Good time to upgrade your gaming laptop

Gamers can expect improved graphics chips, variable refresh rates and slimmer laptops

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 20 Series graphics chips are the first graphics cards capable of real-time ray tracing, a technology often used to produce computer-generated imagery in movies and 3D animation.
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 20 Series graphics chips are the first graphics cards capable of real-time ray tracing, a technology often used to produce computer-generated imagery in movies and 3D animation. PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO
Vincent Chang
Updated
Feb 20, 2019, 05:00 AM
Published
Feb 20, 2019, 05:00 AM
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If your gaming notebook is feeling long in the tooth, there is no better time than now to upgrade.

Last month at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang announced that more than 40 new notebooks powered by the company's latest GeForce RTX 20 Series graphics chips were launched at the end of January.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on February 20, 2019, with the headline Good time to upgrade your gaming laptop. Subscribe

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