September 05, 2016

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Acer TravelMate X349 delivers user-friendly display without PWM

As most of you know by now, PWM is an essential part of our reviews as a growing number of users seek out panels that don’t use PWM for regulating brightness. And we are happy…

September 03, 2016

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Dell Inspiron 7559 (FHD, IPS) display profiles – Quality and Health impact results

The Dell Inspiron 7559 adopts a Full HD IPS screen with decent properties but most of them fall short compared to the competition and since this is a gaming/multimedia-centric machine, some tweaks are needed in…

September 02, 2016

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Lenovo’s monstrous battery keeps the show running for hours despite the powerful hardware

We’ve got some pretty good news about the battery life of the ThinkPad P70 – Lenovo’s top-shelf workstation. And you’d assume that for a 17-incher packed with a powerful hardware meant for heavy and prolonged…

September 01, 2016

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Acer TravelMate X349’s screen is just average

While the notebook scores pretty well in almost all of our tests, especially in the battery ones. However, we are left with a little bit more to be desired from the 14-inch IPS panel in…

August 31, 2016

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Acer presents the Spin 7 – an incredibly thin do-it-all future-centric device

Along with all the announcements, Acer is coming in strong at IFA 2016 in Berlin with the announcement of not only the Swift lineup but also the Spin one. It’s going to offer the Spin…

August 31, 2016

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Intel announced its 7th Generation Kaby Lake processors – information and specs

Two years have passed since the first 14nm FinFET chips hit the market named Broadwell and for the first time ever Intel has taken a lot of time to develop the process to reach its…

August 31, 2016

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Forget about the Predator 17X, the Predator 21 X is Acer’s new absurdly powerful, feature-packed gaming flagship

During the IFA event in Berlin Acer dropped a few bombshells with the biggest one being the announcement of the Predator 21 X – a totally new gaming laptop that packs so much of the…

August 31, 2016

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Inside Dell Vostro 5459 – disassembly, internal photos and upgrade options

Dell’s 14-inch budget business solution offers fairly easy access to the internals and probably the only tricky part is the prying up. You should find a really thin plastic tool in order to separate the…

August 30, 2016

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Acer’s TravelMate X349 has killer battery life

One more month until the TravelMate X349 hits the stores and we have some really good news about the battery life. The notebook’s portable, thin and light chassis seems to hold just enough juice to…

August 30, 2016

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Intel Core i3-6100H takes 31st place in our CPU ranking list, behind the Core i5-6200U

Recently we had the chance to run a few benchmark tests to see how the Core i3-6100H performs in terms of raw performance and gaming. We’ve tested the processor inside the new high-performance version of…

August 29, 2016

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Lenovo’s refreshed IdeaPad Y910 with NVIDIA Pascal GTX 1070 GPU is already in our office, here’s what to expect

We just got the new and delicious top-tier Lenovo gaming laptop, the IdeaPad Y910, or a prototype of the Y910 to be exact, in our office and we can’t wait to compare it to the…

August 29, 2016

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Dell Vostro 5459 uses PWM at really low frequency

Let’s revisit Dell’s affordable and compact 14-inch business solution the Vostro 5459 for a bit. This time, however, we will talk about the presence of PWM we’ve recorded with our oscilloscope. Unfortunately, the news isn’t…

August 27, 2016

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ASUS N752 (FHD, IPS) display profiles – Quality and Health impact results

The ASUS N752 uses a well-known IPS panel, which is also found in the ASUS ROG G752’s Full HD configurations. It has wide sRGB coverage, bright backlight, high contrast ratio and close to optimal color…

August 26, 2016

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Intel’s Apollo Lake Pentium N4200 beats the Pentium N3700 by 35% in single core performance

While we were pretty busy covering NVIDIA’s mobile Pascal announcement along with various benchmark and gaming tests, we also had some time to test out the first Apollo Lake chip, which isn’t on the market…

August 24, 2016

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Dell’s Vostro 14 5459 delivers slightly above average battery life

We were expecting some decent results from the battery tests of the Dell Vostro 5459 due to several reasons. Firstly, the notebook has small screen size using a TN panel, which is much less demanding…

August 23, 2016

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Expectedly, ASUS’ affordable daily driver, the X556 / K556, doesn’t excel in image quality

When OEMs try to build an affordable notebook that stands out from the rest and offers something more than a typical laptop from the price range, there should be some compromise. It’s often build quality,…

August 23, 2016

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Dell Inspiron 3552 (HD, TN) display profiles – Quality and Health impact results

Expectedly, the Dell Inspiron 3552 notebook doesn’t excel in image quality and instead uses a budget type TN panel suitable for general office work and browsing. But, of course, our profiles can improve the general…

August 22, 2016

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HP Pavilion 15 (2016) (FHD, touch IPS) display profiles – Quality and Health impact results

HP’s new Pavilion 15, more precisely the model with Full HD IPS touch panel, doesn’t really excel in image quality but it’s good enough for general multimedia and gaming. Half of the sRGB colors are…

August 21, 2016

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The ASUS X550VX / K550VX is a perfect gaming choice on a budget but make sure to pair it with an external monitor

ASUS’ ultra-affordable gaming solution, the X550VX, is one of its kind to some extent. It costs a fraction of what the usual gaming machines do nowadays, yet it’s on par with them. How does ASUS…

August 19, 2016

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Inside Lenovo ThinkPad P70 – disassembly, internal photos and upgrade options

Shortly after we spent some time with Lenovo’s heavy duty workstation, the ThinkPad P70, we were just unable to resist disassembling it. We weren’t disappointed. The notebook offers exceptionally easy access to all upgradeable hardware…