I've culled these recommendations from products we've tested that stand out for their performance, design and features for drawing, painting, designing, rendering, photo and video editing as well as other creative tasks. The latest development to improve your experience all around are the mobile hexacore Intel Core i7, i9 and Xeon processors, which deliver a nice performance boost over yesterday's quad-core maximum, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 20-series graphics processors, which are faster, and when supported, accelerate ray tracing for 3D. Both also support more memory, so you're not just gaining some speed. There are so many variations of the performance mix individuals need for power-hungry applications, so it's not only hard to limit suggestions to a handful of specific options, it's even harder to recommend specific configurations for each. (And note that I've got no budget picks here but will probably add them in a future update.) So here are a few rules of thumb that … [Read more...] about Best laptops, desktops and tablets for creatives in 2019
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Best of CES 2019: Cool tech you can buy this year
From Sony to Google, there were so many events, press releases, and announcements at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, that we can't possibly fault you for getting confused by it all. So, to help you out, we've rounded up some of the top gear we spotted on the show floor. Better yet, these are all the things you can either pre-order now or buy soon. Also: These are the weirdest products of CES 2019 CNET Best of CES 2019: All the tech you can buy this year LG Signature OLED TV R See it now: LG Signature OLED TVsLG plans to release its rollable OLED TV sometime during the second half of 2019, though it hasn't yet announced pricing. Our sister site, CNET, looked at it at CES 2019 and called it "incredible" and said it "feels like a finished product, something a wealthy buyer with a huge swath of windows and a million-dollar view would snap up in a heartbeat." Blue Ember mic See it now: Blue Ember micsBlue, a popular maker of … [Read more...] about Best of CES 2019: Cool tech you can buy this year