consumer tech
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AMD’s Excellent Ryzen 5000 Series Is Coming to Laptops
AMD’s Ryzen series of CPUs seem to be getting better with every iteration, and the Ryzen 5000 series launched in the fall of 2020 was perhaps the most impressive series yet. And now it’s coming to laptops.
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Intel’s Got Some Big Changes That Have Me Excited About Its Mobile Processor Line-Up
Not content to talk about only its desktop processors, Intel had a lot to say regarding its mobile processor line-up, too. The chipmaker is releasing two new 10th-gen mobile processors, new 11th-gen mobile processors, and Chromebooks will even get Intel’s Tiger Lake processors for the first time, plus some extra goodies.
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Intel’s 11th-Gen Desktop Processors Have a Neat GPU Trick Up Their Sleeves
Intel had a lot of processor announcements today, everything from laptops and Chromebooks to desktops and its vPro platform. There was something for nearly every industry segment — it was a lot. But the news that’s probably at the front of everyone’s mind is Intel’s 11th-gen desktop processors, aka Rocket Lake. What’s the core count?…
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Linksys’ First Wi-Fi 6E Mesh Router Will Be an Expensive Way to Future Proof Your Wi-Fi
Every year at CES there’s a new buzzword generously thrown around: last year it was 5G, and for 2021 it’s going to be Wi-Fi 6E. If you’ve recently upgraded to a Wi-Fi 6 router that’s really unfortunate because 6E promises to genuinely fix a lot of the bottlenecks caused by overcrowded Wi-Fi networks. Netgear has…