Entry Level Asus ROG Ally dips to $399 at Best Buy
The deals do not stop rolling it seems. Even with the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales period coming to a close, the price drops are still happening and extending sales days into sales weeks. We reported only recently the low price of the two versions of the Asus ROG Ally handheld at Best Buy, […]
Microsoft focusing on handheld gaming support with new Xbox compact mode
Microsoft has announced a new UI update to the Xbox app aimed at improving the app’s user experience on small Windows-based handheld gaming PCs — like the ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. This new layout, called “compact mode,” collapses the left sidebar into icons, giving players more space to browse content. It’s not a […]
I’d Buy That for $999! This ThinkPad X1 Carbon is the laptop deal I’d get for myself.
Shh. Don’t tell anyone (I don’t want them to think I’ve been doing this for too long). Monday marked the 16th anniversary of the day I started working for Laptop Magazine. After many years there, I transferred (within the company) to working for the very best tech publication, Tom’s Hardware, but in total, it has […]
Next-gen Intel Core Ultra H Meteor Lake CPUs power upcoming Dell Alienware laptops, to be announced at CES per leak
The Windows Report claims to have leaked every product that Dell is set to unveil at CES this upcoming January, including Alienware gaming laptops equipped with Meteor Lake CPUs. Dell’s choice to use Intel’s next generation CPU is a vote of confidence for its gaming performance, though Meteor Lake won’t be powering every upcoming Alienware […]
AMD’s high-end gaming GPU sales surge in China following Nvidia RTX 4090 ban – shortages may extend into 2024
Following the U.S. export ban of the RTX 4090 and other Nvidia GPUs to China, Chinese consumers are looking for alternatives. Existing high-end RTX cards are being stripped down and repurposed into AI accelerators, and even AMD GPUs from suppliers like Dell are being restricted from sale to China, though that’s a Dell decision rather […]
Alienware’s RTX 4090 laptop and desktop deals cost little more than the card itself.
We all know that Nvidia’s RTX 4090 is the best GPU you can buy for gaming and is also pretty good for AI development. Unfortunately, scalpers know this too and have apparently been buying the cards in bulk so that they can resell them to researchers in China who face an import ban. In fact, […]
Raspberry Pi 5 successfully uses external graphics card
The release of the Raspberry Pi 5 has everyone in the maker community excited. The new board has tons of cool new spec upgrades that put it in a whole new bracket of performance. One of the biggest physical changes is the addition of a PCIe port. It didn’t take long for makers to get […]
Uncovered EA patent would use AI to replace professional voice actors with (fake) you
Amid ongoing concerns of AI acting in and outside of video games, Huzaifa Khan writing for Very Ali Gaming has stumbled on an EA games patent with some…very interesting implications. Namely, the EA games patent in question (“Generating speech in the voice of a player of a video game“) is made with the goal of […]
Nvidia reportedly creating new RTX 4090 D ‘Dragon’ GPU to comply with US export regulations for China
Nvidia’s best graphics card for gaming, the RTX 4090 was recently struck with an export ban preventing the GPU from being sold to China. In response, Nvidia is reportedly developing a China-exclusive variant dubbed the RTX 4090 D (for “Dragon”) — that’s according to WCCFTech. The RTX 4090 D will supposedly feature lower performance and […]
The Steam Deck is Valve’s best-selling product once again, and all it took was a discount and an upgrade
Valve’s Steam Deck has reclaimed its place as Valve’s best-selling product to date. The console dropped off of Steam’s top 10 best sellers list a few months ago, but thanks to the introduction of the Steam Deck OLED and the subsequent price cuts of the older LCD variants, the handheld console has managed to not […]