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Apple 14-Inch MacBook Pro M2 Teardown Reveals Big Changes Due to Substrate Pricing

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Apple’s bean counters surely form one of the most powerful forces within the organization, despite much of the company's high-profile success being tied to design. A case in point is provided by one of Apple’s leading new consumer products, the 2023 14-inch MacBook Pro , which has had its design significantly steered by pricing fluctuations in the materials and components markets.

iFixIt recently tore down one of the laptops, and was surprised at the change

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Coreboot 4.19 Released With AMD Mayan Motherboard, MSI Alder Lake Board

Coreboot 4.19 is now available as the latest tagged release for this prominent open-source project allowing various motherboards with their proprietary firmware/BIOS to be replaced by this free software solution.

Coreboot 4.19 marks the point at which they have finished converting code from legacy ASL syntax to all ASL 2.0 syntax usage, cleaned-up and improved SMBIOS handling, a new EC driver for the embedded controller used on different Clevo laptops, and various other low-level improvements.

Coreboot 4.1
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蘋果M2 Max登上PassMark移動CPU單線程王座,不過Raptor Lake-HX尚未出擊

本月早些時候,蘋果 推出 了兩款新一代SoC,分別是M2 Pro和M2 Max。其延續了M2原有的架構設計,採用了第二代5nm工藝(N5P)製造,搭載在新款14英寸/16英寸MacBook Pro和Mac mini上。

據Notebook Check 報道 ,PassMark的數據顯示,M2 Max目

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蘋果定製的Wi-Fi芯片無限期推遲,博通或向iPhone 15系列提供Wi-Fi 6E芯片

此前有 報道 稱,蘋果打算在iPhone產品線上引入自家的Wi-Fi和藍牙芯片,未來還會將5G基帶、Wi-Fi和藍牙都集成在單一芯片上,不僅能大幅減少主板的面積,也能降低功耗,獲取更長的續航時間。

隨着M2版iPad Pro、新款MacBook Pro和


Apple Silicon|Intel

Z790 Aorus Xtreme vs. MSI MEG Z790 Godlike: Flagships Fight for Supremacy

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Apple Silicon Mac Pro Reportedly Lacks Upgradeable GPU, RAM

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Nearly all of Apple’s Macs have transitioned to homegrown Apple Silicon , erasing the company’s dependence on Intel processors. However, there is still one holdout left: the Mac Pro. The current generation Mac Pro was launched in 2019 and hasn’t seen any meaningful updates since then. However, a new version is on the way that will finally make the transition to Apple Silicon.

Earlier this month, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggested that the new Mac Pro

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Tom’s Hardware Forum Giveaway — MALIBAL Aon S1 Laptop

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The Tom’s Hardware forums are kicking off the new year partnering with MALIBAL for a giveaway of their newly announced ultraportable laptop the S1 Aon! If these last few years have seen your tech needs lag behind, this is an incredible opportunity to pick up a sleek new machine.

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Intel's Return to HEDT? Xeon W9-3495X Hits Geekbench

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Intel is set to roll out its Xeon W-2400 and Xeon W-3400-series processors for high-end desktops (HEDTs) and extreme workstations on February 15, and as their launch date looms, the first benchmark results have begun to leak. As it usually happens, this time around Intel's upcoming HEDT flagship — the 56-core Xeon W3495X — landed in the Geekbench 5 database (via @

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Mystery Intel Arc Desktop GPU With 16 Xe Cores Spotted in CompuBench

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We have yet to see the Intel Arc A580 desktop graphics card (24 Xe cores), but something that looks like it could be an Arc A550 desktop graphics card (16 Xe cores) has passed  through CompuBench (H/T @KOMACHI_ENSAKA ).  When (if?) Intel gets around to releasing the Arc A580, it may make sense to release a junior model such as the Arc A550 so

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Apple's Cuts SSD Performance for Entry-level 2023 MacBook Pro, M2 Mac Mini

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When Apple announced its latest M2 Pro- and M2 Max-based MacBook Pros last week, the company boasted about performance gains (up to a 20 percent uplift for the CPU, up to 30 percent for the GPU) and improved battery life. Unfortunately, it appears that one area of performance has taken a step backward for M2 Pro-based MacBook Pros, at least for the $1,999 base model with a 512GB SSD

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