PC Magazine July 2017
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you! PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you!
PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
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Chip giant Intel took the wraps off what look like its most powerful consumeraccessible<br />
<strong>PC</strong> processors ever, in the Intel Core X lineup. The nine new CPUs<br />
top out with the Core i9-7980XE, an 18-core, 36-thread monster. This was an<br />
obvious answer to AMD’s impressive Ryzen CPU launch earlier in <strong>2017</strong>, and the<br />
imminent Threadripper/X399 platform, which AMD says will include a 16-core,<br />
32-thread CPU to arrive sometime this summer.<br />
Nvidia started off the show not by announcing new GPUs but instead revealing<br />
a more efficient “Max-Q” technology to leverage its existing “Pascal” chips for<br />
laptops. The most impressive of the new Max-Q laptops we saw at the show was<br />
the Asus ROG Zephyrus, a GTX 1080/Core i7 system that’s well under an inch<br />
thick and weighs less than 5 pounds. And while there were no new graphics<br />
chips launched at the show, we were impressed by the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080<br />
Ti Mini, a powerhouse card that’s just over 8 inches long—and overclocked!<br />
But that’s just the crest of the Computex product wave. Here are some of the<br />
best products we saw at the show this year.<br />
BEST NEW GAMING LAPTOP:<br />
Asus ROG Zephyrus<br />
There’s no denying Asus’ ROG Zephyrus has<br />
some design quirks, like its keyboard and<br />
touch-pad placement. But the company worked<br />
with Nvidia and its new Max-Q initiative to<br />
squeeze GeForce GTX 1080 graphics, a 7th<br />
Generation “Kaby Lake” processor, and a<br />
high-refresh-rate screen into a device that’s<br />
just 0.74 inch thick and 4.85 pounds. That’s<br />
impressive from an engineering<br />
standpoint alone, but we also like the<br />
way the laptop looks, with its straight<br />
lines and copper edge accents. The<br />
hinge, notably, is tied into the<br />
ventilation system, with the vents at the back<br />
opening wider when you lift the lid. This may be the most interesting new<br />
laptop we saw, period. It’s going to be expensive with a GTX 1080 at $2,699.<br />
But if you’re willing to step down to a GTX 1070 model, Asus says that version<br />
should run $2,299.
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