Hardware Review

Dell XPS 27 is the all-in-one computer that wants to win you for your sound system: 10 speakers

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Dell XPS 27

Dell has renewed its full range of computers at this CES 2017, we have not only convertibles, 8K monitors and new laptops, there is also room for all-in-one computers like this XPS 27. The equipment has a rather striking feature that is quickly appreciated in the photos: the speakers.

It is a computer that in the industry called all-in-one, with everything that is integrated into the 27-inch monitor. In this case, it does justice to the XPS denomination with some really interesting specifications, for example, the screen has 4K resolution.Continue reading →

Hardware Review

Who said smartphone? The CES remains the party of the PC and the laptop

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
PC and laptop

Studies, industry and the new generations seem to tire of telling us that the PC is a concept that no longer makes much sense in today’s world. Falling sales take years and all we see the smartphone (increasingly) as hyper center of that life.

But the PC continues to have its particular romance with the CES, the fair of consumer electronics that is used by a large number of manufacturers to re-launch news in a sector that far from dying continues to try to prove that it is here to stay. We are looking at everything and everything: even the new smartphones are waiting for another moment to launch, knowing that this is the party of the PC and the laptop.Continue reading →

Hardware Review

Lenovo attacks gaming market with its Legion Y720 and Y520

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Lenovo Legion

Nothing, Lenovo goes free and make associations will not see – they talked about Razer – with other brands to get into the world of hard – nosed player. The Chinese firm has determined that this way you can make one, simply had to create a parallel brand called Legion.

The type of product you can already know quickly with the images, computers very flashy – too often – to the taste that is supposed to have users ‘gaming’. I still think that most would be happy with good specifications and a conventional or discrete design, but this is the path taken by Acer, Alienware (Dell) or ASUS, and they seem to not go bad as well.Continue reading →

Smartphone Review

How to calibrate a mobile’s battery and why you should

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calibrate-a-mobiles-battery

Smartphones contain components that are durable over time, such as processors, screens or cameras, but there is a component inside it that degrades over time, and sometimes has problems when it comes to operating properly. We talk about the batteries, both fixed and interchangeable.

The battery charge of our mobile phone is calculated based on a series of algorithms that the system executes and that are based on the capacity of the battery, the time that we have been charging it and the maximum point of load, that is reached after a while. As soon as some of these factors fail, we can find a deviation in the calculations and, therefore, have before us a battery calibrated. Let’s see how to solve it but before, why it is important to solve it. So, how to calibrate the battery of a mobile?Continue reading →

Hardware Review

Asus ZenBook 3 UX390UA, design and power to compete with the MacBook

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Asus ZenBook 3 UX390UA

The series of notebooks Asus ZenBook was devised as ultrabooks from the outset, but with the arrival of ZenBook 3 demonstrates that this type of portable no longer need to cut back on power to maintain its thinness and lightness. In many respects, the ZenBook 3 could be confused with a tablet on the table, only 11.9 mm thick and its screen 12.5 inches.

Within the sector ultrabooks, it is more competition MacBook Apple than other similar equipment, while maintaining some of its disadvantages as a single USB 3.0 connector type C. But it has been the first to have one of the new Kaby processors Lake-U, and according to model will have a Core i5-7200U or a Core i7-7500U. But because of the product it is, it is oriented to a professional sector and not the average consumer.Continue reading →

Hardware Review

Lenovo ThinkPad Dress Up Silver: a revamp with Intel Optane, better trackpads, no bloatware

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Lenovo ThinkPad

One of the most important catalogs of laptops will be updated shortly, talk about the legendary Lenovo ThinkPad family, once in the hands of IBM. Renewal is at many levels – technology, software and accessories – affecting at least nine different computers.

We started with the operating system and the disappearance of bloatware with the choice of Windows 10 ‘Signature Edition’, versions Pro and Home. Lenovo and Microsoft make an effort to thin the system and eliminate the typical unnecessary applications that laptop manufacturers make.

Another highlight in the entire notebook line is the introduction of the ‘technology Precision Touchpad’, with which Microsoft ensures minimal quality – software and hardware – in this control system. They’ll try to match things with one of the Mac starters.

Apart from new specifications and some hardware, frills not want to miss as important the availability of a new color in a notebook family that had always distinguished by color “black matte”: now there will be a “silver” option for some models. Some will find it strange, but they look quite good in pictures.Continue reading →

Gadget

Corsair Scimitar is the mouse for the MMO: 12 programmable buttons and RGB illumination

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Corsair Scimitar

It is called Scimitar RGB and Corsair says this is his best mouse for MMO games, while the most striking in its catalog. For those who are lost we talk about multiplayer video games that have a massive audience

Designed for right – handed, the Scimitar is the first mouse to introduce a sliding side panel in which there is room for 12 programmable buttons – are mechanical keys -. You can move forward or back about 8 millimeters to fit the way each player uses the mouse.Continue reading →

Tech News

The biggest fraud to date, fake pages and a botnet to steal $ 180 million

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biggest-fraud

Every time we hear more about security issues related to the digital data, the clearest example is the Yahoo and its more than 1,500 million stolen accounts. Another example is that DDoS attack that threw some services for several hours, which was related to the security void that exists in some devices Internet of Things.

Today White Ops, company security research is revealing some details of what is considered “the largest and most profitable operation digital advertising fraud to date”. A fraud was carried out thank you a sophisticated network of bots Russians that went unnoticed for more than two months, which meant losses of more than $ 180 million.Continue reading →

Software Review

I’ve never updated my devices: Why 4 out of 10 users deny patches?

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Device Update

Perhaps many of us you read regularly actualize your version of Windows 10, or MacOS, or even your mobile with Android or iOS, but what happens when you have to update is a printer, a TV, a router or A videoconference camera?

The truth is that not everyone does. A recent survey of Canonical, the company responsible for Ubuntu, reveals that 40% of users have never consciously updated their devices. That behavior makes security failures can never be corrected despite patches to do so, and things could get complicated in the face of the future of the Internet of Things.

Not updating can be very dangerous

2000 consumers in that study, which was attended by only 31% with devices connected claimed that actualization these devices as soon as updates were available. Of the rest as we said a good part had not updated them, opening the door to all types of malware and intrusions by potential cyber-attacks.Continue reading →

Hardware Review

Acer Predator 17 X, the GTX980 squeezed into a shiny laptop

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Acer Predator 17 X

One of the most important developments last year in graphics cards for notebooks was the announcement that the GTX 980 would with full power to these teams by reducing their consumption. The presentation of the new Pascal cards this summer has left a second to laptops that are still sold with it, when in reality it is a very interesting card for any player.

Among the teams that are currently on the market with the GTX 980 is the Predator 17 X Acer, which also includes other features that make it ideal for games or to work, as the IPS screen or a powerful processor.

Features and design

Acer has tried to create a laptop that is attractive to the audience it is intended, and it has used a matte plastic chassis with the logo of the Predator series at the top, which combines with various tops in red. It is a bulky computer, with a thickness of 45 mm, 424 mm wide and 322 mm deep, similar to other powerful laptops to be able to cool them properly. It is something bigger and heavier than its predecessor Predator 17, but in return is quieter, although weighs 4.55 kg.Continue reading →