Apple's 8 TB SSD Option For Mac Pro Will Cost A Whopping $2,600

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Apple's Mac Pro has been available for just over a week now, but the 8 TB storage option that Apple was touting would be available hasn't been an option in the configurator. But as of yesterday, you're able to select the 8 TB SSD storage option for $2,600 option.

The Mac Pro's starting configuration packs it with an octa-core Intel Xeon W CPU, 32 GB of DDR4 memory, and an AMD


Apple Opens Bug Bounty Program With Max $1.5M Payout

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It's open season on Apple products. As spotted by 9to5Mac , the company has opened up its bug bounty program to the public, and it's offering payouts of up to $1.5 million for severe vulnerabilities that can be exploited without user interaction.

The company's bug bounty program was previously invitation-only and the payouts were lower than they are now. Both decisions were criticized by the security community, as discouraging the responsible disclosure of serious vulnerabilities


HP Elite Dragonfly Review: the Anti-ThinkPad

Our Verdict

With exceptional battery life, a comfortable keyboard, a good mix of ports, plus aesthetics that rival the best consumer notebooks, HP’s latest premium convertible outclasses the competition, making it the new business portable to beat.

For

  • Attractive, solid, lightweight design
  • Excellent battery life
  • Pleasingly tactile keyboard
  • Thunderbolt 3, plus full-sized USB-A & HDMI

Against

  • CPU options stuck at 8th Gen (no newer 15W vPro options are available)
  • Function row keys are tiny

If you have a work-

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AMD Threadripper 3970X and 3960X Review: High-End Domination

Our Verdict

AMD's Threadripper 3970X is the new uncontested leader in both price and performance on the highest end of the HEDT segment.

For

  • Excellent single and multithreaded performance
  • Competitive per-core pricing
  • Overclockable
  • Power efficient
  • Indium solder

Against

  • Lack of backward compatibility
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Ballistix Elite DDR4-3600 2x 8GB Kit Review: Expensive Elite

Our Verdict

It’s hard to get past the high $170 price. But big spenders can use the fact that Ballistix Elite is the performance winner within the narrow scope of today’s article to justify their extravagance.

For

  • Enhanced timings for improved performance
  • Visually-appealing multipiece heat spreaders for non-RGB builders

Against

  • Expensive
  • Mediocre overclocking capability

Ballistix Gaming puts Elite branding on its “best” modules, adorning them with fancy multi-piece screw-on heat spreaders and bumping performance with enhanced timings. That last

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Intel Hires Ex-AMD Executive to Lead Discrete GPU SoC Design

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Intel has hired Masooma Bhaiwala, a former AMD executive. She will lead Intel’s discrete GPU efforts, the first of which will debut in 2020.

Masooma Bhaiwala confirmed her position to CRN as vice president , discrete GPU SoCs within Intel's Graphics and Throughput Computing Hardware Engineering organization. That organization, in turn, is part of the Intel Architecture, Graphics and Software group led by Raja Koduri, also a former AMD executive. Koduri joined Intel two years ago to


Grab a Radeon RX 5700 Card for Just $279

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The Radeon RX 5700 is the best graphics card for 2K gaming, thanks to its great combination of high frame rates and reasonable pricing. The cards typically start at around $350, though we've seen some models drop as low as $290 this holiday season.

However, today, Rakuten is selling a Visiontek-brand Radeon RX 5700 card for just $279 , the lowest price around. This card follows the

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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Drops to $199, Just $16 Per Thread

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If you're shopping for an affordable, mid-range CPU, the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X is a great choice. This 6-core, 12-thread processor uses AMD's 7nm Zen 2 architecture and promises a boost speed of 4.4 GHz.

As part of the holiday tech deals season, the Ryzen 5 3600X has dropped down $199 again on Amazon . In our Ryzen 5 3600

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Dell G7 Laptop with RTX 2060 Now $799

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Nvidia's RTX cards are the only ones that support hardware-based ray-tracing, which shows realistic light and shadows in games such as Battlefield V and Control. Normally, you'd pay well over $1,000 to get a laptop with RTX inside, but as part the holiday tech deals season, antoline (via eBay) has a Dell G7 with RTX 2060 card for just $799 (reduced from $1

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The Steam Winter Sale Has Begun

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Valve today announced that its annual Steam Winter Sale will run from now until January 2, 2020 at 10am PT. The company also introduced a Holiday Market where they can find "The Steam Winter Sale Coupon, new Chat Stickers, new Chat Room Effects and more," as well as Holiday Quests that will go live throughout the event.

This should be the last Steam sale of 2019 . Valve already held the Steam Spring Sale, Steam Summer Sale