Pushes 35fps in Rise of the Tomb Raider at 1080p

Select members of the press at CES 2018 show had a chance to spend some time with Dell's latest XPS 15 2-in-1 convertible laptop which was running on Intel's 8th generation Kaby Lake CPU with Radeon RX Vega M graphics and while some were quite keen to check out the cooling, some had a chance to run Rise of the Tomb Raider game.

Takes care of North America commercial sales

Some of you might remember the name, as John Byrne is an old friend of Fudzilla. He made a great career at AMD and, since July 2015, has worked at several senior positions at Dell. The recent promotion got him to a President.

Particularly in the USA

Analysts at Gartner released data that showed PC sales continue to fall, although the outfit said there are some “causes for optimism”.

Something for everyone

Dell is having a busy Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a ton of new products and improvements on show.

It is not just open sourcers who hate Intel's chip

One of Intel's key high-profile suppliers, Dell-EMC, is to purge the Intel Management Engine from its machines.

External graphics here I come

Dell has a list of its notebooks supporting Thunderbolt 3 with two and four lanes, and Frank Azor has confirmed that the XPS 15 comes with Kaby Lake – H getting four lanes.

Shipping in October

Dell has unveiled its Visor Windows Mixed Reality headset back in August at IFA 2017 and finally the device is available for pre-order directly from Dell.

We have it on video

There was no hanky panky being played at Siggraph by NVIDIA and we have the proof. 

Which was the year of the meaningful lyric 

The analyst outfit Gartner has added up some numbers and divided by its shoe size and reached a conclusion that the PC market is as bad as it was in 2007.

At least until the end of the year

Dell has tied up AMD's 16-core Threadripper CPU until the end of the year.