Displaying items by tag: Asus

COMPANY NEWS:  Asus has appointed Archetype as its creative agency in Australia. Archetype will work with ASUA on local creative camaigns with a focus on brand awareness and category creation for upcoming projects.

Asus’ range of products, including its displays and laptops, has earned recognition and praise at the Design and Innovation Awards.

Optus has launched a new home Internet plan specifically designed for gamers which it says aims to not only provide great WiFi coverage, but will also address congestion issues for gamers in households where multiple devices are being used, by prioritising their gaming traffic within the home or premises.

From performance and features to design, Asus’ Zenfone 8 series packs a punch. A visual candy for users, its cameras cater to photographers regardless of their expertise.

Asus Republic of Gamers’ latest model, the Zephyrus S17, impresses gamers and content creators with its specs, covering all of their needs and delivers powerful performance.

Asus’ newest Zephyrus M16 details its features to offer gamers a bang for the buck. From the screen down to the processor, the new model offers a new immersive experience.

Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise has been renamed Parallels Desktop for Chrome OS, and the latest version adds support for AMD processors and runs on 12 additional Chromebook and Chromebox models.

As usual, Nvidia had a raft of product announcements ready for its annual GTC conference which started today. Among the standouts were the Grace data centre CPU, a next-generation BlueField DPU, Omniverse Enterprise for 3D collaboration, and updates to the company's Drive platform.

Every year, new phones, new CPUs, new everything arrives in the hope you’ll upgrade at some point, with WiFi getting a nice new upgrade to support ever faster speeds, with Netgear, Linksys, TP-Link, ASUS and others set to release 6E routers this year which uses the 6Ghz band that is "free of interference and congestion" - in 2021, at least!

Samsung will be the lone name missing from the list of Android smartphone makers who have all pledged to use the latest silicon from Qualcomm, the 888 5G mobile platform, in smartphones next year.

The total global PC market — including tablets — grew for the second straight quarter, with shipments of 124.5 million units in the third quarter of 2020, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that this meant a 23% rise year-on-year.

The traditional PC market in India — desktops, notebooks and workstations — saw growth of 9.2% in the third quarter, technology analyst firm IDC says, attributing this to the demand for e-learning and remote working.

Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise allows Windows and its applications to run directly on enterprise Chromebooks.

Weighing in at just 995g with the (claimed) 24-hour battery, this is the perfect machine for the on-the-go professional.

Intel has announced a new line of chips for laptops, claiming that its 11th Gen Intel Core processors with Iris X graphics would be up to 2.7x faster in content creation, more than 20% faster in office productivity and more than twice as fast in gaming plus streaming.

Chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies has released the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 5G Mobile Platform, to follow its most successful platform this year, the Snapdragon 865 that has powered more than 140 devices - announced or in development – the most premium-tier designs powered by a single mobile platform.

Android tablets never took off the same way iPads did, and while Chromebooks have had success in education, Google wants its latest batch to become a massive consumer hit.

ASUS has redefined what a notebook with two screens looks like, and the demos do make it look like a very practical and useful way to be more productive, and while the new tech is obviously expensive, the 2020s of dual screen laptops has arrived in 2019.

Apple launched the thin strip Touch Bar four years ago, but ASUS has launched what effectively is a full width half-size additional monitor above the keyboard on its new ZenBook Duo Models, dubbed ScreenPad Plus.

At IEM 2019 earlier this month, and then at its own media event, ASUS launched a fantastic range of new gaming notebooks, from ultra premium models to surprisingly affordable ones and everything in between.