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Update: See our latest Chromebooks Buying Guide here. But which Chromebook is the best for you? We have a thorough guide, with plenty of good options and price points to help you pick the best Chromebook out there for your needs. Best for Most Acer Chromebook Spin 713 Price: $769 Premium Chromebook Lenovo ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Price: $274 Low-Cost Chromebook Lenovo IdeaPad 3 Chromebook 11 Price: $118 Best w/Small Screen Lenovo Chromebook Duet Price: $253 Best w/Large Screen Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 Price: $648 Best for Kids Dell Chromebook 11 3100 Price: $259...

The Haswell-based Core i3-4360 is a dual-core processor backed by Intel’s HyperThreading technology for four threads and unlike AMD’s chip, the i3 is locked at 3.7GHz with no hope of being overclocked. It’s a similar story with the pricier Core i5-4430, which can only clock its four cores as high as 3.2GHz and without HT support there are only four threads available. After years of benchmarking AMD’s Piledriver-based processors, it’s no secret that they aren’t the most efficient....

There are a dizzying number of headphones out there. Combined with different types and use cases available, there’s an endless selection to pick from. That’s where this buying guide comes in, which is based on professional reviews, user comments, and our own experiences. We’ve updated our best headphones selection to recognize the latest technology, trending choices and combined overlapping categories (wireless goes mainstream!). Here are the best headphones you can buy right now....

Note this feature is a complement to our regular feature: The Best PC Games (You Should Be Playing), which looks at our current favorite games released on PC at any given moment, past and present, though some titles might overlap. If you’re into discovering fresher titles, all of following were released within the past few months… Far Cry 5 After the polarizing Far Cry Primal, gamers were excited to find the latest entry in this series returns to the modern era with all its guns and explosions in tow....

Previously scheduled to launch on June 21, the game is now slated for March 1, 2023. Fntastic shared the announcement trailer for The Day Before in January 2021. The game is set in a post-pandemic America overrun by flesh-hungry infected and other survivors hell-bent on… well, staying alive. Back in January, the developer dropped an updated GeForce RTX 4K trailer that looks gorgeous. With Unreal Engine 5 now in the mix, the game is likely to be even more visually stunning....

As you likely know, while manufacturers claim impressive peak I/O performance out of the box, this performance can diminish over time. Unlike a conventional hard drive, any write operation made to an SSD is a two-step process: a data block must be erased and then written to. Obviously if the drive is new and unused there will be nothing to erase and therefore the first step can be bypassed, but this only happens once unless the drive is trimmed....

Long before the days of SSDs, USB drives, or even CD and DVDs, floppy disks used to rule the computer world. There’s a high chance that you haven’t used a floppy in a decade or two, if ever. The legacy medium was eventually replaced by newer and better technology until it simply fell into a state of complete extinction – or so we thought. Tom Persky, founder of floppydisk.com, doesn’t agree with the idea that floppy disks are “useless” or “extinct....

The US sanctions introduced in October restricts shipments of American-made electronics or other items that China could use to create chipmaking tools or equipment. It also prevents non-Chinese companies in other countries from using American equipment to service Chinese customers unless granted a license by the US. The restrictions also require US citizens to seek permission from the Department of Commerce before providing support to Chinese fabs. Chinese memory chip giant Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp responded to the sanctions by asking employees who are US citizens and green card holders to leave the company....

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Starting with the 1080p results, the GeForce GTX 480 was good for just 27fps in Crysis 3. Remember all forms of anti-aliasing were disabled, so this is a weak result, though not unexpected from the almost five-year-old flagship part. The jump from the GTX 480 to the GTX 580 saw a mere 15% increase in performance while the upgrade from the GTX 580 to the GTX 680 was much more impressive with the GTX 680 delivering 45% more performance with 45fps....

There are currently plenty of fantastic options in the $100+ range, such as the Cooler Master HAF 932, which quickly became our favorite case of 2008. But as remarkable as the HAF 932 is for its price, it’s in a totally different class than the beast recently unleashed by Thermaltake and that we are taking a look at today. First shown as a prototype at CeBIT 2009, the “Level 10” immediately captured our attention and we couldn’t wait until it hit the consumer market....

ModDB user _chillo released a new mod this week that replaces most of the original Doom’s 2D sprites with 3D voxels. One might think the change would clash with the game’s visual identity, but if anything, the voxels complete it. The last mod I tried that added 3D character models to a 1990s 2.5D FPS was one of the optional settings in the EDuke32 source port for Duke Nukem 3D, and I quickly switched it back off....

It didn’t take much to hit an ideal frame rate on the most GPU-friendly settings we tested (high quality at 1680x1050), with the GTX 650 Ti managing 60fps and a minimum of 46fps, which should make for some very smooth gameplay. The HD 6870 provided virtually the same experience with an average of 58fps and a slightly higher minimum of 48fps. The old GTX 460 just managed to exceed an average of 50fps, while the minimum dipped to 44fps, while HD 6850 and 7770 performed similarly....

Inflation reaching a 40-year high, the rising cost of living and China’s Covid restrictions impacting manufacturing have contributed to price rises and a slowdown in consumer spending. It recently led to Elon Musk wanting to pause hiring at Tesla and reduce “salaried headcount” by 10% over his “super bad feeling about the economy.” TSMC, however, is unlikely to share Musk’s sentiments. As per Bloomberg, the Taiwanese giant admits smartphones, TVs, and PCs have seen their sales decline but said other areas, such as electric cars (ironically), have increased....

Taiwanese news outlets are reporting that TSMC will hold a ceremony on December 29 to officially announce the launch of 3nm mass production. Apple will be the primary customer for the first two series of 3nm semiconductors from the Tainan Fab 18, which are expected to go into upcoming products like the iPhone 15. TSMC will start the New Year with a limited-capacity N3 node process before moving to the more stable and efficient full-production N3E later in 2023, followed by N3P in 2024....

The Uncharted: Legacy of Thieve’s Collection PC port seems to have peaked with a fraction of the number of players as other Sony titles on Steam. The primary cause behind the lukewarm launch is unclear, but multiple factors worked against it. The bundle, including Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and the standalone expansion Uncharted: Lost Legacy, hit a peak of just under 11,000 players, according to SteamDB. Days Gone did more than double that, while other former PlayStation exclusives at least quintupled the Uncharted figures....

In an interview with PocketGamer.biz that primarily focuses on Unity and IronSource’s upcoming merger, a move that will see over 200 people lose their jobs, Riccitiello is asked about developers who push back against implementing monetization in their games. “Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives,” he said. “It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favorite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people....

The excellent JerryRigEverything YouTube channel carried out one of its famous durability tests on the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. For something that appears quite fragile, it took the abuse very well. Samsung has positioned the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra as the Android rival to the current top tablet, the iPad Pro. The Tab S8 Ultra has a larger display than its Apple competitor, a thinner screen, and is only very slightly heavier....

Western Digital, together with partner Kioxia, just gave us a look at their roadmap for the next few years of NAND development. The company plans to introduce its 6th generation BiCS soon, which will feature 162 layers in TLC and QLC configurations. While that might not sound so impressive considering competitors like Micron have had 176-layer NAND for a while now, WD claims they will shrink the memory cell size by using a new material, resulting in smaller die sizes....