Following a historic 41-45% decline in shipments year over year (YoY), the HDD market in 2Q 2022 seems to be on the verge of an apocalypse – or at least standing at the doors to purgatory. As reported by Storage Newsletter, weakening demand on the client side prompted this faltering shipment situation for one of…
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It’s been nearly two years since we’ve seen GPU deals that were actually worth discussing. The global supply chain issues aren’t fully resolved, but the declining GPU mining profitability has improved supply for the rest of us, and all of the best graphics cards are now in stock at retail, with reasonable GPU prices as…
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It’s the weekend at last, and there are still some great bargains to be had after the deals-monsoon that is Prime Day. Today we have the Alienware x15 Ryzen Edition with RTX 3070 for $1,499 at Dell. This laptop has plenty of storage with its 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD and packs a punch with the…
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MSI is the latest motherboard maker to announce Intel 600 series chipset motherboard support for next-generation Intel Core processors. It published a new blog post with a list of what appears to include its entire 600 series motherboards portfolio, spanning products with Z690, B660, H670 and H610 chipsets. With these updates being prepared (or now…
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Apple rolled out iOS 15.6 RC 2 and iPadOS 15.6 RC 2 on Friday, July 15th. Apple doesn’t usually seed two release candidate builds, which means there was probably a serious bug in the first. Be sure to download this update if you installed RC 1. These are the release candidate builds, which means the…
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Google announced in late March 2021 that it was working on several eco-friendly Google Maps features, including support for energy-efficient navigation. The feature lets you select a route with a lower carbon footprint, even if it takes slightly longer than the fastest way to get to your destination. In practice, the feature lets you save…
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Intel and immersion cooling specialist GRC have partnered in a deep exploration of the potential uses for immersion cooling technology in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. The Register reports that the two companies have recently published a joint whitepaper exploring the actual benefits for data centers in adopting immersion cooling technologies instead of much more…
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Preorders for Apple’s all-new MacBook Air with the M2 processor opened late last week, and the first shipments are now getting into customers’ hands. Our review of the M2 MacBook Air went up yesterday, but we didn’t dare rip apart our Apple-supplied review sample. However, one YouTuber had no qualms about digging into the chassis…
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Over the last year or so, the PC case market has offered up some interesting and impressive cases that combine airflow sufficient airflow (usually via a mesh front panel) with attractive looks to back the performance. Examples that come to mind include Fractal’s Torrent and the surprisingly affordable Phanteks Eclipse G360A. But Lian Li arguably…
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