MSI has launched their new GX70 Gaming notebook that combines some of the most powerful hardware components available on mobile platform. With the combination of latest and most powerful mobile hardware from AMD, the GX70 Gaming notebook is officially recommended to play Crysis 3 which is also bundled with the notebook.

MSI Unleashes the GX70 Gaming Notebook For Serious Gamers

The MSI GX70 Gaming notebook is powered by AMD’s Richland based A10-5750M Quad-Core processor. The CPU is clocked at a base frequency of 2.5 GHz and turbo’s all way upto 3.5 GHz. It comes with an 4 MB of L2 cache, a 35W thermal design envelope. In addition to its discrete graphics solution, the A10-5750M comes fused with an  integrated Radeon HD 8650G that offers display connectivity through Mini Display Port, HDMI, and D-Sub on the GX70 Gaming notebook.

In low intensive applications, the Radeon HD 8650G plays a primary role but in gaming the task is handled over to the much powerful Radeon HD 8970M solution. The Radeon HD 8970M codenamed “Neptune” is based on the latest Solar System series from AMD. The HD 8970M is the successor to the 7970M however specifications wise it isn’t much different at all. The Radeon HD 8970M is based on the same Pitcairn architecture used on the 7970M featuring 1280 (1D) stream processors,  80 texture mapping units and 2GB memory that runs across an 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface. The HD 8970M comes with faster clock speeds that allows for greater performance as indicated by the slide below:

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference takes place in June this year At this conference the company unveils major platform updates for iOS and OS X, though in the past they have made several product announcements here as well. This year it is expected that Apple will reveal the 2013 Macbook lineup at WWDC. The new notebooks are expected to be available for shipping soon after they’re announced at the conference.

Apple’s 2013 Macbook lineup couldn’t come at a better time. In its recent financial results the company reveal that Mac shipments were up by approximately 10% while global PC sales have been declining partly due to the increase in popularity of tablets. The current generation Macbooks were released in Q3, 2012 and now it is high time for updated versions. Some recent surveys have declared that Retina Macbook Pro shipments have been declining because of the fact that these notebooks carry too high a price tag. It was rumoured that Apple is considering on dropping Retina display touting notebooks all together, however according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the company won’t be making this move for now. They’ll continue to sell this particular Macbook Pro, because strong non-Retina sales compensate for the lacklustre sales of Retina Macbook Pro.

He also adds that the 2013 Macbook lineup won’t bring the much rumoured Retina display Macbook Air. There might be a couple of reasons for this. First and foremost the Retina display will drive the cost up, and having already experimented with the high cost Pro model, this is something that Apple will look to avoid in one of its best selling notebooks. Furthermore, there seem to be production issues that are getting in the way of such a high resolution screen being installed inside a notebook as thin and as light as the Macbook Air.

So what exactly will the 2013 Macbook lineup bring? Well, no substantial design changes for either the Pro and the Air have been rumoured up till now. It is possibly that Apple might reveal slightly updated versions of these notebooks, by simply bumping up the internal specs and pairing it with a brand new OS X platform update. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2013 takes place on the 10th of June, hopefully the company will have more information for us there.

Apple really raised the bar with their Retina Macbook Pro. Announced late last year, this was the first laptop to bring over Apple’s famed Retina Display over to conventional computers. The idea behind Retina Display is that the pixel density is so high that the human eye can not distinguish an individual pixel. Despite its technological advancements, reports from supply chain sources indicate that demand for Retina Macbook Pro has been dipping primarily because prospective customers think that it is too expensive. Toshiba is now stepping in to this arena with their KIRAbook, which hopes to give Apple’s laptop a run for its money.

Toshiba KIRAbook is actually the first high resolution laptop for Windows platform. It has a 13.3 inch touchscreen with a whopping 2560 x 1440 resolution with a pixel density of 221. Toshiba’s display is pretty close to the 13″ Retina Macbook Pro, which touts a 2560 x 1600 resolution with 227 pixels density, and don’t forget the fact that its actually a touchscreen display. The only other laptop with a high resolution screen is the Google Chromebook Pixel, which has 239 pixel density, so safe to say, KIRAbook is the first product for Windows afficionados who like high resolution displays.

Screen is not the only avenue where KIRAbook goes head to head with the Retina Macbook Pro. It has superb build quality, only 0.7 inches thick and weighing 2.6 pounds. Harmon Kardon speakers are on board for superb sound and a backlit keyboard is there by default. It has a Core i5 processor with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. Price was one avenue where it would have been better if the KIRAbook didn’t match the Retina Macbook Pro, but unfortunately it does. The model with base configuration, processor still unknown, will set you back $1,600. The one with the Core i5 carries a price tag of $1,800 and if you’re will to drop $2,000 you can have the Core i7 processor.

We get dozens of Apple related rumors every single day and we try to filter out and report what seem the most probable. Recent chatter indicates that Apple will be announcing a major update to the Mac Pro line, which has largely remained neglected for over three years now. Not neglected, however, is the Macbook lineup which received a hefty refresh last year. According to latest rumors Apple is readying another refresh of the entire Macbook line and it will be unveil by the end of this quarter.

Recently, we at WCCFtech had got a chance to interview Intel Pakistan’s country manager over a cup of coffee to sit back and talk about how over the years Intel Pakistan has progressed in our country and is constantly working towards modernizing our community along with talking in depth about Intel’s new Ultrabook.

Introduction to Ultrabooks:

The Ultrabook which is seen as an ultra portable notebook  has been designed by chip giant Intel to approach power users who want higher battery times without compromising on performance. Intel specifically uses its low power Core series processors coupled with fast SSD’s which not only offers faster performance but also provide longer battery times.

The ASUS Zenbook UX13W we have for review today is powered by the first-generation Huron River platform for Ultrabooks, recently replaced by the Chief River platform. Continue reading onward to learn about the design and know how the Zenbook performs in our review:

Apple’s special event kicked off a little while ago and already we have been treated to a new product. The company has formally announced the new 13 inch Macbook Pro. It was revealed that the 13 inch Macbook Pro is actually Apple’s most selling notebook. So in its true fashion, the company took its most popular product and made it even better.

Press Release – Razer, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, has announced a sweepstakes promising one winner a custom-designed Star Wars: The Old Republic Razer Blade gaming laptop. Valued at over $15,000, the Star Wars inspired Razer Blade is unique: Only one of its kind exists in the known universe, from this galaxy to those far, far away.

Razer, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, unveiled the next generation of the world’s first true gaming laptop, the Razer Blade. The Razer Blade raised the bar on portable gaming laptops, pushing performance limits without compromising on its ultra-thin form factor. The new Razer Blade will be available for pre-order for $2,499 on Sept. 2 and begin shipping to consumers in North America on Sept. 30, 2012.

Introduction

Not everyone looking for an SSD tends to dissect performance numbers with a microscope. There are niches where performance takes a second seat to the value factor. One example is the corporate sector which looks very carefully at the value perspective.

To satiate the thirst of speed for the men in suits Kingston has upped its game by revamping its value series (‘V’ series) of SSDs. Rather than using JMicron or Toshiba controllers (whose performance was not stellar), Kingston now uses the venerable SandForce (now LSI) SF-2281 controller. To keep costs down it pairs it to asynchronous flash memory as compared to synchronous or Toggle flash memory for its top of the line models.

The specs of the drive as listed by Kingston are as follows. We have also included the specs for a upper-middle level SF-2281 powered Kingston SSD.