AMD’s newest APU promises discrete-class graphics performance on your next...
Intro and computing cores After a series of teases, AMD has officially taken the veils off of Carrizo, launching the anticipated notebook A8 and A10 processors as part of the Sixth Generation A-Series...
View ArticleUpdated: Thunderbolt 2 vs USB 3.0 vs eSATA
Introduction and speed The high-speed Thunderbolt standard has been given a huge upgrade, and it can now deliver twice as much data through a single channel. But it isn’t the only high-speed...
View ArticleHow to upgrade the SSD in your business Ultrabook
Introduction If you bought a business notebook, chances are the hard drive or solid state drive on your system is upgradeable. Upgrading your drive gives your business Ultrabook a new lease on life....
View ArticleUpdated: How to buy a PC for editing video and photos
Introduction With everything in this world turning digital, manipulating and editing vast amounts of full HD video (and in some cases 4K) and multi-megabyte images is starting to become a job many of...
View ArticleIntel appeals to gamers with Skylake’s improved Iris graphics
Over $34 billion are spent on PC games this year. Worldwide, there are 1.8 billion gamers, of which 1.2 billion consider themselves to be active gamers. Active gamers pay for a new game each month,...
View ArticleIntel has big changes in mind for the new MacBook Pro
While many are looking forward to Intel’s Sixth Generation Skylake CPU for its improved processing performance and power efficiency, the chip’s graphics may be its most underestimated asset. With...
View ArticleUpdated: Intel has big changes in mind for the new MacBook Pro
It’s all integrated While many are looking forward to Intel’s Sixth Generation Skylake CPU for its improved processing performance and power efficiency, the chip’s graphics may be its most...
View ArticleIntel Skylake performance boost will tempt you to upgrade your laptops
Skylake performance With more than half of the PCs in the world more now five years or older, Intel says that this is the time to upgrade to a new desktop, laptop or tablet. At IFA 2015, Intel...
View ArticleUpdated: Samsung unveils fast 950 Pro enterprise SSD
Samsung unveiled its 950 Pro solid state drive in Seoul, Korea at the company’s annual SSD Global Summit. The 950 Pro drive utilizes a slim M.2 form factor for portability and energy efficiency,...
View ArticleThe hard drive is becoming obsolete
At the Global SSD Summit, Samsung is pushing solid state drives as not just the technology of the future, but the technology that users need today to keep up with the speeds available wired and...
View ArticleAMD shows thin and light business notebooks can still be powerful
AMD unveiled its first enterprise-centric mobile processor in Mexico City, Mexico alongside HP’s launch of the HP EliteBook 705 G3, the first commercial notebook to debut with AMD silicon. The most...
View ArticleYou can now bake your own Raspberry Pi
You can now customise your own Raspberry Pi hardware thanks to an agreement signed by the company with its long time partner, Element14. Various options are available for the bespoke service which...
View ArticleHGST Ultrastar HDD is a 10TB helium monster, aims to cope with data overload
Western Digital has announced the shipping of the new HGST Ultrastar He10, which is the world’s first ever 10TB PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) hard disk drive. This is WDC’s third-gen helium...
View ArticleLG gram is a 15-inch laptop that’s lighter than Air
LG is teasing the products it will be showing off at CES, and they include an ultra-light laptop, along with a range of tasty monitors aimed at gamers and creative professionals. How light is...
View ArticleCES 2016: Building an AMD desktop PC just got a lot easier
AMD has made some big changes with its architecture at CES 2016 including announcing a new efficient Polaris-based mobile graphics chip and now it has a new standard socket for its desktop processors....
View ArticleNew AMD FirePro S-Series can provide graphics grunt for up to 32 PCs
AMD has unveiled its new FirePro S-Series video cards, which it notes are a "world first" in terms of graphics technology, being virtualised GPUs boasting multi-user GPU (MxGPU) tech. In other words,...
View ArticleBMW straps on the HTC Vive to speed up car development
BMW chose the HTC Vive as its virtual reality headset of choice for its vehicle development workstations, proving that VR is more than just for gaming. The company plans on incorporating VR in the...
View ArticleHuge 18TB hard drives will soon be here
Helium-using hard disks will push storage capacities up to the 18TB mark in just a couple of years, according to a new report. Storage research firm TrendFocus reckons that drive manufacturers will be...
View ArticleUSB Type-C will soon protect your hardware from dodgy chargers or USB sticks
USB Type-C cables offer many benefits, but there is a darker side to the new technology, namely firms selling cheap but dodgy cables which when plugged in can potentially fry your laptop – an issue...
View ArticleSanDisk debuts dual-sided flash drives for laptops and smartphones
USB Type-C is quickly becoming the standard smartphone and laptop port, replacing the aging microUSB standard. SanDisk is getting with the times with its new line of dual-tipped flash drives that...
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