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Cyberpunk 2077 Mac benchmarks show most Apple Silicon can run the game at over 30 FPS on medium settings — results vary from a smooth 130+ FPS to a cinematic 24 FPS

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Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the few AAA games to run natively on Macs, and many gamers have anticipated its arrival. More than four years after it first dropped on PCs and consoles, the game finally arrived on macOS, alongside the release of patch 2.3. To gauge how the game will perform on the limited number of Mac and MacBook variants available on the market, ComputerBase has released a call to the community to benchmark the game. This is the

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AMD CPUs surpass the 40% threshold in latest Steam hardware survey — RTX 5070 emerges as the most preferred GPU within the Blackwell series

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The latest Steam hardware survey data for July 2025 suggests AMD’s share of gaming CPUs has finally crossed the 40% mark. This means that roughly four in ten Steam PC gamers now run AMD CPUs. While this marks a new high for Team Red in the Steam user base, it also underscores the company's slow and steady gains. To provide some context, Intel dominated the Steam gaming market with roughly 77% of gamers five years ago, but

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AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming handheld reveals desktop-like GPU performance — Ryzen AI Max+ 395 was a hairline from the RTX 4060

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GPD teased the first AMD Strix Halo-powered handheld console in late July, promising that it will make its public debut at the ChinaJoy expo in Shanghai, China. After its reveal, several Chinese creators are getting their first impressions of the overpowered handheld PC, running benchmarks on the system. Jobs_Bao tested the Win 5 on the showroom floor, running Cinebench R23 and Time Spy benchmarks and sharing the results on Bilibili .

The handheld achieved a score of 30

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Take home a Core 5, RTX 4050 gaming laptop for $892 — the Asus TUF Gaming F16 laptop is great for budget gamers

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Picking out a gaming laptop is never an easy task. There are numerous specifications to consider, and finding one that suits your exact needs can be a challenge—especially if you're on a tight budget. We've come across a good deal today; however, that seems to be a great place to start for gamers who want something more in the middle of the road. Over at Amazon, you can find an edition of the Asus TUF Gaming F16 gaming laptop

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Leading phone repair and insurance firm collapses after paying crippling ransomware demand – Cutting 100+ employees to just eight wasn’t enough

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A leading mobile device insurance and service network has initiated insolvency proceedings in the wake of a cyberattack. Germany’s Einhaus Group was targeted by hackers in March 2023 and is understood to have paid a ransom(ware) fee of around $230,000 at the time, according to Wa.de and Golem.de (machine translations). However, the once large and successful company, with partnerships including Cyberport, 1

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Alienware 16 Aurora review: Long on endurance, short on performance

The Alienware 16 Aurora is thin and long-lasting, but it's not a powerful gaming laptop.

Battlefield 6's Javelin anti-cheat Secure Boot requirement could kill its Steam Deck support

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Battlefield 6 is following the footsteps of Battlefield 2042 and other EA titles, requiring Secure Boot support. Discovered by Battlefield Wire on X, Battlefield 6's kernel-level Javelin anti-cheat system takes into account Secure Boot functionality and will prevent players from playing the game if the feature is turned off or not supported. At least the game will be easy to run on Windows PCs.

This requirement is not that serious for Windows users; however, it is very likely

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I took a look at AnduinOS, a Linux distro that feels like home for Windows users

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AnduinOS is a custom Ubuntu-based Linux distro with one goal: to smoothly transition Windows users to Linux. It achieves this by mimicking the workflows and look of Windows 11 .

I’ve recently been examining various Linux distributions that aim to provide a soft landing for those escaping Windows 11, but none have been so bold as to claim that as their sole intention. Ideally, AnduinOS is meant for developers moving from Windows to Linux, but the firm Ubuntu foundation

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MSI is adding its proprietary EOTF Boost mode to more MSI QD-OLED models this month

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MSI is rolling out its homebrewed "EOTF Boost" mode to more of its outgoing QD-OLED gaming monitors this month, according to WCCFTech . The feature helps improve the brightness of MSI's QD-OLED monitors, and will be arriving on more MSI QD-OLED displays through firmware updates.

EOTF Boost is already supported on several MSI models, including the MAG 322UP E16, MAG 272QP X50, MAG 271QP X

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SignalRGB takes a swipe at Razer, makes functioning RGB toaster PC — quad-slice toaster case incorporates a Stream Deck, Mini-ITX components

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Not content to wait around for Razer's long-promised bread-scorching device , the interoperable RGB software experts at SignalRGB have created a toaster PC that is seemingly real and fully functional (at least in the computing sense). And in what might just be a viral marketing masterstroke, the company is giving away the system , along with a 10-port Thunderbolt 4 dock.

The PC is, quite literally, a desktop computer smashed into a conventional silver four-

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