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An eight-core chip based on the ARM design, the M1 SoC will require developers to rebuild the software to take full advantage of its processing power. However, Apple has included a Rosetta 2 emulator in the M1 laptop so that users can still run older Intel x86-based applications. The physical build of the MacBook Air M1 is similar to its predecessor: lightweight at 2.8 pounds with a robust unibody case, a good depth keyboard, and the same impressive 13.3-inch Retina display. The only features Devindra found missing were the 720p webcam and the number of USB-C ports.
And to top it all, the new MacBook Air is already a bit cheaper than it started out. Amazon cut $ 50 off the price of the 512GB gold model and lowered it to $ 1,199. It’s not a huge discount, but it’s better than nothing on a new laptop.
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget
There have been a lot of back and forth in the AMD / NVIDIA battle for who has room in building your PC, and AMD’s latest release is the Radeon RX 6800 line. Devindra Hardawar found that two of the three new GPUs (RX 6800 and 6900 XT) are solid high-end competitors that provide excellent gaming performance and efficient cooling. All three cards feature the same RDNA architecture found on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S.
Both cards feature more RAM than the competition: 16GB of GDDR6 memory versus 10GB found in the NVIDIA RTX 3080 and 8GB in the NVIDIA 3070. Devindra found the 6800 XT to be blazingly fast, though not exceeded ray tracing. performance on NVIDIA card. Similarly, his tests found that the RX 6800 was capable of outperforming the RTX 3070 and easily capable of handling 4K games, but again, the ray tracing performance left him disappointed. And at $ 579 for the RX 6800 and $ 649 for the 6800 XT, both GPUs are clearly priced to compete with NIVIDA’s offerings.
