![]() Neither Intel’s fastest nor slowest hardware, it’s quietly tucked away inside my i7–8750H CPU, ready to provide a modicum of graphical power with more battery efficiency if I’m willing to stoop to its dumb level. However, there’s another option for when I’m working in a coffee shop away from my power brick and need to play a video game instead of grinding away at tasks: The Intel UHD 630. The 1060 is a nice little beast when the laptop is plugged in, but on battery it has to limit framerates to 30 to eek out more than 90 minutes of gaming life. It’s got a Max-Q GeForce 1060 GPU in it that Dell decided to run at full desktop clocks…thus negating the energy savings of the smaller form factor in the process. I own a Dell G5 from the middle of last year. Thirteen years later though, this shouldn’t be a problem. When it launched, Obliv ion was demanding of computers in spite of having scaled back its visual ambitions after three years of developing for a moving hardware target. ![]() ![]() ![]() Skyrim gets a million ports to everyone’s toaster and refrigerator, while Oblivion falls lost into the ether of time. To my dismay, it’s never had a remaster or re-release on newer hardware. In human years, that means it’s now out of elementary school, but in the gaming world it might as well be long dead, buried, reanimated as a zombie, and then killed again. ![]()
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