HIGHLIGHTS
2019 was an interesting year for PCs and laptops, with some insane discoveries and new standards enhancing the staple.
If there’s anything that can be told about the PC area in 2019, it would be that the section has gone through a service. As e-sports continue to earn reputation, gaming has become fashionable repeat and the number of content authors has also significantly grown.
The collective effect is that there’s a lot of further need for PCs and laptops, which fired some very notable events this year.
PROFIT OF AMD
While there were few in the PC production that sort of noticed this happening, AMD’s Ryzen 3 desktop CPUs did start an ‘epyc’ monkey-wrench into Intel’s computer.
While Intel should continue struggling with working sub-14nm with their processors, AMD’s third-generation Ryzen processors are formed using the 7nm process by TSMC. This enabled AMD to deliver any eye-watering performance beyond its complete third-gen responsibility.
Retailers across the world originally had a hard time supporting the stock of not just individual AMD Ryzen processors, but also X570-based motherboards. The Ryzen CPUs more made PCIe 4.0 to the market, which meant too more active NVMe drives.
Despite a controversy concerning the broadcast boost clock of these CPUs, third-generation Ryzen CPUs did not spend their appeal. AMD is ending 2019 with 30 percent CPU market share, a feat they’ve accomplished after 12 long years!
SSDS DEVELOPED
For the highest time, access to high-speed storage was possessed for the very wealthy. However, 2019 saw the value of SSDs decrease distinctly.
Not only that, but we also saw a more active pattern for storage, NVMe drives, go mainstream. NVMe administers over PCI-Express ways preferably of the much limited SATAIII connector, using data transfer flows into the gigabyte/second range.
This year also saw the heatsink method of NVMe drives become more commonplace, thanks to the initiation of the Western Digital SN750.
Once a mainstream corporation makes something like this, everyone tends to chase suit, and follow suit they have! At a fresh meetup, WD reps showed off how so more active things like installing Windows or even returning Steam backups can be when using their SN750 drive.
They also showed off how becoming a heatsink assisted have the drive temperatures poor. Now, more manufacturers are making faster NVMe drives, with heat sinks formulated into them.
DEVIATION CRAZY LAPTOP
This year, we too attended more laptops that could simply be considered unique. As if the Dell Alienware Area51 with its desktop-grade parts wasn’t sufficient, there was also the fact that all major components in the laptop would be user-upgradeable.
Before we noticed Asus bring the dual-display ZenBook Pro Duo to the store, while Intel confirmed off its Honeycomb Glacier prototype, a gaming laptop with two displays, both of which would be flexible.
Asus also originated the ROG Mothership, a gaming laptop/tablet considering it packs all the components into the display itself whereas the keyboard was a magnetically portable assistant.
If there’s any takeaway from 2019, it’s that gaming reached mainstream repeat. We’ve observed far more sub-75K gaming laptops started this year than ever before.
Gaming laptops also immediately got content producers turning to them for the powerful hardware, which eventually helped Nvidia Nvidia to publish Creator Drivers for their 20-series desktop and mobile GPUs.
Needless to say, it signified a great year to be a PC gamer, and things are only going to get better in 2020
