Last week the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) organization reported that the work on the DisplayHDR standard was over. This standard defines the quality of HDR content, being rendered by a display. Today we already know the name of the first device, which has successfully passed the certification mentioned. It’s the 49-inch Samsung C49HG90 monitor, which meets all requirements for obtaining DisplayHDR 600 conformity marking.

 

To receive this certificate a display must offer the ultimate 600 cd/m² brightness, the 10-bit colour depth and cover at least 99 % of the BT.709 palette and 90 % of the DCI-P3 colour space.

 

Samsung C49HG90 features the 3840 x 1080 pixels resolution, 144 Hz refresh rate, 3000:1 static contrast, 600 cd/m² max brightness and 1 ms response time. Other specs include Quantum Dot backlighting as well as AMD FreeSync 2 support.

 

The Samsung C49HG90 estimated cost is $999.00.

PC market offers the whole range of customer-oriented products depending on the purpose of their utilization. Therefore, it's not a problem to find a high-end multi-functional PC for managing huge graphic applications and games; neither, it's a problem to search out a compact nettop to fulfill home-based tasks. Samsung Chromebox is a combination of compact design and rather progressive functional. However, despite such attractive specifications, the price for this product might satisfy the budget of any customer.



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Nettop Samsung Chromebox is a high-performance hardware platform supplemented by software with the open source code. The product uses Chrome OS based on Linux, and is destined at efficient work with web-applications. The most attractive feature of the Chromebox is its price. The average market cost equals to $329; such cost is able to exceed similar products from other manufacturers and draw the lion's share of potential customer groups.


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The Acer Co. has replenished its product range with the first Ryzen-operated desktop. The vendor has called its latest PC Aspire GX-281. This model is performed in several versions and costs at least $800.



The Acer novelty can be based either on Ryzen 5 1400 or Ryzen 5 1600 CPU. In all cases gaming experience is supported by GeForce GTX 1050, thus, the PC belongs to the initial class of gaming models.


RAM capacity can vary from 8 to 64 GB, and data can be stored on the 1 TB HDD. Some modifications also presuppose the presence of the 256 GB SSD.


The interface set includes five USB 2.0, three USB-C 3.1, Gigabit Ethernet connectors, as well as audio jacks. One can also utilize a card reader, a Wi-Fi adapter and an integrated Qi wireless charging. The desktop is supplied with a mouse and a keyboard.


We should note, that a few resources assume the launch of samples with more effective CPU (up to Ryzen 7 1700X) and 3D-cards (up to GeForce GTX 1070).