Category: Hardware

November 25, 2020

Apple’s Macs with M1 processors — the new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini — are causing Bluetooth-related headaches for some users. In a Reddit thread, several users said their Macs are having trouble pairing with certain Bluetooth […]

November 25, 2020

The Paris Brain Institute (ICM) has deployed an OpenFlex E3000 all-flash array from Western Digital with NVMe media and NVMe-over-Fabrics RoCE connectivity out to servers. The solution offered the twin benefits of being very fast – it’s not an ordinary […]

November 20, 2020

Microsoft and Apple are working together so the new Xbox Series X and Series S controllers will work on iPhones and iPads. Currently, the new controllers are not officially supported in iOS or iPadOS, but Apple says “Microsoft and Apple […]

November 19, 2020

Apple’s first M1 MacBooks are here, and the world of laptops has changed overnight. When Apple first announced that it would be transitioning its computers — specifically, the MacBook Air and entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, its most popular PCs — […]

November 5, 2020

The Xbox Series X, that looming dark pillar, sits silently beside my entertainment console. Its square girth extends beyond the combined heights of an Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 stacked horizontally on top of each other by more than […]

November 5, 2020

Hello again, friends. The Processor newsletter is back after a not-so-brief hiatus caused by the absolutely frenetic pace of hardware reviews this fall and a special run of Vergecast podcast episodes about those reviews. I’m really proud of those podcasts […]

October 29, 2020

SteelSeries’ new Aerox gaming mouse lineup marks a few firsts for the company. It claims both its $60 Aerox 3 wired mouse and the $100 wireless version that will be available on November 10th are the first gaming mice to […]

October 29, 2020

Nvidia is extending its solution footprint far beyond artificial intelligence (AI) and gaming, venturing broadly across the entire computing ecosystem into mobility and the next-generation cloud data center. Nvidia’s ambitions in this regard are clear from its pending acquisition of […]

October 28, 2020

Microsoft first revealed the Xbox Series X nearly a year ago, and the internet went wild and immediately compared it to a fridge. A meme was born, and Microsoft embraced it to reassure us all that the Series X is, […]

October 15, 2020

Microsoft is extending the warranty on its Xbox Elite 2 controller following complaints over hardware issues. “We’ve received claims that a small percentage of our customers are experiencing mechanical issues when using their Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2,” explains […]