Ben Funk

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Gen 9 Aura Edition Lenovo’s ultraportable AI PC collaboration with Intel has good performance, a beautiful display and outstanding battery life Outstanding battery life Excellent, sharp, and accurate display Good everyday workload performance Very good thermals and noise levels Solid graphics for integrated GPU Multi-threaded CPU performance can be a letdown Upgradeable SSD in a less common form factor No replaceable wireless card Slim external connectivity choices The era of AI

It’s only Tuesday, but it feels like Apple is going to be trickling out updates this week. Hot on the heels of the company’s iMac M4 announcement yesterday, today we are treated to a huge upgrade to the smallest Mac, the Mac mini. This thing is packed to the gills with either an M4 or an M4 Pro SoC, a minimum of 16 GB of RAM, and the first full redesign of the smallest Mac since

Qualcomm’s annual Snapdragon Summit is currently underway in sunny Hawaii, and the chipmaker is hitting hard right out of the gate. The company is best-known for its Snapdragon SoCs in smartphones and tablets, and the latest iteration promises to be the fastest and most efficient yet. The Snapdragon 8 Elite bursts onto the scene with CPU cores based on Oryon along with the newest in Adreno graphics, Hexagon NPUs for AI, and photography image signal

Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S Brings New Innovations And An Industry First To The Desktop Back in late 2021, Intel’s 12th generation of desktop CPUs, codenamed Alder Lake, was a revelation. After years of mostly spinning its wheels and ceding performance crowns to rival AMD, Chipzilla was finally back on top. And aside from some modest refinements like faster memory support and expanding the number of low-power E-cores, that’s mostly where the company’s desktop

SiFive HiFive Unmatched Rev. B Offers A More Refined RISC-V Development Kit For Less SiFive HiFive Unmatched Rev. B – $299 This early entry into the RISC-V software development kit space has seen a revision that brings its price down to an affordable level. Affordable entry into RISC-V Works with off-the-shelf components Plenty of PCI Express and USB connectivity Easy to get up and running Much commonly-used software has not come to RISC-V Limited graphics

Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro Is A Powerful, Unfinished Flagship That Brings The Promise Of AI Apple iPhone 16 Pro (Starts at $999, as reviewed $1,099) Apple launched the iPhone 16 Pro in an unfinished state, and it remains to be seen if Apple Intelligence will be worth the wait, but performance is excellent. Outstanding LTPO OLED display with 120 Hz refresh rage Versatile camera system produces great results Apple’s new AI features seem generally useful

There’s an old saying with social media: the users are the product. That used to mean that if you posted on a service like Reddit, then your data would be sold to advertisers, either individually or in aggregate. That has only become more true with the advent of AI, as companies race to acquire the data necessary to train models. Microsoft’s career-oriented LinkedIn has joined its more consumer-focused rivals, but for existing users it seems

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, Apple’s Glowtime event happened today, and some of the early parts of that slickly-produced video presentation (who else misses live demos? Just me?) were dedicated to the newly released Apple Watch Series 10. The hardware itself may not be very exciting, but some of the software features will be helpful to folks with active lifestyles. There are also some nifty software upgrades that come along with it. 

If the news out of WWDC detailing all of the things on tap for iOS 18 wasn’t clear enough, Apple has gone all-in on artificial intelligence. Its rebranded Apple Intelligence has gone native, with last year’s iPhone 15 Pro range and presumably the whole iPhone 16 lineup sporting on-device machine learning features. And of course, Arm also went whole hog on AI with its Armv9-A instruction set…back in 2021. Anyway, the latest version of the

HP EliteBook Ultra G1q (Starts at $1699) HP’s first foray into Copilot+ AI PCs mixes great portability with high-end battery life and solid performance. Great CPU Performance In Arm Apps Good CPU Performance In x86-only Apps Best-In-Class Battery Life Top-Tier NPU Performance For AI Apps Lightweight And Highly Portable Immature Graphics Drivers Copilot AI Features Currently Run In The Cloud Not The Brightest Display Finicky USB-A Port Microsoft and Qualcomm have been working together to