Netgear Orbi RBK50 Whole-Home Mesh Wi-Fi gains Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax support for gigabit speeds
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Netgear Orbi RBK50 Whole-Home Mesh Wi-Fi gains Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax support for gigabit speeds

Netgear’s Orbi Mesh Wi-Fi system is arguably the best Mesh Wi-Fi system on the market to date. They have continued to improve it over the years and have introduced multiple systems to meet different price points. I personally use the Orbi RBK23 system and can vouch for how good it is. At CES 2019, Netgear…

LG Signatures Series OLED TV R – a rollable OLED will launch this year
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LG Signatures Series OLED TV R – a rollable OLED will launch this year

We have been promised rollable OLED TVs for a whole now and LG demoed the tech properly last year at CES. This year they have officially announced the Signatures Series OLED TV R. The is relatively normal for most of its spec it is a 65-inch 4K OLED display though it will include support for…

Asus ROG Strix XG438Q a 43-inch DisplayHDR 600 120Hz 4K announced at CES
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Asus ROG Strix XG438Q a 43-inch DisplayHDR 600 120Hz 4K announced at CES

While Big Format Gaming Displays (BGFD) sound amazing they will be quite niche due to their size and price. Asus may have a great alternative with the ROG Strix XG438Q which is a a 43-inch DisplayHDR 600 screen which offers 90% coverage of the DCI-P3 colour space and support for local dimming and 120Hz refresh…

Acer Predator Triton 900 Gaming Notebook with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 GPU Announced at just 2.1KG for £3.7k
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Acer Predator Triton 900 Gaming Notebook with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 GPU Announced at just 2.1KG for £3.7k

Acer today unveiled two new Windows 10 gaming notebooks, the Predator Triton 900, a 17-inch performance notebook featuring a slim design and convertible 4K display — and the Predator Triton 500 — a 15-inch all-metal gaming powerhouse measuring just 17.9 mm (0.70 inches) thin. Both gaming notebooks combine new, functional designs with powerful internals that…

Alienware m15 & m17 gaming laptops announced with GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q &  i9-8950K
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Alienware m15 & m17 gaming laptops announced with GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q & i9-8950K

The Alienware m15 and m17 were first launched last year which slimmed down the Alienware gaming laptops thanks to the new Max-Q GPU design. During CES the updated versions of these laptops have been announced which introduces the next generation of NVIDIA GeForce RTX Max-Q graphics cards with options from GeForce RTX 2060 all the…

Nvidia RTX 2060 Graphics Card Announced costs $349/£275
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Nvidia RTX 2060 Graphics Card Announced costs $349/£275

Nvidia has finally unveiled their RTX 2060 graphics card bring the expensive Ray Tracing performance to lower tied cards. Nvidia’s RTX 2060 Founders Edition will ship on January 15th for $349 (for Founders Edition), packing 5 Gigarays of Ray Tracing performance, placing the graphics card not that far behind the RTX 2070.  There is no…

LG 88-inch 8K OLED with 3.2.2-channel Dolby Atmos audio announced at CES 2019
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LG 88-inch 8K OLED with 3.2.2-channel Dolby Atmos audio announced at CES 2019

It wouldn’t be CES without a whole heap of TV tech with each company trying to one up the other. 8K already dominated the TV tech at IFA last year so the trend continues at CES. In order to stand out, LG has announced a new 88-inch 8K OLED panel that produces 3.2.2-channel Dolby Atmos…

Samsung 75-inch 4K Wall & 219-inch Window displayed at CES 2019
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Samsung 75-inch 4K Wall & 219-inch Window displayed at CES 2019

Samsung introduced MicroLED technology last year with the customisable Wall TV that was 146-inches. This technology hasn’t entered the market yet, and at IFA in Berlin last year both Samsung and LG were demoing the technology. Samsung is continuing to push this new technology and upping the ante with what they call the Window which…

AMD 3000-series Ryzen Mobile APU launched with Vega 10 (Ryzen 7 3750H quad core 35w 4Ghz turbo )
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AMD 3000-series Ryzen Mobile APU launched with Vega 10 (Ryzen 7 3750H quad core 35w 4Ghz turbo )

Sadly we did not get the announcement for the desktop AMD 3000-series Ryzen chips at CES. However, AMD is launching the first parts of the Ryzen 3000-series of processors, focused around the Ryzen Mobile 2nd Gen family for both the general 15W market as well as the high-performance 35W market. The new range of processors are based…

Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell Announced at CES 2019
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Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell Announced at CES 2019

For a while Ring smart doorbells were the only decent option on the market, but, quite likely due to their success, several other brands entered last year including Arlo Audio Doorbell and Nest Hello. Not to be left out Netatmo have just announced their own smart video doorbell at CES 2019. With the Netatmo Smart Video…

$5k HP Omen X Emperium 65-inch 4k 144hz G-Sync HDR Monitor with Soundbar announced at CES
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$5k HP Omen X Emperium 65-inch 4k 144hz G-Sync HDR Monitor with Soundbar announced at CES

Last year Nvidia announced the Big Format Gaming Display that were 65-inches and capable of 4K HDR at 120 Hz. No products have materialised from that announcement in 2018, but it looks like HP will be one of the first to deliver. The monster HP Omen X Emperium uses a 64.5-inch 8-bit AMVA panel featuring…

Lightwave Generation 2 Review 2019 – (Link Plus)
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Lightwave Generation 2 Review 2019 – (Link Plus)

I have previously reviewed the Lightwave Generation 2, but Lightwave has been kind enough to send me one of the radiator valves to review so I thought it would be worth redoing the review of the system and see how it has improved since its first launch. For UK users Lightwave is one of the…