Western Digital just announced the largest mechanical hard drive in the industry, a 15TB helium-sealed monster. Designed for data centers and cloud storage services, the 15TB HDD is intended for enterprise customers in need of densely compacted, reliable storage. Pricing and avai … | Continue reading
Some modern ThinkPad laptops apparently have an issue with the UEFI-BIOS. When a certain setting is activated, this action can potentially brick the laptop. The only fix in this situation: Exchanging the motherboard. | Continue reading
Pine64, the team behind the $99 Pinebook, has announced they will begin working on a cheap Linux-based smartphone. Dubbed the PinePhone, the handset will be built around Pine\'s low-spec, low-cost Pine A64 single-board computer. Designs haven\'t been finalized, but dev kits are s … | Continue reading
We review Lenovo\'s brand-new ThinkPad X1 Extreme with 4K HDR display and Nvidia\'s GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q. Is Lenovo\'s new laptop a serious contender for popular machines like the Dell XPS 15 or Apple MacBook Pro 15? | Continue reading
Explanation of PWM, when and why it is bad, and possible solutions | Continue reading
Huawei ended support for bootloader unlocks a few months ago but, apparently, that isn\'t where the company ends its battle against community development. | Continue reading
A Geekbench entry has surfaced for a new Qualcomm SoC and a closer examination reveals that this is indeed the Snapdragon 8180 SoC that was rumored to be in development exclusively for Windows 10 on ARM notebooks. The Snapdragon 8180 was originally referred to as the Snapdragon 1 … | Continue reading
Today’s Latitude 7490 configuration packs a quad-core Core i5-8350U and conventional M.2 SATA storage, and it makes a few more cuts to deflate the cost a bit. Even so, this remains an impressive machine. How does this configuration stand up to its competitors? | Continue reading
Filings of a new Palm smartphone with model number PVG100 have made it to the FCC and Wi-Fi Alliance certifications. The specifications of the Palm PVG100 are still unclear but from the Wi-Fi Alliance\'s certification, it can be seen that the phone supports only the 2.4 GHz band … | Continue reading
The new MacBook Pros have problems with the performance utilization of the Coffee Lake processors. We show why Apple\'s power management fails and how you can fix it with just a few clicks. This applies for the smaller 13-inch as well as the 15-inch MacBook Pro, both for macOS an … | Continue reading
Next to Clevo barebones, notebooks from MSI are some of the easiest to disassemble and upgrade. We\'ve collected a series of motherboard images from our own collection to show how the MSI G Series has evolved over the years from the old GT60 up to the latest GS65. | Continue reading
Getting an inside view into the notebook industry is a rare thing and seeing actual prototypes even rarer still. A few days ago, Lenovo showcased such a prototype to Japanese journalists – the prototype of its current ThinkPad X1 Carbon. This two year old prototype looks very dif … | Continue reading
AMD announced new Ryzen Pro APUs and all three major OEMs Dell, HP, and Lenovo were on display with corresponding products. We had the chance to talk with the manufacturers and check the new models hands-on. | Continue reading