This year CES 2021 was a digital venue showed newest innovation in consumer electronics. It had some 1900 virtual booths, several peripheral product showcase.
Here are some links to reports on the event.
CES 2021 products you can actually buy this year
CES 2021: My Top 3 Gadgets of the Show—and 3 of the Weirdest
CES 2021: What Is Mini-LED TV?
CES 2021: A Countertop Chocolate Factory Could Be This Year’s Best Kitchen Gadget
Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO
AMD Opens Up Threadripper Pro: Three New WRX80 Motherboards
CES 2021: Consumer Electronics Makers Pivot to Everything Covid
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https://hackaday.com/2021/06/06/is-32-bits-really-dead/
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https://www.pcgamer.com/this-amd-mini-pc-kit-is-likely-made-out-of-b0rked-ps5-chips/
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Faster gaming frame rates for free: Resizable BAR explained
What is Resizable BAR, and what do you need to use it? We explain everything about the new technology that boosts graphics card performance…sometimes.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3622009/faster-gaming-frame-rates-for-free-resizable-bar-explained.html
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Enterprise Open Source Database Comparison
MariaDB vs. Oracle MySQL vs. EnterpriseDB 2020 Comparison
https://go.mariadb.com/open-source-databases-comparison-mariadb-mysql-enterprisedb.html?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=2021-OnPrem-EMEA-Lookalike-All-Time-Customers-Facebook-PPC-MKGk&utm_content=OSS-Comparison&fbclid=IwAR0mRmisWHL486xcBFFhXG6d7oVD1yqBLh4-Su1LJ0G6Wi6N_WXpll1vAFs
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The Storage Scaler Adds Up to 16 M.2 SATA Drives to Your Desktop, Workstation, or NAS
Designed for everything from disk caching to storage-based cryptocurrencies like Chia, the Storage Scaler packs 16 drives on one card.
https://www.hackster.io/news/the-storage-scaler-adds-up-to-16-m-2-sata-drives-to-your-desktop-workstation-or-nas-2144e4396d89
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ASUS PN51 Mini PC review: This AMD-powered compact workstation is a beast
AMD-powered super-compact mini PC.
https://www.windowscentral.com/asus-pn51-mini-pc-review
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CNBC:
The Pentagon has canceled the $10B JEDI cloud contract that was awarded to Microsoft but faced legal challenges from Amazon, announced new multivendor contract — – The Department of Defense said it’s calling off the $10 billion cloud contract that was the subject of a legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft.
Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/pentagon-cancels-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract.html
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon open sources its Lumberyard game engine; the project will be overseen by the Linux Foundation and now be called the Open 3D Engine — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source …
Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies
https://venturebeat.com/2021/07/06/amazons-lumberyard-becomes-an-open-source-3d-game-engine-with-support-from-20-companies/
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5 cool things you can do with your router’s USB port!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNyW0Agub-g
Ever noticed that there is a USB port at the back of the router? Why is it there?
Let me show you 5 cool things you can do with that USB port!
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Gartner:
Q2 2021: global PC shipments totaled 71.6M, up 4.6% YoY, following Q1′s record 35.7% YoY growth; Lenovo holds 24.1% marketshare, followed by HP, Dell, and Apple — Growth Rate Slowed, Tempered by Impact of Ongoing Semiconductor Shortages — Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.6 million units …
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Grew 4.6% in Second Quarter of 2021
Growth Rate Slowed, Tempered by Impact of Ongoing Semiconductor Shortages
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-07-12-gartner-says-worldwide-pc-shipments-grew-4-point-six-in-second-quarter-of-2021
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.6 million units in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of 4.6% from the second quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. While PC demand remained above pre-pandemic levels, this was a marked deceleration in growth compared to the record year over year growth of 35.7% in the first quarter of 2021, due in part to the impact of ongoing component shortages.
“The global semiconductor shortage and subsequent component supply constraints have extended lead time for some enterprise mobile PC models to as long as 120 days,” said Mikako Kitagawa, research director at Gartner. “This has led to prices increasing in the bill of materials, which vendors have passed on to end users. Moving forward, rising prices could continue to slow PC demand through the next 6 to 12 months.”
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https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/28/a-startups-guide-to-software-delivery/
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What is Valve Proton? The Steam Deck’s live-or-die Linux software, explained
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3625673/what-is-proton-the-steam-decks-live-or-die-software-explained.html
The Steam Deck’s success will hinge on Proton, a Valve technology that lets Windows games run on Linux. Here’s what you need to know.
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Valve’s handheld gaming device Steam Deck announced, starts shipping in December
https://www.vg247.com/2021/07/15/valves-handheld-gaming-device-steam-deck-announced-starts-shipping-december/
Valve has unveiled a new handheld device called Stem Deck and reservations are available for it now in select regions.
Previously known as SteamPal, which was probably the working name, Steam Deck is slated to start shipping in December.
For Steam Deck, Valve partnered with AMD to create the handheld’s custom APU, which is being called “Zen 2 + RDNA 2 powerhouse,” promising more than enough performance to run the latest triple-A games in a “very efficient power envelope.”
With the handheld, you can take your Steam library on the go just like you would with a PC or laptop.
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Intel’s 14-Core Alder Lake-P CPU Falls to 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7 5800H in Early Benchmarks
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-14-core-alder-lake-p-cpu-falls-to-8-core-amd-ryzen-7-5800h-in-early-benchmarks
It looks like the AMD Ryzen 7 5800H doesn’t have much to worry about yet. Based on early benchmarks spotted by hardware leaker Tum_Apisak, Intel’s upcoming 12th Generation Alder Lake processors will have a strong rival in AMD’s current mobile Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne) chips.
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PlaticARM is a functional, natively-flexible 32-bit ARM chipset
https://www.gsmarena.com/platicarm_is_a_functional_nativelyflexible_32bit_arm_chipset-news-50218.php
Wearable tech is nothing new, though definitely trendy and currently on the rise. Same goes for the broad Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Even things like smart patches, meant to go on your skin kind of exists, though current implementations tend to use traditional crystalline silicon as their base or substrate for the actual chips. In contrast, natively flexible electronic devices use substrates such as paper, metal foil or as is the case with PlasticARM – plastic. Thin-film transistors (TFTs) are grafted on top of that substrate, resulting in truly flexible chips. The benefits of this technology stretch beyond flexibility, as well. TFTs can be fabricated on flexible substrates at much lower cost that metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) fabricated on crystalline silicon wafers. The end products also tend to be thinner and comfortable to wear or fit on various surfaces.
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Despite shortages, AMD is absolutely killing Intel in the workstation market.
Puget Systems: AMD-based Workstations Achieve 60% of Total Sales
By Francisco Pires 3 days ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/puget-systems-amd-based-workstations-achieve-60-of-total-sales?utm_medium=social&utm_content=tomsguide&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com
In two years, AMD skyrocketed from under 5% of systems sold to a commanding 60% share.
Puget Systems, one of the best-established players in the workstation assembly and delivery market, has just released a “State of the CPU” report on the distribution of its AMD and Intel systems for June 2021, and it looks very good for AMD.
The last report, released in February of this year, had AMD at an already leading 59% of total systems sold, compared to Intel’s 41% share. This June, AMD has reached the 60% share.
That deeper significance pertains to system and CPU availability. AMD has been placed between a rock and a hard place in the supply vs demand equation, with supply shortages affecting everything from its graphics cards to CPUs. Part of this is the fault of the pandemic, as it stretched supply chains to the breaking point. Another part pertains to TSMC’s 7nm output and the need to supply not only AMD, but other customers as well. The final piece of the puzzle lays with AMD itself, who moved virtually all of its portfolio to TSMC’s 7nm manufacturing process.
This means that AMD has had to provide for entire markets on a constrained, single node while sharing capacity with other customers. This includes current-gen consoles (with Xbox, for instance, achieving historic sales records last month), as well as system integrators across the supercomputing, workstation, business and personal computing fields.
Compare that to Intel, who haven’t faced any supply issues during this year due to its incredibly mature 14nm process over which it has full control, undercutting AMD and selling a CPU anywhere there’s an AMD shortage.
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Leaks suggest AMD’s new GPU has 3x the core count of an RX 6900 XT
By Dave James about 20 hours ago
https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-navi-31-rdna-3-rumours-multi-chip-design/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
The Ryzen-like GPU chiplets of Navi 31 could see the AMD vs Nvidia battle end up the same as the AMD vs Intel fight.
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Intel Teases 14th-Gen Meteor Lake CPUs With Tile Design and 192 EUs
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-teases-14th-gen-meteor-lake-cpus-tile-design-192-eus
During the Intel Accelerated webcast, Intel dropped a couple of bombs. In addition to sharing its product roadmap through 2025 and a new naming scheme for nodes, the chipmaker also unveiled the designs for its future Alder Lake, Meteor Lake, Sapphire Rapids and Granite Rapids processors.
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Dell is cancelling Alienware gaming PC shipments to several US states
By Paul Lilly 2 days ago
https://www.pcgamer.com/dell-is-cancelling-alienware-gaming-pc-shipments-to-several-us-states/?utm_campaign=socialflow
Orders placed in California, Hawaii, and four other states will not be honored because of power consumption regulations.
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I live in a state where it’s legal to buy weed, but not high-end gaming PCs
It’s a strange, strange new world, boys and girls!
https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-live-in-a-state-where-its-legal-to-buy-weed-but-not-high-end-gaming-pcs/
No, I’m talking about Dell Alienware PCs.
You see, there’s a new law in effect in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. According to Dell, via The Register:
“This was driven by the California Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory energy efficiency standard for PCs – including desktops, AIOs and mobile gaming systems. This was put into effect on July 1, 2021. Select configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 were the only impacted systems across Dell and Alienware.”
So, yeah, you’re now (effective July 1) not allowed to buy some high-end machines in these states.
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Microsoft bests earnings estimates as Azure posts 51% growth; shares fall
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-bests-earnings-estimates-as-azure-posts-51-growth-shares-fall/
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ORBITER IS NOW OPEN SOURCE
https://hackaday.com/2021/07/29/orbiter-is-now-open-source/
We always have it on our list to learn more about Orbiter. If you haven’t seen it, it is a hyperrealistic space simulator. Granted, you can put it in an easy mode, but its real strength is you can very accurately model spacecraft like the Space Shuttle and have very realistic controls. In order to spur development, the program is now open source.
https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/orbiter-is-now-open-source.40023/
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China’s new Loongson CPU is almost as fast as the first Ryzen
And it doesn’t rely on any foreign licenses
https://www.techspot.com/news/90544-china-new-loongson-cpu-almost-fast-first-ryzen.html
The new Loongson 3A5000 is a quad-core processor clocked at around 2.3 – 2.5 GHz. It uses Loongson’s 64-bit GS464V microarchitecture, which features four ALUs (arithmetic logic units) and two 256-bit vector units per core, which is mostly marketing fluff without the necessary context. Loongson is marketing it for laptops, industrial environments, and even some server applications.
Chinese chipmaker Loongson announced a new processor on Friday. In terms of features, the Loongson 3A5000 comes equipped with two DDR4-3200 memory controllers and a dedicated encryption module. It also has four HyperTransport 3.0 SMP controllers that allow multiple 3A5000s to operate in unison inside a single system, like Intel’s Xeons and AMD’s Epycs.
what makes the 3A5000 special isn’t specs: it’s the novel ISA (instruction set architecture) it uses, called LoongArch. It’s broadly similar to x86 and Arm, according to Loongson, but was built from the ground-up to avoid using foreign licenses.
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Intel haluaa haastaa Nvidian ja AMD:n peligrafiikassa
Julkaistu: 17.08.2021
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12439&via=n&datum=2021-08-17_15:36:56&mottagare=31202
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Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s
Although it’s nowhere near ready for prime time, there’s a lot to love here.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/not-a-linux-distro-review-serenityos-is-a-unix-y-love-letter-to-the-90s/
Today, I test-drove an in-development operating system project that seems almost disturbingly tailored to me specifically: SerenityOS. I cannot possibly introduce SerenityOS more accurately than its own website does:
SerenityOS is a love letter to ’90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems. Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.
You might think that SerenityOS is just a Linux distro with an unusually ambitious vaporwave aesthetic, but it’s actually an entire operating system built from the ground up. That means custom-built kernel, display manager, shell… everything.
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How It’s Actually Made – Solid State Drives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoXJ0ki94fI
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Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
State media says China is restricting online gaming time of minors to 3 hours most weeks of the year, from 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays — – The country is imposing its strictest limits yet on play time — Beijing is waging a campaign to groom productive youths
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-30/china-limits-minors-to-just-three-hours-of-online-gaming-a-week
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces an online-only Surface hardware event for September 22, where an updated Surface Duo and Laptop are expected
Microsoft announces Surface event for September 22nd
New Surface hardware is on the way
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/1/22651859/microsoft-surface-event-date?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
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Intel Arc Alchemist: Release Date, Specs, Everything We Know
By Jarred Walton 3 days ago
Can Intel’s Arc Alchemist compete with AMD and Nvidia GPUs?
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-alchemist-release-date-specs-pricing-all-we-know
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LTO-9 tapes hit the shelves with a supposed 45TB compressed capacity. After significant delays, the next generation of Linear Tape Open (LTO) magnetic tape has now landed, with marked improvements across both capacity and performance. The LTO Program, which oversees the technology, has announced that both Fujifilm and Sony have successfully manufactured tape that complies with the LTO Ultrium 9 format. This means LTO-9 products from these firms – as well as official LTO providers HPE, IBM and Quantum – can now be taken to market.
LTO-9 cartridges offer 50% more capacity than LTO-8 tapes, with 18TB native capacity per cartridge, supposedly rising to a whopping 45TB compressed (at a 2.5:1 ratio). Fujifilm says these gains were achieved using barium ferrite (BaFe) particles, which are carefully distributed across the surface of the tape, creating a smooth magnetic layer. The next generation tape is also faster than its predecessor, reaching transfer rates of up to 1,000MB/sec compressed (and 440MB/sec native), as compared with 750MB/sec (360MB/sec native) on offer with LTO-8.
Watch out HDDs, the next generation of tape is here
By Joel Khalili about 16 hours ago
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-next-generation-of-tape-storage-is-finally-here-with-a-whopping-45tb-capacity
LTO-9 tapes hit the shelves with a supposed 45TB compressed capacity
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12539-yhdelle-kasetille-sopii-nyt-45-teratavua-dataa
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls — Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban’s first pair of smart glasses — Starting Thursday, the first pair of smart glasses …
Facebook on your face
Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban’s first pair of smart glasses
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662809/facebook-ray-ban-stories-camera-smart-glasses-hands-on?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Starting Thursday, the first pair of smart glasses made by Facebook and Ray-Ban are going on sale for $299. They’re called Ray-Ban Stories, and you’ll be able to find them pretty much anywhere Ray-Bans are sold, including LensCrafters and Sunglasses Hut stores.
The frames feature two-front facing cameras for capturing video and photos. They sync with a companion camera roll app called Facebook View, where clips can be edited and shared to other apps on your phone (not just Facebook’s own). There’s a physical button on the glasses for recording, or you can say “Hey Facebook, take a video” to control them hands-free.
And, perhaps most importantly, they look and feel like regular glasses.
With their core ability of taking photos and videos, Ray-Ban Stories are essentially a sleeker version of Snapchat’s Spectacles, which first debuted in 2016 to a lot of hype that quickly fizzled. These Ray-Bans don’t have displays in the lenses, like the latest Spectacles that were unveiled earlier this year. However, speakers on both sides of the frame can play sound from your phone over Bluetooth, allowing you to take a call or listen to a podcast without pulling your phone out. A touchpad built into the side of the frame lets you change the volume or play and pause what you’re hearing.
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Primrose Riordan / Financial Times:
Experts say China’s gaming regulations for young players will hurt esports development in the country and hand a big advantage to rivals in other countries
https://t.co/j7bb7FxnqY
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Intelin Optane ohittaa DRAM-muistit?
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12557-intelin-optane-ohittaa-dram-muistit
Eri tallennustekniikoista NAND-flash on ylivoimaisen suosittu. Tänä vuonna NAND-piirejä myydään markkinoille lähes miljoonan petatavun verran. DRAM on selkeä kakkonen, mutta usean analyytikon mukaan Intelin kehittämä Optane eli XPoint-muisti voisi ohittaa DRAM-piirit toimitusmäärissä vuoteen 2030 mennessä.
Näin näkee esimerkiksi Objective Analysis, joka on tutkinut uusien muistitekniikoiden suosion kasvua. XPointin lisäksi arvio kattaa MRAM-, FeRAM- ja ReRAM-muistit. Ennusteen mukaan näiden tekniikoiden yhteenlaskettu myynti voisi kasvaa 44 miljardiin dollariin vuonna 2031.
Iso osa tästä kakusta menisi Intelin ja Micronin yhdessä kehittämälle XPointilla. Objective Analysis arvioi, että vuonna 2031 Intelin Optane-tuotemerkilllä myytäisiin moduuleja jo 20 miljardilla dollarilla.
Tänä vuonna Optane-moduuleja myydään 1000 petatavun verran. Vuonna 2028 puhutaan jo satakertaisesta määrästä eli sadastatuhannesta petatavusta.
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5 weird motherboards that shouldn’t exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWOCCuL6maE
Motherboards are the heart of any PC build, but while we take certain features and form factors for granted, specialty use and just plain bizarre system design means we get a few oddballs…
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop Studio, replacing Surface Book, with 14.4″ 120Hz display that can slide into new positions, Thunderbolt 4, and haptic trackpad — The successor to the Surface Book is here — Microsoft is announcing the Surface Laptop Studio today, a successor to the Surface Book line of powerful laptops.
Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft’s new powerful flagship laptop
The successor to the Surface Book is here
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/22/22686010/microsoft-surface-laptop-studio-price-specs-release-date?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Microsoft is announcing the Surface Laptop Studio today, a successor to the Surface Book line of powerful laptops. It presents a total redesign for Microsoft’s flagship laptop, ditching the removable display in favor of one that pulls forward to transform from laptop into tablet (or what Microsoft calls studio mode).
“Surface Laptop Studio is the most powerful Surface we’ve ever built,” says Pete Kyriacou, vice president of devices at Microsoft. “It is the culmination of years of Surface innovation – on hinges, display, silicon, and more – and brings the best of the Surface heritage together in one powerhouse device.”
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Hands-on with Surface Laptop Studio, which starts at $1,600: new hinge offers three modes, under-device pedestal is strange, and screen is very nice
https://www.theverge.com/22686706/microsoft-surface-studio-laptop-design-specs-photos-hands-on?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with a 13-inch edge-to-edge 120Hz display, Thunderbolt 4, Surface Slim Pen 2, up to 32GB of RAM, and more — The Surface Pro we’ve been waiting years for — Microsoft is announcing the Surface Pro 8 today, the biggest upgrade to its Intel-powered Surface Pro lineup since the Surface Pro 3 in 2014.
Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with bigger 13-inch 120Hz display and Thunderbolt
The Surface Pro we’ve been waiting years for
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/22/22685923/microsoft-surface-pro-8-specs-price-release-date?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Hands-on with Surface Pro 8: Thunderbolt is welcome, familiar design, new keyboard is great, but base model is underpowered; starts at $1,099 without keyboard
https://www.theverge.com/22686705/microsoft-surface-pro-8-keyboard-screen-photos-video-hands-on?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
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Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:
Microsoft announces $130 Surface Slim Pen 2 with a custom Microsoft G6 chip, haptic feedback, up to 15 hours battery life, and more, now available for preorder
Microsoft’s new Slim Pen 2 uses haptics to mimic the feeling of using a real pen
Its sharper tip makes it more responsive and accurate
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/22/22686095/microsoft-surface-slim-pen-2-haptics-features-price-release-date?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Microsoft has refreshed its Slim Pen to magnetically fit into the Surface Pro 8’s keyboard. Notably, the Slim Pen 2 has a custom chip called Microsoft G6 and haptic functionality that aims to make writing and drawing feel more realistic. Microsoft says that it’s extending the haptic tech to work in several apps, and it showcased the stylus being used in Adobe Photoshop.
The artist on display claimed that its sharper tip makes it easier to use and more responsive. It can work with every product announced today, including the Surface Pro 8, the Surface Go 3, the Pro X, and the Surface Duo 2 via its pen cover. It can attach magnetically to the side of the new Surface Laptop Studio.
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Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Surface Duo 2 with 8.3″ 90Hz dual displays, three 12MP rear cameras, Snapdragon 888, 5G, Android 11, curved screen for exterior notifications — 5G, better cameras, and bigger screens — Microsoft has officially announced the new Surface Duo 2, its second attempt at an Android-powered folding phone.
Microsoft’s new Surface Duo 2 has all the features that were missing the first time around
5G, better cameras, and bigger screens
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/22/22684814/microsoft-surface-duo-2-price-specs-features-release-date?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
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Monica Chin / The Verge:
Microsoft announces 10.5-inch Surface Go 3 with updated Intel CPUs for up to 60% better performance, Windows Hello, and more — Same RAM, storage, ports, and screen as the Surface Go 2 — Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 is one of the best cheap laptops you can buy, and it’s gotten a sequel today: the new Surface Go 3.
The Surface Go 3 gets new Intel processors
Looks a lot like the Surface Go 2
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/22/22684608/microsoft-surface-go-3-processor-specs-price-features?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 is one of the best cheap laptops you can buy, and it’s gotten a sequel today: the new Surface Go 3.
The device looks identical to the Surface Go 2. The two devices have the same 10.5-inch 1920 x 1280 display, the same set of cameras and speakers, the same ports, and the same dimensions.
There’s one significant difference: new Intel processors. The Surface Go 3 can be configured with an Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y or Core i3-10100Y, a straightforward upgrade over the Go 2, which came with a Gold 4425Y or a Core m3. Microsoft says the chip bump will make the Surface Go an even more powerful device for out-and-about use — 60 percent faster than its predecessor.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Cory Doctorow:
Review of the Framework, a $999 modular 13.5″ laptop that pulls off a relatively sleek design while also being easy to repair and upgrade — Sustainable, upgradeable, repairable and powerful. — The Framework laptop is the first laptop to ever score a 10/10 from Ifixit for repairability.
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever used
Sustainable, upgradeable, repairable and powerful.
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-framework-is-the-most-exciting-laptop-ive-ever-used-5415da0a46e5
Update 22 Sept 2021: This article erroneously described the Framework laptop as the first system to receive a 10/10 from Ifixit. A few other laptops have received this rating. I regret the error.
The Framework laptop is one of a small number of laptops to ever score a 10/10 from Ifixit for repairability. But it’s no thick-as-a-brick throwback the size of a 2005 Thinkpad — it’s approximately the same dimensions as a MacBook.
https://frame.work/
Tomi Engdahl says:
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