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Gigabyte Intros P2532F and P2532H Laptops

There has been a visible shortage of new laptop releases recently, but Gigabyte decided to remedy this by launching two such items, each with their own Intel chips and NVIDIA graphics. The two notebooks from Gigabyte go by the names of P2532F and P2532H and measure 15.6 inches in screen diagonal. Essentially, they...

4 November 2011
05:39 GMT

Smart Modular's Optimus SAS 6.0Gbps SSD Touts Read Speeds Up to 1000MB/s

Smart Modular Technologies, a company specialized in developing Flash-based and DRAM memory solutions, has just announced the introduction of its fastest SAS solid state drive to date, capable of achieving read transfer speeds up to 1000MB/s. Known as the Optimus, the new series of SSDs includes four drives rangin...

4 August 2011
03:55 GMT

LG Optimus Black Review – NOVA Display Is Pure Awesomeness

The first smartphone to embed LG's innovative NOVA technology for mobile displays, the Optimus Black breathes pure elegance and arouses Android fans' interest through a minimalist look and powerful enough hardware.Built around the large mobile display, the Optimus Black offers users the same level of functi...

8 July 2011
15:31 GMT

Packard Bell Debuts EasyNote TS11 Notebook with Nvidia Optimus Support

Packard Bell has just updated its product lineup with the new EasyNote TS11 laptop which targets consumers searching for an Intel Sandy Bridge powered multimedia system available at an affordable price point.The notebook is based on the Huron River platform and thus features a second generation Intel Core processor p...

21 June 2011
05:26 GMT

NVIDIA Optimus Lands on Desktops

It looks like the need for switchable graphics technologies was high enough on the desktop market that NVIDIA decided to adapt its Optimus technology to work on motherboards based on the latest Intel chipsets.As end-users know, pretty much every processor belonging to Intel's and even AMD's most recent ser...

26 April 2011
03:28 GMT

AMD's Nvidia Optimus Killer Technology Gets Detailed

A little less than a month ago we brought you the first details about AMD's upcoming Power Express technology that functioned in a similar way to Nvidia's Optimus and was destined to be used in notebooks powered by AMD's discrete graphics card to lower the power consumption of the system, and, now, we ...

16 March 2011
16:01 GMT

Nvidia Intros More Powerful Quadro Series Mobile Graphics Cards

Nvidia has just announced the expansion of its Quadro professional line of graphics cards with five new models which, when compared to their predecessors, double the size of the video buffer available to the GPU and increase the number of shaders while also featuring the company's Optimus technology. The flag...

23 February 2011
02:39 GMT

LG Optimus Pad Is a 9-Inch Tegra 2 Honeycomb Slate

With all the smartphones, handsets and tablets on show at MWC 2011, it would have been abnormal if LG didn't bring anything and, sure enough, one of its more interesting devices is the Optimus Pad.Tablets may have started out with decent display capabilities and more or less impressive multimedia, but hardware ...

14 February 2011
06:01 GMT

Optimus Popularis Keyboard Delayed, Optimus Mini Six Incoming

From time to time, a company will announce a product but will not exactly bring it to market in an overly timely fashion, and while some may have believed Optimus to have given up on the Popularis, it seems to only be needing some more time to finish it.When announcing plans for a new type of product, IT players oft...

24 January 2011
10:15 GMT

Maingear Unleashes the Alt-17 and Alt-15 Gaming Notebooks

Although the first thing that comes to one's mind when thinking about Maingear are those outrageous portable workstations that are sometimes referred to as laptops by the company, Maingear also build more down to earth gaming solutions such as these Alt-15 and Alt-17 offerings that pair Nvidia graphics with Inte...

19 November 2010
07:11 GMT

LG Optimus One Available in India, Priced at Rs.13,500

Previously slated for a “mid-November” release, LG Optimus One is now available in India, as expected. Android lovers living in India can purchase the smartphone for as low as Rs. 13,500 (about $ 300 USD). LG's Optimus One is the best selling smartphone ever produced by the Korean manufacturer with m...

18 November 2010
08:30 GMT

Dell Readies Three New XPS Mobile PCs with Optimus

Now that the competition between AMD and NVIDIA has really started, both on the desktop and laptop fronts, PC makers are, naturally, making use of the newest hardware, and Dell is preparing a trio of notebooks equipped with NVIDIA's Fermi discrete GPUs.The three new mobile PCs that Dell is working on are known ...

18 October 2010
05:58 GMT

Lenovo Adds Optimus to ThinkPads in Celebration of 60 Million Sales

A time comes in a company's history when it feels like it has reached a milestone, and Lenovo can definitely claim to have done so now that it has sold 60 million ThinkPad laptops, even deciding to mark the occasion with a hardware upgrade.The ThinkPad series notebooks are known for being the early adopters of ...

5 October 2010
02:29 GMT

Acer Upgrades the AS5745, AS7745 and 5742G Laptops

Acer once again decided to make a noticeable update to its mobile PC lineup, this once taking three of its exiting machines, the AS5745, AS7745 and 5742G, and outfitting them with new technologies, the NVIDIA Optimus and, for the last one, 3D Vision.Putting integrated graphics circuits inside its CPUs let Intel grab...

27 September 2010
02:26 GMT

ASUS Also Brings Out Four P52 Series Laptops

ASUS is not done with the laptop market just yet, having begun to sell not just the B53 line of laptops, but also four P52 models, all of which run on Intel Core i3 or Core i5 central processing units and either integrated or NVIDIA graphics.Having already unleashed a number of mobile PCs for the business sector, AS...

21 September 2010
09:10 GMT

Samsung Also Releases the QX410 Mobile PC

With IFA having finally kicked off, Samsung went ahead and, instead of just unleashing one or two devices, revealed a whole collection of laptops, one of them being the QX410, a model less than 1-inch thick and which features a button-less multi-gesture touchpad. Unlike the RF510 and RF710 that the same outfit relea...

3 September 2010
08:59 GMT

ASUS Bamboo U53JC Features Wireless Display

As it happens, the Lamborghini VX6 netbook is not the only project that ASUS is working on, the company being also on the verge of finishing the U53JC-XX127V, the latest addition to the Bamboo line and a product that actually supports USB 3.0 and Intel's Wireless Display Technology, among other things.USB 3.0, ...

3 September 2010
07:09 GMT

NVIDIA Optimus-Enabled Clevo Laptops Added to AVADirect's Offer

Once again a PC maker has stepped up into the spotlight in order to unleash new mobile personal computers, and this once it is AVADirect that took the word, so as to update its Clevo series with two new laptops that go by the names of B5100M and B7100.As some end-users may heave endeavored to guess, the two new note...

25 August 2010
02:28 GMT

ASUS N53JN and N73JN Get Core i3/i5 and Bang & Olufsen Audio

ASUS doesn't seem satisfied with the quality of the audio solutions in today's laptops, so it collaborated with Bang & Olufsen when it designed its latest two N Series laptops, the N53JN and N73JN, based on Core i3 or Core i5 central processors from Intel.While it stuck to its own vision when it designed t...

24 August 2010
10:16 GMT

More Info on RIM and LG Tablet PCs Surface

Many smartphone makers around the world have been showing increased interest in the tablet PC segment of the market, and Research In Motion and LG Electronics are among these companies, both with plans to bring to the market their own slates in the near future.While this might not be a surprise to many, since rumors...

21 August 2010
10:21 GMT

NVIDIA Optimus-Enabled Eurocom Laptops Ship

Mobile computers come in many shapes and sizes, from entry-level PCs incapable of more than just basic document and web viewing, to machines that have higher capabilities than even certain enthusiast-grade desktops. Eurocom appears to have a penchant for the latter, as is obvious from the various high-end notebooks i...

6 August 2010
02:40 GMT

Canada Welcomes Silver-Colored Gateway ID Notebooks

Since ASUS pretty much covered the netbook space today, Gateway decided to address another market segment, that of notebooks that put equal emphasis on performance and aesthetics. The new series that saw the light of day is the Gateway ID and is composed of several mobile PCs that offer such benefits as Intel proces...

30 July 2010
09:39 GMT

ASUS N73 Multimedia Laptop Up For Grabs

ASUS has definitely been active on the mobile market lately, just like most of its rivals, and the company doesn't seem ready to ease up on the new arrivals just yet. Granted, the N73 laptop isn't exactly a newcomer, since it was first previewed at this year's CeBIT expo in Hanover, Germany, back in M...

14 July 2010
09:25 GMT

Android-Based Boston Available in Portugal via Optimus

Google's Android mobile operating system is currently running on a wide range of mobile phones on the market, ranging from entry to premium levels, and Gigabyte's 'Codfish' handset is one of them, fitted into the first category. The mobile phone has been launched on the market in Portugal recentl...

6 July 2010
04:03 GMT

16 NVIDIA Optimus Laptops Stride Through Computex Booths

Tablets and P67 motherboards have definitely benefited from a high level of attention now that Computex has kicked off. In fact, the large slate collection stood out more than other devices because, in addition to ARM chips, Intel's Moorestown showed up in a significant number of models as well. Most of these de...

2 June 2010
09:43 GMT

ASUS Eee PC 1215 Has USB 3.0 and NVIDIA Optimus

Consumers that like to stay up to date with the latest happenings on the mobile front, especially those that plan to acquire a new netbook soon, will likely know that, not long ago, the ASUS Eee PC 1201PN became available for pre-order. The same consumer base would likely have frowned when noticing that there was no ...

18 May 2010
09:37 GMT

ASUS Eee PC 1215N Merges Dual-Core Atom and NVIDIA Optimus

Recently, there have been quite a number of rumors about future products, be they PCs or PC components. One of the more noteworthy reports was the one that dealt with a certain laptop that Toshiba might have developed and that might prove to be the lightest and fastest recharging 13-inch model in the world. Now, comi...

7 May 2010
10:30 GMT

ASUS Intros New U30jc Optimus-Enabled Laptop

NVIDIA's Optimus technology is relatively new to the market, but the Santa Clara, California-based company is expecting that this solution will be adopted by a considerable number of vendors. On that note, ASUS has already shown its liking of the technology, as it was the first company to announce and start sell...

6 April 2010
08:45 GMT

NVIDIA Yanks GPU out of Optimus System, PC Still Runs

Among the many products and technologies on display at this year's CeBIT expo in Hanover, Germany, is a new feature that NVIDIA invented for notebooks, netbooks and other devices with both integrated and discrete graphics. Known as the Optimus, the technology was developed by the GPU maker mainly in order to all...

3 March 2010
03:19 GMT

ASUS Bamboo Notebooks Boast NVIDIA Optimus

We have already managed to get a pretty close look at the two Republic of Gamers motherboards that ASUS is demonstrating at CeBIT 2010 in Hanover, Germany, but it seems that power gaming and ultra-high-end performance are not the only areas that the company aims to excel in. While supposedly planning on introducing a...

2 March 2010
04:15 GMT

ASUS Laptops with NVIDIA Optimus Available

Even though NVIDIA still hasn't managed to release its DirectX 11 graphics cards, the GPU maker did launch an interesting technology not so long ago, namely the Optimus for mobile personal computers with two graphics solutions. ASUS was revealed to have been working on laptops with this functionality at about th...

27 February 2010
03:47 GMT

A Look at the Optimus-Enabled ASUS UL50VF Laptop

Earlier this week, NVIDIA stood by its promise and detailed the technology it announced back at the Consumer Electronics Show, in January, namely Optimus. As we detailed in a previous article, Optimus has been designed for the notebook market, enabling NVIDIA to continue to pair its mobile GeForce GPUs with Intel...

12 February 2010
03:38 GMT

NVIDIA Optimus Is Here

Back in late 2008, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA surprised everybody with the launch of a new product aimed specifically at the low-end netbook and nettop market. The NVIDIA ION was widely acclaimed as one of the outfit's most interesting products, as it basically enabled OEMs to create low-priced PCs tha...

9 February 2010
11:21 GMT

ASUS Preps NVIDIA Optimus-Enabled Laptops

Even though NVIDIA still hasn't managed to launch even one DirectX 11 graphics card, the company aims to score big on the mobile PC market through its introduction of the Optimus Technology. Eager to be among the first to bring out products featuring this functionality, ASUS has proudly announced that, during th...

9 February 2010
09:39 GMT

NVIDIA Intros Optimus Technology to Change Notebook Market

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA, one of the world's leading vendors of graphics processing units, announced today the launch of its new Optimus technology, a solution designed to provide consumers with a better performance and visual experience out of their notebooks. According to details of the new technol...

9 February 2010
09:01 GMT

NVIDIA Optimus Comes Next Week

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA recently announced a new technology that it plans to officially introduce at beginning of this month. Dubbed Optimus, the solution was said to target the notebook segment, providing consumers with the tools to boost system performance, but not having to worry about battery life, d...

5 February 2010
08:11 GMT

NVIDIA Talks Optimus, New Technology for Notebooks

NVIDIA, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance graphics processing units, has recently hinted at a new technology, which the company plans to introduce sometime in the first quarter of this year. Aimed specifically at the notebook end-user, the technology is said to be capable of providing the pe...

6 January 2010
06:48 GMT

The MozPhone Concept: a BlackBerry with OLED Keys

The functionality of a smartphone is most often limited due to the small space it can offer when it comes to keyboard layout, either it’s a physical or an on-screen one. Not too long ago, Optimus came up with a rather interesting keyboard design, one that sported small OLED screens built into each key, thus off...

7 February 2009
02:48 GMT

The 1490$ Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard

This is a pretty heavy one on the pocket device, but it sure looks nice. Art. Lebedev Studio is responsible for the design and production of a new keyboard that isn't wireless, but OLED.The Optimus Maximus (best greatest) keyboard features 114 keys made out of full-color OLED displays. Some of them are even in 3...

16 March 2007
04:16 GMT


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