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i should have seen it just technically so gaming laptops and portability have
never exactly gone hand in hand but
Intel thinks it might have the solution as details of its new iris xe max mobile
gpus recently dropped Intel's first discreet graphic solution for thin and
light laptops unlike the standard iris xe this is actually a discrete GPU that
Intel is marketing to both content creators and casual gamers who don't
want to lug around a heavy laptop Intel seemed particularly proud of something
called deep link which is a form of machine learning that can intelligently
load balance between an integrated and discrete GPU to increase performance and
battery life as far as actual frame rates Intel is
saying that xc max will get in the range of 30 to 45 frames per second at 1080p
in a number of modern aaa titles if you turn the settings down a bit so it's not
revolutionary but it looks okay enough considering that Intel is
going to be launching a higher performance gaming chip next year which
will hopefully show up in laptops and hopefully not heat the bezel up to fry
and egg temperatures if you're just desperate at this point to get your
hands on any graphics card from the rtx 3000 series there might be
even more bad news on the horizon there's a rumor and we want to clarify
it's just a rumor at this point that the rtx 3060 ti has been pushed back a
couple of weeks from november 17th to december 2nd again take this with a
grain of salt because NVIDIA hasn't even officially confirmed that there is a
3060 ti at all but it's hard to imagine
team green would wait too long to release a more mid-range chip
performance is speculated to be somewhere around the level of the last
gen rtx 2080 super for less than 400
which would make it a pretty compelling deal if it's true
and if you can buy one before the bots get to the mall and they're on ebay for
900 for those of you in the uk you probably know that the country is preparing for a
second pandemic lockdown that's supposed to start this
thursday unsurprisingly this has left many gamers
concerned about important things like what's going to happen to their ps5 and
xbox series pre-orders as both consoles are due to launch mid-november drone
delivery because the lockdown is so that would work because the lockdown is
supposed to last until at least early december people have been concerned that
they may not get their consoles in time but one major retailer has told
consumers they still have until wednesday night to pre-order in-store
and the uk government has said that businesses can stay open for delivery
and pick up even for non-essential items like console what do you mean
non-essential items you know might be essential if you
review games for a living or play them or a board for fun today's
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big quits speaking of money bitcoin seems to be continuing its recovery from
the infamous crash that it experienced a couple of years ago that i'm still
reeling from this weekend bitcoin got up to about 14 000 us dollars its highest
value since january of 2018.
although there's been a surge in interest in cryptocurrency recently it
isn't clear why bitcoin specifically is doing so well just whatever you do don't
pay ten thousand bitcoin for a pizza like that one guy did way back in the
day ouch right cause they're all still huddling facebook is finally rolling out
a test of a dark mode feature on both Android and iOS trials so far have been
extremely limited which has frustrated many users since most other off to use
social media apps have some sort of dark mode already better late than never mark
his soul is dark enough already the original crisis has already gotten a
remake and now it sounds like remasters of both crisis two and three are in the
works it's not clear how long it might be until we actually see them since even
the crisis one remaster was delayed by about seven months which wasn't enough
and it'll be interesting to see how the games look especially crisis three which
is still sometimes used as a benchmark and is pretty good-looking isis tree
master like are they just trying to make them hard to run on purpose at this
point if you were looking to slap a custom face plate on your shiny new
playstation 5 by the way prepare to be disappoint as sony has ordered a
third-party manufacturer to stop making them reportedly sony's lawyers told them
that sony owned the ip writes to the
faceplates now it's unclear why a licensing deal wasn't just worked out
could be the usual corporate greed or maybe the faceplates have some kind of
undisclosed chip in them or party plates or maybe the third party ones just suck
and sony thinks that only they know how to face plate it right whatever the
reason is you can't get one right now and heads up
there's another apple event scheduled for the 10th which is a week from
the morrow it's online only but it's still expected to be a major
announcement as most outlets are speculating that it'll be the unveiling
of the new apple silicon max as usual
apple is officially mum on details but we all know what's coming it's kind of
like how you should never be surprised that anything happens in professional
wrestling for example although that whole thing where they aren't letting them go on twitch anymore that was sort
of dirt baggy and surprising even our news got news yeah that sucked that's our
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