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There have been weeks of hype around the Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro and consumers remain excited following the launch. Some websites like AliExpress have already listed the phone for import to the UK but with prices of £380.19 to £415.55, they are charging a massive premium. Based on this pre-order price you would probably be…
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 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…
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…
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…
AMD will hold their keynote speach in less than 24 hours and we will finally have full details of the latest Zen 2 AMD CPUs which could shake up the market as much as the origina Ryzen launch. A new entry has popped up on Geekbench 4 which reveals that a 6 core, 12 thread…
With Xiaomi upgrading the new Redmi 7A from the Mediatek MT6761 Helio A22 to the Snapdragon 439 it is worth looking at how these two chipsets compare and if the Redmi 7A is a big upgrade from the 6A. Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 The Snapdragon 439 was launched in June 2018 and is a low mid-tier…
For under £100 the Xiaomi Redmi 6A has stood out as the best budget phone in the UK for the past year. While it obviously lacks the wow factor of any flagship or even mid-range phone, it was perfectly usable for day to day functions including browsing the web, social media, and YouTube. Even the…
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