For months rumors have circulated that AMD may release entry-level based Navi Radeon graphics cards to market. Well, those rumors are now put to rest as AMD makes it official by announcing their new Radeon RX 5500 family. The new graphics cards are a level below the current Radeon RX 5700 variants that currently on the market.
By the time this post is published, it would have been a full 24 hours since Microsoft held its yearly Surface event, which took place here in New York City — living up to the hype and rumors that circulated on the Internet months before launching the Surface Laptop 3.
My hardware pick of the month is indeed a good one for those looking to upgrade to an NVMe SSD hard drive. The Kingston 500 GB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD PCIe 3.0 hard drive is an easy choice not because of its reasonable price point, which I'll get to later in this post. It's high-performance gains you'll be getting once you install this drive into your system.
I've had time to digest everything I needed to know about the iPhone 11 Pro series and came away quite impressed with what Apple has to offer. In regards to the smartphone's hardware, again, impressive. The iPhone 11 Pro now sports an A13 Bionic chip, have a bigger battery ( 3969 mAh for the Pro Max) and an XDR OLED display. Though the smartphone retains 12MP camera or cameras plural, Apple now adds a third ultra-wide camera.
The HP ZBook 14u G6 is probably the most interesting device I've profiled on Hardware Breakdown. The display in comparison to most laptops on the market is rather small at, yet packs some serious features and hardware that would classify it to be a mobile workstation.
The Logitech has just announced the Logitech G604, wireless gaming mouse which is an updated version from the G602, making it's market debut back in 2013.
The graphic card, processor and other components get more powerful and faster by the year. The PC peripherals do not follow the same blueprint pretty much staying the same. For the most part, manufacturers tend to focus on value, trends, product design, and innovation.
The thought has come to mind to purchase a Fire TV Cube. Good thing I held off from buying the device as Amazon is on the verge of releasing a second-generation model. Similar functional features to the first generation variant, the new Fire TV Cube will offer upgrades over the original version. The noticeable change is to Hardware. The Fire TV Cube will now have an octa-core processor. According to Amazon, this makes it the "fastest most powerful Fire TV" ever.
A motherboard that's abundantly rich in features is always the best option for any system builder. Precisely what have with the X570 Aorus Master motherboard. Not only is it rich in features, but its also structurally designed to withstand the weight of most high-end video cards. Offering extensive DDR4 memory support and have a bevy of connectivity options.
Week ending deals have not been posted on this site for quite some time, and for that, I apologize. With that said, I have a good deal for your readers. The Dell S series LED-Lit 32-inch monitor retails for just $223.48 on Amazon. It comes with a load of impressive features, that includes QHD 2560 x1440 resolution, 60Hz refresh rate, 99% sRGB and surprisingly it has AMD FreeSync feature. Not bad for the retail price.
I have a soft spot for Lenovo with good reason. The company build very high quality laptops, the best on the market. If you browse through the website archives and search laptops, you'll likely see Lenovo dominate most of the written content. That's why I'm pretty excited about what Lenovo is about the release to market, three new laptops.. The fact that each new laptop will be integrated with the latest 10th gen Comet Lake processor and have advanced storage technology has me even more stoked with excitement.
This month hardware pick is a good one, what we have here is the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 OC graphics card. A valuable choice for any PC builder looking to construct a budget system. Aside from the specs which I'll get to in a few lines, the $229 price most certainly will entice anyone to purchase this hardware.
It’s been a week since Samsung unveiled their top-end flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note 10. I've had plenty of time to digest all of its features and hardware specs presented on the device. But before we get into the topic at hand, I want to point out much like the Galaxy 10 series, there are three versions. There's the Galaxy Note 10, the Note 10 Plus and the 5G variant. Let us direct our focus on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.
Even though Samsung continues to push its current fifth-generation 3D V-NAND flash, the company is in the process of mass-producing 250GB SATA SSD's based on the sixth-generation V-NAND. Samsung has achieved the impossible by adding more than 100 layers to 256Gb (TLC) dies, which is much faster, consumes less energy, and is cost-effective.
The MiFo 05 wireless earbuds have been in my possession for a few months, and I must say these are a decent pair of earbuds. Impressive, yes, but while using these earbuds, I've discovered some glaring issues. For one, accessing controls on the earbuds requires you to use physical force, which makes the ears overall very uncomfortable. Skipping music tracks or answering phone calls can be a bit cumbersome. I usually end up pushing the earbuds further into my ear canal. Also, you can only receive audio calls in one earbud which is another issue.
Just recently, AOC unveiled their latest 24.5 and 27-inch gaming monitors that boasts an ultra-fast response times of 0.5ms garnishing positive impressions from yours truly. Acer, which is a rival competitor, does even better by unveiling their Predator XN253Q X 24-inch gaming monitor.
As launch day approaches, there's already a bevy of mock-up images of the iPhone 11 plastered all over the Internet. Now I've read from various publications on what features can be expected. From all my gathered information, here’s what you need to know.
Patriot adds to a market saturated with cheaply priced SSDs with there new P200 series. It serves as an latest entry-level solid-state drives that feature a SATA 6 Gbps interface, storage capacities coming in at 256GB, 5122GB, 1TB and 2TB. Like most SSD's on the market the P200 series, will fall in budget category regarding price and performance.
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express known abbreviation as PCIe which is serial computer bus expansion slot that's occupied by the graphics cards, networking cards and NVMe hard drives. Every few years or so, the expansion bus standard makes improvements to data throughput. Currently, desktop systems are using third-gen iteration, or PCIe 3.0. But that's all about to change.
With Amazon Prime Day Deals currently dominating the news, I found something on the web that is quite fascinating, well at least its fascinating to me. According to published reports, Gigabyte will be the first to offer PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD on AMD's X570 motherboards, the Gigabyte Aorus M.2 NVMe GEN4 SSD 2TB, and ASRock X570 Taichi.
