Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite could be all that, according to new benchmarks

Benchmark scores for Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X Elite chip have emerged online, lending credence to the company’s boasts about its power. Spotted by Twitter/X users @techinamul, a Lenovo device sporting the Snapdragon X Elite was benchmarked using Geekbench 6, with the scores showing up in Geekbench’s online database. MobileSyrup was able to track down the Geekbench score …

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This Windows dialog box has remained unchanged for 30 years

There’s one Windows dialog box that has remained untouched for the past 30 years, despite several operating systems and UI updates. The dialog box in question is the one that pops up when you try to format a storage drive. The format drive dialog box was a ‘temporary solution’ when it was designed, though it …

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Beware: the latest Windows 11 update might crash your PC

Microsoft / Microsoft Microsoft releases routine updates for Windows every month, and while the intent is to fix issues and occasionally add new features, the latest one is doing more harm than good. Some Windows 11 users have taken to social media to report that the latest KB5035853 update could be crashing their PCs, with …

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Qualcomm just made some bold claims about gaming on ARM PCs

Qualcomm Qualcomm shared an exciting teaser during the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC), hinting that the PC gaming market might not be so limited to x86 architecture going forward. The company spoke during a session titled “Windows on Snapdragon, a Platform Ready for Your PC Games,” and it claimed that Windows games will simply work …

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Microsoft adding a generative AI eraser tool to Windows Photos

Microsoft is the latest big tech company to launch an eraser tool for photos that’s powered by generative AI, joining Google and Samsung. Announced in a Windows Insider blog post, Microsoft detailed the new ‘Generative erase’ tool coming to Windows Photos. It’s positioned as an upgrade to Photos’ long-time Spot fix tool that allowed people …

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Nvidia’s Chat With RTX brings a local AI chatbot to your PC

Nvidia recently released its new ‘Chat With RTX’ tech demo, which lets users download and run an AI chatbot locally on their Windows 11 PC. The tech demo is free and available for download through Nvidia’s website. The demo requires a Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series GPU or higher, with 8GB of video random access …

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MobileSyrup’s favourite laptops of 2023

2023 saw the launch of several interesting and crazy laptops. The MobileSyrup teams gets to go hands-on with and try out various different laptops throughout the year, and, while we don’t get to try every new laptop, we definitely test out some interesting ones. A few housekeeping things before we get into it. First, we picked from …

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