To PC enthusiasts, power supplies are one of the most critical components in a computer, and the one that should never be cheapened out on. Indeed, it is the “engine” after all that powers the “ship”, and one unfortunate disaster on a PSU can create a cascading failure scenario where it takes the rest of […]
The new iPhone SE 2022 is out and it is the cheapest iPhone you can buy from Apple but what about the second cheapest iPhone 11? Here, we take a look at what $70 difference will get you. For start, you get the new all screen design. The iPhone SE is so dated in the […]
Standard LCD panels even with IPS technology have an average brightness of 300 nits with a low contrast ratio of 1000:1. This means the images are not as vivid even though you can get them at high resolution of 4K Ultra HD. If true black, super high contrast and vivid colours are what you are […]
Now that the Mac Studio desktop and Studio Display are out and Apple has retired the Apple iMac 27-inch 5K line altogether, what are your upgrade options for your iMac Retina 5K 27-inch? Do you ditch the all-in-one (AIO) in favour of a desk cube and monitor? Or are there other options?
GPU prices are finally going down! No really. According to multiple independent sources (Greg Salazar, Hardware Unboxed, etc.), since February 2022 overall prices of graphics cards have significantly fallen. It’s still nowhere near MSRP, of course. But at 140-170% MSRP, we can finally simply chalk it up to increased shipping costs and raw material price […]
Apple announced their latest display, the Apple Studio Display 27-inch 5K and no it is not as expensive as the Pro Display XDR but at $1599, it is still a pricey monitor. And, it doesn’t stop there, if you price it up with height adjustable and nano-texture glass that price tag will move up to […]
Yes, with a brand new discrete GPU, and you better believe it! For the last two months (January and February 2022), we’ve have witnessed GPU prices cooling down to its lowest level yet. We have also witnessed the release of two brand new entry-level GPUs from both Team Red and Team Green during the same […]
Laptops are more of a complete package as a product compared to desktops. However, for the past few years prior to 2020, this advantage was never nearly enough in the face of the economies of scale and free component interchangeability that desktops have always enjoyed.
Alder Lake Proves that Core i9 Mobile is Laughably Bad as Always. Six cores, twelve threads, and eight E-cores. Without context, you’d never really know whether you are referring to a Core i9 12900H, or a Core i7 12700H. To be fair, this is hardly the first time Intel pulled a same-core-thread-different-clock design for different […]
While earlier Galaxy S21 supports the S Pen stylus, Samsung did not include this. The new generation Galaxy S22 Ultra however not only comes with the S Pen but an onboard storage silo to charge it when docked. This begs the question, what will the future of Galaxy Note20 Ultra Ultra be?
The past week saw the much-anticipated official release of Nvidia’s two-year-long-overdue entry-level GPU. Performance-wise, it saw significantly better and much more practical results than the universally lampooned AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, despite falling severely short of surpassing the original RTX 2060.
Despite the rather lackluster release of Intel’s 11th Gen CPUs on desktops (Rocket Lake), 11th Gen mobile (Tiger Lake) has been met with considerable success. It certainly didn’t wow consumers with huge IPC gains or overwhelming feature upgrades. But 11th Gen Intel laptops kept price and performance levels that ultimately resulted in a technological stalemate […]
Budget Alder Lake is the best thing that happened to PC tech in 2022 so far, period. Unlike AMD, which effectively abandoned the entry-level budget segment after Zen 3, Intel continued its traditional offerings of sub $200 CPUs through its 10th Gen and 11th Gen processors. Now, it’s 12th Gen’s turn. Due to significant architectural changes, […]
When folded, the Galaxy Z Fold3 5G looks a tad narrow. The rear screen is narrow and tall, not like the normal display on a standard smartphone that we are used to. Enter Oppo Find N, the company’s first foldable phone with the right proportion. A full size rear display and an even bigger display, […]
Manufacturers are going Pro these days. On top of their standard flagship offering, usually a bigger one carrying the Pro label is on offer. For OnePlus, it started three generations ago, starting with OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. Then there is OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro. This year, it’s the next generation OnePlus […]
In today’s high-quality and heavy data-focused online world, 4GB RAM and 128GB storage becomes the standard minimum that would cover most phone users’ needs. This is while still giving ample wiggle room to let the files pile up to manage them later.
Right at the beginning of this year, Samsung unveiled to the world in an official update post and at CES 2022 for its upcoming newest lineup of displays for both productivity and entertainment. All three products were already quite phenomenal on their own. But the biggest surprise was the promoted specifications for each of these […]
PC enthusiasts delight at the task of checking specs, looking at numbers, and comparing performance differences. For the average user, though, this can be a complete chore, and may even be totally counterproductive depending on how incompatible their regular activities are with PC technology.
Entry-level GPU is dead. At least, that was how we perceived the empty void below our current “mid-range” lineup: the RX 6600 XT, RX 6600 and the RTX 3060. Either you have to pay exorbitant prices to get respectable frame rates, or keep using outdated architecture to eke out a meager experience of very low-end gaming […]
Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs certainly turned heads when they finally became available for retail a few months ago. But, for us low budget-oriented enthusiasts, the costs associated with Intel 12th Gen systems (Z690, DDR5, etc.) are simply not worth our attention. We were far more interested to see if the promise of cheap non-unicorn […]