i regard and praise the effort
The majority of these experiments do not stay for long, however who understands.
Acer's Nitro Blaze 11, which takes the “portable” out of “portable handheld video gaming PC.” Credit: Acer
The Consumer Electronics Show is a trusted source of statements about iterative updates to PCs and PC elements. A few of those statements are substantial enough in some method that they break through all that sound– Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs and their lofty pledges about AI-generated frames did that this year, as did Dell's choice to eliminate several decades-old PC brand names and change them with a dull series of “Pro/Premium/Plus” tiers.
CES is likewise a location where PC business and device makers get a little strange, taking some larger (and periodically doubtful) swings together with a huge batch of more foreseeable incremental refreshes. As we've covered the program from afar this year, here are a few of the more noteworthy things we've seen.
Put an E-Ink screen on it: Asus NUC 14 Pro AI+
The NUC 14 Pro AI+ discovers a method to integrate E-Ink, AI, and turn-of-the-millennium clear plastic into a single gadget. Credit: Asus
The strangest CES PCs are typically the ones that attempt to retreat from “a single screen connected to a keyboard” in some method. In some cases, those PCs have a 2nd screen stowed away someplace; often, they have a screen that extends; in some cases, they eliminate the keyboard part and extend the screen down where you anticipate that keyboard to be.
Asus is presently the keeper of Intel's old NUC tiny PC line, and this year it's upgrading the NUCs mainly by putting brand-new processors in them. The Asus NUC 14 Pro AI+ likewise chooses to spice things up by including a color E-Ink screen on top, one with images that can show constantly even when the gadget is off.
While other PCs with shoehorned-in E-Ink screens have at least attempted to do something practical– older laptop computers in Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus series might be utilized as E-Ink tablets when they were closed– the screen on the NUC 14 Pro AI+ appears strictly decorative. Asus provides couple of information about how it works: “users can produce AI images through the integrated app, permitting them to develop distinct individual recognition styles that continually show material without being plugged in, taking in no power.”
All of Asus' item shots reveal the NUC with the very same pattern of abstract triangles showed on the top, so it's uncertain whether users will have the alternative to utilize custom-made non-AI-generated images, or if they'll have the ability to utilize the screen to show any other type of system details. It's distinct, a minimum of.
Extending: Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable
Is this an odd stretched-out Photoshop of a laptop computer? No, it's simply the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable! Credit: Lenovo
We blogged about the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable currently today,
