Probably not, but yesterday MediaTek became the first company to announce a chipset with an integrated 5G modem that is designed on Arm’s brand-new Cortex-A77 cores and new Mali-G77 GPU. The fact that the company is basing this on the only just announced Arm technology is perhaps the biggest indicator of where this chip stands…
The Xiaomi Mi 9 was announced at MWC this year and continues Xiaomi’s tradition of making great value phones. With UK SIM free prices from around £449, this is the cheapest Snapdragon 855 based phone in the UK market, however, Xiaomi hasn’t cut many corners to achieve this price, the phone comes with an impressive…
The Dell XPS 13 range of laptops is arguably the best ultra-portable range on the market, with the 2-in-1 being particularly suited to travelling and commuting. Along with the launch of Intel’s latest 10th generation Ice Lake processors, the XPS 13 7300-series 2-in-1 convertible has been updated with a choice of options ranging from the…
As part of the yearly update cycle, Dell is rolling out redesigned Alienware 15-inch m15 and 17-inch m17 laptops, which feature higher-performance components, better displays – including an optional OLED panel – new storage options, and other improvements. Both systems are based on Intel’s 9th Gen Core mobile processors (up to Core i9-9980HK) as well as NVIDIA’s…
Mainstream 5G is just around the corner, and for mobile router users, it’s going to mean having enterprise-level internet connection speeds with you at all times. The trouble is, it’s hard to track down unbiased reviews of kit – so, rather than point you in the direction of one or two specific routers, we’ve put…
Smart door locks have been a little slow to take off in the UK. In the US they have had August for years, but that is only compatible with the less secure deadbolt style locks. In the UK, with our multi-point locks, the best solution has been the Yale Conexis L1, which is excellent and…
When Qualcomm launched their first Windows and ARM devices, the performance was a little lacklustre as well as compatibility issue with 64-bit applications. I still use my HP Envy X2, and things have improved with Windows updates, but it is not good enough as a main laptop. The laptop used the Snapdragon 835 Mobile PC…
Xiaomi’s sub-brand Redmi will today launmch the Redmi K20 series, which will come in a standard model and the Pro model. Dubbed Killer 2.0, taking aim at the OnePlus flagship killer nickname, this is expected to be one of the most affordable flagships of the year. Images of the Redmi K20 Pro and its Chinese…
Thermaltake is determined to make a case for every budget and requirement, I have reviewed some of their more affordable options, and some of their largest and more expensive choices. The Thermaltake Commander series builds upon this by offering six new options. Functionally they are all the same case, but with different mesh front panels…
The AMD keynote at Computex was mainly focussed on the new 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs, but the company did tease us with their up and coming Radeon RX 5700 series which will be based on Navi. The first Navi cards will be the Radeon RX 5700 series, which are launching in July and on an…
After months of hype and leaks, AMD has finally announced Zen 2 with 5 new chips forming the AMD Ryzen 3000 series family. Many of the previous leaks seemed too good to be true with claims of 16 core chips with a boost of over 5Ghz. Well, they were too good to be true, what…
And it’s finally official! The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X has been officially announced with 12-core, 24-thread, 4.6Ghz Boost, 3.8Ghz 105W. AMD announced they have increased the single threaded performacne by 32% from the last first generation Zen chips, and doubled the multi thread performance. They put the new flagship chip up against the £1k+ Intel…
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