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Jon Martindale

Jon Martindale

Jon Martindale began his technological education bashing the surprisingly resilient keys of a BBC Micro in the late '80s. He hand-built his first LED-festooned Windows XP gaming PC in his early teens and has been a tech journalist for all of his working career. Over that time he's written a number of in-depth features, hundreds of reviews, and thousands of news articles, covering everything from the latest games and hardware, to hacking scandals and government surveillance.

Equipped with a sit/stand desk, a Cherry MX-brown switch keyboard, and a high-refresh-rate monitor, Jon spends his days keeping up to date with the latest and greatest happenings in a variety of industries. He overclocks, water cools, and debates the merits of privacy, whilst 'hodling' his own modest Bitcoin investment for the future.

When he's not digging into the latest developments in ransomware, cryptojacking, and biometrics, Jon continues to wear his nerd heart on his sleeve, enjoying comics, board games, and model painting.

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These ray-tracing games will help you push your GPU to the limit

These are the upcoming games that support ray tracing rendered on Nvidia's RTX and GTXs graphics cards. They aren't many in number at this point, but thanks to the power of ray tracing, they are some of the best-looking games ever made.
Posted — By Jon Martindale
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Ray tracing on GTX GPUs might sound stupid, but there’s a method to the madness

Ray tracing in a handful of games is now supported by more than Nvidia's RTX graphics cards. If you have a GTX 10-series card you can enjoy it too, but we don't think you'll enjoy it very much.
Posted — By Jon Martindale
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The new Dolby Vision monitors from Asus could be perfect for creative types

Asus is the first to release a Dolby Vision monitor and it's done so with two of them at the same time. They're squarely aimed at professionals but should look gorgeous no matter what they're displaying.
Posted — By Jon Martindale
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Computing

Acer’s ConceptD laptops and desktops give artists quiet gaming power

While Acer's ConceptD workstations and mobile workstations come with discrete RTX graphics, these new systems weren't actually designed for gamers. Instead, Acer is targeting creatives with these powerful, color-accurate PCs.
Posted — By Jon Martindale, Chuong Nguyen
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Acer’s powerful new Helios 700 gaming laptop transforms to maximize performance

Acer's new Helios 700 laptop is like nothing we've ever seen before, with superpowerful components and a transforming keyboard that opens up additional air vents for maximum performance and overclocking.
Posted — By Jon Martindale
Lenovo Legion Y740 review
Computing

PC sales slide 5 percent in 2019 and they’re taking Apple with them

PC sales are down year on year with nearly three million less systems selling during the same period in 2019. While this is bad news for Apple, Asus, and Acer, Lenovo increased its lead to almost a quarter of the entire industry.
Posted — By Jon Martindale
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