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FreeBSD's third release of the stable/14 branch, labeled 14.2 and dedicated to the memory of Mike Karels, arrives with OpenZFS 2.2.6, OpenSSL 3.0.15, and support in the installer for downloading and installing the needed firmware packages after deploying the base system. OCI container images are now also available.

The Orange Pi 5 Ultra is the latest member in Shenzhen Xunlong Software's Orange Pi 5 single-board computer (SBC) series. Arriving after the Orange Pi 5 Max, the Orange Pi 5 Ultra contains I/O that escapes many SBCs.

Apple's latest 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro SoC has received a substantial discount in both Amazon and Best Buy's Black Friday sales. The brand-new M4 Pro SoC joins bright mini-LED displays, 24 GB of unified memory, and a sizeable 1 TB SSD at just over $2,000.

The Samsung Galaxy S24 FE delivers the premium experience you'd expect from a flagship Android phone at a reduced price. With the latest $200-off Amazon Black Friday deal, though, the S24 FE becomes an even better deal, especially considering the Galaxy S24's most common criticism is the mediocre pricing.

According to a new report, Samsung remains dedicated to the production of the Exynos 2600. The flagship chipset is slated to be built by Samsung Foundry, before going on to be adopted by the Galaxy S26 series in early 2026.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has now introduced the Compute Module 5. Replacing the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, the Raspberry Pi CM5 packs CPU, RAM and I/O upgrades for a $45 starting price.

The 10.9-inch Google Pixel Tablet has been discounted by a sizeable $120 for Best Buy's Black Friday sale, making it a solid value proposition for anyone looking to get any productivity work done on the go. In our review of the Pixel Tablet, we found it to be something of an iPad killer.

The 10.9-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE is down to a record-low price thanks to a $150 Amazon Black Friday deal. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE comes with Samsung's impressive S Pen in the box, and makes for an excellent note-taking, productivity, or digital art tablet, thanks to Samsung's powerful OneUI multitasking features and an impressive display.

Google has released a new version of its Drive for Desktop program that contains native ARM64 binaries. As a result, Google Drive for Desktop is now available across recent Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite machines like the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a new Raspberry Pi single-board computer. Available for $7, the Pico 2 W adds the wireless modem from its predecessor while maintaining the more powerful RP2350 microcontroller.

A Taiwanese media outlet reports Xiaomi and AMD plan to make smartphone SoCs soon. Xiaomi's 3 nm chip has already taped out, but there's no concrete information about what AMD has lined up.

Valve has officially added support for DLSS 3 to Proton and SteamOS, leading to speculation that the Steam Deck 2 may use an Nvidia GPU. Valve also recently started testing ARM64 support in SteamOS, and Nvidia is reportedly working on a new Arm-powered SoC for gamers and creators.

Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro with the powerful M4 SoC can now be purchased with a $200 discount on Amazon US. The laptop is an excellent machine, boasting a brilliant display, superb battery life, and commendable performance with very little downside.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite appears to be super energy efficient, as the SoC reportedly allows the OnePlus 13 and ROG Phone 9 Pro to massively outdo their predecessors in battery life. Both phones also show impressive gaming potential with the devices running Genshin Impact without any thermal throttling.

Apple's M4 Max is quite the beast of an ARM SoC. Packing up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, the M4 Max places the MacBook Pro among the fastest notebooks on the market. According to a recently uncovered Blender benchmark, it appears the mobile SoC challenges high-end desktop GPUs as well.

Apple's recently unveiled M4 lineup of SoCs have received overwhelmingly positive reviews. The highest-end variant of the lineup, the M4 Max, packs up to 40 GPU cores for excellent graphics performance. But is that enough for a pleasant gaming experience?

While an event for the Huawei Mate lineup of products is scheduled for November 26, the Chinese tech giant is already taking pre-orders for the Mate 70 smartphones. Unfortunately, their availability is limited to the Chinese market for now, and there's no official information regarding a global launch yet.

The Raspberry Pi 5, by itself, is great for emulating old-school games. However, Jeff Geerling has just shown that when paired with a decent discreet GPU like the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, the SBC can handle modern AAA games in 4K.

Previously available only to Windows Insider members, Windows 11 ISO for ARM machines is now available to the general public. The ARM64 ISO file can be used to create virtual machines for development/testing as well as bootable media; it also allows one to run Windows Setup from within an existing Windows installation.

Samsung has started mass-producing the Exynos 2500 SoC. However, it will not be used in a Galaxy S25 smartphone. Instead, it will power the Galaxy Z Flip 7.

The silent Apple MacBook Air with its powerful Apple M3 processor is down to an all-time low on Amazon, thanks to a rare, sizeable $200 discount. The MacBook Air in question comes with 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage, with the 512 GB storage upgrade coming in at $1,099 after its $200 discount.

Samsung Exynos chips have not been able to keep up with the fastest chips from Qualcomm, MediaTek and Apple in the high-end segment for years. Samsung reportedly views South Korea's workers' rights as one of the reasons for this, as employees are officially only allowed to work a maximum of 52 hours per week.

Samsung LSI may soon ask TSMC to manufacture a future Exynos chip. This could be due to plummeting yields on Samsung's own 2nd-gen 3 nm node.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite may be Android's headliner for the year but MediaTek's Dimensity 9400 remains a fine alternative in the premium segment. Tests show the Dimensity 9400's Immortalis-G925 displaying impressive performance and efficiency—even outclassing Apple's A18 Pro in those aspects.

Microsoft is preparing to add a bunch of new performance improvements to Windows 11 aimed specifically at ARM chipsets. Not only has the company integrated AVX2 support within its Prism emulation layer, but it has also added AVX, BMI, FMA, and F16C extensions to boot.

Nvidia is allegedly preparing to go head-to-head with Strix Halo APUs in late 2025 or early 2026 with the release of an ARM-based APU on Windows. According to the latest leak from Moore's Law Is Dead, Team Green is planning to pitch the APU to gamers as well as content creators.

A new leak has revealed important specifications of Huawei's upcoming Kirin 9100. It comes with an 8-core CPU manufactured on SMIC's N+3 (6 nm) node. For the GPU, it will use an in-house Maleoon 910 GPU from last year.

A pre-production Exynos 2500 sample has shown up on Geekbench with a 10-core CPU (1+2+5+2). Performance-wise, it lags behind the Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400.

The Official Raspberry Pi Touch Display first launched over 9 years ago, offering a paltry 800 x 480 resolution. Used in projects and embedded products the world over for nearly a decade, the official panel has finally been upgraded with the same $60 price tag.

Nvidia aims to shake up the PC market with its first consumer CPU-GPU platform in 2025, leveraging its AI and graphics expertise to challenge Intel and AMD's dominance.

A new Geekbench listing making its way across the grapevine showcases a chipset said to be Google's upcoming Tensor G5 destined for the Pixel 10 series. There's a problem, though: it appears to perform even worse than the already disappointing Tensor G4.

CheckMag Since dropping x86 in favour of ARM, Apple has more or less closed the door on native dual booting on its hardware. However, Asahi Linux, for some time, has offered native Fedora builds for Apple silicon Macs. The latest release now comes with an alpha build of their game playing toolkit, allowing you to install Steam and play a selection of games on your dual boot Apple silicon Mac.

Apple's latest M4 Max laptop CPU has been tested on Geekbench. On the CPU side, it scores 4,060 and 26,675 points in the single and multi-core tests. In the Metal benchmark, its GPU scores 192,532 points. The chip was tested alongside a high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro with 128 GB RAM.

Apple's newest M4 Pro chip has shown up on Geekbench. The 14-core CPU/20-core GPU variant powered a 16-inch MacBook Pro, where it scored 3,925 and 22,669 points in Geekbench's single and multi-core tests.

Apple's most powerful laptop chip, the M4 Max, is finally here. Specs-wise, it isn't much different from the Apple M3 Max, with the most notable upgrade being added support for Thunderbolt 5.0.

Just as expected, Fedora 41 is finally here. Across various editions, the list of changes includes highlights such as GNOME 47 and KDE Plasma 6.2, the Mir and Wayland-based Miracle desktop environment in the new Fedora Miracle, new options for image mode, Secure Boot support for systems that require the Nvidia proprietary driver, and more.

Apple's M4 Max SoC was spotted in the offical website, confirming its existence. However, the high-end SoC's core counts and other details remain shrouded in mystery. With the launch of the M4 MacBook Pro lineup being just around the corner, we won't have to wait long to find out.

Apple has officially unveiled the M4 Pro alongside its new Mac Mini. It comes with a 12-core CPU plus 16-core GPU or a 14-core CPU plus 20-core GPU, along with support for Thunderbolt 5.0.

An enterprising engineer has reverse-engineered Apple's MacBook storage interface and created a slotted SSD solution for Apple's laptops. Although the mod certainly voids the warranty and likely hardly makes sense from a cost point of view, it calls into question Apple's reasoning for opting for a complicated soldered storage solution.

Apple's M4 may be all the rage for now, especially with new MacBook Pros set to hit the scene this week. That does not prevent newer leaks from doing the rounds on the internet, a recent one of which sheds light on when we can expect the company's M5 SoC.

Samsung has unveiled its newest mid-range smartphone SoC, the Exynos 1580. It comes with an 8-core CPU, a Xclipse GPU with 2 WGPs and support for Wi-Fi 6E.

We stumbled upon some details about Google's upcoming Tensor chips. The Pixel 10's Tensor G5 will be manufactured on TSMC's N3E node. Its successor, the Tensor G6 (Pixel 11) will use its enhanced version, N3P.