In the domain of luxury laptops, there are quite a few contenders that pack a punch. The 13-inch MacBook Pro, Dell XPS 13 and the HP Elite Dragonfly G2 are some of the laptops that have garnered quite rave reviews amongst professionals looking for compact computing power on the go. The Huawei MateBook X Pro, […]
3D V-Cache, one of the biggest technological reveals that AMD announced a few years ago when outlining its roadmap for future Zen architecture designs. For a while, Team Red remain silent on its development. But three months ago, the first chip to support the feature was finally unveiled. As of this article’s writing, we are about […]
Intel’s 11th Gen desktop processors suffered from one hell of a controversial firestorm from its reviewers, both figuratively and literally. Well, to be fair, that only really applied to the very high-end, especially the rather pointless Core i9 11900K. The budget ones, like Core i5 11400F, for example, were given more positive reviews. With that […]
Forget the next generation Xiaomi 12 Pro and dig the Xiaomi 11T Pro instead. Here we look at the specs and 5 good reasons for choosing last year’s flagship. For start, the Xiaomi 12 Pro is almost twice the price of Xiaomi 11T Pro. Go Figure!
Underdogs like Honour have but one selling point, value. That is why the HONOR Magic4 Pro 5G flagship is jam packed with tonnes of features include 5 camera sensors. The first three are for images and videos, while the other two are flicker sensor and Time of Flight laser focusing system. Powered by the new […]
Oppo’s latest flagship, the Oppo Find X5 Pro, don’t ask what happened to Find X4 Pro, sees the company retaining that soft camera bulge around them back, but lost one camera sensor. Glossy black or white, the ceramic chassis is water and dust tight to IP68 rating.
For the first time, MacBook Pro 14 and 16 feature the Liquid Retina XDR displays, Apple’s language for Mini-LED display. The same technology already powers the Apple Pro Display XDR with 576 LEDs as backlight and iPad Pro M1 12.9 with over 10,000 mini-LEDs. Here we look at new Mini-LED displays to pair with your […]
Love the sleek and convenient convertible design of the Surface Laptop Studio but would rather have something slimmer and lighter? The HP Elite Folio 2-in-1 is your answer. The two laptops target very different users with the HP Elite Folio more suited to business and productivity users while the Surface Laptop Studio is for creators, […]
The Steam Deck has been making its amazing rounds among reviewers on the Internet over the past few weeks since its release. Not only did it wow laptop and desktop PC users with all the flairs and features you’d naturally expect in full PC gaming. But it also blew away handheld PC gamers with a […]
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.