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Microsoft Announces the Roll Out of Their Subscription Program

Microsoft announced its launching of a brand-new program, that will be by subscription. This program is for surface computers and tablets, and can be purchased the same way that people purchase cell phones. This includes, no interest financing for exactly two years and the ability to upgrade to a new device before the term period is over. This launch came out just in time for back to school season, since students and schools would be the main target for this specific program. The start of this problem is a all part of a bigger plan by Microsoft to gain new movement in schools within the united states.

Apparently, most of the schools that do have computers have a majority of google chromebooks and not Microsoft and Apple, a problem that Microsoft is trying to solve. The new program is called surface plus and it is available for purchase through the Microsoft Store in person and online. The computer options for this program include the surface pro, the laptop, surface book and surface studio. This program will allow customer to trade in their old machine for a new machine after 18 months but, only if the Microsoft hardware is in good condition upon return. The push for this program adopt is since Microsoft has had a decline on its hardware for the past three quarters.

The company’s revenue has also fallen 2% in the last quarter because of the decline in sales. Along with surface plus for students, Microsoft is also introducing a surface plus for the business world. This option offers multiple machines under one signed contract, and includes the option to finance a 55-inch surface hub. However, this deal does come with a flaw, an interest rate of 19.99% happens after two years. Microsoft surface hardware is increasing in creativity.

Now with Mac Support Nvidia Features the New Titan Xp top-end CPU

In the world of hardware innovation news, Nvidia launched the GTX 1080 Ti at the end of February. It short-circuited its own highest-end product, the 6-month old Nvidia Titan X, thanks to higher clocks and a highly-reduced price of $700, compared with $1,200. Nvidia is now straightening out that issue with a full- The Titan Xp sports 3840 cores, 240 texture units, and 96 ROPS, compared with the 1080 Ti’s 3584:224:88 composition. We do not know the card’s base clock yet, but Nvidia’s press release declares 3840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz. Read more >>

Posted on April 24, 2017 Sara Lewis PC Components

K63 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard by Corsair

Corsair recently announced a new portable mechanical gaming keyboard. Dubbed the Corsair K63, the board features a ten-keyless design, which means there is no numerical keyboard. It also features a gold-contact Cherry MX switches and a full complement of devoted media keys. The Corsair K63 packs the beloved Cherry MX Red switches which supplying a light, and a linear feel with an actuation force of 45g. The red switches are common in gaming keyboards as they excel in fast action sequences and allow nominal resistance. The mechanical gaming keyboard also features per-key red LED backlighting that can be controlled individually using Corsair’s Utility Engine application. The software allows more users to reprogram every key individually. For example, if they want to create macros, alternate commands or dynamic lighting effects. It allows the users to alternate to personal alterations. Read more >>

Posted on April 17, 2017 Sara Lewis Mechanical Keyboard

14-inch Blade Receives Kaby Lake Upgrades

The 14-inch Blade laptop was released in September of last year to much fanfare and at the time boasted an impressive Intel Skylake processor along with a state of the art Nvidia GeForce 10 series graphics card. Razor has decided to upgrade the Blade an upgrade due to Intel having just launched their new high-performance Kaby Lake CPUs at the start of this year. The new Blade upgrade swaps out the Skylake Core i7-6700HQ and supercharges it with the new Kaby Lake Core i7-7700HQ which is for the most part the same size but is clocked up to 300 MHz higher with a base clock of 2.80 Ghz and boost clock of 3.80 Ghz compared to the 2.6/3.5 Ghz of the Skylake Core i7-6700HQ processor. This will provide a minor performance improvement even in CPU-limited workloads. The base model will largely run the same hardware which includes a 1080p IPS display, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 GPU, SSD options ranging from 256 GB to 1 TB and 16 GB of RAM. A newer 4k touchscreen display variant will be available for the consumer public in the second quarter of 2017. Although the upgrade Blade is almost $100 more expensive than the previous version it is worth the sticker price due to the performance upgrades and will be available through Razer’s website starting today followed by “select retailers” next week in anticipation of a March launch. Read more >>

Posted on March 29, 2017 Sara Lewis Graphics Card

AMD is Giving Their New Graphic Card a New Brand Name

Every computer that requires a screen needs a graphics card; how the images and videos appear on a screen is correlated with the processor and most importantly the graphic card. Graphic cards have been popular since the beginning of computers and they have been improving ever since. People who need very clear and fast graphic cards are people who could be graphic designers, gamers, video editors and many more in that nature where graphics means a lot and good graphics require a lot of data that needs a good graphic card to support the speed of data flow required to generate good graphics quickly. AMD has designed a new generation graphic card and they are branding it as “Radeon RX Vega”. This brand will not replace the Radeon RX 500 but instead they are going to co-exist but the Radeon RX Vega is going to be slightly better and improved. Read more >>

Posted on March 14, 2017 Sara Lewis Graphics Card