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Usually, shaving accessories are generally regarded as a cop-out last-resort gift for the guys on your holiday shopping list. Disposable Bics still suck as presents, but the new $2,800 high-end laptop Razer’s putting out is decidedly cooler – and even though it hasn’t been released yet, you might just be able to find one under your Christmas tree this year. And hey, Razer managed to pull a Santa and hide a secret upgrade gift inside the Razer, too.
Kotaku spoke with Razer honcho Min-Liang Tan, who told the publication that mobile gamers will soon be able to preorder the laptop on the Razer website. As we mentioned in our initial hands-on impression, the Blade rocks a 17-inch screen, an auxiliary screen/trackpad with eight bindable buttons, a i7-2640M dual-core 2.8GHz CPU, 8GB of memory, and an NVIDIA 555M discrete GPU. One component has changed, though: Tan says that Razer was able to negotiate some good prices from its suppliers after the original announcement, so the 320GB HDD that was supposed to ship in the Blade has been replaced with a 256GB SSD, instead. Less space, sure, but much more oomph.
Tan expects the Razer Blade to start shipping sometime before Christmas. That doesn’t mean you’ll actually get it by December 25th, of course, but you might just. Read more at.... |
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Don't like dinking around with just 4GB of system memory, or even 8GB? How about 16GB? If that's still not enough for what you intend to use your notebook for, fear not, boutique system builder AVADirect announced tested compatibility for 32GB RAM kits now featured in over a dozen laptops from Clevo, MSI, and Asus. It's not the most RAM AVADirect has ever offered in a portable form factor, but it still gives you bragging rights, and at a fraction of the cost as systems configurable with 48GB.
A full list of notebooks now carrying 32GB of system memory can be found here. Each one is rocking Intel's Sandy Bridge platform and are geared towards gaming, though if you're going with a 32GB DDR3 upgrade option, you're really investing in bragging rights and the ability to handle large-scale content creation chores, like heavy photo editing, video encoding, and so forth.
Pricing varies by model and depends on how much system RAM comes pre-configured by default. We poked around and found that upgrading from 4GB to 32GB typically runs around $400 for Patriot (or around $635 for Crucial). In other words, you can load up on mobile RAM without destroying your bank account, if you really want to. And, we're told, these are available to ship now.
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EVGA this week rolled out a new version of its Precision overclocking software. Now in version 2.1.1, EVGA's Precision utility comes with an integrated GPU Voltage Tuner, and it's now capable of auto-detecting GeForce GTX 580 graphics cards. EVGA said it updated some spelling in Precision v2.1.1 and beefed up the on-screen display (OSD), too.
That's about it for the changes. EVGA's Precision tool is fairly robust to begin with. It offers independent or synchronous control for fan and clock settings in a multi-GPU system, stores up to 10 profiles with in-game hotkeys, places temperature readings in the system tray, lets you adjust core/shader/memory clockspeeds, supports Logitech's keyboard LCD, and a few other highlights.
You can download the latest version here.
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