, From Performance Beasts to Budget Gems
Asus ROG Strix Scar 18
Josh Goldman/CNET
Over the last several years, laptop makers have whittled down the frames, aka bezels, around laptop displays. That, along with internal components getting smaller and cooling systems getting better, has allowed them to use larger displays in smaller bodies. That means you can now get a 16-inch laptop in a body size that once housed a 15-inch display. And now you’ll be able to get an 18-inch display in a body that’s roughly the same size as an older 17.3-inch laptop. For the ROG Strix Scar 18 (it also comes in a 16-inch model), that extra size gave Asus more room for higher-performance components.
Read more about the ROG Strix Scar 18.
Acer Predator Helios 18
Acer
The Predator Helios 18 will feature the latest 13th-gen Intel Core processors, Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series graphics, enhanced cooling and beautiful big displays, plus a whole lot of lights. Along with the new processors and GPUs, they’ll support up to 32GB of DDR5-4800 RAM and up to 2TB in PCIe Gen4 NVMe solid-state drives in RAID 0. The Helios 18 will come with three 2,560×1,600-pixel display options with a 165Hz or 240Hz refresh rate, or a Mini LED panel with a 250Hz refresh rate, 100% P3 color gamut and a peak brightness over 1,000 nits. There’ll also be an entry-level 1,920×1,200-pixel display at 165Hz.
Read more about the Acer Predator Helios 18.
Razer Blade 18
Razer
Razer is billing the Blade 18 as the ultimate desktop replacement, and it might just be. It’s certainly going to be one of the thinnest and most powerful 18-inch laptops available, with up to a 13th-gen Intel Core i9 HX processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics. It’ll have a 1440p-plus 240Hz display with 100% P3 color gamut coverage.
Read more about the Razer Blade 18.
Alienware m18
The m18 is an impressive 18-inch laptop, which you can load up with your choice of Intel or AMD processors and Nvidia or Radeon graphics. To keep the components cool, Alienware used seven heat pipes and four fans, while keeping the same body thickness as last year’s m17. The m18 has a full-size keyboard and number pad with optional Cherry MX mechanical keys, plus dual user-replaceable DDR5 SO-DIMM slots and up to 9TB of potential storage. Alienware will offer it with either a 165Hz 2,560×1,600-pixel resolution or a 480Hz 1,920×1,200-pixel resolution.
Read more about the Alienware m18.