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The HiRes certified FC5 USB DAC/headphone amp by HiBy supports MQA and features a 4.4 mm balanced output with 125 mW output power. The hardware inside the sleek metal body of the FC5 includes the ES9281 Pro DAC, dual ES9603Q headphone amps, hardware volume controls, as well as RGB lights.

Introduced in Canada and Australia this summer, Twitter Blue is now available in the US and New Zealand as well. The US$2.99 per month subscription plan comes with a clutter-free format for reading threads (obviously free of ads), bookmark management, quickly typo fix before tweeting, and more.

The first public appearance of the upcoming Intel Alder Lake-P 14-core 20-thread Core i9-12900HK powering a Lenovo Legion laptop has surfaced on Geekbench. This leak shows significantly lower single and multi-core performance than the closed leak we've seen recently. The benchmark also reveals that the Core i9-12900HK sports a 96-EU Xe Graphics iGPU.

Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Laptop SE and Windows 11 SE, its latest attempts to eat into Google's dominance with students and in classrooms. The Surface Laptop SE, pegged at US$249, will be the first of many laptops running Windows 11 SE.

An Apple tipster has offered up information about multiple products due to come out of Cupertino in the ensuing months. This includes rumors about the expected M2 MacBook Air, future iMac computers, the iPhone 14 range, and even a new Apple monitor. The leaker believes the MacBook Air with M2 Apple Silicon will be sold alongside the M1 variant.

An HP Omen 17 variant running the 12th-generation Intel Core i7-12700H Alder Lake processor and laptop version of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has been spotted online. It scores 90,114 and 127,392 on the Geekbench Vulkan and OpenCL benchmarks, respectively, and confirms that the latter will ship with 16GB of VRAM and 58 SMs.

The reduced price will be valid only during launch before bouncing back up to around $500 USD. The thin and attractive modern chassis design will be balanced by an older and slower passively-cooled Intel Core m7 CPU.

The Ryzen 9 5900HX APU and the GeForce RTX 3060 laptop GPU bring almost every computer game smoothly onto the matte 4K screen. The latter scores points with very good color reproduction (Pantone-certified) and high brightness. This is complemented by good battery life.

A new report has offered information that conflicts with previous reports of Apple’s silicon plans for the Mac Pro. However, it also offers some rumored new details about Apple’s silicon roadmap for future devices including the next MacBook Air.

Chuwi has refreshed the CoreBook X Pro, a budget laptop that previously had a 120 Hz display. Now, the CoreBook X Pro contains a 144 Hz panel, but no other upgrades are forthcoming, such as a move away from its three-year-old processor.

The new MacBook Pro 14 was impressive in our comprehensive review and it is certainly one of the best compact multimedia laptops you can currently get. But is the additional price over the MacBook Pro 13 or the MacBook Air justified for everyday scenarios?

GPD has brought the Pocket 3 to crowdfunding website Indiegogo. The mini-laptop is available in two configurations, both featuring an 8-inch IPS display, PCIe M.2 storage and pen input. The Pocket 3 will start shipping in January 2022.

The manufacturer has quietly redesigned the entire motherboard while keeping the overall chassis nearly identical. The changes are mostly for the better.

A lot has rightly been written about the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips found in Apple’s new MacBook Pro models. However, while the spotlight is rightly on them now, their origins date back to a decision made in 2008 under the leadership of Apple co-founder, the late Steve Jobs and his team, which included Tony Fadell.

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti mobile GPU appears to be based on the existing GA104 die that powers the RTX 3080 version and is rumored to come as a response to Intel's ARC Alchemist laptop GPUs releasing in Q1 2022.

Third-party retailers have started selling the Xiaomi Pro X 14 2021 laptop globally. The 14-inch laptop has a 120 Hz display combined with an Intel Core i7-11370H processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 GPU. The laptop is available with 16 GB of RAM and up to 1 TB of storage, too.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series has been enjoying rising popularity with Steam users again according to the hardware and software survey for October. In fact, no less than 10 GeForce 30 series SKUs have featured in the top 20 cards in terms of percentage change for the month. The biggest riser overall was the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660.

Razer has rolled out its latest productivity focused peripherals although they are still gaming-capable as one would expect from the brand. The new Pro Type Ultra and Pro Click Mini keyboard and mouse also incorporate noise deadening features designed to keep them more suited to office use.

The highest capacity 2 TB option will set you back $350 USD. In return, owners would be getting one of the fastest PCIe4 drives available with sequential read and write speeds approaching 7400 MB/s and 6700 MB/s, respectively.

Asus has updated its VivoBook Pro models, offering Intel as well as AMD processors in combination with dedicated Nvidia GPUs and OLED panels. While it takes good advantage of the component performance, Asus made some cuts in the connections.

Almost a year after the release of the first public preview of Microsoft Edge for Linux, the Redmond giant has finally released the first stable version of this piece of code. This flavor comes in .deb and .rpm packages and is supposed to fully support Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE.

The new Flip CX3400 retains the slick look and fanless design from the CX5400 model, and offers the same selection of Intel Tiger Lake-U processors. On the other hand, it does not feature Thunderbolt ports, comes with a slightly dimmer screen and RAM configurations start from 4 GB.

The Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max processors have made an initial appearance in the PassMark CPU Mark single-thread performance benchmarks for both laptop and desktop processors. Apple Silicon now occupies the top four positions in both charts, which should see a big change when Intel’s Alder Lake chips start showing up.

Lenovo has now unveiled the Yoga 16s 2022 in full to its initial market of China. The PC offers multiple ports in a CNC-machined metallic body with multiple ports. It plays host to a Ryzen 7 5800H processor that will run Windows 11 out of the box, as well as RTX 3000-series graphics and a choice of high display refresh rates.

Despite part of its name, the Yoga Pro 14s Carbon 2022 has launched today (November 2, 2021). Lenovo has designed this new laptop to be as thin and light as possible, with a mass of just over 1 kilogram (kg). Nevertheless, it packs a powerful Ryzen 5000-series processor, which drives a 90Hz OLED display and runs Windows 11 out of the box.

If you only have about $400 for a new laptop, then it'll be hard to top this sale. The IdeaPad 3 comes with a lot of features typically found on laptops worth twice the price.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo is one of the most interesting 15.6-inch gaming laptops out there, thanks to its innovative dual-screen set-up. Now, a famous leaker claims that a possible successor or second variant for this machine is coming, with a different screen size this time around. It may or may not arrive alongside new TWS earbuds to match its branding.

The 16-inch Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Max SoC has been tested on multiple benchmarks while in high-power mode. The 2021 laptop managed to churn out some slightly higher scores in a couple of tests, but on the surface the overall result appeared to be underwhelming. However, it’s possible there was a flaw in the MacBook Pro 16 testing.

This model appears to be based on the same GA103 die that was leaked back in June with the Lenovo ThinPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 laptops. It is rumored to launch at CES next year with 7680 CUDA cores and up to 16 GB of GDDR6 RAM.

If you have trouble keeping up with model names, we don't blame you. Some manufacturers aren't making it any easier by giving two very different names to two models that otherwise look exactly the same.

The well-known repair website iFixit has now released a new comprehensive teardown video that illustrates the better repairability of Apple's 2021 MacBook Pro, but also confirms a few annoying restrictions.

Samsung has announced total revenues and operating profits that ran well into trillions of South Korean won (KRW, or billions of US dollars) for the third quarter of 2021 (3Q2021). The company attributes this success to its silicon production, as well as to the sale of devices such as the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Flip3.

Two MacBook Pro 16 laptops containing two different variants of new Apple Silicon have been put through a massive battery of benchmark tests with some surprising results. The M1 Pro with 16-core GPU was pitted against the M1 Max with 32-core GPU, with the laptops featuring a US$1,200 price difference. The M1 Pro proved itself to be more than capable.

Apple’s new MacBook Pro models are out and as had been rumored, they don’t include the Touch Bar among other changes. However, fans of the Touch Bar who own a new MacBook Pro and an iPad can continue to enjoy Touch Bar functionality via Apple’s Sidecar wireless secondary display feature.

Apple has published a support document to help address issues users have been experiencing with the way some apps have been interacting with the controversial notch on its new MacBook Pro. The new “Scale to fit'' option ensures the menu bar and app windows appear below the notch.

Originally, XMG was estimating the release of the VIA 15 Pro with Ryzen 7 5800H could occur in early 2022, but, after a recent reevaluation of the Cezanne supply, this upgrade plan was scrapped. Subsidiary Tuxedo is also scrapping upgrade plans for the Linux-based Pulse 14 / 15 models.

According to a report, Microsoft is developing a new Surface Laptop aimed at students. The device will be smaller than the current Surface Laptop Go and another attempt by Microsoft to combat compact Chromebooks' popularity. The smaller Surface Laptop will run Windows 11 SE too, a slimmed-down version of its latest OS.

The large multimedia notebook impresses with its good CPU performance thanks to the AMD Ryzen processor. But the MateBook 16 can easily keep up with its competition in the other areas as well.

Samsung has unveiled that One UI is coming to its laptops. One UI Book 4 is the company's attempt to provide a cohesive ecosystem across its mobile product lines, even though it is just Windows 11 in not much of a disguise.