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What’s new with the 2017 MacBooks: tl;dr edition

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Hands-on with Apple’s new MacBooks 1:27 Apple‘s 2017 WWDC keynote was chock full of big news — everything from new iPad Pros, new iMacs and even its new HomePod speaker, in addition to the …

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MacBook Air finally gets an upgrade, but it’s minor

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Hands-on with Apple’s new MacBooks 1:27 Apple‘s popular entry-level MacBook Air laptop is finally getting an update, albeit a small one.  The company on Monday announced the 13-inch computer will get a “bump in megahertz.” More specifically, it will …

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What does Computex mean for the next year in tech?

The sun’s going down on the last incredibly humid day of Computex 2017 in Taipei. As I’m preparing to fly home, back to Sydney in glorious winter, I’m thinking about the past week. The phenomenally slim laptops I saw, the visionary keynotes I listened to, the obscene gaming rigs that were tempting me to start my Season 5 placement matches …

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Intel’s Compute Card puts a PC in the palm of your hand

Intel has had enough of chips that sit hidden away inside your PC. It wants you to be able to feel the processing power in your hands, and take it with you wherever you go. Enter the ComputeCard — a modular card designed to slide in and out of notebooks, PCs, connected appliances and even intelligent whiteboards to provide ultra-portable …

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Shiny laptops and superchips are coming your way, and soon

The tech year might kick off in January with CES, but it’s midway through the year at Computex, Asia’s biggest tech show, when we start to see the computing power that’s really driving next-gen technology. This year, when the tech world descended on Taiwan, it was all about smarter processing, new form factors for better gaming and bringing all these …

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This box of graphics cards is immersed in liquid to keep cool

If I told you a great way to keep your flaming hot PC components cool is to dunk them into a mysterious liquid you’d probably think I’m crazy. I’m not. Allied Control’s Immersion Cooling demo at Computex Thursday was certainly cool. The company squeezed 10 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics cards, stripped of their cooling fans, as well as two Intel …

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5 reasons you’ll want Intel’s crazy new Core i9 CPUs, and 3 reasons you won’t

Now playing: Watch this: Need an extreme processor? Intel X-Series has 18 cores 1:25 Intel At Computex 2017, Intel announced a new series of desktop processors, under the Core X name. That’s an enthusiast platform for desktop PC owners who want to push for more performance through overclocking, play games at 4K and beyond and process video files at high …

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Intel looks beyond the PC to a ‘new era of computing’

Now playing: Watch this: Need an extreme processor? Intel X-Series has 18 cores 1:25 Enlarge Image Intel has unveiled its new X-Series processor, but it’s eyeing plenty more than straight PC power. Intel Intel doesn’t just care about chips any more — it has bigger fish to fry. The processor company took to the stage at Computex in Taipei on …

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Core i9 superchip leads Intel’s new X

Now playing: Watch this: Need an extreme processor? Intel X-Series has 18 cores 1:25 The future is here, and it has 18 cores. Intel on Tuesday took to the stage at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, to unveil its newest range of processors, dubbed the X-Series. With its eyes set on content creators, overclockers and pro gamers (plenty of whom are …

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AMD: Hey Intel, we have lots of CPU cores too

AMD’s new 16-core Ryzen Threadripper CPU is all set to take on Intel’s 18-core Core i9 in high-end desktops. Making the announcements on Wednesday in Taipei at its Computex press event, the company said the new CPUs would be shipping in summer 2017. It’s not the first time AMD’s debuted multicore chips though — earlier models like the Ryzen 7 featured up …

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