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16-Inch MacBook Pro vs Razer Blade 15 Studio: Photo Editing Shootout
Last month, we reached out to Razer to see if they would lend us a Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition for testing. With the 16-inch MacBook Pro just announced and on its way in as well, it seemed like the perfect time to see which top-of-the-line laptop would take the photo editing crown. Introduction There was a time when all new “creatives” naturally drifted towards Mac. In 2007, I was… Maccurious, ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:52:05
G.Skill announces a bevy of high-performance DDR4 RAM kits up to 256GB
G.Skill is closing out the year with dozens of new DDR4 memory kits designed for Intel's X299 and AMD's TRX40 Threadripper platforms, under its Trident Z Royal and Trident Z Neo product lines. Several of the kits are based on its new low latency 32GB modules, including a bunch of 256GB capacity kits at different speeds. This raises the question, does RAM speed and capacity matter for gaming? And ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:47:09
GIGABYTE Unveils MU71-SU0 and MD71-HB0 Xeon Motherboards For Professionals
Outside of the plethora of AMD-related announcements of late, GIGABYTE has announced a pair of Intel motherboards for its workstation and server board users. The GIGABYTE MU71-SU0 is designed for Intel's Xeon W-3200 processor family and is based on the C621 single-socket chipset. The other model is the GIGABYTE MD71-HB0, which is dual-socket on the C622 chipset and supports Intel's Xeon Scalable p ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:47:09
G.Skill's New DDR4 Kits With 32GB Modules Have Very Low Latency
G.Skill today announced some new 32GB RAM kits with capacities ranging from 64GB in dual-module kits to 256GB in kits with eight DIMMs. The best part about these modules is that they feature very low timings for their capacities, meaning they should offer both high-capacity and snappy memory at once when they arrive in Q1 2020. The kits are outed in a handful of lineups, the Trident Z RGB, Tride ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:41:34
What Is a Favored Core? Intel CPUs With Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 Explained
Like we’ve proven with AMD processors, not all CPU cores are created equally, and that applies to Intel’s silicon, too. The silicon wafer fabrication process lends to discrepancies between each core’s voltage, power and thermal characteristics that lead to better performance. These faster cores are identified to the operation system as a favored core. The term favored core first came with the arr ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:41:34
OnePlus launches bug bounty program
After falling victim to a data breach back in November, OnePlus promised it would launch a bug bounty program by the end of the year in order to further secure its phones. Now the Chinese smartphone maker has launched its bug bounty program to help prevent future breaches but at this time, only select security researchers will be invited to to look for vulnerabilities in its systems. OnePlus wil ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:37:09
This is the best value large capacity SSD you can buy right now
SSD drives have fallen in price in the past few years as a slew of products from the big guns (Samsung, Intel, Micron) have pushed the price of the SSD terabyte to less than $90. However, there’s one small player which is defying that trend. US-based vendor Patriot has dropped the price of its Burst internal SSD to $74.99 after a $5 rebate card at Newegg. The offer will last till Christmas and ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:37:09
‘KRANE’ CONFIRMED AS A PURE CHROME OS TABLET COMING SOON BY LENOVO
‘Krane’ is a Chrome OS device in development that we’ve not talked about too often. As a matter of fact, we mentioned it upon its arrival in our consciousness in April of this year and once again as Gabriel found it would be only the second Chrome OS device to make the questionable decision of ditching the headphone jack. Other than those two posts, we’ve not really tracked anything unique about t ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:27:30
No Motorola Razr comeback orders in 2019: Costly foldy nostalgia mobe pulled back
We've got some bad news for the deeper-pocketed nostalgia-tinged tech fans out there: Motorola is pushing back the launch of its foldable reboot of the Motorola Razr. Preorders of the revived flip-phone were expected to open on December 26, with the first units trickling out on January 9, but those dates have been ditched in favour of an unspecified time next year. In a statement issued by paren ... Read more
2019-12-23 20:27:30
Windows 7 dies Jan. 14. Here's what you need to do
If you're still using Windows 7, it's time to move on. The venerable and much-loved 2009 version of Windows gets its last security update on Jan. 14, 2020 (unless your company pays for extended support) and the free Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus program will (probably) no longer be supported either. As we get further into 2020, Windows 7 machines will be more likely to become infected ... Read more
2019-12-22 20:23:20