Earlier this week Intel had said that it expects the performance impact security updates designed to protect a computer against the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities to be minimal on devices with recent Intel processors, but more noticeable on systems with older chips. Now the company is sharing some numbers. We still don’t have any details […]
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Google Pixel 2 Review: Performance
Most high-end smartphones shipping in 2017 have Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processors and at least 4GB of RAM. So it’s not surprising that Google’s new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones follow suit. The phones score very well on benchmarks and feel pretty zippy when performing most tasks. But benchmarks only tell part of the […]
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Apple iPhone 8 teardown reveals an iPhone 7 (with better CPU & cameras)
For the past few years Apple’s iPhone release schedule has been fairly predictable: release a new model one year, and follow it up with a similar-looking phone featuring a spec bump. That’s how we went from the iPhone 4 to 4S, 5 to 5S, and 6 to 6S. But this year the company is shaking […]
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Firefox to gain a performance settings menu
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is open source, cross-platform, and historically more likely to support open standards than rivals like Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, or Safari. But Firefox also has a reputation as a resource hog, and it’s been slow to adopt some features used in other browsers (Firefox is only starting to add support for […]
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Make your AMD Fusion laptop quieter or faster with BrazosTweaker
AMD is getting back some of the swagger it had back in the early days of the Athlon 64, and that’s due in no small part to the success of its Fusion APUs. The low-cost processors power dozens of inexpensive laptops, and they offer an solid mix of value, performance, and battery life. Better still, […]