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Amazon Music Unlimited vs Spotify: Which is best?

(Pocket-lint) – The rise of Amazon Music Unlimited has gone hand-in-hand with the explosion in the use of Amazon Echo speakers and Alexa, its digital assistant. It integrates seamlessly with Echo devices, while also working just like any other streaming service on your phone and other devices. Spotify is probably the first service you think of… Read more

The gorgeous Asus ROG Flow X13 will be $1,800 cheaper without its eGPU

The Asus ROG Flow X13 was one of the most-hyped announcements of CES 2021, with good reason — how often do you see a 13-inch convertible gaming laptop, especially one that looks so cool? — but there was a catch. On Asus’ store, the ROG Flow X13 was only listed in a $3,000 bundle with… Read more

Rotel Michi S5 / P5

Our Verdict With the superb construction, elegant design and perfectly natural sound of the Michi P5 and S5 combo from Rotel, the only question left to ask is ‘how much?’ The pair offer awesomely low noise with huge output and do so in a gorgeous package. For Superb sound Prestige appearance Great built-in DAC Against… Read more

Leaked Benchmarks From Core i9-Powered iMac Surface

Home News (Image credit: Apple) A mysterious system packing a Core i9-10910 Comet Lake CPU and a (currently unheard of) AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 65GB of RAM has been spotted on an Ashes of the Singularity benchmark score. All data indicates this system could possibly be a prototype for the next generation iMac… Read more

Intel Shows Off Monstrous Xe HPC GPU Die Shot

Home News (Image credit: Intel) We’ve known about Intel Xe Graphics for ages, and the integrated Xe LP variant has been shipping in Tiger Lake laptops since last fall. Raja Koduri, Intel’s senior VP of Architecture, Graphics, and Software, has tweeted various images of Xe HP chips in the past. Today, he posted a die… Read more

Asus ROG Flow X13 review: a game-ready 2-in-1

The ROG Flow X13 and the XG Mobile deliver reasonable performance for quite a high price. A top-notch convertible with a pricey sidecar If I saw the Asus ROG Flow X13 in the wild, I would never guess it was a gaming laptop. It’s a 13.4-inch 2-in-1 convertible that’s just 2.9 pounds and .62 inches… Read more

Seagate Ships 20TB HAMR HDDs Commercially, Increases Shipments of Mach.2 Drives

Home News (Image credit: Seagate) Seagate said this week that it had begun commercial shipments of its hard drives featuring heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology back in November and expanded the evaluation program for its dual-actuator Mach.2 HDDs, which offer twice the performance of a standard hard drive. The company is confident that its technology… Read more

The Xbox Series X is available at Target

Microsoft’s flagship Xbox Series X is one of the most powerful gaming consoles available right now. If you are having difficulty finding it, Target has restocked the Xbox Series X today, so you may want to check it out while supplies last. Given the challenge it has been to secure a unit, inventory will likely… Read more

Radio and TV host Larry King dies at 87

Longtime TV and radio host Larry King died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 87. Ora Media, which King co-founded in 2012, confirmed the news in a tweet to the @KingsThings Twitter account. A cause of death was not immediately available Saturday, but he had reportedly been hospitalized recently with COVID-19…. Read more

Focal Arche

Our Verdict The Arche is well-built and beautifully designed in its simplicity, and is a great choice if you’re after a high quality DAC for your headphones, but if you’re using the Arche in your main setup, stick with the XLR outputs, as the RCA alternatives are sporadically noisy. For Beautiful, solid design Exceptional isolation… Read more

ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Dual – compact graphics card with two fans officially announced

Although there is still more than a month until the premiere of the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card, we have already been inundated with all announcements and presentations of proprietary models of Nvidia’s partners. As it could be deduced from the official show of the fifth Ampere graphics card and what was confirmed by the… Read more

OnePlus Nord N10 5G gets January security patch before its more expensive siblings

Today OnePlus has commenced the rollout of OxygenOS 10.5.9 for the Nord N10 5G. The new software update is still based on Android 10, as you can glean from the naming. That unfortunate reality aside, this is the first OnePlus device to be graced with the January 2021 security patch – the Nord N10 got… Read more

Apple blocks the use of some mobile applications from the iOS platform on computers with the Apple M1 chip

With the premiere of the macOS Big Sur system and the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini computers equipped with Apple M1 chips, a novelty important for the entire ecosystem debuted. It is a function that allows you to run applications designed for smartphones and tablets running iOS and iPadOS on these devices. As… Read more

Pascal Rides Again, Nvidia Launches the GeForce GT 1010

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) In a strange turn of events, Nvidia quietly launched a new GPU, the GT 1010, a card which is based on five-year-old Pascal architecture. This news was discovered by YouTuber Dapz who also confirmed the existence of the GT 1010 via a live chat with an Nvidia representative. The GT 1010… Read more

Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 iChill X3 RED and TwinX2 12 GB VRAM – the announcement of the next graphics cards from the Ampere family

The official announcement of the fifth Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card 3000 is behind us. The Greens presented the GeForce RTX: Game On conference on the occasion of the CES 2021 GeForce RTX model 3060 with 12 GB GDDR6 memory (192 – bit bus and bandwidth at the level of 360 GB / s) on… Read more