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    Building a Budget PC? 4 Reasons Why Last-Gen Hardware Still Rocks

    Summary Last-gen hardware can offer competitive performance at a fraction of the price of current-gen components. New hardware doesn’t always bring substantial performance benefits, so slightly older components provide excellent value. Combine last-gen hardware with newer GPUs to get excellent performance and access to new features. Building your dream PC on PCPartPicker is exciting—until the final cost wipes the smile…

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    At CES, PC makers aim for business, highlight AI-ready hardware

    Enterprise computers are often the ugly ducklings of the PC world, viewed as dull, slow and less feature-rich than their consumer counterparts. But vendors at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show launched a selection of business machines (alongside their consumer offerings) hoping to capitalize on the rise of generative AI (genAI).  Despite the focus on AI PCs or Copilot+ PCs, analysts…

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    Data center hardware spending surged last year

    Last year saw record worldwide spending on data center hardware and software – and the boom is set to continue. Spending grew by a third, according to analysis from Synergy Research Group, but while there was growth across the board, the rise was mostly down to a 48% jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure, which now accounts for 55%…

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    CES 2025: Xreal Unveils One Pro AR Glasses with Enhanced Optics and Hardware

    Xreal has been invested in the AR Glasses territory for over two years now. The firm unveiled the Xreal One AR glasses a month ago with its home-made X1 spatial computing chip, and the glasses sold out very soon. However, it looks like the firm isn’t done making AR glasses and has introduced the Xreal One Pro with better overall…

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    Windows 11 is Getting a Friendly About Page Featuring Key Hardware Specs

    In a recent Insider Beta build, Microsoft is testing a card-like interface under the About page in Windows Settings. It features key specifications like storage information, graphics card info, memory space, and processor name along with the top clock speed. The idea is to display basic hardware information of the PC in a friendlier manner. You no longer need to…

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    No support or updates for Windows 11 PCs without minimum hardware requirements – Computerworld

    Microsoft also doesn’t elaborate on what it means by Windows 11 “compatibility issues,” so this is a matter of guesswork. However, it’s possible to imagine that new features that assume a TPM is available could cause instability on a machine lacking this facility. It could also affect drivers for older hardware no longer supported in Windows 11, although this would…

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    Microsoft refuses to back down on Windows 11 hardware requirements

    While Microsoft has been urging people to shift from Windows 10 to Windows 11 ahead of ending support for the older operating system, there’s one thing it won’t do – budge on key hardware requirements. Microsoft has spent the year urging people to switch to the newer OS, trying everything from rolling out new features to full-page upgrade prompts. While…

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    Update your hardware now – Computerworld

    Among the first things Apple IT admins woke up to this morning was news of a pair of actively exploited zero-day attacks in the wild targeting Intel Macs, iPhones, iPads, and even Vision Pro users. Apple has already released software patches for the flaws, which is why the second thing admins realized is that they must rush through any necessary…

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    HPE’s AI and supercomputing journey continues with new Cray and Slingshot hardware

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is once again flexing its high performance computing muscles with three new pieces of Cray Supercomputing hardware and a new Slingshot interconnect. The launch is being tipped as an end-to-end portfolio for high performance computing setups and includes a compute blade, accelerator blade, storage system, and interconnect. All of this is supplemented by new software that…

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    The hardware and software blocking the new update

    Windows 11 24H2 is unavailable for thousands of users due to safeguard or compatibility holds Microsoft has placed on specific device and software configurations. Microsoft places compatibility holds on specific devices using hardware or applications that may conflict with Windows 11 24H2, causing crashes, performance issues, freezes, or other unusual behavior. These holds will prevent Windows 1 24H2 from being…

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