BestBuy | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 20 May 2021 12:28:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png BestBuy | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 First pre-built system featuring Intel Iris Xe DG1 graphics card spotted at retailer https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/first-pre-built-system-featuring-intel-iris-xe-dg1-graphics-card-spotted-at-retailer/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/first-pre-built-system-featuring-intel-iris-xe-dg1-graphics-card-spotted-at-retailer/#respond Thu, 20 May 2021 12:28:03 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=515838 The Intel Iris Xe DG1 graphics card has made a surprising appearance. A US retailer began listing a CyberPowerPC listing, which appears to be the very first system to feature Intel's desktop graphics card.  The system (via VideoCardz) is an entry-level gaming PC, priced at $750 and bundled with a keyboard and mouse. The main …

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The Intel Iris Xe DG1 graphics card has made a surprising appearance. A US retailer began listing a CyberPowerPC listing, which appears to be the very first system to feature Intel's desktop graphics card. 

The system (via VideoCardz) is an entry-level gaming PC, priced at $750 and bundled with a keyboard and mouse. The main components include an Intel DG1 graphics card, an Intel Core i5-11400F processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 500GB NVMe SSD drive.

The Intel DG1 graphics card inside the system features 80 EUs (640 shading units) and 4GB of LPDDR4X memory on a 128-bit memory bus. For the GPU to work, an Intel B460, H410, B365, or H310C motherboard with a “special BIOS” is needed.

Despite looking like a rather basic gaming system, this desktop marks the entrance of the third competitor in the desktop graphics card market. Now with the DG1 heading into the hands of consumers, we can look ahead to the release of DG2, which should provide decent competition up against AMD and Nvidia.

KitGuru says: Intel is beginning to break into the desktop graphics market – did you ever think this day would come? 

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Tablets are ‘crashing’, PC business is ‘reviving’ – chief exec of Best Buy https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/notebook/anton-shilov/tablets-are-crashing-pc-business-is-reviving-chief-exec-of-best-buy/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/notebook/anton-shilov/tablets-are-crashing-pc-business-is-reviving-chief-exec-of-best-buy/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:03:05 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=205578 In the recent years it became common for high-technology industry leaders to complain about slow PC sales and praise booming sales of tablets and smartphones. Apparently, the situation changed drastically in the recent months. After Microsoft ceased to support its Windows XP operating system, not only enterprises, but also consumers started to get new PCs. Since …

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In the recent years it became common for high-technology industry leaders to complain about slow PC sales and praise booming sales of tablets and smartphones. Apparently, the situation changed drastically in the recent months. After Microsoft ceased to support its Windows XP operating system, not only enterprises, but also consumers started to get new PCs. Since many people buy new PCs now, they do not spend on tablets.

Hubert Joly, chief executive officer of BestBuy retail chain in the U.S., said in an interview with Recode.net that the market of PCs and tablets has changed a lot this year. Smartphones with large screens as well as 2-in-1 hybrid devices compete against tablets nowadays. In addition, users need new personal computers now that the Windows XP operating system is no longer supported and older PCs simply get too outdated even for not-demanding users.

“The tablets boomed and now are crashing,” said Mr. Joly. “The volume has really gone down in the last several months. But I think the laptop has something of a revival because it’s becoming more versatile. So, with the two-in-ones, you have the opportunity to have both a tablet and laptop, and that’s appealing to students in particular. […] Some of us have a phone and a tablet and a laptop, but many people can now converge to either a tablet and a phone or a phone and a laptop.”

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This does not mean that sales of tablets will remain on low levels. People need to replace their old slates with something, so once a breakthrough tablet arrives, it will become popular.

“Once you have a tablet of a certain generation, it’s not clear that you have to move on to the next generation,” said the chief executive of BestBuy. “I think replacement is the issue. The penetration has gone so fast that it’s reaching an amazing degree and therefore it becomes more of a replacement market, and the level of innovation in the past year has not been as great as it had been in the previous two years.”

Hubert Joly is not the first person who talks about improvements of PC sales in the recent months. Intel Corp. and some executives from computer makers have expressed their optimism regarding personal computers too. While it is likely that PC shipments will be good this year, it remains to be seen how good will they be in a couple of quarters from now and whether demand for personal computers will actually remain on high levels in the future.

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KitGuru Says: It will be interesting to see what ways PC makers (and software designers [read: Microsoft]) will choose to ensure sustained demand for PCs. Tablets and smartphones from Apple are supported for three years (and three OS iterations) since their initial release, which increases likelihood that they will be replaced in three to four years. Perhaps, something like that will be adopted in the PC/Windows world?

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