Monday, January 09
Daily News Stuff 9 January 2023
Groaning Stones Edition
Groaning Stones Edition
Top Story
- PCIe 5 SSDs and the heatsinks that love them. (Tom's Hardware)
Intel stole a march on AMD in 2021 with the introduction of PCIe 5, a full year before AMD had it in their own timeline. That gave Intel users a big advantage when it came to using the new wave of PCIe 5 SSDs and graphics cards...
Neither of which exist.
PCIe 5 SSDs will be out before too long - some sites have already benchmarked them - but PCIe 5 graphics cards are likely still a couple of years away. All the new models announced recently by Nvidia and AMD (and Intel too) are still PCIe 4.
I noted that my Bae case - a customised Hyte Y60 - uses a riser card and only supports PCIe 4 graphics cards. With a PCIe 5 motherboard you need to manually adjust the slot configuration in the BIOS. That's turning to be even less of a concern than I had thought.
- Still ow. This is getting seriously annoying.
Tech News
- When is a PC not a PC? The PC-98. (Scali's OpenBlog)
NEC's PC-9800 was an early MS-DOS system - it came out in 1982 - with much better graphics due to the requirements of Japanese text. It wasn't fully IBM-compatible, or even particularly IBM compatible, but it ruled the Japanese market until VGA became common many years later.
And it's supported by DOSBox-X.
Lenovo's Weird Laptops of CES 2023 Video of the Day
Whether you want a laptop with two screens, a different laptop with two screens, or a laptop with one big screen that folds in the middle, Lenovo has you covered.
So long as you have a lot of money because these things start at around $2000.
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