Systems
Low-power processors have traditionally been geared towards notebooks and other portable platforms. However, the continued popularity of ultra-compact form-factor desktop systems has resulted in UCFF PCs also serving as lead vehicles for the latest mobile processors. Such is the case with Intel's Raptor Lake-P - the processor SKUs were announced earlier this month at the 2023 CES, and end-products using the processor were slated to appear in a few weeks. Intel is officially allowing its partners to start selling their products into the channel today, and also allowing third-party evaluation results of products based on Raptor Lake-P to be published. ASRock Industrial announced their Raptor Lake-P-based NUC clones as soon as Intel made the parts public. With the new platform, the company decided to trifurcate...
Origin PC Launches EVO17-S ‘Thin-and-Light’ 17-Inch Laptop with Intel Core i9
In addition to a relatively modest EON15-S gaming laptop introduced on Wednesday, Origin PC also rolls out its EVO17-S, a much more powerful machine running Intel’s Core i9 CPU...
14 by Anton Shilov on 8/1/2018
Origin PC Unveils EON15-S Laptop: Core i9, GTX 1060, Two PCIe SSDs
Origin PC on Wednesday introduced its new gaming laptop aimed at customers looking at mid-range designs. The new EON15-S notebook comes in a sub-1-inch thick chassis and is equipped...
15 by Anton Shilov on 8/1/2018
Intel Officially Launches Bean Canyon NUCs with Coffee Lake-U Processors
Intel's Bean Canyon NUCs have been subject to a number of leaks, notably from FanlessTech. However Intel has finally made things official with a detailed technical product manual for...
38 by Ganesh T S on 7/25/2018
HP Unveils Z2 Mini G4 SFF Workstations: Up to Six-Core Xeons, Pro GPUs
HP this week upgraded its miniature Z2 Mini workstation with the latest Intel’s Core and Xeon E processors with up to six cores as well as professional-grade graphics cards...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/20/2018
Lenovo’s Miix 630 Snapdragon 835-Based 2-in-1 Now Available
Lenovo has started to sell its Miix 630 always-connected PC based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 SoC and Microsoft’s Windows 10 S. The system weighs around 1.4 kilograms yet promises...
34 by Anton Shilov on 7/10/2018
iBuyPower Element Gaming PC Review: i7-8086K and GTX 1080 Ti Inside
It has been a long while since AnandTech has reviewed full-sized systems, as most of our readers tend to build PCs for themselves. There is however quite a large...
52 by Joe Shields on 7/6/2018
An EpicGear Turnkey PC Gaming Café: Beam Me Up Scotty
One of the phrases I no longer hear in this industry is ‘Cyber Café’. A remnant of the past, at least here in the west, a gaming or cyber...
12 by Ian Cutress on 6/25/2018
ECS with Intel Compute Card: What Happened to Intel’s Compute Card?
One of the more interesting and innovative platforms that Intel has introduced over the past few years was the Compute Card: a small credit-card like platform that contained a...
26 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
USB-IF and Fast Charging: New Standard Logo with Wattage Listed
When discussing industry standards, the sexy ones are involved around performance: if you can breathe PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 into a sentence, people start listening. One of the...
28 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2018
ASRock DeskMini Z370 GTX1060 Review: A Compact Coffee Lake Gaming PC
Small form-factor machines have emerged as a very significant chunk of the PC market. Building on the success of the UCFF NUCs, Intel introduced the mini-STX platform in 2015...
24 by Ganesh T S on 6/12/2018
ASUS Zen Press Event Live Blog (11:30am Taiwan, 3:30am UTC)
Anton and I are at ASUS' consumer press event, more often called the 'Zen' press event. We expect a quick flurry of launches from Jonney Shih, so stay tuned...
5 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 6/4/2018
Honor’s Thin-and-Light MagicBook with AMD Ryzen Mobile Listed
A Chinese retailer has started to list Honor’s MagicBook laptop based on AMD’s Ryzen Mobile processor. The thin-and-light notebook looks similar to the Intel-based MagicBook launched in April and...
15 by Anton Shilov on 6/4/2018
ZOTAC to Demo ZBOX CI660 Nano Fanless UCFF PC with 8th Gen Core i7
ZOTAC is prepping yet another passively-cooled ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) PC aimed at people looking for silence and portability. The ZBOX CI660 nano system will feature a new chassis and...
2 by Anton Shilov on 6/4/2018
ASUS ROG Strix Hero II & Scar II GL504 Laptops: CFL, 144 Hz, GTX 1070, New Chassis
ASUS on Monday introduced its new ROG Strix Hero II and ROG Strix Scar II gaming laptops. Originally, ASUS positioned the ROG Strix family of notebooks as its entry-level...
8 by Anton Shilov on 6/4/2018
ZOTAC Preps Second-Gen Wearable Backpack "VR GO" PC
Multiple makers of gaming PCs formally introduced their wearable backpack PCs for VR gaming at Computex 2016 and have never updated these systems since then. But apparently after two...
5 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2018
Acer Predator Helios 300 SE: White and Gold Gaming Laptop
Acer has announced its new 15.6-inch gaming laptop that brings together performance and style. The Predator Helios 300 Special Edition uses Intel’s latest six-core processors as well as NVIDIA’s...
12 by Anton Shilov on 5/24/2018
HP Unveils EliteBook x360 1030 G3 Convertible: Quad-Core CPU, 700-Nits LCD, 18 Hrs
HP has announced its new high-end 13.3-inch convertible aimed at demanding consumers, enterprises, and government agencies. The third-generation EliteBook x360 1030 hybrid notebook got more compact yet more powerful...
5 by Anton Shilov on 5/18/2018
ZOTAC Launches ZBOX CI329 Nano: Fanless Quad-Core Gemini Lake
ZOTAC has introduced its new affordable miniature PCs based on Intel’s Gemini Lake platform. Designed for office and media streaming applications, the new ZBOX CI329 Nano are powered by...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/17/2018
Mining Can Be Fashionable? Biostar Wants to Sell Millenials its New iMiner Systems
Biostar has this week released new iMiner systems specifically designed for crypto coin mining. The systems are stuffed with AMD RX 500-series video cards in a "space black" server-like...
36 by Joe Shields on 5/17/2018
HP 13-inch Elite x2 1013 2-in-1 PC: Quad-Core, Thunderbolt 3
HP has announced its third-generation Elite x2 2-in-1 hybrid PCs for enterprise and government clients. The new Elite x2 1013 systems received faster quad-core processors along with a larger...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/17/2018
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