It's also offered with multiple Core i7 processor options, whereas the Series 9 is only available with Core i5, and with integrated graphics only.

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Graphics are only one small-but-important part of this visual-interactive medium we call gaming.

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The impact to the rest of the market will be to raise the bar on graphics as a whole, which can only benefit high-end graphics makers like NVIDIA and AMD.

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