If you’ve been patiently waiting for Apple to update its iMac line, we have some good news. According to a recent report from Bloomberg, next-gen iMacs recently reached “an advanced stage of development called engineering validation testing,” also known as EVT. As a quick primer, the EVT stage is one step below the Design Validation…
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Well, it finally happened. According to the Steam Hardware Survey, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti GPUs were both among the top ten most purchased (or at least, ‘most recently plugged in and connected to Steam’) graphics cards in February 2023. This comes after months of stock limitations and controversies surrounding Nvidia’s…
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All of the best 3D printers print from some form plastic, either from filament or from resin. But an upcoming printer, Cocoa Press, uses chocolate to create models you can eat. The brainchild of Maker and Battlebots Competitor Ellie Weinstein , who has been working on iterations of the printer since 2014, Cocoa Press will…
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Last year, Apple released a new generation of the 13-inch MacBook Pro, this time powered with the M2 chip. While this computer offers around 20-30% improved performance compared to its M1 counterpart, the Cupertino firm shouldn’t even have announced this product in the first place. Here are the main reasons: It has an outdated design:…
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In an era where we can send files quickly over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth is often seen as slow and archaic. Bluetooth may not be superfast, but it is convenient and easy to use. Smartphones and laptops come with Bluetooth pre-installed, so this means we have the tech ready to use. In this how to, we’ll learn…
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Hear me out. For years, Apple has been pushing the iPad as a computer replacement. While for the Cupertino company, a computer is not a Mac — meaning Windows users would be better off with an iPad — the vast majority of iPad users are, in fact, Mac owners. I wrote a few stories over…
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(Image credit: @Locuza_ Twitter) AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X3D is the fastest gaming CPU on the planet due to AMD’s decision to bring its disruptive 3D chip-stacking tech to Zen 4, but curiously, the company didn’t share any details about its new Second-Gen 3D V-Cache in its Ryzen 7000X3D briefing materials. We initially found some details…
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Windows 11 has been with us for some time now, and for those of us with the best desktops we can guarantee the best performance. But what about that five year old laptop that your aunt has? The one with 4GB of RAM and a CPU that fell out of the best CPUs category in…
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It takes time to reproduce bugs and find solutions, especially rare ones. However, after a couple of weeks of investigation, AMD finally found a solution for Radeon graphics card owners who faced an Adrenalin driver bug that corrupted their systems. AMD’s Adrenalin 23.2.1 driver delivered decent performance improvements and new features to users. But, lamentably,…
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Multi-display configurations are used by many people in the small office/home office space (SOHO) these days. Intel’s moderately-priced Arc A770 graphics cards would be a good fit for these setups if they did not consume 40W of power in idle mode when driving two or more monitors. Apparently, the latest drivers fix the issue and…
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