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It's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away.

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It's a beautiful day. Woo-hoo!

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A laptop that appears to be one of Microsoft's

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upcoming Surface devices has shown up in a Geekbench listing.

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Powered not by Qualcomm's much-hyped Snapdragon X Elite,

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an ARM-based chip that is supposed to overturn the x86-based global order.

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I believe a plague of frogs is involved. No, this one is powered by a Snapdragon X Plus.

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That sounds like a lower-tier variant of the X Elite,

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which jibes with the specs in the Geekbench listing.

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The Plus has 10 cores to the Elite's 12. But it does still have 16 gigabytes of RAM,

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giving enthusiasts hope that the brain rot, causing some to think that eight gigabytes of RAM

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is an acceptable baseline, may be limited to Apple.

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If you're out of the loop and wondering why anyone's making a big deal about ARM-powered laptops,

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because pretty much all of them suck, well, it's because it seems like these ones don't suck.

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And between Qualcomm's recent performance demos, Microsoft reportedly going all in

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and using Snapdragon X Series chips in the new Surface lineup, they'll be announcing

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on May 20th, and a leaked super-slim Lenovo

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Snapdragon notebook, it's looking like the ARM-powered

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Windows laptop revolution is upon us. Qualcomm teased a Snapdragon X-related announcement

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for this Wednesday, they teased it on X,

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which is exactly why you don't name things X, even if it's your favorite letter.

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It's everyone else's too, it's the coolest letter. Well, you're just gonna say your favorite letter is K?

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That's just X being a little sassy. Meta announced it's making the operating system

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that powers its MetaQuest headsets available to third-party device makers.

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And a few of them have already said they'll use it in their own VR headsets.

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Though at the time of reporting, it was still unclear whether they had made that promise,

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mostly to convince Mark Zuckerberg to get off their property. Sure, sure, just whatever.

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You can't fight us, Mark! Just stop making eye contact. It's clear that Meta wants the Quest's operating system,

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which is calling Horizon OS, to become the Windows or Android of VR slash

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Mixed Reality slash Spatial Compute. I don't know what to call this anymore,

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and we need to pick one. Leave your vote in the comments about what the catch-all term for headset stuff should be.

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Whatever it is, Meta wants to be the Windows of it. So the company is also opening Horizon OS

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to other app stores. They've reportedly invited Google

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to bring the Play Store over. For a Play Date,

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Google probably just gave some excuse and left. So watch out for a slew of new Metaified metastasized headsets,

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including a gaming-focused one from ASUS ROG,

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a productivity slash learning one from Lenovo,

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as well as a limited-edition MetaQuest inspired by Xbox.

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So get excited, VR fans. There'll be a green one.

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Now, part of the reason Meta's opening up their headset ecosystem is clearly to compete

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with Apple's walled garden approach, but it looks like Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro

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is already fading into obscurity without anyone's help.

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According to Apple wise man, Mark the Germanizer, German,

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Apple retail stores are reporting a massive drop in demand in sales with prospective buyers

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regularly no showing to appointments they've booked.

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It's unclear how existing Vision Pro users feel

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on the whole, but there have been many reports of discomfort, neck pain, and black eyes.

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What are they doing in there? German himself testified that while he initially used

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his own unit several times a day, he's down to maybe once or twice a week, even him?

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Germatron Prime? Apple is reportedly dealing with this heartbreak

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by pitching the Vision Pro more heavily to businesses and highly skilled workers like surgeons.

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The headset has an app for practicing surgeries, but one Brazilian doctor actually used it during surgery,

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which sounds kind of sketchy, but actually seemed pretty useful.

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He was able to reference x-rays, see a live feed from the tiny surgery cam,

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and tweet about how crazy it was. Cutting up this dude's shoulder right now

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and he's not reacting at all. It's awesome.

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Can I take surgeries? We doing this? Yeah, I got the quick bits.

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You got the attentional resources?

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It's for the trade. It doesn't. Intel doesn't appear to have done anything

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to mitigate the stability issues reported by owners of the company's 13th and 14th gen processors,

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other than to say they're looking into it. So other companies are stepping in.

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Systems builder Falcon Northwest released a guide to modifying some BIOS settings that may help,

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while ASUS has released a BIOS update for its motherboards

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with a new Intel baseline profile that should help your CPU calm the F down.

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I mean, can you imagine being born into the world basically overclocked to your limit already?

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You'd be Bradley Cooper and limitless and it would be awesome. EK Cooling, a bastion of the PC liquid cooling space,

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is in the midst of a financial and emotional meltdown,

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according to a report from Gamers Nexus. The company has apparently left suppliers, employees,

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and contractors unpaid for as long as four months,

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in large part due to holding large amounts of unsold inventory.

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But the situation has been exacerbated by what sounds like bad management,

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a cease and desist letter sent to a former employee for sharing his story,

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and infighting between EK Cooling's US branch

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and its Slovenian headquarters. It all sounds pretty messed up.

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So we can only hope that cooler heads prevail. I'm sorry, that's...

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Google isn't expected to launch the Pixel 9 for another five months,

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but we've already had our first leaked photos of a prototype Pixel 9 Pro,

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which appears very similar to renders published by OnLeaks back in January.

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According to Russian language website RosetteKid, the new prototype contains a Tensor G4 SoC

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and comes with a hefty 16 gigabytes of RAM to the eight pros 12 gigabytes,

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because Google would really like their phones to run local AI without cooking themselves

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from the inside out. A potentially less reliable leak

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has also claimed that the upcoming Pixel 8a will be more expensive than the 7a,

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but Google lacks ground to complain about unreliability

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as the company has released its second patch this month to fix glitches that caused missing phone calls

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and text messages, which are pretty much a phone's most important job.

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Otherwise it's not even a phone. At least it used to be.

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UK retailer Curries has dropped the price of the MSI Claw Gaming Handheld

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by 25% only weeks following its launch

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with the Core Ultra i7 one terabyte model

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dropping from 800 to just 600 pounds.

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Awkwardly, this makes it 100 pounds more expensive

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than the Core Ultra i5 512 gig model,

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which hasn't dropped. Further, both models are still priced significantly higher

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than a brand new one terabyte OLED Steam Deck, which by all accounts is just better.

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Notably, Curries has had an exclusivity deal with MSI

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and is the handheld console sole retailer in the UK,

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which just goes to show that you should really check whether your partner is poorly optimized

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and non-competitively priced before you consider going exclusive. It's just basic research.

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On the flip side, the claw has received a Intel GPU driver update

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that can boost performance by up to 43 and a half percent.

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And it even comes with a free copy of Skull and Bones, if that sweetens the pot,

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which honestly it probably doesn't. And Tinder is getting a new share my date feature,

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which surprisingly has nothing to do with polyamory and everything to do with user safety.

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Now, rather than screenshotting the details of your hiking date in the deep woods

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with a complete stranger, you can share the details directly from the app,

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including to non-Tinder users, so that your mom knows what to tell police

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when you go missing. This is, this is dark.

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I'm sorry. Tinder created this feature after user data showed

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that 51% of singles under 30 told their friends the details of their dates

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beforehand. Gosh, I wonder which half of the population

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thought to do that. But both halves of our viewers are equally important to us.

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The top and the bottom. So we hope we'll see you on Wednesday for more tech news.