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The iPhone 15 Pro can run Windows 11 – if you can tolerate the 20-minute boot time

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What just happened? If you thought Apple and Microsoft were sworn enemies, never to mingle their software on the same device, think again. A developer has somehow shoehorned Windows 11 onto Apple's latest iPhone 15 Pro, but the experience is anything but perfect.

The unlikely union was made possible thanks to a new emulator called UTM SE that recently hit the App Store. Emulation is


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OneXplayer M1 is an ultra-compact Core Ultra 9 185H Mini-PC that looks like an external GPU

Onexplayer M1 is pocket-sized Intel Core Ultra 9 185H PC

No, you’re not having a déjà vu, and no, that’s not a portable graphics card. OneXplayer has launched the M1 Mini-PC, which looks strikingly similar to the eGPU they released several months ago.

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AMD "Strix Halo" Processor Boosts up to 5.35 GHz, Geekbenched

AMD's upcoming " Strix Halo" mobile processor that features up to 16 "Zen 5" CPU cores and a powerful iGPU with 40 compute units, is beginning to surface in online benchmark databases. We've gone into the juicy technical bits about the processor in our older articles, but put simply, it is a powerful mobile processor meant to square off against the likes of the Apple M3 Pro and M3 Max. A chiplet-based processor, much like the upcoming "Granite Ridge"
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Socketed CPU laptops and high-end MXM graphics are fading into history

There’s no more room for high-end upgradable laptops

Notebookcheck published an interesting editorial on a laptop feature that has almost completely disappeared from the market: the option to upgrade a CPU. A decade ago, it was common to upgrade laptop CPUs, and I even had the opportunity to upgrade two of my old laptops. However, with modern designs, upgrading CPUs is now nearly impossible.

The editorial highlights that the last bastion of socketed CPUs in laptops has fallen. Only one company, Eurocom, continued to offer

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Linux 6.11 EFI Will Fake That It's Booting Apple macOS To Fix Some Dual-GPU Macs

The EFI changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel. Notable this cycle on the EFI side is removing support for EFI fake memory maps and then a workaround to get dual GPU support working for some of the older x86-based Apple MacBook Pros by pretending that Apple macOS is booting rather than Linux.

The EFI fake memory map support is being removed from the Linux kernel since it's unused at this point and causes complexities around confidential computing (CoCo) VMs, unaccepted
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(PR) Simply NUC Introduces Scorpion Canyon NUC 14 Performance

Simply NUC, Inc., a leading custom computing company, proudly announced the launch of the Scorpion Canyon NUC 14 Performance device across their global websites, a revolutionary PC workstation designed to meet diverse computing needs. Featuring the latest Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs, Intel Arc integrated graphics, and optional NVIDIA RTX 4060 or 4070 graphics, the NUC 14 Performance redefines computing in a compact form factor.

"Introducing the NUC 14 Performance is a significant milestone for us,
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(PR) OPENEDGES Successfully Validated Its 7nm HBM3 Testchip

OPENEDGES Technology, Inc the leading provider of memory subsystem IP, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, The Six Semiconductor Inc (TSS), has successfully brought-up and validated its HBM3 testchip in 7 nm process technology. The IP validation testchip and the HBM3 PHY were brought up within the first month to 6.4 Gbps, and further tuning has resulted in successful operation of the HBM3 memory subsystem overclocked to 7.2 Gbps.

To date, there are only a handful of IP vendors that

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Apple at all-time high after Morgan Stanley calls stock 'top pick' for AI efforts - Reuters

Apple at all-time high after Morgan Stanley calls stock 'top pick' for AI efforts Reuters

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First PC emulator arrives on iOS App Store, delivers i486 or PowerPC fun on your iPhone, iPad or Vision Pro

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Despite Apple’s initial rejection of the emulator app and the developers’ initial decision to give up, UTM SE was approved and released on the App Store Sunday. The “retro PC emulator” allows you to run classic operating systems, software, and games on the iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro .

We are happy to announce that UTM SE is available (for free) on iOS and visionOS App Store (and coming soon to AltStore PAL)!Shoutouts to AltStore team

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Developer ports Windows NT to Power Macintosh systems — firmware and boot loader now available

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There might be a new use if you’ve got an old Power PC-based Power Macintosh. A developer has successfully ported Windows NT 4.0 to the Power Macintosh and published the firmware and other software needed for it to work. Thanks to one skilled developer, that’s changed. On GitHub, contributor Wack0 recently released his maciNtosh project , a repository that includes the ARC firmware and its

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