Lightweight, easily readable in direct sunlight or, on models equipped with a built-in backlight, in the dead of night, an e-reader is an excellent choice for browsing periodicals, documents, comic books, and of course, books. Most are capable of storing thousands of books—and with power-efficient E Ink displays, word aficionados can typically read for weeks at a time before their device’s battery will need to topping off.These are all great features but, as they’re all features that most e-r
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Apple is holding its final event of 2020 this week and it’s going to be packed with new stuff. Here’s what we expect to see. https://www.macworld.com/article/3596339/apple-fall-2020-one-more-thing-even-preview-apple-silicon-macbooks-apple-tags-airpods-studio.html#tk.rss_all
Fire TV Stick (2020) and Fire TV Stick Lite review: Improved hardware, TBD software. https://www.techhive.com/article/3587341/amazon-fire-tv-stick-fire-tv-stick-lite-review.html#tk.rss_all
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Update: With Apple announcing three M1-based Macs this morning, our advice still stands that you should not buy a MacPro or MacBook Pro 16 unless you want to risk being abandoned as we lay out below.Apple’s news on Monday that it will be dropping Intel’s x86 CPUs for its own ARM chips can mean only one thing to anyone who doesn’t want to be left behind: Don’t buy a Mac.You may think this is another Internet-baiting hot take that will argue that x86 is better than ARM. Or you might think the m
Micron has announced it’s shipping 176-layer TLC NAND flash memory to customers, a move that portends larger, faster and even cheaper SSD drives for all.The company said its 5th-gen 3D NAND memory should put its density about 40 percent higher than its nearest competitors, which are using 128-layer NAND. Micron said read and write latencies are reduced by 35 percent compared to its 96-layer NAND, and by 25 percent compared its 128-layer NAND. Micron isn’t the only NAND memory manufacturer th
Apple just announced its new MacBooks, and as expected, they don’t include any of modern features that would give their computers parity with PC laptops. The article below was written before Apple’s “One more thing” event, but everything we published this morning remains true. Read on for the hard truth...We expect Apple to unwrap its new MacBooks (or maybe PowerBooks?) on Tuesday, and we at PCWorld are as excited as anyone else—to see if Apple can finally catch up to all the things we alread