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i used to be just like you i didn't have a single tech news to my

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name and now look at me i've got so much tech news it's oozing

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out of my pores got tech new zits

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apple is infamous for making it less than easy to go get your expensive

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ijunk repaired at a third-party shop but that looks like it might finally be

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changing apple is going to start sending official parts to independent repair

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businesses which will make it a lot easier for consumers to have their mac

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serviced reportedly apple is even going to provide training resources and you

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know i i got the only conclusion i can come up with here is that the epic lawsuit hit

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them a bit too hard in the head cause this is this is not the apple i

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remember i like it though the move comes on the heels of explosive sales growth for max

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as more people are working and learning from home wow apple you finally changed

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your ways and all it took was a worldwide pandemic on the subject of

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laptops you may have noticed that it's been a little trickier to come buy an

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affordable one recently because so many school districts in the u.s are moving

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to online classes as schools start back up for the fall there is apparently a

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shortage of lower cost laptops in the united states

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chromebooks have been in especially high demand as many households and school

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districts require only a laptop with basic functionality for virtual lessons

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wow that's like kind of the opposite of a humble brag

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yeah humble diss in fact acer's us division said that they weren't even

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close to pumping out enough chromebooks for all the students that want them

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while another industry analyst has pointed out that laptop sales are up by

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as much as 40 percent the good news though is you'll probably still be able

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to get that beefy 4 000 gaming laptop you've been lusting after

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assuming that they ever give you another stimulus check by the way please please

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don't use it on a 4 000 game laptop speaking of budgets though motherboards

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built around AMD's budget a520 chipset have recently leaked yes my friends we

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filled them with water and they did not hold the water

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the a520s big brothers the x570 and b550

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have already been around for a while but the a520 will allow you to build a

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current gen ryzen system at a lower cost now you will be giving up some features

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notably CPU overclocking pci express 4.0

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ssds and running your graphics card at x16 speed but in terms of real world

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performance that last one shouldn't be too much of an issue rumors indicate

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that ASUS MSI and asrock will all be rolling out a520 boards as soon as this

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week so keep your eye out from them if the very idea of overclocking gives you

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anxiety wait what's that riley you got something

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jiminy cricket bites after removing fortnite from the app

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store apple has responded to epic games lawsuit by informing the studio that on

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august 28th apple will terminate their

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developer accounts and remove access to apple developer tools which developers

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use to create and update games that run

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on epic's unreal engine wow the gloves are freaking off now aren't they epic

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has filed an injunction to stop this from happening i mean it's clearly

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retaliatory but if it does happen epic

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not just epic any developer that uses unreal engine would be left unable to

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modify their games now this fight has moved from summer entertainment to

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something with real world potential impact like can't they just settle this

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in game first a headshot gaming personality elena pierce says a retail

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worker sent her a photo of the xbox series x on their store's internal

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system with a price tag of 5.99 meanwhile other rumors are pointing to a

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4.99 price point for the ps5 so the question remains then would you pay a

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hundred dollars more for the most powerful console ever that will play the

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games you can already play on your other machine you

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already own i guess we'll find out in november now

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if you're interested in games you actually can't play anywhere else

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nintendo is set to stream the latest installment of their indie world

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showcase tomorrow at noon eastern time

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but don't expect any news on big ticket first party franchises like zelda smash

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bros metroid etc unless you

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really enjoy being disappointed it's a strange kink but uh hey

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i'll respect it google has been making efforts to keep

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chrome from sucking as much battery on your laptop and the software giant is

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reportedly taking things a step farther with an experimental feature that will

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let websites tell chrome to do things like slow down frame rates or scripts so

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that it won't use as much power hopefully it won't make your TechLinked

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viewing experience less buttery smooth though and ea is rebranding some of its online

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services because we know that's always gone over well for unpopular companies

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and their unpopular services ea access and origin access will now be known as

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ea play with origin access premiere becoming ea play pro

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he is also bringing updated aesthetics and new features hopefully you know one

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of those will be cheaper content

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and that's our show for today come back on wednesday for more 100 free tech news

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as long as you don't mind paying with your time that's right it's going to

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cost you time which that's time equals money though

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see so you got lots of money we're all rich right now we're all rich unless

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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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wow this is don't yeah cut this off before it reaches the end