For content creators, a laptop with a built-in SD card reader is a preferred feature. Some users go so far as to consider laptops only if they have a reader.One mistake with that choice is it assumes all SD card slots are created equal. Our tests cl…
A cryptic tweet posted by Nvidia’s GeForce Twitter account seems to suggest that the highly anticipated GeForce Ampere GPU could show up as soon as August 31.The tweet from 6 a.m. PDT Monday shows what looks like a Big Bang explosion and the sound…
HP’s Ryzen 4000-powered Envy x360 13 proves that you can get first-class features for coach pricing. Don’t believe me? Here are some of the goodies included:Â
Decent 13.3-inch IPS panel with good off-axis viewing, touch and optional pen support…
HP’s Ryzen 4000-powered Envy x360 13 proves that you can get first-class features for coach pricing. Don’t believe me? Here are some of the goodies included:Â
Decent 13.3-inch IPS panel with good off-axis viewing, touch and optional pen support…
“Should I buy a MacBook Air 2020 or a13-inch MacBook Pro made in 2016?â€� That’s the simple question an old friend asked me this week.Although I do not lean toward Apple hardware in any way, my time spent testing, prodding and riding PC hardware…
In a blunt video posted late Thursday evening, outspoken former Intel principal engineer Francois Pidnoel offered his advice on how to “fixâ€� Intel CPUs, criticized current leadership for not being engineers, said AVX512 was a misadventure, and d…
Anyone who uses a PC should have an external drive. It’s both a useful means of data backup and storage, and a way to transport files from your desktop or laptop to another device. Xbox One X users, as well, would be wise to invest in an external…
Update with forum reports the fix requires a hardware swap.Dell confirmed that charging issues with some of the company’s new XPS 17 9700 laptops, as well as some of its Precision 5750 corporate laptops, have been identified and fixed.The problem …
The fallout from Intel’s disastrous 7nm delay news was swift. On Monday, the company announced that it was breaking up its Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group and top exec Murthy Renduchintala was headed out the door. Renduchintalaâ…
The fallout from Intel’s disastrous 7nm delay news was swift. On Monday, the company announced that it was breaking up its Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group and top exec Murthy Renduchintala was headed out the door. Renduchintalaâ…
What’s the value of 100MHz? Apparently $35. At least that’s how much of a discount Intel will give those who buy the new Core i9-10850K “Comet Lake-S” CPU it officially unveiled today.That makes it fairly easy to memorize the specs of the newest 10t…
AMD has a dream that we’ll all buy more PCs, including AMD-based ones, of course—and that dream just may be coming true. Citing data from the National Retail Federation, Rick Bergman, AMD’s VP of Computing and Graphics, said he believes the su…
Describing its newest line of Ryzen 4000 G and Ryzen Pro 4000 G chips with graphics cores as the “ultimateâ€� desktop chips, on Tuesday AMD unleashed no fewer than 18 new processors. There’s a catch, though: They’ll be available only in pre-bu…
The XPG Xenia 15 may not look “newâ€� to you if you’ve been conditioned to consider “old hardwareâ€� obsolete the day the new models come out. But it’s actually proof that prior-generation parts can be perfectly relevant, and even as fast a…
Adobe Premiere Pro acceleration usually gets love from Nvidia’s CUDA and Intel’s QuickSync, but AMD has joined the party too.The company posted a blog on Tuesday morning highlighting that the recent Adobe 14.2 update added support for AMD GPUs to i…
Describing its newest line of Ryzen and Ryzen Pro chips with graphics cores as the “ultimateâ€� desktop chips, on Tuesday AMD unleashed no fewer than 18 new processors. There’s a catch, though: They’ll be available only in pre-built systems fr…
The new Dell XPS 17 is drop-dead gorgeous, thin, relatively fast, and has what looks like a potentially show-stopping charging problem.How serious is it? We’ll just say that based on our review unit, it’s enough to recommend that you put a pause…
AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs are coming to take down Intel’s Xeon workstation chips, offering up to 64 cores, 128 threads, 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4, and up to 2TB of RAM.The company announced four Threadripper Pro chips:
Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX …
That high-performance CPU or GPU you’re eyeballing for your next laptop is nothing if it’s not backed by an effective cooling system. Yet consumers tend to know very little about the cooling in a laptop.We fortunately had time to catch up with Dell’…
Reviews of AMD’s newest “XT� line of Ryzen desktop chips are in and while the CPUs offer improved performance and the best silicon batch, it’s overall a meh, hardware testers say. AMD
The lack of stock cooler and mostly competition with the…