Apple today released Apple Afterburner, an accelerator card that debuted alongside the new Mac Pro in 2019, as a standalone product on its online store.
The company said in a support document that the card "accelerates decoding and playback of multiple streams of ProRes and Pro Res RAW video files." It's only compatible with macOS, and third-party apps have to be updated to support it.
Those aren
This is a disempowering time for most of us. The world is at war with the Coronavirus (aka COVID-19); there are doctors, nurses and medical researchers on the front lines, but you’re in your home office battling nothing more substantial than your to-do list. Fortunately, with a few spare CPU or GPU cycles, you can have some agency in this crisis and help us trounce our rivals at Anandtech at the same time.
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In a world where most cases with nice build materials also come with aggressive lines, lots of RGB, and huge slabs of tempered glass, it's refreshing to see Fractal Design's new case. The Swedes put their best foot forward when designing the new Era ITX chassis that takes a step in a totally different direction. The Era ITX is slim, sleek, and elegant, and while it can be specced with tempered glass, it's a relatively small piece and
Apple has updated its iPad Pro line with its new iPad Pro, which comes with a host of new upgrades including the 8-core A12Z Bionic processor and trackpad support in iPadOS.
The new iPad Pro is coming in 11-inch and 12.9-inch version, with the basic version packing 128 GB of flash storage. For those craving more, capacities will range all the way up to 1 TB, which is huge for a tablet.
Apple today updated the MacBook Air with the new keyboard found on the 16-inch MacBook Pro , as well as new processors and a starting price of $999. It's also now starting at 256GB of storage, a double jump from the previous 128GB.
| CPU | Up to 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 |
| Graphics | Intel Iris Plus |
| Display | 13.3-inch |
Oloy’s WarHawk RGB(MD4U323216DEDA) offers solid value to buyers of 64GB dual-channel kits, though those who hate RGB, have space restrictions, or worry about extended warranties might want to look to alternatives.
Seagate's IronWolf 510 is the world's first purpose-built NAS NVMe SSD, and the latest addition to the company's IronWolf product line. Designed to speed up network transfers between your 10GbE NAS and workstation with 24/7 reliability, Seagate designed the IronWolf 510 NAS SSD for creative pros and businesses whose NASes feature NVMe caching.
Like the FireCuda 510, Seagate's IronWolf 510 is a high-performance PCIe
If you're looking for an Intel-based 10Gb workstation board with few frills, Supermicro’s C9X299-PG300F is worth considering. But the UEFI experience is rough around the edges, and overclockers might find more success with other brands.
Go big or go home. Alternatively, go absolutely massive and grab this epic WD Easystore 14TB external USB 3.0 hard drive for just $199.99 from Best Buy . That's $110 off it's normal price, making it one of the best tech deals in storage right now.
In this age of 4K video, there's almost no limit to how much storage you can use, but 14TB will
Even though we're seeing the first signs of AMD's B550 chipset , MSI announced today two new B450 motherboards. The MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon Max WiFi and the MSI B450M Bazooka Max WiFi are both compatible with up to 3rd-generation AMD Ryzen 9 processors, and the latter comes in the Micro-ATX form factor.
With no release date or pricing yet, we're far from knowing if