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  • Asus ZenBook, Asus VivoBook Models With 11th-Gen Intel Tiger Lake CPUs Launched in India

    Asus ZenBook and VivoBook models have been refreshed with the latest Intel Tiger Lake CPUs for the Indian market. The lineup include ZenBook Flip S (UX371EA), ZenBook Flip 13 (UX363EA), ZenBook 14 (UX435), ZenBook 13 (UX325EA), VivoBook Flip 14 (TP470), VivoBook S S13 (S333), VivoBook S S14 (S433EA), VivoBook S S15 (S532EQ), VivoBook 14 (X415), VivoBook 15 (X515), and more. Some of these ZenBook and VivoBook laptops were unveiled globally in September and have now made their way to India.

    Asus ZenBook Flip S (UX371) price starts at Rs. 1,49,990 in India and is available via Asus Exclusive Stores, Flipkart, Amazon, Reliance Digital, Vijay Sales, Croma, and offline stores. It features a 13-inch 4K UHD (3,840×2,160 pixels) display with 400 nits peak brightness, 100-percent DCI-P3 coverage, and Pantone-validated display with HDR support. It has a 16:9 slim-bezel NanoEdge touchscreen. The laptop is powered by an Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor with Intel Iris Xe graphics. You get 16GB 4,266MHz LPDDR4X RAM and a 1TB PCIe NVMe SSD.

  • A 14-inch ultralight laptop with Intel’s Comet Lake CPU

    Nokia is teaming up with Flipkart to launch the PureBook X14 notebook, aimed at the Indian market. The Finland-based smartphone major has been out of the hardware business for several years but licensed the Nokia name to other partners. The PureBook X14 is priced at Rs 59,990 and will be made available to pre-order exclusively on Flipkart from December 18.

    The new Nokia-branded PureBook X14 isn’t a bulky-looking machine. The notebook weighs only 1.1 kg and is 16.8mm thick. The mid-range laptop comes with a 14-inch Full HD display with very thin bezels, plus it also supports Dolby Vision as well as Dolby Atmos sound system.

    Under the hood, the notebook is powered by an Intel i5 10th Gen quad-core processor with up to 4.2 GHz turbo frequency and comes with Windows 10 Home. The CPU is paired with 512GB of SSD and 8GB of RAM. Like other laptops in the price segment, the PureBook X14 features integrated Intel UHD 620 graphics. And in the name of connectivity, the laptop has a USB 3.1 Type-C (which can be used for data transfer and charging), two USB 3.1, and an HDMI por

  • Chrome’s latest update adds tab throttling for a major performance boost

    A few months ago, we wrote about an update to Google Chrome‘s beta channel that added tab throttling in order to minimize the performance impact from dormant tabs. That feature is now rolling out widely, and it could be one of the biggest performance improvements to Chrome in a long time.

    Specifically, the company found that JavaScript Timers took up over 40% of resources in background tabs, and that reducing their impact made a big improvement to efficiency.

    With Chrome M87, JavaScript Timer wake-ups in the background will update just once a minute,  reducing CPU usage by up to 5 times, and extending battery life by 1.25 hours, according to Google (tests were conducted on a 2020 MacBook Air with Intel’s Core i3). The company says it’s managed to do so “without sacrificing the background features that users care about, like playing music and getting notifications.”

    The company is also bringing Occlusion Tracking to Windows, a feature previously available on Chrome OS and Mac that lets Chrome know which tabs and windows are actually visible to you. This allows Chrome to minimize resource usage on those that aren’t, in all making the browser “up to 25% faster to start up and 7% faster to load pages, all while using less memory.”

    Google is bringing a smaller update to mobile to help with those times when your chubby fingers make you press the wrong link. The company says that on mobile devices, one in five instances of navigation is people going back or forward, often because they clicked the wrong link. Chrome 87 will make 20% of these actions instant “with plans to increase this to 50%” in the future.