Computers stories

We were sent an AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT reference card to test, which was perfect timing with the release of Bethesda’s AMD-optimised Starfield.

I got the privilege to test out the Dell Intel Evo XPS 15, and here are my thoughts about it.

Warehouse workers need the flexibility, mobility, and reliability that vehicle-mounted computers provide, especially in accessing and inputting relevant data.

With the Department of Education Queensland, Acer Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) will issue over 12,000 computers to Queensland teachers. 

This follows the Australian availability of the XPS 13 Plus, which launched in April having been refreshed to include the latest Intel 13th Gen processors.

Pioneer Computers specialises in the design, development and manufacture of a range of ICT and IoT equipment and devices.

This past year, Intel considerably improved its NUC range and today’s review product, the NUC 11 i7 ‘Beast Canyon’, is one of the best in this product line and has been built with gaming in mind. 

Boasting 24 cores and 32 threads with a maximum boost clock of 5.80 GHz, does this new processor have the chops across productivity, creative, and gaming applications? We take a look.

The Saints are back in this reboot/prequel, of the over-the-top open-world crime series simply titled Saints Row.

Conversion kings Nixxies take Insomniac’s web-swinging PlayStation 5 game, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, and polish it up for PC.

The game’s visuals take the cel-shaded design style up a notch, looking more like comic book pages than an animated cartoon.

SteelSeries has taken the design of its range of Apex keyboards to create a smaller version, the Apex Pro Mini. TechDay’s Darren Price checks it out.

The company’s new Aurora collection is designed to be gender inclusive, not gender exclusive, addressing the needs and wants of women gamers while also still appealing to a wider general audience.

PNY sent over its 16GB XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X 3600MHz CL16 DDR4 module kit for testing. The kit contains two 8GB dual-channel modules with RGB lighting.

Following a recent Request for Proposal (RFP), Christchurch-based company Cyclone Computer Company Ltd (Cyclone) has been selected as The Ministry of Education’s software licensing partner.

New Intel Arc A380 graphics units are set to bring next-generation technologies to gamers and content creators in the coming months. 

Supermassive Games channel 1980s teen horror movies with their latest suspense-filled cinematic adventure, The Quarry.

Compared to M1, M2 has an 18% faster CPU, a 35% more powerful GPU, a 40% faster Neural Engine, and delivers 50% more memory bandwidth and up to 24GB of fast unified memory.

Apple has introduced a redesigned MacBook Air and an updated 13-inch MacBook Pro, both powered by the new M2 chip.

Microsoft has introduced the new Surface Laptop Go 2, adding to the company’s growing portfolio of Surface Laptop devices.

Not only have AMD proudly announced their new line-up of Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards, but the company has also unveiled the first games to support its FSR 2.0 technology.

On playing a bit of The Quarry, I began to understand why the game has got its own release rather than just being part of The Dark Pictures Anthology.

The inclusion of MSI Mobile Workstation and Business & Productivity laptops rounds out the MSI product portfolio.

The new model contains hybrid-architecture Intel 12th Gen Core P-Series 28W processor options, Wi-Fi 6E, along with Intel Iris Xe graphics.