Tag: computing
Hate waiting for games to load? Intel’s new trick for Arc GPUs will be music to your ears, especially if you have a handheld
Intel has released a new Arc graphics driver It introduces a Precompiled Shaders feature to help supported games load faster This is a situational benefit, but it’ll apply more often than you think Intel has introduced a new trick for some of its Arc GPUs, which helps supported games load…
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MacBook Pro M5 Max 16-inch review: Still the pinnacle
We’ve loved Apple’s 2021-era MacBook Pro design from the start, and the M5 Max edition is once again the professional notebook to beat. But it’s hard to deny that the star of Apple’s recent laptop rollout wasn’t its most powerful Pro systems — all eyes were on the $599 MacBook…
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The MacBook Neo is Apple’s most repairable laptop
Apple’s cheapest laptop is also its most repairable. iFixit gave the new MacBook Neo a 6/10 repairability score. Although that number would only be mediocre for, say, a game review or final exam grade, it’s the MacBook line’s highest iFixit score in about 14 years. As always, iFixit goes into…
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How to clean and organize your Mac
Inevitably, the more you use something — your Mac included — the more dirty and cluttered it’s likely to become. At that point, you can buy a new machine, but the more economical move is to make what you have already work better. To help your computer feel new, or…
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MacBook Air M5 review: Same but faster
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost four years since Apple gave the MacBook Air a serious glow-up. The 2022 model was a total redesign that bumped its performance with the M2 chip and also improved a number of key components. It was also the first MacBook Air to…
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MacBook Neo review: Apple puts every $600 Windows PC to shame
I really don’t know how Apple did it. The MacBook Neo is a $600 laptop that doesn’t feel like an afterthought, which is a curse that has befallen so many cheap Windows notebooks. Sure, it has a slower A-series processor and it’s limited to 8GB of RAM. But the MacBook…
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