Does more. Costs less. It's that simple. This was Apple's old slogan, but nowadays, it's quite the opposite. Since Steve Jobs' death, Apple's innovation has stagnated, and so has their growth. It is evident that consumers want more than just simple product refreshes. They want incredible product revamps that change the way people see technology. … Continue reading Apple: The Laptop Problem
The AMD FX Chips Don’t Suck (Anymore)?
Previously, I thought of AMD's FX series of CPUs to be complete and utter garbage. High cost, low single threaded performance, and multi threaded performance that was impossible to take advantage of at the time it was released. However, after a good 6 years, the AMD FX series are not that bad of a buy. … Continue reading The AMD FX Chips Don’t Suck (Anymore)?
Sub-$800 Mini-ITX PC Build
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xc3LXP This is a build created for people who like small form factor PC's and plenty of power in an inexpensive package. It sports a Ryzen 5 2600, which comes with a stock cooler and can easily be overclocked to 4.0 GHz. Its motherboard has onboard WiFi and Ethernet giving it a good amount of … Continue reading Sub-$800 Mini-ITX PC Build
Huawei P20 Pro Review
Huawei is quite a controversial company. Many Americans fear the possibility of Huawei installing software that will allow the Chinese government to spy on them, but nevertheless, when I saw the Huawei P20 Pro being released, I bought one myself. I've used it since May of 2018 and I think that now is the time … Continue reading Huawei P20 Pro Review
AMD’s 3000 Series Ryzen Mobile Chips – Better Than Expected?
In late 2017, AMD released their Ryzen 2000 series mobile CPU's although they sported CPU performance comparable to Intel 8th Gen mobile CPU's and much better mobile performance, they were not well received by the public. A large reason is due to the lack of driver optimizations and the problem of too much power consumption … Continue reading AMD’s 3000 Series Ryzen Mobile Chips – Better Than Expected?
Nvidia Will Still Remain As The Dominant GPU Company
In AMD's keynote yesterday, they made only one product announcement: The Vega VII. It retails for $699 US and is built on AMD's new 7nm process. The specs seem to be impressive, with a whopping 1 TB/s of memory bandwidth (compared to 616 GB/s on the RTX 2080 Ti), 16 GB of HBM2 (compared to … Continue reading Nvidia Will Still Remain As The Dominant GPU Company
Why AMD Not Announcing Specs Of Zen 2 In Their CES 2019 Keynote Is A Very, Very Good Thing
In AMD's CES keynote today, I, with probably many others, was very disappointed when Dr. Su did not disclose the specs of Zen 2. However, as many people in the subreddit r/AMD have pointed out, Zen 2 pretty much confirmed at this point to have 8x2 cores (for a total of 16) on the naked … Continue reading Why AMD Not Announcing Specs Of Zen 2 In Their CES 2019 Keynote Is A Very, Very Good Thing
8K Displays in 2019
8K displays have been featured in multiple different tech conferences the past year, such as CES 2018 and Computex 2018. I expect 2019 to be a continuation of this. However, there is going to be a very, very long wait until 8K finally becomes mainstream. In fact, majority of consumers are still adjusting to 4K … Continue reading 8K Displays in 2019
Smaller CPU Process Nodes in 2019
Since 2014, the semiconductor industry has been using the 14nm process node. Just this year in 2018, AMD and Nvidia have switched to 12nm (with the Zen + and Turing microarchitecture respectively), although it isn’t much of a difference. Next year, however, AMD will make the jump to a 7nm process - which AMD claims … Continue reading Smaller CPU Process Nodes in 2019
5G Connectivity in 2019
A lot of YouTubers have said that 2019 is the year of 5G technology. I can see that many companies are racing furiously over who can make the best 5G tech, but in my opinion, 5G still has a long way to go. According to Dave2D, although super-fast internet speeds and lower latency is a … Continue reading 5G Connectivity in 2019
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