Months ago I purchased a Noctua NF-A8 cooling fan to see what all the excitement around Noctua fans was about. The first thing that struck me when I acquired the fan was its fancy packaging. It is a cardboard box that opens like any other. However, it has a little door at the front for…
NVidia, one of the largest manufacturers of graphics processing units (GPUs) for video cards has brought features offering by their high performance GPU product lines to Linux devices with ARM processors. The features are Ray Tracing and DLSS. Windows PCs using the x86 instruction set architecture as well as the Xbox and PlayStation consoles have…
Microsoft has announced neat new features that refreshes the user experience of Windows 11, and the ability to run Android apps directly on the OS. These UI improvements reflect on Microsoft’s past of leading the way towards user friendliness and making computers consumer-friendly. The OS has centered the start menu/taskbar and also supports split screen…
Qubes OS – an operating system that sets the bar high for security and privacy has announced that they now accept Monero (XMR) donations. Qubes OS is an operating system that is built for virtualization of different operating systems. Unlike most other operating systems, you don’t have to install virtual machine software in Qubes. Why…
Noctua, an Austrian maker of high-end computer cooling equipment has released an enormous passive CPU cooler weighing 2.6 pounds. The NH-P1 cooler is designed to operate in computer systems with few or no cooling fans, offering the promise of completely silent operation and low power consumption. A significant benefit of passive builds is reduced dust…
Dell has discontinued the Alienware Graphics Amplifier (AGA) — an external GPU that turned heads with its ability to plug high performance graphics into supported laptops. The ability to plug a desktop graphics card into a laptop was appealing to anyone that needed that level of performance in a laptop, although it used Dell’s proprietary…
Alienware has taken on the challenge of manufacturing gaming laptops that are thin, cool, and powerful — a very difficult combination to achieve. They have released their new X15 laptops which are 15.9mm thick (two of its configurations, at least). The X15 base model is $1,999, and that contains an Intel i7-11800H processor – a…
The upcoming USB-C 2.1 standard will support up to 240 Watts — a large increase from the 100 Watts that the current USB-C Power Delivery (PD) standard supports. USB-C PD has really changed the way that we connect and power devices by combining high current carrying capacity with USB data lines. This resulted in fewer…
AMD has been giving Intel strong competition over the past couple of years with their new Ryzen processors. At the same time, Intel was grappling with other issues that had to be patched (and the patches reduced performance in some cases). Now they have released the 11th generation H series CPUs built on the 10nm…
Samsung has created a PCI Express expansion card that you can install RAM modules in. Normally, computers come with typically two or four DIMM slots to install your RAM modules in to expand your computer’s memory. However, some desktop computers only come with two slots. That limits how much RAM you can add to your…
The M1 MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air were released in late 2020, marking the first time in more than a decade that Apple has produced the processors for their own computers. The M1 chip offers unprecedented levels of efficiency and performance that are very difficult to find in a laptop. However, many people are…
Apple has released iOS 14.5.1, which provides a memory corruption bug fix and patches an arbitrary code execution (ACE) vulnerability in WebKit — a web browser engine. Arbitrary code execution refers to an attacker executing code that they should not be able to execute. A malicious website could theoretically execute harmful code on your iPhone,…