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Micron announced that it has begun shipping 232-layer TLC NAND. The new NAND will certainly be finding its way into the fastest SSDs on the market, including Micron’s Crucial branded SSDs. The new NAND delivers 100 percent higher write bandwidth, mor

AMD has been secretly working on photonics technologies. While this is an expected development – photonics is one of the budding technological fields for both classical and quantum computing systems – it does represent a new venue for the company its

Apple plans to bring in more ad revenue in different iPhone and iPad apps by expanding the scope of advertisements seen in the App Store and in Apple Maps, Apple Books, and more, according to a new report. In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg

When the CovidSafe app released at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, opinion was split as to whether it was a) an effective way to chart the spread of the virus, and to thus help contain it, or b) a gnarly trojan horse for increased govern

While we’ve had 12th generation Intel based laptops trickling in since March, this month we got our hands on the first AMD Ryzen 6000 series laptop processor in the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (p35). We also just covered Apple’s 2022 MacBook Air running th

Intel created the HEDT space with socket LGA1366 in November 2008, and for a while the Core i7-920 was one of the best enthusiast processors. It was the first consumer four-core/eight-thread CPU, running at 2.66GHz base and 2.8GHz boost. The thing is

Winamp, perhaps the best MP3 player ever, is back in active development. In fact, it’s one of my all-time favorite PC apps. It was synonymous with the MP3 revolution and it was omnipresent on all of my systems for well over ten years. Before the days

You can read all about the future of the PC platform in our feature article on page 66, and the bottom line is an increase in bandwidth across the board. But the PC platform is not monolithic, instead, it’s bifurcated between Intel and AMD. And incre

It seems that every day we read about pollution around the world. Like the growing horror of microplastics: small chunks of plastic officially defined as being smaller than five millimetres in diameter. Now I read that microplastics are being found i

Augmented reality has had a rough take off – perhaps not a surprise for a technology launched into the public consciousness by Google with skydivers. Almost a decade ago, Google Glass was unveiled at the company’s I/O conference by people leaping out

Things that don’t look like what they are. US$449 | From porsche–design.com Porsche Design is known for its striking, sleek products that turn heads at every opportunity. The company’s Wireless Speaker PDS50 is no different, with its imposing tower

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From $1,899 | apple.com/au Apple hasn’t ever been too concerned about challenging consumer expectations of its products and the new MacBook Air is a great example of this. Not only is the Air range now more expensive than the new MacBook Pro 13 offer

From $3,499 | rog.asus.com/au The Asus Rog Zephyrus G14 and G15s have regularly been at the top of our best gaming laptop roundups due to their great performance and reasonable price tags. This market dominance has given the company a bit of cash to

$3,299 | dell.com/en-au Dell’s G15 gaming laptops have been a staple in the more affordable gaming laptop space for years now, but with a range that offers GPUs up to a Nvidia GeForce 3070 Ti, these units are playing in the high performance gaming la

$2,899 | acer.com Acer’s range of professional ultraportable laptops have been some of APC’s top rated devices over the last few years, primarily because they offered excellent performance in a package that you wouldn’t obviously distinguish from the

$1,349 | www.acer.com The thing with luxuries is that, once you’ve experienced them, it can be difficult to go back to the mundane. This monitor has everything going for it. It’s a 4K display with an IPS panel, a huge 32-inch screen, a 144Hz refresh

$520 | www.hp.com Ask a gamer to describe their ideal gaming monitor, and they’re likely to say “4K”. The problem, of course, is that driving a 4K monitor requires a high-end graphics card that can add a significant amount to your budget. For most, a

On the opposite page is our review of Be Quiet’s Pure Rock 2 FX CPU cooler. We’re fans! Pun intended. Now we come to our second Be Quiet cooler review. This time it’s an all-in-one liquid cooler. Can this 280mm AIO impress us as much as its air-coole

$459 | www.prismplus.com.au The monitor market is a crowded one. There are dozens of brands to choose from. One of the lesser known names in the Australian market is Prism+. Though the name might be a new one to many Australian readers, the specs of

$749 | store.google.com Another new Google phone? Well, sort of. Arriving nine months after the rest of the Pixel 6 family, the 6a is positioned as an affordable alternative to the original phone, rather than a real update. The 6a has a few attractio

$1,199 | https://www.synology.com/en-au Synology has finally released its long-awaited five-bay drive. This is a size that’s considered a sweet spot for enthusiasts thanks to its ability to start-off with a high capacity yet provide some future-proof

$68 | www.bequiet.com There’s no doubt that AIO liquid cooling is becoming nearly essential to keep high TDP processors cool. But we can’t forget there are a lot of 65W class CPUs out there that simply don’t require an expensive liquid cooler. Air co

$TBC | www.logitech.com Logitech’s MX series shows that it knows how to build high-end keyboards and mice, but the mid-range MK650 Combo has different ambitions. Here, Logitech targets IT managers equipping offices and hybrid workers with a simple an

This brilliant open-source program is the best way to read and manage ebooks on your computer without being tied to a single service such as Amazon’s Kindle Store. It lets you convert ebooks easily from one format to another, edit their contents, dow

It’s fair to say that by August 1945, the previous six years of war had left the world physically and economically exhausted. Yet there remained hope amongst scientists that with war now over, many pre-war research efforts halted by war, along with n

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Mark WilliamsMark is an IT professional with a strong interest in voiding warranties. Nvidia is in a bind. So impactful was the chip shortage of the past few years due to the Covid induced demand, major supply chain shortages and a crypto mining boom

If the rumours and roadmaps are to be believed, the PC is about to enter a new golden age of innovation. Intel and AMD are prepping epic new processors, while Nvidia and AMD are tooling up to recalibrate expectations when it comes to generational per

A perfect balance between price and peformance. After a recent overhaul, our budget Intel build sees only one change to its lineup this issue. There’s been a $21 fall in price for the 500GB MSI Spatium M450 SSD, which now features in both PCs and it

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30 minutes How to use Craft to create beautiful notes, emails and essays Craft (Free, IAPs), macOS 10.15 or later Craft combines creativity and organisation in one handy app. It’s a cross between a document creation tool like Pages, where much of the

Since their introduction over three decades ago, tablets have delivered the best touch-screen and stylus experience bar none. Whether you’re an aspiring artist or a scribbling student, tablets have been built from the screen up to optimise non-keyboa

After the success of Windows 7, Microsoft was always at long-odds to achieve the same popularity with its follow-up. Windows 8 was superseded inside three years by the release of Windows 10, nevertheless, this last single-digit release is reportedly

As far as we’re concerned, the birth of live installable distributions remains the greatest watershed moment for the Linux ecosystem. You could quickly burn distributions on to a CD or DVD and boot into a functional Linux environment, without having

Let’s have some fun with the Raspberry Pi Pico. We’re going to try a couple of basic projects and we’ll discuss how to install different types of firmware on the board, write a program to flash an LED and then discuss the configuration required to se

$41.95 | PC, PS4/5 | stray.game The early novelty of playing as a cat in Stray soon gives way to a striking realisation – we often behave like cats in games anyway. Particularly in platform-puzzlers like this, our first inclination is to explore, loo

This month, we cover a historic pillar of personal computing. Alongside the Apple II and Tandy TRS-80, the Commodore PET is one of three major computers (aka The Holy Trinity) that are credited with starting the home computing revolution, and its arc

$59.99 | PC, XB1/S/X, PS4/5, Switch, Linux, Mac | twopointcampus.com Running a campus is expensive. The buildings and staff chip away at my bank balance regularly, and whenever I have a nice fat stack sitting in the vault, I know that all it’s going

$TBA | PC, PS4/5 | bit.ly/3Bu0CHC Rollerdrome is a game about performance. There is combat, but it’s not about winning, as such. It’s about style. The attitude you bring to it. Efficiency is a byproduct of mastering its violent dance – really, you’re

Release: 2014 Developer: Amplitude Studios Publisher: Sega Link: amplitude-studios.com A strategy roguelite about escaping an alien-infested spaceship should not be relaxing, and yet I’ve always cultivated a Solitaire-like calm when playing Dungeon o

Just as the USA unwinds abortion rights, modders are giving Sims characters the right to choose how at least one element of their highly monitored lives plays out. A modder that goes by the handle LittleMsSam released a Sims 4 patch called ‘Miscarrag

In March 2022, Dmitry Cherepanov learned of the damage caused by yet another Russian bomb in Mariupol, Ukraine – the city under fire since the early days of the invasion a month before. By that point, more than 2,000 civilians had been killed. Power,