well hell that last batch of tech news
must have really scissored your bacon if you're coming back for more
let me see if i can't find you something special under the counter here okay
all right as promised apple unleashed their second
autumn event upon the internet this morning and as expected
we got new macbook pros baby excited
in terms of physical design the biggest innovations appear to actually be
things apple removed in the past uh the 14-inch and 16-inch models both have an
HDMI port full-sized sd card slot and
freaking magsafe like the original good mag safe not the
yeah we're all very happy it's not the iphone wireless charging thing it's
why i'm trying to be happy about this but i'm just reminded how stupid it was
of apple to get rid of it in the first place
anyways they finally put the function row back on the keyboard instead of the
freaking touch bar and made it full height as an apology the display like
the most recent ipad pros is a mini led backlit liquid retina xdr display with a
120 hertz adaptive refresh rate and
it has a notch shut up shut your butt it actually bothers me
but we have to admit it makes way more sense on a mac with the top menu bar
than it does on a phone i can forgive apple because of the new apple silicon
chips apple says the new m1 pro has 70
faster CPU performance and two times faster graphics than the m1 and the m1
max that's right there's two new m1s doubles the m1 pros GPU and memory specs
as always we can't put too much trust into apple's performance numbers but
remember last year when we were laughing at apple for being so confident that its
new ARM-powered mac would blow Windows pcs out of the water
i do oh also apple took the squishy bits off the airpods pro and that's the new
airpods so now you're all caught up meanwhile apple haters have reason to
rejoice that Windows 11 bug that was stifling gaming performance on
ryzen-based systems might finally be getting resolved the latest build on the
Windows insider channel reportedly fixes the problem as well as a number of other
wrinkles in the new os the gaming slowdowns were a result of high latency
on the level 3 cache specifically of ryzen cpus there's also another issue
where Windows 11 won't assign tasks to the fastest core of some ryzen chips
though this is apparently going to be fixed by a driver patch from AMD not
through microsoft both fixes should be rolled out during the middle of the week and if they're not microsoft can always
ask for some help from apple because man they they suck but their cpus do not
they're so how do they do it speaking of CPU
shenanigans you might want to think twice about picking up a shiny new alder
lake 12th gen Intel processor if you like your older games alder lake will be
the first x86 CPU to use a hybrid CPU architecture because we are not counting
lakefield i'm trying to forget it anyways hybrid cpus combine powerful
cores with efficient ones and alder lake's implementation apparently isn't
playing nicely with drm in games major
drm provider denuvo is reportedly updating their solutions to work with
alder lake but even different games from the same publisher may use different or
multiple drm systems and it's unclear whether drm software used by older games
will get the same treatment so it may be wise to wait and confirm which games
will work and which won't before running out to buy your new chip unless you've
sworn to only buy games from gog in protest against the big platforms that's
a it's a game store with no drm you've been there i'm fighting big big
game big big game they're trying to kill us
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try to keep up although we've gotten used to the switch continually breaking
sales records it's actually the ps5 that took the title of best-selling game
console in the us last month most available game costs yes
it's the console you can buy that was in terms of both actual units sold and
total revenues this is the first time since late 2018 a non-switch console was
at the top of the pile even though there's still a big supply shortage why
isn't anyone buying an xbox these days why is it all ps5 because you don't need
one i'm gonna play halo infinite on my phone
yeah get mad that's not true to the experience with us it's master chief who
is he who what is he what's he about but customizing your shiny new ps5 just got
a little harder as dbrand is no longer selling their dark side plates for the
console sony threatened the skin maker with legal action saying that the ps5
design was protected and that producing side plates counts as infringement
dbrand actually dared sony to sue them
classic dbrand and it looks like sony said okay resulting in a strongly worded
response on reddit from dbrand which was well pretty on brand
thanks for that one john the fifa game series from ea has a large
player base but outside of folks who just really like ultimate team many of
those players really hate the fact ea is their only real option for a football
slash soccer simulation what about winning 11. remember that series what is
that so fifa the organization is reportedly
looking at expanding its video game licensing to companies not named ea
after the current deal expires at the end of next year hopefully it won't
involve the corruption and bribery fifa is in no way famous for
and remember that xbox mini-fridge that microsoft promised was coming you can
finally start pre-ordering it tomorrow for a hundred bucks at target 90 pounds
at game in the uk and 99 oiro's at
several european retailers delivery should be sometime during december just
in time to keep your drinks cold for uh cold weather outside i mean some people
hey that whatever floats your body is my eggnog
i mean it's true you ever have warm spiced eggnog let's put a little
something extra in there hey that's enough of this nonsense
thanks for watching guys come back on wednesday what day is it today for more
tech news and i promise we'll have some tech news for you