Dell launches the new Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 convertible laptop at the Computex 2019 and updates the XPS 15 hardware
At the Computex 2019 which is ongoing at Taiwan, Dell has launched their brand new XPS lineup i.e. the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 convertible laptop and also updated the XPS 15 hardware.
The all new Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 convertible laptop
This new stunning laptop has got some serious updates and improvement in the functionality.
The new XPS 13 2-in-1 comes with an all-new redesigned display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and an edge-to-edge display which according to Dell, has a 7% larger viewing area than before.
The stunning screen-to-body-ratio is enhanced with the 13.3-inch FullHD+ and a UHD+ display options. Users can even enjoy HDR content on the laptop due to the HDR400 certification and Dolby Vision on the UHD+ panel.
13-inch 2-in-1 with a stunning HDR display and up to two times more performance in a thinner frame, packaged in a luxurious design.
The XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop is Dell’s first laptop to feature the latest 10th-gen Core processors codenamed Ice Lake processors based om 10nm process from Intel. Dell even claims the laptop offers up to 2.5 times better performance.
Dell has even shifted the problematic placement of the webcam from the bottom bezel to the top. The XPS 13 2-in-1 convertible laptop will be available from July 2019, for a starting price tag of $999.99 US.
Dell XPS 15 gets hardware upgrade
Dell’s premium end ultraportable XPS 15 lineup gets a much-needed hardware upgrade in 2019. These new laptops now come with 9th-gen processors and can be configured up to an 8 core i9 processor.
The new Dell XPS 15 comes with a 4K UHD display accompanied by Dell’s InfinityEdge design that gives you more screen out of the display front. The OLED panel offer highlights up to 40 times brighter, and blacks up to 10 times darker.
On the graphics front, you get up to NIVIDA GeForce GTX 1650 GPU. Also, it is coupled with up to 64GB of RAM, and up to 2TB PCIe SSD.
In terms of connectivity, you get the new Killer AX1650 network adapter specifically built on Intel’s WiFi 6 chipset. The new 802.11ax WiFi standards on this laptop improve signal interceptions even at crowded places.
Like its brother, in this one too, the problematic placement of the webcam has been resolved by moving it to the top bezel. The upgraded Dell XPS 15 will be available in next few weeks for a starting price tag of $999.99.
Dell’s proprietory gaming laptop series abbreviated as the Alienware series of laptops has just got updated at the Computex 2019. These are thin and portable gaming laptops that do not compromise on the performance front.
Alienware m17
The Alienware m17 packs in a 17-inch FHD display with options of both 60Hz and 144Hz refresh rates. Also, there’s the Tobii Eye Tracking technology that allows users to interact with the laptop by just using their eyes.
Under the hood, you get a 9th-gen Intel processor that can be configured up to an Intel Core i9-9980HK CPU. Also, it is coupled with 16GB of RAM, and up to 4TB PCIe SSD.
On the graphics front, you get a lot of options, you can configure your laptop’s graphics up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q GPU which helps you game to the fullest.
Alienware m15
The Alienware m15 is a lot more scalable and customizable as it provides you with 3 types of display options – including 1080p at 60Hz, 1080p at 240Hz, OLED UHD at 60Hz. It has got a 15.6-inch standard laptop screen and it also comes with Tobii Eye Tracking support.
The hardware here is quite similar to its brother, featuring the 9th-gen Intel processors, which can be configured up to the Core i9-9980HK. This can be paired with 16GB RAM, and up to 4TB of PCIe SSD.
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Also for the graphics, the GPU can be configured to the best RTX 2080 Max-Q GPU. The Max-Q design helps fit such powerful graphics on to thin and light laptops.
Both the Alienware m15 and m17 will hit the shelves of the US market from June 11 with a starting price tag of $1,499.
India beat Bangladesh by 95 runs in their last warm-up game before the World Cup.
The start of the match was delayed due to slight drizzle. The rain once again kicked in, after just two balls, forcing the players to leave the ground.
Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bowl first.
India lost two wickets quickly in the form of Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma. Indian skipper Virat Kohli scored 47 runs of 46 balls. Rohit fell in the 14th over while Kohli got out to a brilliant yorker of Mohammad Saifuddin.
KL Rahul and MS Dhoni, thereafter, stitched a partnership of 164 runs to bring India back in the game. Rahul scored a century and solved India’s No. 4 quandary ahead of the World Cup 2019.
After his departure, Dhoni took the charge and helped India cross 300. Dhoni got a good support from Hardik Pandya who scored 21 off 11 deliveries.
MS Dhoni scored 113 runs of only 78 deliveries. His innings consists of 8 boundaries and 7 over boundaries. Dhoni scored his first overseas century. He was seen in hid vintage form.
Dhoni was not wasting too many balls. Earlier he took more time to settle but now he was timing the ball well from the first delivery.
Ravindra Jadeja came to bat in the last over. He made a quick-fire 11 off 4 balls to help India finish the innings at 359/7.
Liton Das and Soumya Sarkar gave Bangladesh a solid start as they added 49 runs for the first wicket. Jasprit Bumrah dismissed two batsmen in two balls to pull things off.
After that Mushfiqur Rahim and Liton Das added 120 runs for the fourth wicket and kept Bangladesh in the hunt. Das got out to Yuzvendra Chahal at 73 runs. Mohammad Mithun also fell on the very next ball.
The spin duo of Chahal and Kuldeep took 6 wickets.
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Lenovo introduces the world’s first 5G ready laptop powered by the latest 7nm Snapdragon 8cx SoC by Qualcomm
At the Computex 2019, we are seeing wonders in tech world and the new 5G laptop is one of its kind right now. 5G is the upcoming revolution for mobile industry and the key for new innovations in the field of IoT.
Qualcomm introduced their 8cx chip back in December 2018, which truly made headlines because this new chip can provide limitless possibilities for a laptop. It is also the world’s first 7nm mobile CPU that consumes lesser power and provides higher performance even better than Intel’s Whiskey Lake CPUs.
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Qualcomm promised to bring the 8cx chip powered laptops by the Q3 of 2019 and finally at Computex 2019, Qualcomm and Lenovo announced their joint ‘Project Limitless’ and their first baby, the world’s first 5G-enabled laptop.
The 5G connectivity is still in its development and testing phase in many countries but we expect it to roll out by 2020 and come to the forefront by 2021.
So, developing and eventually announcing a future-centric laptop is a great effort by both Qualcomm and Lenovo.
This notebook is powered by the Snapdragon 8cx chip that has been designed on 7nm process. Qualcomm tagged the chip to be the “most extreme Snapdragon ever” and that’s really true.
It bears Qualcomm’s latest custom designed Kryo 495 CPU cores and Adreno 680 GPU. This chip also dares to compete with its Intel competitors and its graphical performance to makes it unique.
Lenovo, a leader in PCs, and Qualcomm, a leader in 5G, are joining forces to create the first announced 5G PC around the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform. As the world’s first 7nm platform purpose-built for PCs, it offers extreme performance, battery life, as well as 4G LTE and 5G connectivity.
But the main USP here is the 5G connectivity which is due to the inclusion of X55 5G modem by Qualcomm. This chip also has another modem – X24 LTE modem used for modern-day network connectivity.
It even supports speeds up to 7 Gbps which in itself is amazing. The SoC can even drive two 4K HDR displays and also supports Quick Charge 4+.
The chip’s 7nm process helps it to draw just 7 Watt of power that ensures long hours of battery life and even last for a day or so. Honestly, this chip provides limitless opportunities to the new generation laptops.
Lenovo and Qualcomm have promised to provide more concrete details to be announced as early as 2020. If you are interested to know more details about this chip check out this article:
Intel launches its best ever gaming CPU – the Core i9-9900KS that allows overclocking all its 8 cores to 5GHz boost frequency
At the Computex 2019, apart from launching the new 10th generation Ice Lake CPUs based on 10nm process, Intel expanded its desktop portfolio by adding a new member to its family – the 9th generation Core i9-9900KS.
Intel previously showcased a 28-core Xeon processor, during its keynote last year, that can run all of its cores at 5 GHz. Now, with the Intel Core i9-9900KS, this is now achievable which in itself is a landmark to achieve for a desktop CPU.
The CPU promises to deliver the same boost frequency in both single core performance as well as multi-core workloads which was lacking on the previous best i9-9900K.
The Core i9-9900KS is a 8 core & 16 threads processor with a base frequency of 4.0 GHz. It has a RAM frequency support of 2666MHz and packs in the same UHD 630 iGPU seen on its brothers.
Intel 9th Gen Core 8-Core CPUs
Cores
Base Freq
All-Core Turbo
Single Core Turbo Freq
IGP
DDR4
TDP
Price (1ku)
i9-9900KS
8 / 16
4.0 GHz
5.0 GHz
5.0 GHz
UHD 630
2666
?
?
i9-9900K
8 / 16
3.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
5.0 GHz
UHD 630
2666
95 W
$488
i9-9900KF
8 / 16
3.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
5.0 GHz
–
2666
95 W
$488
i7-9700K
8 / 8
3.6 GHz
4.6 GHz
4.9 GHz
UHD 630
2666
95 W
$374
i7-9700KF
8 / 8
3.6 GHz
4.6 GHz
4.9 GHz
–
2666
95 W
$374
The Core i9-9900KS can also be used on the same motherboards as the Core i9-9900K used to fit in with just a firmware update.
The TDP and the pricing of this CPU has not been revealed yet, but at the Computex keynote Intel SVP and GM Gregory Bryant has confirmed that the processor is launching in Q4 of this year.
After NVIDIA announced its Studio program, Razer announced its new Razer Blade laptops with Quadro RTX professional graphics cards for content creators.
Their existing Razer Blade 15 and 17 lineup will now be configured to the highest NVIDIA mobile graphics, i.e. the NVIDIA Quadro RTX graphics (up to the Quadro RTX 5000).
NVIDIA QUADRO RTX mobile workstations will allow professionals to tap into the power of real-time ray tracing, advanced shading, and AI-enhanced tools on-the-go!
Also these portable workstations have improved displays with highest resolution of up to 4K along with OLED touch panels to satisfy the needs of content creators.
Like all other Razer laptops, these special laptops will arrive with a premium built – a CNC machined aluminium chassis and a Mercury White finish. Under the hood, you get a Core i7-9750H for the 15-inch model and a Core i9-9880H for the 17 inches Razer Blade Pro.
The Core i7-9750H packs in 6 cores and 12 threads while the latter comes with a total of 8 cores and 16 threads, so that you may not face any performance issues at all. Both of the chips run at around 4.5 to 4.8GHz under heavy workloads.
The laptops are coupled with 32GB of DDR4 memory along with 1TB of NVMe based SSD storage. Quite powerful, isn’t it?
As for now, Razer has tightened its lips on the availability and the price front, but we can assume the lineup to be evenly priced with its predecessors.
At the Computex 2019, we are seeing companies taking the stage to introduce new products and technologies for us in the coming days for our benefit. From OEMs to Silicon giants everyone has participated to show off their next-gen products.
Graphical industry giant NVIDIA also made it clear that with its new announcement the Nvidia Studio that laptops that are powered by NVIDIA’s RTX graphics and meet the minimum requirements, will be able to run the NVIDIA Studio.
Create at the speed of imagination with GPU accelerated performance, powered by NVIDIA Studio. NVIDIA GPUs accelerate your work with incredible boosts in performance; completing tasks up to 12x faster. Less time staring at pinwheels of death means bigger workloads, more features, and creating your work faster than ever.
The minimum requirements here are:
Now those laptops that have these specs will be able to opt-in to the Studio RTX program. Looking at the specs we can observe that any high end RTX enabled laptop including Gaming laptops can run the NVIDIA Studio.
This will increase the demand for the gaming laptops as because apart from gaming these high-end laptops powered by the NVIDIA RTX graphics will help in content creation and can be used by professionals as well.
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The new Max-Q designed RTX laptops will help professional to get the most out of their laptop GPU using the NVIDIA studio and the optimizations provided by the company.
Having the Studio Shack SDKs and dedicated drivers, it will help to increase graphics rendering and video editing performance. NVIDIA even claims that they will be able to perform up to seven times faster than a 15-inch MacBook Pro under an equivalent workload.
“NVIDIA Studio pairs RTX GPUs, which enable real-time ray tracing, AI processing and high-resolution video editing, with studio-grade software to surpass the growing demands of today’s creators,” said Jason Paul, general manager of GeForce software and technology at NVIDIA. “The new RTX Studio laptops are the perfect tool for creatives who need desktop-class performance while on the go.
NVIDIA QUADRO RTX mobile workstations will allow professionals to tap into the power of real-time ray tracing, advanced shading, and AI-enhanced tools on-the-go!
So, basically, the content creators can take benefit of these laptops for whatever task it might be like video editing, game development, 3D rendering and all kinds of heavy workloads will be accelerated using the Ray Tracing GPU cores.
This is a positive move by NVIDIA to attract consumers not only for gaming but also using their architecture for heavy workloads as well.
NVIDIA even plans to launch this initiative with 7 vendors and with 17 different Laptops which includes from various companies like Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, MSI and Razer. NVIDIA has also announced a benchmark price of $1,599 which can always vary with respect to the specs offered.
At the Computex 2019, ASUS unveils its new ZenBook Pro Duo laptop with ScreenPad Plus dual display, RTX 2060 GPU and 9th gen CPUs
ASUS has always been in the forefront of technological innovation, and as we know that Computex is one of the key tech events held once in a year, so the Taiwan giant did not waste any time to expand its portfolio by introducing its new premium laptop – the ZenBook Pro Duo.
This laptop has received a lot of hype among fans because of its uniqueness as in due to the ‘ScreenPad Plus’ dual display. The laptop features a 15.6-inch 4K OLED display on the front along with a secondary 14-inch full-width touch screen just above the keyboard to enhance the functionality of it.
The ScreenPad Plus secondary display, as named by the company, seamingly interacts with the 4K display which can genuinely help creators to use the displays for their own good.
ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo Specifications
Apart from the displays, this laptop is truly premium not just of its beauty but also because of the horsepower it can provide. You get some top-of-the-line hardware specifications that makes this laptop perfect for content creators, video editors, developers and enthusiasts.
The ZenBook Pro Duo is powered by the latest 9th generation Intel mobile CPUs and the graphics is handled by the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPU.
You can also get configure the laptop up to 32GB RAM, and up to a 1TB PCIe SSD that can further boost up your laptop speed. It also has the support for the latest WiFi 6.
Intel® Wi-Fi 6 with Gig+ (802.11ax) Bluetooth® 5.0
Camera
IR webcam with Windows Hello support
Ports & I/O
1 x Thunderbolt™ 3 USB-C™ 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A 1 x Standard HDMI 1 x Audio combo jack 1 x DC-in
Audio
Array microphone with Cortana and Alexa voice-recognition support Harman Kardon-certified audio system
Battery
71Wh 4-cell lithium-polymer battery
The Dual Display
The key feature of the laptop is definitely the dual display, not only the display here is having a 4K resolution, but also the primary display here packs in an OLED panel with with a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and support for 100% DCI-P3 color gamut.
On the other hand, the secondary display referred as ScreenPad Plus can either be used as a secondary display to show any content, or users can use the inbuilt ScreenXpert control software to make the most using the built-in features and functions on the ScreenPad Plus.
Pricing & Availability
Apsrt from the 15.6-inch ZenBook Pro Duo variant, there will also be a 14-inch variant features a 12.6-inch ScreenPad Plus secondary FHD display, along with Intel Core i7 processors, and Nvidia’s MX250 GPU.
The new ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo is expected to hit the shelves from Q3 of 2019, and the company has not yet revealed its pricing as such.
After long delays, and facing tough competitions with AMD, Intel launches the 10nm based 10th-Gen Core Processors codenamed Ice Lake CPUs at the Computex 2019
The Silicon giant has finally woke up from its sleep, the much needed and promised 10nm processors come finally alive at 2019’s Computex. Intel has finally shown off its new 10nm 10th-Generation Core processors, codenamed as Ice Lake CPUs.
Our new #10thGen Intel Core processors deliver a new architecture, #AI capabilities, and superior connectivity. Solving the needs of today and tomorrow. #Computex https://t.co/ThqPG8UJXl https://t.co/ltKYV0jeIY
What really made the headlines was due to the fact of 18% increase in average instruction per cycle (IPC) throughput compared to the aging Skylake architecture. Some applications receive 30 to 40% performance improvements for specific of workloads due to the new 10nm architecture.
Intel already demoed their Ice Lake CPUs at the CES 2019, wherein they showed about the new Sunny Cove microarchitecture that helps to drive the new Ice Lake CPUs. This resurrection was much needed for the chip making giant in front of the might Red team.
While AMD has just achieved a 15% more performance improvement in IPC due to the new 7nm process, and finally levelled Intel in its single core performance. Now, with the new microarchitecture and 10nm process Intel can again retrieve its performance leadership.
10nm based 10th generation Core processors coming first to laptops
As promised earlier, the new 10nm Ice Lake CPUs will be coming first for the laptops and thin & light devices. These new chips will come in U- and Y-series variants that draws power in 9W, 15W and 25W TDP ranges.
These 10th-generation processors for laptops surprisingly will be available in up to four cores and eight threads only, with 8MB of L3 cache, and have a maximum turbo frequencies of 4.1 GHz only.
Also here’s the dual-channel memory support up to 4X32 LPDDR4X-3733 and DDR4-3200, which seems to be a big improvement to ~60 GB/s of throughput. This will greatly help boost graphics performance and the new integrated Gen11 graphics will reach up to 1.1 GHz as well.
Intel has not yet discussed about any specific model yet, but there will be over 30 designs with multiple variations when they arrive in the market in the form of laptops. Intel also has introduced a new thin magnetic inductor array that helps the company to provide greater efficiency at low power.
Also the newly introduced Dynamic Tuning 2.0, a new machine learning-based power delivery technique, uses software running inside the OS to adjust power dynamically totally based upon the users’ needs.
New Ice lake Design & the Sunny Cove Microarchitecture
The new Ice Lake design finds room for lot of improvements due to the 10nm process and the use of Sunny Cove microarchitecture helps further to increase the throughput.
Here we see a huge improvement in the memory bandwidth with support up to 4X32 LPDDR4X-3733 and DDR4-3200. The new Gen 11 graphics along with the implementation of Thunderbolt 3 has charged up the CPUs.
There are 3X display pipes that supports 5K at 60fps and 4K at 120fps, also the new image processing unit 4 supports up to 16MP and video recording at 1080p at 120fps and 4K at 30fps.
With the Sunny cove microarchitecture, Intel can now process four or six micro-ops (uops) per clock with 50% larger micro-op cache. They have also expanded the L1 data cache from 32KB to 48KB and doubled the L2 cache to 512KB.
Ice Lake performance improvements
These new Ice Lake CPUs have an average IPC improvement of about 15 to 18% than the four years ago introduced Sky Lake CPUs. On the other hand, the single threaded performance has also increased a lot with the new Sunnycove cores but only when comparing against the old Broadwell architecture.
Intel Gen11 Graphics
Intel’s much promised Gen 11 graphics is being heavily boasted by the company and is even claimed to be even better than that of AMD’s fantastic APUs. When it is compared to its 8th Gen chips, Intel claims its new Gen11 Iris Plus graphics can achieve nearly double the performance.
It has bumped the number of execution units (EUs) from 24 up to 64 within the same power envelope. Due to the architectural improvements, Intel says the Gen 11 graphics delivers up to one teraflop of 32-bit and two teraflops of 16-bit floating point performance without consuming much power.
The Gen11 graphics unit features a significantly larger 3D engine to boost 1080P gaming performance above 30FPS into the 60 FPS range. This suggests Intel is trying to challenge AMD’s APUs which give tremendous CPU and integrated GPU performance.
Also there’s the inclusion of QuickSync video technology with dual HEVC encoders that can help you to create and playback 4K HDR content. The Gen11 graphics is also the company’s first integrated graphics unit to have Adaptive Sync and HDR capable display pipes. It also has support for HDR 3 and DPI 1.2.
Thunderbolt 3
Thunderbolt ports have always been limited to very few laptops and if they bear it, it has got only one Thunderbolt port only.
With Intel’s new dual-sided Thunderbolt 3 controller architecture seen in the new Ice Lake CPUs, it can provide up to 4 ports! Two on each side of the laptop.
Well, due to space constraints most of the OEMs will still ship the notebooks with two ports only, but in mere future, we can expect their models with expanded capabilities.
Laptops with the latest 10nm Ice Lake CPUs are to hit the shelves from June and nothing as such has been promised for the desktop end Ice Lake CPUs, but keeping in mind of Intel’s progress, they could nearly launch it at the end of 2019 or at 2020.
What do you think about the new Ice Lake CPUs? Tell us in the comments down below… 🙂
Today AMD announced a lot of things at its keynote headed by Dr Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, at the Computex 2019 held at Taipei. Apart from the great Ryzen 3000 CPU launch, AMD also announced its much rumoured upcoming Radeon Navi GPU.
The first GPU product of the Navi architecture is the 7nm RX 5700 GPU, the RX 5000 name is given in honour of the 50 glorious years completed by this silicon giant.
The Radeon RX 5700 is the first Navi GPU and is based on the company’s new RDNA macro-architecture, yes finally AMD has ditched the GCN architecture.
Yet, they have told that the Vega GPUs will still use GCN, but the RDNA is more of a futuristic GPU architecture which the company feels to be special for them.
Also, the Navi GPU will be the first to feature the world’s first PCIe Gen 4 which delivers a significant performance improvement over PCIe Gen 3, an almost 2X improvement.
The new RDNA architecture features a completely new compute unit design along with multi-level cache hierarchy. This helps to deliver faster clock speeds at lower power consumption.
The architecture provides you with a 1.25x higher IPC and 1.5x more performance per watt than it previously used to be with the GCN architecture. The 7nm process also plays a key role here as well.
It was also shown by AMD that the new Radeon RX 5700 can provide 10% more performance than NVIDIA’s Turing based GeForce RTX 2070 GPU.
Honestly, from the previous GPU that AMD launched – the Radeon VII which was based on 7nm, the company has improved the GPU horsepower and used the architecture to challenge its competitors with capable GPUs at lower prices.
Not much specs has been shown by the company, but AMD has even revealed that the upcoming PlayStation gaming consoles will be powered by both the Navi GPUs and Zen 2 based Ryzen CPUs.
The Red Team even did not reveal if these GPUs have Ray Tracing feature in them or not, they will reveal everything on 7th of July at the E3 of 2019 along with other promised products.
