Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Qualcomm officially unveiled the Snapdragon X Elite in October last year, materializing a worthy Apple Silicon competitor that would eventually power a slew of Windows-powered notebooks. Fast forward to September 2024, and Intel and AMD have introduced their offerings that duke it out with the latest silicon on a ‘performance per watt’ basis. It has been nearly a year since Qualcomm’s announcement, and there has been no die shot examining the various clusters of the SoC until now. The Snapdragon X Elite gets compared with the M4, showing that it is physically larger, with several other differences, as you will […]
Apple is planning to release a host of machines powered by its latest chipset, but out of all of them, a new report states that the M4 Mac mini will be the only one sporting a redesign. With the change, this model is said to become the company’s smallest computer ever. Given that the Apple Silicon Mac mini range has existed since 2020, it was long overdue that these machines received an aesthetics makeover. The upcoming M4 Mac mini could be as small as an Apple TV but will boast desktop-class performance thanks to the new Apple Silicon It is […]
The M4 was introduced with Apple’s 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models, but the company has a more broadened strategy for the same SoC found in various Macs. In fact, one report states that it will be the first time that the company brings the M4 to its entire Mac family, and that includes the exceptionally powerful desktops. New Mac Pro and Mac Studio reportedly arriving in the second half of 2025, will likely feature the significantly powerful M4 Ultra The updated MacBook Pro models rumored to arrive in Q4 2024 will likely be Apple’s first Mac members to be treated […]
The new 11-inch and 13-inch M4 iPad Pro models feature Apple’s latest M4, which is mass produced on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process, which itself is a pretty big deal when discussing advanced manufacturing nodes. However, there are some subtle changes that the company has introduced to its latest Apple Silicon, which helps to increase total data bandwidth and allows for more possibilities. That includes four Thunderbolt controllers, making it twice as much as what the M3 sports. Having additional Thunderbolt controllers on the M4 allows for hooking up more high-resolution monitors and other peripherals that require insane bandwidth levels A valuable […]
Games being supported on Apple Silicon Macs have now become a reality, with a multitude of older and current-generation titles arriving for the platform, and things are looking up from here too. Shortly after the WWDC 2024 keynote finished, Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit 2 became available to download for developers, and there is one key detail that we found highly interesting, which is support for the AVX2 instruction set. For those unfamiliar with this term, it is a CPU instruction set that improves floating point performance that can help some games run better on updated hardware. Thankfully, the latest Game […]
New laptops featuring the Snapdragon X Elite have started showing up on Geekbench 6, and their multi-core scores are a figure that immediately caught our eye because the retail units have obtained a significantly better result than what we were previously led to believe. Earlier, we reported that Apple’s M4 was the new king of this benchmark, running circles around the M2 and gaining a notable lead against the likes of the M3 Pro and Snapdragon X Elite. However, the story takes a different turn here, as you will soon find out. Qualcomm’s partners are likely allowing the Snapdragon X Elite to […]
The M4 has put on a clinic in Geekbench 6, expanding the performance gap in single-core tests and maintaining a solid lead against notable chipsets like the M3 Pro and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite in the multi-core category. While it is settled that Apple’s latest SoC is a beast in compute capabilities, we have not got around to seeing how capable it is when it comes to gaming. Fortunately, if you plan on engaging in Genshin Impact, you will be pleased to know that the M4 is now the fastest silicon for this game. M4 manages an impressive 113.6FPS in Genshin […]
The M4 running in Apple’s latest 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models is available in a 9-core and 10-core CPU option. We did report about the top-end version’s performance, and we were thoroughly impressed as it ran circles around the M2 and M3 and maintained a solid lead against the M3 Pro and Snapdragon X Elite. However, how well does the base variant perform, which has one performance core less than the top-tier version? In the latest benchmark, we find that there is little difference between them, but there will always be consumers who want the latest and greatest. M4 […]
The M4 was officially announced during Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ event, with the company praising the 10-core CPU version in droves. What thoroughly impressed us was when we reported that the latest chipset beat the M3 and M2 comprehensively while also managing a healthy lead against the M3 Pro and Snapdragon X Elite. While some might attribute these performance gains to Apple switching to TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the M4, various findings reveal that the company has switched to the ARMv9 architecture with this release. In short, the new Apple Silicon can now run more complex tasks efficiently, which may also explain […]
An early look at the M4’s performance did not deliver the best positive first impression because we believed that Apple lowered the clock speeds to achieve better efficiency. However, we are pleasantly surprised by the latest results, as Apple’s new SoC powering the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models runs circles around the M2, handily beats M3, and zips past the M3 Pro and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite, which are two chipsets occupying a higher performance bracket. Let us look at the latest scores and see what impressed us so much. New Geekbench 6 results also reveal that Apple M4’s performance cores […]
Qualcomm officially unveiled the Snapdragon X Elite in October last year, materializing a worthy Apple Silicon competitor that would eventually power a slew of Windows-powered notebooks. Fast forward to September 2024, and Intel and AMD have introduced their offerings that duke it out with the latest silicon on a ‘performance per watt’ basis. It has been nearly a year since Qualcomm’s announcement, and there has been no die shot examining the various clusters of the SoC until now. The Snapdragon X Elite gets compared with the M4, showing that it is physically larger, with several other differences, as you will […]
Apple is planning to release a host of machines powered by its latest chipset, but out of all of them, a new report states that the M4 Mac mini will be the only one sporting a redesign. With the change, this model is said to become the company’s smallest computer ever. Given that the Apple Silicon Mac mini range has existed since 2020, it was long overdue that these machines received an aesthetics makeover. The upcoming M4 Mac mini could be as small as an Apple TV but will boast desktop-class performance thanks to the new Apple Silicon It is […]
The M4 was introduced with Apple’s 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models, but the company has a more broadened strategy for the same SoC found in various Macs. In fact, one report states that it will be the first time that the company brings the M4 to its entire Mac family, and that includes the exceptionally powerful desktops. New Mac Pro and Mac Studio reportedly arriving in the second half of 2025, will likely feature the significantly powerful M4 Ultra The updated MacBook Pro models rumored to arrive in Q4 2024 will likely be Apple’s first Mac members to be treated […]
The new 11-inch and 13-inch M4 iPad Pro models feature Apple’s latest M4, which is mass produced on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process, which itself is a pretty big deal when discussing advanced manufacturing nodes. However, there are some subtle changes that the company has introduced to its latest Apple Silicon, which helps to increase total data bandwidth and allows for more possibilities. That includes four Thunderbolt controllers, making it twice as much as what the M3 sports. Having additional Thunderbolt controllers on the M4 allows for hooking up more high-resolution monitors and other peripherals that require insane bandwidth levels A valuable […]
Games being supported on Apple Silicon Macs have now become a reality, with a multitude of older and current-generation titles arriving for the platform, and things are looking up from here too. Shortly after the WWDC 2024 keynote finished, Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit 2 became available to download for developers, and there is one key detail that we found highly interesting, which is support for the AVX2 instruction set. For those unfamiliar with this term, it is a CPU instruction set that improves floating point performance that can help some games run better on updated hardware. Thankfully, the latest Game […]
New laptops featuring the Snapdragon X Elite have started showing up on Geekbench 6, and their multi-core scores are a figure that immediately caught our eye because the retail units have obtained a significantly better result than what we were previously led to believe. Earlier, we reported that Apple’s M4 was the new king of this benchmark, running circles around the M2 and gaining a notable lead against the likes of the M3 Pro and Snapdragon X Elite. However, the story takes a different turn here, as you will soon find out. Qualcomm’s partners are likely allowing the Snapdragon X Elite to […]
The M4 has put on a clinic in Geekbench 6, expanding the performance gap in single-core tests and maintaining a solid lead against notable chipsets like the M3 Pro and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite in the multi-core category. While it is settled that Apple’s latest SoC is a beast in compute capabilities, we have not got around to seeing how capable it is when it comes to gaming. Fortunately, if you plan on engaging in Genshin Impact, you will be pleased to know that the M4 is now the fastest silicon for this game. M4 manages an impressive 113.6FPS in Genshin […]
The M4 running in Apple’s latest 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models is available in a 9-core and 10-core CPU option. We did report about the top-end version’s performance, and we were thoroughly impressed as it ran circles around the M2 and M3 and maintained a solid lead against the M3 Pro and Snapdragon X Elite. However, how well does the base variant perform, which has one performance core less than the top-tier version? In the latest benchmark, we find that there is little difference between them, but there will always be consumers who want the latest and greatest. M4 […]
The M4 was officially announced during Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ event, with the company praising the 10-core CPU version in droves. What thoroughly impressed us was when we reported that the latest chipset beat the M3 and M2 comprehensively while also managing a healthy lead against the M3 Pro and Snapdragon X Elite. While some might attribute these performance gains to Apple switching to TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the M4, various findings reveal that the company has switched to the ARMv9 architecture with this release. In short, the new Apple Silicon can now run more complex tasks efficiently, which may also explain […]
An early look at the M4’s performance did not deliver the best positive first impression because we believed that Apple lowered the clock speeds to achieve better efficiency. However, we are pleasantly surprised by the latest results, as Apple’s new SoC powering the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models runs circles around the M2, handily beats M3, and zips past the M3 Pro and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite, which are two chipsets occupying a higher performance bracket. Let us look at the latest scores and see what impressed us so much. New Geekbench 6 results also reveal that Apple M4’s performance cores […]