AMD’s AM4 socket has been around five years now, and what a run it’s had. Since its launch alongside first-generation Ryzen CPUs, this socket has been a mainstay, with unprecedented support from Team Red that enables use of first-gen motherboards with current processors.
AM4 will soon cede center stage to AM5 later this year, but not everyone will need PCIe 5.0 or want to shell out for expensive DDR5 memory. That means Ryzen 5000 chips—the final batch of AM4 processors&mda
In this special episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung and Adam Patrick Murray are joined by AMD’s Frank Azor and Robert Hallock, who reveal deeper insights about AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 chips, the AM5 motherboards they’ll slot into, low-cost “Menocino” laptops with long-lived endurance, and more.
Did AMD’s eye-opening Computex 2022 demo of Ryzen 7000 running at 5.5GHz use overclocking or extreme cooling? Nope.
That’s the word from Hallock and Azor,
For years, Microsoft OneNote has allowed you to record the audio of a meeting, then take notes, syncing the audio to your inked or typed notes for later review. Now Microsoft is doing that feature one better by adding transcription, too.
Microsoft also unveiled sweeping aesthetic and functional changes that are coming to OneNote, part of a plan to unify the OneNote apps in Windows. Microsoft has said previously that it will begin phasing out the UWP version of the app, also known as OneNote
Next-gen desktops are packing some pretty impressive capabilities, but perhaps the most exciting for the widest slice of users is the upgrade to the fifth generation of PCIe connections. That’ll mean expanded data bandwidth for high-end peripherals, most notably graphics cards and SSDs. While PCIe 5.0 connections have been available for a few months, since the launched of Intel’s 12th-gen “Alder Lake” processors, we’ve yet to see consumer storage drives that can t
It’s not easy to find a gaming laptop with an Nvidia RTX 3080 for under $2,000. That’s why we’re so interested in what Antonline is offering right now. The online retailer is selling the Gigabyte Aorus 15P YD with an RTX 3080 for $1,899. That’s $500 off the MSRP.
There’s a lot to like about this laptop. First, it has a 15.6-inch 1080p display with a stunning 300Hz maximum refresh rate. The processor is Intel’s “Tiger Lake” Core i7-11800H, whi
Believe it or not, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still lives. But not for long.
If you’re one of those people who is still reliant on Internet Explorer (hi, Dad!), Microsoft has some bad news: Microsoft will officially end support for the Internet Explorer desktop application on June 15, 2022.
The replacement? Microsoft Edge, which already has an “Internet Explorer mode” built right in. Microsoft said in 2019 that it planned to add an IE Mode within Edge, and the
We’ve become used to sharing files between the cloud and our local PCs, so much that we often don’t think about where a file physically resides. It sounds like Microsoft wants us to start thinking about our computing resources in the same way — and start considering AI when buying a new PC or processor, too.
At its Build developer conference, executive vice president and chief product officer Panos Panay will talk about a “vision for a world of intelligent hybrid com
Later this year, Microsoft will begin inviting third-party developers to create their own widgets for use in Windows 11, Microsoft said at its Build 2022 developer conference.
“You’ll be able to start building Widgets as companion experiences for your Win32 and PWA apps on Windows 11, powered by the Adaptive Cards platform,” chief product officer of Windows and Devices Panos Panay wrote in a blog post accompanying the show.
Widgets are part of Windows 11, though the co
The Microsoft Store app suffers from two major flaws: it doesn’t have as many apps as users would like, and what apps there are suffer from a plague of infrequently updated lookalikes. Microsoft seems intent on solving the first problem by making the second potentially worse.
Microsoft said Tuesday at its Microsoft Build 2022 conference that the Microsoft Store is “open to all,” meaning that it has removed a waitlist program for Win32 apps. The store is now open to all app
Logitech’s MX series is the cream of its peripheral crop, the most expensive and capable of its fan-favorite input devices. Today it’s combining that top-of-the-market reputation with full mechanical keys, previously seen mostly in Logitech’s gaming G-series line. The result is the MX Mechanical, an upgrade to the svelte MX Keys design that adds low-profile mechanical switches in three different styles. The design comes in a full-sized layout or a Mini model, roughly equivale