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The repairs site iFixit has done its usual ‘teardown’ on the iPhone 13 Pro, completely dismantling Apple’s new premium smartphone and documenting the various hardware changes. Among the new features is something that is likely to prove controversial. It seems that the screen and the rest of the phone are linked by matching serial numbers, with the result that Face ID facial recognition stops working altogether if you replace the screen without having access to Apple’s special software for activation and calibration. “…Any display replacement knocks out Face ID,” iFixit writes. “We tried transferring the sensors from the old display…
Why repair something that is not broken: In terms of price-performance ratio, the iPad 9 or 10.2in iPad is unbeatable. Apple’s cheapest iPad, the iPad 10.2in, is often overshadowed by the iPad Pro and iPad Air. But the basic model is the best-selling tablet – no Android tablet can keep up with it either. Admittedly, Apple’s new 10.2in iPad looks a little old-fashioned compared to the other iPads: the bezels around the edges are wide and the housing thick. The home button, which has disappeared from all other Apple devices (except the iPhone SE) remains on the standard iPad. But…
The latest entry of Intel’s Core i9-12900 Alder Lake CPU has been spotted within UserBenchmark & has been tested with ASUS’s flagship Z690 ROG motherboard. Intel Core i9-12900 Alder Lake CPU Spotted Running on ASUS’s Flagship ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme Motherboard The entry comes from ASUS’s HQ in Taiwan where some decided to leave their internet up and running while testing out two unreleased products. The test platform includes the Intel Core i9-12900 which is the non-K sibling of the 12900K and comes with the same core configuration of 16 cores and 24 threads. The chip listed here had a…
In a new rumor from Greymon55, it looks like AMD’s RDNA 3 based Navi 33 GPU which will power the next-gen Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards will feature fewer cores than expected at first. AMD Radeon RX 7000 ‘RDNA 3’ Navi 33 GPU Rumored To Feature 4096 Cores But Performance Faster Than Navi 21 Previously, Greymon55 had stated up to 5120 cores or 20 WGP’s on the RDNA 3 based Navi 33 GPU but his latest information suggests a lower WGP and Core count. But that doesn’t mean the overall performance has changed. Despite the lower number, the Navi…
Silicon Lottery has announced that it will be shutting down its business, marking an end to its pre-binned Intel and AMD CPU sales. No More Pre-Binned Intel & AMD CPU Sales As Silicon Lottery To Shut Down Its Doors Next Month Silicon Lottery has been operating for several years and has offered several pre-binned variants of Intel and AMD CPUs. The company started offering AMD CPUs with the launch of 1st Gen Ryzen but has been offering Intel CPUs all the way back to Skylake. The company has now announced that the business will be coming to an end next…
It’s been more than 15 years since IBM stopped making ThinkPad laptops, yet you’re still likely to see them in the halls of industry, virtual or actual. That’s thanks to Lenovo.The company formerly known as Legend Computers of Beijing, China, still produces the well-regarded laptop line, with its beloved AccuType keyboard. And indeed, a big part of the ThinkPad’s longevity has to do with those rugged, inimitable keyboards. But Lenovo machines nowadays range well beyond the classic black ThinkPad slabs. (For one thing, you can get some of them in silver.)Rather, year after year, Lenovo continues to innovate with radical designs. Take the…
Peter Relan is not exactly a household name, but he has seen a lot over the course of his career and enjoyed a fair amount of success. A Stanford grad who logged time at Hewlett-Packard and Oracle before becoming the CTO of the ill-fated, bubble-era company Webvan, Relan has, in more recent years, become known in founder circles for creating three “low-volume, high-touch incubators” that have punched above their weight. The very first class back in 2007 included founder Jason Citron who, at the time, was developing a social mobile gaming company, OpenFeint, that he subsequently sold in 2011 to…
Gigabyte Technology isn’t the first name that comes to mind in data-center hardware. It’s better known as a consumer player, but it is a significant server player none the less, making server motherboards on par with other top names like Supermicro.Now the company has teamed with CoolIT Systems to provide two high-density servers equipped with liquid-cooling technology.The servers, H262-ZL0 and H262-ZL2, are equipped with direct liquid cooling for CPUs designed to support the high-performing but super-hot 280 watt AMD EPYC 7003 (Milan) processors.The servers, based on the company’s H262-Z6x family of air-cooled servers, are hyperconverged and very dense, targeting HPC, HCI,…
Amazon-owned Ring just unveiled a new version of its Ring Alarm home security system with a killer feature: a built-in Eero 6 mesh Wi-Fi router.Mentioned in this article You can pre-order a Ring Alarm Pro base station with integrated Eero router today for $250. An eight-piece configuration, which includes the base station plus four contact sensors, a motion sensor, a Z-Wave range extender, and a keypad, will sell for $300, while a 14-piece kit with the base station, eight contact sensors, two motion sensors, Z-Wave range extender, and two keypads will fetch $380.The router built into the Ring Alarm Pro…
Over the years, my iPhone upgrade ritual has developed a few patterns. My routine involves talking myself out of pre-ordering, driving to whatever far-away retail store has launch day inventory, and ending up in New Orleans to try out the new camera system. This year is no exception. I sold my silver 128GB iPhone 12 Pro Max to a local buyer who thought I was joking when I said the charging brick no longer comes in the box. Then I traveled 90 minutes to a Best Buy that had a Sierra blue 256GB iPhone 13 Pro ready for pickup. The…