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AMD Promises to Fix Two Bugs Causing Reduced CPU Performance in Windows 11
For anyone with an AMD CPU thinking about upgrading to Windows 11, you may want to hold off just a bit longer until AMD can patch a couple of bugs that can cause performance drops of as much as 15%.
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This Thin and Light Asus Laptop Checks Every Box and Then Some
Every time a new thin, light laptop comes across my desk, I become more resigned to the fact that it’s time to move on from my now 5-year-old gaming laptop. I’m careening toward middle age, and I need a practical, portable machine to keep my hips in their sockets. (I feel old, OK?) My desktop…
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Intel Somehow Squeezes More Performance Out of Its 11th-Gen Desktop Processors, but I’m Not Sure It Should Have
Just when you think Intel couldn’t do anything else with its desktop processors on that old, 14nm node, it manages to do something else. I thought the company hit a limit with its previous generation, although the gains it does make gen-over-gen aren’t the most impressive. Between Intel’s long, fraught saga getting its architecture down…
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AMD Ryzen Processors Are Finally Coming to Chromebooks
Today AMD announced its Ryzen processor series is joining the Chromebook family — Athlon, too. Both APUs (that means CPU and integrated graphics in non-AMD terms) include Radeon Vega integrated graphics and will be found in mid-level to high-end Chromebooks with Athlon on the mid-level, and Ryzen on the high-end respectively. The current A6 and…