Apple’s new M1 processor took the laptop world by storm, with many proclaiming it had ended the PC’s whole career.Hyperbole and irrational fanboy flexing aside, Apple’s M1 is indeed a powerful chip. But to get a better feel against its contemp…
If you’re expecting boffo news from CES 2021, it looks like you won’t have to wait beyond day two, when both AMD and Nvidia are expected to talk up new hardware in back-to-back streams.AMD will go first on January 12, with a keynote address by C…
Intel may be selling its NAND division to storage rival SK Hynix, but the company will nonetheless introduce a newer, faster M.2 670P SSD, along with an updated Optane Memory drive.Intel is introducing a 670P SSD drive that’s a sequel to its popul…
GPU add-in boards (AIBs) saw an unexpected sales bump in the last quarter—sales increased 6.6 percent over Q1, and spiked an amazing 36.7 percent over the same quarter from last year. This is according to a report from Jon Peddie Research. The bi…
Ever since email was invented, relevant temporal results have been the goal of its search. If you want to know about a meeting you were invited to, you’d search for the the company, and the last email would bubble up to the top.With Microsoft Outl…
In the run up to the September 1 reveal of next-gen GeForce graphics cards running on Nvidia’s cutting-edge Ampere GPU architecture, the company let its thermal, mechanical, electrical, and industrial design nerds shine in a video describing the c…
In the run up to the September 1 reveal of next-gen GeForce graphics cards running on Nvidia’s cutting-edge Ampere GPU architecture, the company let its thermal, mechanical, electrical, and industrial design nerds shine in a video describing the c…
Like a prize fight weigh-in, the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U in Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 just flexed like no other ultrabook CPU we’ve ever seen.It’s almost as though the Ryzen 7 4800U snatched the mic from the podium and started hurling insults at Intel…
If you’re the kind of person who looks at the milk carton expiration date or squeezes the bread before you buy it, then you probably don’t want to buy these 77 Chromebooks.That’s because after examining every single Chrome OS device listed in …
You can bet the entire PC world will be nervously eating every single word Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says next Tuesday, when he is expected to finally announce the next generation of GeForce graphics cards, based on the company’s cutting-edge Ampere…
Spurred by the pandemic, consumers snapped up more computers with GPUs, a leading analyst firm said Tuesday.Second-quarter GPU sales were up overall 2.5 percent globally over the previous quarter, with year-to-year sales up an astounding 11.2 percen…
Microsoft Flight Simulator is stunningly beautiful but a pain to download, and it’s absolutely punishing to run on even the highest-end PC hardware today.If you just don’t happen to have the hardware, storage space, or bandwidth to play Microsoft Fl…
When rumors of an Nvidia-specific power connector for the rumored GeForce RTX 3090 surfaced last month, it sent hardware nerds into a tizzy that the cable would be a major turn off. If you need a fresh cable or power supply to run a new Ampere GPU, …
Microsoft’s beautiful and punishing Flight Simulator 2020 reboot will spur a staggering $2.6 billion in PC hardware sales, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) estimates.Flight Simulator formally launched August 17. Previews of Flight Simulator (including PC…
Ever since the pandemic lockdown, I’ve been fielding questions from friends and family about technology buys. Recently, it was a relative asking what monitor she should buy for her daughters who are going back to school—but doing distance learni…
Intel has finally defended its AVX-512 instruction set against critics who have gone so far as to wish it to die “a painful death.â€�  Intel Chief Architect Raja Koduri said the community loves it because it yields huge performance boosts, and I…
AMD on Tuesday launched what can only be described as the “home essentialsâ€� (read: bare-bones basic) of CPU chipsets for today’s and tomorrow’s Ryzen chips.The A520 chipset is a slight upgrade over the previous budget A320 chipset. One main …
Nvidia’s long-awaited GeForce Now arrived on Chromebooks Tuesday morning, giving gamers the ability to play their game libraries on Google’s laptops.Plans for GeForce Now streamed gaming on Chrome OS have been in the works since 2017. The servic…
Nvidia’s long-awaited GeForce Now arrived on Chromebooks Tuesday morning, giving gamers the ability to play their game libraries on Google’s laptops.Plans for GeForce Now streamed gaming on Chrome OS have been in the works since 2017. The servic…
You can speed up your home Internet connection and Wi-Fi for cheaper than you’d think. It’s a need many homes are facing now, when the pandemic traps both students and parents under one roof, all trying to work online at the same time. Wi-Fi range …