Author Archives: Gordon Mah Ung

HP’s Ryzen 4000-powered Envy x360 13 proves that you can get first-class features for coach pricing. Don’t believe me? Here are some of the goodies included: 
Decent 13.3-inch IPS panel with good off-axis viewing, touch and optional pen support… Continue reading →

HP’s Ryzen 4000-powered Envy x360 13 proves that you can get first-class features for coach pricing. Don’t believe me? Here are some of the goodies included: 
Decent 13.3-inch IPS panel with good off-axis viewing, touch and optional pen support… Continue reading →

“Should I buy a MacBook Air 2020 or a13-inch MacBook Pro made in 2016?â€� That’s the simple question an old friend asked me this week.Although I do not lean toward Apple hardware in any way, my time spent testing, prodding and riding PC hardware… Continue reading →

In a blunt video posted late Thursday evening, outspoken former Intel principal engineer Francois Pidnoel offered his advice on how to “fixâ€� Intel CPUs, criticized current leadership for not being engineers, said AVX512 was a misadventure, and d… Continue reading →

Anyone who uses a PC should have an external drive. It’s both a useful means of data backup and storage, and a way to transport files from your desktop or laptop to another device. Xbox One X users, as well, would be wise to invest in an external… Continue reading →

Updated with forum reports that the fix requires a hardware swap.Dell confirmed that charging issues with some of the company’s new XPS 17 9700 laptops, as well as some of its Precision 5750 corporate laptops, have been identified and fixed.The pr… Continue reading →

The fallout from Intel’s disastrous 7nm delay news was swift. On Monday, the company announced that it was breaking up its Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group and top exec Murthy Renduchintala was headed out the door. Renduchintalaâ… Continue reading →

The fallout from Intel’s disastrous 7nm delay news was swift. On Monday, the company announced that it was breaking up its Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group and top exec Murthy Renduchintala was headed out the door. Renduchintalaâ… Continue reading →

What’s the value of 100MHz? Apparently $35. At least that’s how much of a discount Intel will give those who buy the new Core i9-10850K “Comet Lake-S” CPU it officially unveiled today.That makes it fairly easy to memorize the specs of the newest 10t… Continue reading →

AMD has a dream that we’ll all buy more PCs, including AMD-based ones, of course—and that dream just may be coming true. Citing data from the National Retail Federation, Rick Bergman, AMD’s VP of Computing and Graphics, said he believes the su… Continue reading →