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Apple is expected to launch the M4 MacBook Air very soon , likely as its first new product of the year. When it arrives, there will be one new feature that could motivate users of the M2 and even M3 models to upgrade: more robust external display support.

Historically, external display support hasn’t been the MacBook Air’s strong suit.

With both the M1 and M2 models, the MacBook Air only let you connect to a single external monitor—a huge restriction for many

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The 14-Inch M4 MacBook Pro With 16GB Unified RAM And 1TB Of Storage Remains At Its Lowest Price On Amazon For The Space Black Finish Thanks To A $200 Price Cut

wccftech | Jan. 22, 2025, 1 p.m. | Original

Apple hit a home run when picking the base specifications for its newest MacBook Pro lineup because the 14-inch model’s starting configuration offers 16GB of unified RAM, 512GB of storage, and the higher core count variant of the M4, for just $1,599. While it is still expensive to own a portable Mac, the premiums the company previously charged to get to 16GB RAM and double the storage were through the roof. While the company was carefully

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Silverstone supports four NVMe M.2 SSDs in a single-slot PCIe card

Tom's Hardware | Jan. 21, 2025, 3:12 p.m. | Original

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Silverstone has released the ECM40, a PCIe 4.0 add-in card that supports up to four M.2 SSDs. The add-in card supports 2230, 2242, 2260, and 2280 M.2 SSD form factors and features active cooling.

The ECM40 is a single-slot card powered by a PCIe x16 interface. The x16 slot feeds four PCIe lanes to each

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The OLED iPad Pro Will Get A Major Performance Boost This Year With The M5 Chip, As The Supplier Is Speculated To Begin Mass Production Of A Crucial Component Soon

wccftech | Jan. 21, 2025, 12:22 p.m. | Original

Apple is expected to launch its highly anticipated iPad Air models in the Spring alongside the iPhone SE 4. While the 'Air' lineup will be powered by the M3 chip, according to the latest leak, the company was speculated to hold off on the iPad Pro upgrade. It is now being reported that the iPad Pro is expected to be released in the latter half of this year, potentially by the end of the year alongside the M5 MacBook Pro models. Apple plans to launch the upgraded OLED iPad Pro

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Credible Leaker Claims iPhone SE 4 Will Resemble The iPhone 16 With Dynamic Island Instead Of The iPhone 14, As Apple Plans To Modernize The Entire Lineup

wccftech | Jan. 21, 2025, 8:18 a.m. | Original

The iPhone SE 4 will be Apple's budget king against Android smartphones, considering how the device is reported to feature flagship internals. Moreover, the internals are only half the story for the device, as it will pave way for something much more significant - Apple Intelligence. Apple has set certain hardware limitations for its devices to bolster Apple Intelligence, and the sub-$500 iPhone SE 4 will get the upgrade. While the feature set appears to be solid for the affordable iPhone, a new rumor claims

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Silicon Motion is developing a next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSD controller

Tom's Hardware | Jan. 20, 2025, 3:47 p.m. | Original

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Silicon Motion is already developing its first SSD controller for drives with a PCIe 6.0 interface. The new controller is called SM8466 and belongs to the MonTitan family of SSD controllers for datacenters and enterprise.

Wallace C. Kou, chief executive of Silicon Motion made the short announcement of the company's inaugural PCIe 6.0 SSD controller in his column for ChinaFlashMarket.com . The CEO of SMI did not reveal many details about the company's

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Leak Suggests Apple Plans To Equip iPad Air Lineup With M3 Chip, Reserving M4 Exclusively For iPad Pro Models To Maintain A Clear Performance Gap

wccftech | Jan. 20, 2025, 11:55 a.m. | Original

Apple is preparing to launch its next-generation iPad Air lineup, which will feature an upgraded chip, but the design of the device will remain identical to the current version. Even though Apple has introduced the iPad Pro with an M4 chip, some users are eagerly waiting for the 'Air' upgrade, as it will bring decent feature upgrades while costing a few hundred dollars less. A leaker has now confirmed that the upcoming iPad Air will be powered by the company's custom M3 chip, which is

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite With 7-Core Cluster Is Up To 14 Percent Slower Than The Overclocked Version In The Latest Multi-Threaded Score Comparison

wccftech | Jan. 20, 2025, 6:46 a.m. | Original

The unique identifier ‘SM8750-3-AB’ means that Qualcomm has not one, but two Snapdragon 8 Elite variants with different configurations that can be used by its partners. The standard one offers an 8-core CPU cluster, while the less capable one features a 7-core one, and is the latest entrant into the family. We now take a look at the performance differences between the two, with the latest comparison showing a 14 percent delta in the multi-core category.

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Xiaomi 15 Ultra Could Be The Company’s First Smartphone To Ship With An In-House ‘Small Surge’ SoC, But Specification Details Are Currently Kept In The Dark

wccftech | Jan. 20, 2025, 4:41 a.m. | Original

A breakthrough could happen later this year as Xiaomi has been reported to introduce its first in-house 3nm chipset that will take on Qualcomm’s and MediaTek’s solutions. The Chinese smartphone maker introduced its first custom silicon, the Surge S1, back in 2017, which utilized the 28nm process, with the SoC used in the Mi 5c. Since then, it has been assumed that the company’s ambitions for developing such solutions evaporated because of how costly and complicated they

Samsung unveils Galaxy S25 phone with Qualcomm chips and enhanced AI features - Reuters.com

There’s one big M4 MacBook Air feature that could make you upgrade from M3

The 14-Inch M4 MacBook Pro With 16GB Unified RAM And 1TB Of Storage Remains At Its Lowest Price On Amazon For The Space Black Finish Thanks To A $200 Price Cut

Silverstone supports four NVMe M.2 SSDs in a single-slot PCIe card

The OLED iPad Pro Will Get A Major Performance Boost This Year With The M5 Chip, As The Supplier Is Speculated To Begin Mass Production Of A Crucial Component Soon

Credible Leaker Claims iPhone SE 4 Will Resemble The iPhone 16 With Dynamic Island Instead Of The iPhone 14, As Apple Plans To Modernize The Entire Lineup

Silicon Motion is developing a next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSD controller

Leak Suggests Apple Plans To Equip iPad Air Lineup With M3 Chip, Reserving M4 Exclusively For iPad Pro Models To Maintain A Clear Performance Gap

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite With 7-Core Cluster Is Up To 14 Percent Slower Than The Overclocked Version In The Latest Multi-Threaded Score Comparison

Xiaomi 15 Ultra Could Be The Company’s First Smartphone To Ship With An In-House ‘Small Surge’ SoC, But Specification Details Are Currently Kept In The Dark

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