ASUS just dropped some unhinged dual-screen laptop flex. Their updated ROG Zephyrus Duo for this year is the first with two 16-inch 3K OLED displays, both touchscreens with high refresh rates and extreme brightness. It packs the newest Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors and up to an Nvidia RTX 5090 laptop GPU. The second screen is massively larger than before, and the whole thing works in five different orientations, like a tent or a book. Cooling uses a vapor chamber with liquid metal, aiming for silent operation under light loads. It includes a wireless keyboard and touchpad, weighs under six and a half pounds, and charges quickly with a large power adapter.
The standard Zephyrus G16 model also gets the latest Intel Panther Lake...
ASUS built a gaming PC with hologram fans because RGB was not stupid enough. The new ROG G1000 desktop packs the fastest hardware they could find, including an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor and their own branded Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card. It uses a special cooling design called the Thermal Atrium, with a separate chamber housing a 420 millimeter liquid cooler that supposedly drops CPU temperatures by sixteen degrees Celsius and doubles airflow. The system can be configured with up to 128 gigabytes of DDR5 memory and four terabytes of Gen5 SSD storage, all powered by a 1000-watt gold-rated supply.
The main gimmick is the AniMe Holo technology, featuring three spinning fans inside individual glass compartments that project...
Intel's new iGPU actually doesn't suck for once. The company launched its Arc B390 integrated graphics, based on the Xe3 architecture, claiming it can trade blows with a discrete laptop GPU. In their benchmarks, it showed about ten percent better average performance than Nvidia's mobile RTX 4050, all while running at a lower sustained power draw. The chip also demolishes other integrated options, posting an eighty-two percent lead over AMD's Radeon 890M in native 1080p gaming and a two-point-six times advantage over Qualcomm's Adreno graphics.
This graphics unit is part of the new Panther Lake processors, specifically the top Core Ultra X9 388H model. It packs twelve Xe3 cores, which Intel says delivers a seventy-seven percent...
Intel finally dropped its next-gen chips after months of hype. The company launched its Core Ultra Series 3 processors, codenamed Panther Lake, marking its first product on the advanced 18A manufacturing node. These chips are built with a multi-tile design, packing new performance cores, efficiency cores, and an upgraded integrated graphics unit. Intel claims major gains, stating the top model offers forty percent lower power use for similar single-threaded performance compared to the previous generation. In multi-threaded tasks, they boast a sixty percent performance jump at the same power level.
The company posted benchmarks targeting rival products from AMD and Qualcomm. Charts showed the flagship Core Ultra X9 388H beating an AMD...
Dell caved to user backlash and revived the XPS name. The company is bringing back its XPS laptop line with two new models for this year, the XPS 16 and XPS 14, and teased a future XPS 13. This reverses last year's decision to kill the XPS branding for a simpler naming scheme that apparently nobody liked. The new machines start at two thousand fifty dollars for the 14-inch model and two thousand two hundred dollars for the 16-inch version, with availability starting immediately. They are built with aluminum and Gorilla Glass, weighing from three pounds.
Both laptops will use Intel's latest Core Ultra Series 3 processors, with configs going up to a 16-core chip. They can be outfitted with up to 64 gigabytes of fast memory and up to 4...
APC is strong-arming members into digital sign-ups. The party in Ekiti State is pushing people to join a nationwide electronic registration drive, framing it as a test of loyalty. The state coordinator, a commissioner named Adesola Adedayo, called the program pivotal for future wins. He told local supervisors to aggressively get people in all 177 wards to sign up daily. The drill requires a voter card and a national ID number, and is meant to document the grassroots base. Adedayo linked the effort directly to helping the governor get re-elected in the upcoming race. He said a healthy party needs a solid membership list, and this helps them see their real support before the next national election.
The state party chairman, Sola Elesin...
Fuel importers are spreading fake news to jack up gas prices. The Dangote refinery just called out a bogus report claiming it was shutting down for maintenance, saying the story is a deliberate lie pushed by importers scared of competition. They warned that without their domestic refining, pump prices could hit N1,400 per liter since importers would have zero reason to keep costs down. The refinery says it is running just fine, with no interruptions to production. It currently can supply up to 50 million liters of petrol daily based on what the market needs.
Operations are stable and ongoing. The facility produced 50 million liters on a single day recently and shipped out 48 million. It has enough stock on hand to meet national demand...
AMD just whipped out a stupidly high core count CPU to feed its AI rigs. The CEO showed off a new EPYC server chip called Venice, which is meant to be the brains for their upcoming Helios AI server racks packed with Instinct MI455X graphics cards. Each compute node would use one of these monster CPUs to manage several GPUs. The wild spec is the core count, with Venice supposedly packing 256 cores and 512 threads into a single package. They are getting there by using eight separate compute chiplets made on a 2-nanometer process, each holding 32 cores based on the Zen 6 architecture. This is a different layout from the current EPYC chips.
A big question remains about what kind of cores are inside those chiplets. They might be full-power...
ASUS ROG just dropped a case with a built-in TV for your PC. They showed two new things this year, a fancy case called the Cronox and a daisy-chain fan named the Eurus GR120 ARGB. The Cronox is their first case with a wraparound curved glass panel. It has a secondary screen on the front, which measures 9.2 inches. That screen can be rotated. It supports huge EATX motherboards, even the kind with connectors on the back. The case fits video cards up to 400 millimeters long. It holds a lot of cooling gear, with space for fourteen fans and two big radiators. A swiveling side bracket for fans can point airflow where needed. They include four of their new Eurus fans right in the box.
Those Eurus GR120 ARGB fans are also a first for ROG. You...
