i used to be just like you i didn't have a single tech news to my
name and now look at me i've got so much tech news it's oozing
out of my pores got tech new zits
apple is infamous for making it less than easy to go get your expensive
ijunk repaired at a third-party shop but that looks like it might finally be
changing apple is going to start sending official parts to independent repair
businesses which will make it a lot easier for consumers to have their mac
serviced reportedly apple is even going to provide training resources and you
know i i got the only conclusion i can come up with here is that the epic lawsuit hit
them a bit too hard in the head cause this is this is not the apple i
remember i like it though the move comes on the heels of explosive sales growth for max
as more people are working and learning from home wow apple you finally changed
your ways and all it took was a worldwide pandemic on the subject of
laptops you may have noticed that it's been a little trickier to come buy an
affordable one recently because so many school districts in the u.s are moving
to online classes as schools start back up for the fall there is apparently a
shortage of lower cost laptops in the united states
chromebooks have been in especially high demand as many households and school
districts require only a laptop with basic functionality for virtual lessons
wow that's like kind of the opposite of a humble brag
yeah humble diss in fact acer's us division said that they weren't even
close to pumping out enough chromebooks for all the students that want them
while another industry analyst has pointed out that laptop sales are up by
as much as 40 percent the good news though is you'll probably still be able
to get that beefy 4 000 gaming laptop you've been lusting after
assuming that they ever give you another stimulus check by the way please please
don't use it on a 4 000 game laptop speaking of budgets though motherboards
built around AMD's budget a520 chipset have recently leaked yes my friends we
filled them with water and they did not hold the water
the a520s big brothers the x570 and b550
have already been around for a while but the a520 will allow you to build a
current gen ryzen system at a lower cost now you will be giving up some features
notably CPU overclocking pci express 4.0
ssds and running your graphics card at x16 speed but in terms of real world
performance that last one shouldn't be too much of an issue rumors indicate
that ASUS MSI and asrock will all be rolling out a520 boards as soon as this
week so keep your eye out from them if the very idea of overclocking gives you
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jiminy cricket bites after removing fortnite from the app
store apple has responded to epic games lawsuit by informing the studio that on
august 28th apple will terminate their
developer accounts and remove access to apple developer tools which developers
use to create and update games that run
on epic's unreal engine wow the gloves are freaking off now aren't they epic
has filed an injunction to stop this from happening i mean it's clearly
retaliatory but if it does happen epic
not just epic any developer that uses unreal engine would be left unable to
modify their games now this fight has moved from summer entertainment to
something with real world potential impact like can't they just settle this
in game first a headshot gaming personality elena pierce says a retail
worker sent her a photo of the xbox series x on their store's internal
system with a price tag of 5.99 meanwhile other rumors are pointing to a
4.99 price point for the ps5 so the question remains then would you pay a
hundred dollars more for the most powerful console ever that will play the
games you can already play on your other machine you
already own i guess we'll find out in november now
if you're interested in games you actually can't play anywhere else
nintendo is set to stream the latest installment of their indie world
showcase tomorrow at noon eastern time
but don't expect any news on big ticket first party franchises like zelda smash
bros metroid etc unless you
really enjoy being disappointed it's a strange kink but uh hey
i'll respect it google has been making efforts to keep
chrome from sucking as much battery on your laptop and the software giant is
reportedly taking things a step farther with an experimental feature that will
let websites tell chrome to do things like slow down frame rates or scripts so
that it won't use as much power hopefully it won't make your TechLinked
viewing experience less buttery smooth though and ea is rebranding some of its online
services because we know that's always gone over well for unpopular companies
and their unpopular services ea access and origin access will now be known as
ea play with origin access premiere becoming ea play pro
he is also bringing updated aesthetics and new features hopefully you know one
of those will be cheaper content
and that's our show for today come back on wednesday for more 100 free tech news
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unless we don't have much time left i'm afraid some of us are just out of time
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