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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 04, 2026
Apple is clearly hoping to disrupt the affordable laptop market with the launch of the MacBook Neo, its most affordable MacBook ever with a starting price of $599. The caveat is that it's powered by a smartphone chip, and specifically the...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 05, 2026
As promised, Intel has launched the Core Ultra Series 3 processors at CES 2026. These are the long-awaited "Panther Lake" chips, and if Intel's claims hold up under our own testing, they look incredibly impressive. Intel made some very big...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Sep 29, 2025
In case you've been out of the know for a bit in tech, Qualcomm just announced a family of new mobile processors last week at its Snapdragon Summit event, including its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile CPUs as well as its second-generation...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Sep 24, 2025
In case you missed our other coverage from Snapdragon Summit 2024, new second-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite chips for Windows on Arm laptops, as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5Qualcomm's fastest mobile parts everare on the way. The...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, May 16, 2025
Apple's next-generation CarPlay, known as CarPlay Ultra, is officially rolling out with the promise of a deeply integrated and enhanced in-car experience for iPhone users, such as real-time content and gauges, and car brand-specific skins...
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Ben Funk - Mon, Oct 21, 2024
Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit is currently underway in sunny Hawaii, and the chipmaker is hitting hard right out of the gate. The company is best-known for its Snapdragon SoCs in smartphones and tablets, and the latest iteration...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Sep 30, 2024
The mid-century Bentley S1 Continental in any form is a very rare piece of automotive history as it is. Finding one for sale takes patience and a large bank account, so imagine what kind of attention one such car previously owned by Alfred...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Sep 04, 2024
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series processors are very potent 12 and 10-core CPUs that are occasionally power-limited in the systems we've tested. Unlike Intel's processors, Qualcomm's chip doesn't contain a mix of performance and efficient...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Aug 21, 2024
Zen 5 is out, and AMD Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 processors are distinctly last-generation now. Only, a lot of reviewers produced benchmark data that makes Zen 5 look less like a step and more like a stumble. AVX-512 performance is fantastic, and...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Aug 13, 2024
As soon as the broader discussion about the Raptor Lake stability issues began, many people were already speculating that the potential "fix" would have a deleterious effect on performance. In essence, the thought process was that Intel...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jun 28, 2024
Intel's Arc launch was weak, to be sure, but we've retested the parts several times since launch, and the software is competent at this point. All Intel needs now is some new graphics hardware. That's on the way, and we'll get a sneak peek...
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Zak Killian - Sun, Jun 02, 2024
The PC scene is really heating up. With Arm-based processors from Qualcomm and Apple offering stark competition against the conventional x86-64 world, and with AI being such a focus of so many players, we've got hybrid machines with three...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Apr 04, 2024
Much has been written about the performance of Arm-based processors exceeding that of x86-64 CPUs, but depending on your perspective, that fully hasn't come to pass. There are Apple's M-series processors that do perform competitively in...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Mar 27, 2024
Qualcomm and Google are giving people another reason to start embracing ARM-compatible PCs with an optimized Chrome browser. The new Chrome browser is just one aspect of Qualcomms initiative to make upcoming Snapdragon X Elite powered PCs...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jan 22, 2024
Ford just made a tour de forceshow of its latest Sync in-car infotainment in a Lincoln Nautilus. Besides sporting an edge-to-edge panoramic display controlled by a central 11-inch touchscreen, the system is the first time Sync will be...
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David Altavilla, Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 13, 2023
We had another chance to visit our friends at Maingear and build a custom gaming PC decked out with high-end hardware, including AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU. This is the first time we've done so since the boutique builder...
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Nathan Wasson - Thu, Jan 12, 2023
Back in September, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Raptor Lake, the companys 13th generation of Core processors, and teased a chip coming to stores in early 2023 that would be able to hit 6GHz right out of the box. Well, it's now 2023, and Intel launched the worlds first 6GHz CPU this...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jul 07, 2021
OnePlus' behavior with its smartphones running OxygenOS came under scrutiny earlier this week. According to a new report, the company's flagship OnePlus 9 Pro has its performance throttled on purpose in hundreds of popular Android...
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Ben Funk - Fri, Jun 18, 2021
Back in September of last year, the x86 version of the Samsung Galaxy Book S failed to wow us with its performance and battery life. This ultralight laptop is powered by Intel's Lakefield-based Core i5-L16G7 processor, which was the...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jun 16, 2021
Microsoft will officially unveil the next generation of Windows on June 24th, but the company's plans prematurely leaked yesterday. We were already relatively confident that the new operating system from Redmond would be called Windows 11...
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Ben Funk - Wed, Apr 14, 2021
After a lengthy technical preview, Parallels has officially released Parallels Desktop version 16.5 which includes official support for Apple's latest Macs. That includes support for the 2020 Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro which...
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Ben Funk - Sat, Dec 05, 2020
Apple's M1-based (Apple Silicon) Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air spelled the end of Boot Camp, the company's solution for booting into Windows natively on its Intel-based hardware. At the same time, the big names in commercial virtualization options, VMWare and Parallels, are still...
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