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Digital Trends Apple’s MacBook laptops come in a range of colors, and selecting which is right for you can be a tricky business. Sure, it’s perhaps not as important as deciding which chip to pick or how much memory you should buy, but it’s still a vital part of the equation. After all, you’re going to see that color every time you reach for your MacBook. You don’t want it to be something that fills you with regret. But how should you pick a MacBook color? And what do the colors even look like in the first place?…

Coburg University / AMD At GDC 2024, AMD just expanded on Microsoft’s recently announced Work Graphs API, and a quick demo shows just how powerful the new tech can be for gaming performance. AMD’s iteration moves draw calls and mesh nodes from the CPU to the GPU, cutting back on the time it takes to execute these tasks. As a result, AMD found that there was a massive performance improvement — rendering time saw a 64% boost — when using Work Graphs with mesh shaders. Microsoft introduced Work Graphs as a way to…

Fionna Agomuoh / Digital Trends Picking out one of the best VR headsets can feel confusing if you’ve only just learned what VR is and where to begin with the technology. When it comes to finding the right VR headset for hooking up to your PC, the options are a little different from VR headsets for the PlayStation, for instance, so it’s important to know the distinction and buy the right one for your PC gaming needs. We’re on hand with a look at the best VR headset for PC. It’s possible to spend thousands of dollars…

Vivo Working on two monitors will save you a lot of time and effort in switching between tabs and apps, but simply placing two screens side-by-side on your desk will take up a lot of space. It’s highly recommended that you buy from this list of the best dual monitor stands if you’re interested in such a setup, not just to free up your workstation but also to make sure that the displays will be in the most comfortable position for you. With a dual-monitor setup, you can fill your vision with all the necessary…

While there are a lot of high-end laptops on the market, that doesn’t mean you can’t find a well-priced laptop that can handle most of your needs for less than $700. Of course, there are some compromises you need to make here and there, but if you need something for simple things like productivity, browsing, and watching content, you aren’t going to miss out on much. To that end, we’ve gone out and found some of our favorite laptop picks that are going for less than $700. The Best Laptops Under $700 in 2024 Buy the…

Luke Larsen / Digital Trends The MacBook Air has officially caught up. Now with the M3 on board, the MacBook Air has gained the benefits of the new chip, which was previously available just on the MacBook Pro and iMac. Choosing between the M3 15-inch MacBook Air and the 14-inch MacBook Pro is tough, and requires an in-depth look at differences in ports, displays, speakers, and more. It’s a legitimately hard decision to make. But there’s more general advice at play here that should guide the majority of buying…

During its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced the world's most powerful chip for AI-related computing called GB200 powering up the Blackwell B200 GPU. It's a successor to the H100 AI chip and offers huge improvements in performance and efficiency. The new B200 GPU is capable of 20 petaflops of FP4 thanks to the 208 billion transistors inside the chip. Additionally, the GB200 has 30 times the performance of H100 in LLM inference workloads while reducing the energy consumption 25-fold. In the GPT-3 LLM…

Sony Sony is indeed working on a more advanced version of the PlayStation 5 that could feature a more powerful GPU that’s potentially up to three times faster for specific tasks compared to current PS5 models. YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead claims to have obtained a technical overview document for the PS5 Pro, code-named Trinity, and Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has confirmed the leaked specifications’ accuracy, which suggests a holiday 2024 release window for the console. The leaked technical document mentions some…

Copy and paste are among the most common — and overlooked — commands found in any operating system, whether it be Windows or macOS. They are an essential part of everyday computing. Still, not everyone knows how to use these features. Thankfully, there are several easy methods for doing so using either your mouse, trackpad, or other peripherals. Here’s the rundown on copy and paste. Note: The following Windows instructions should be applicable to both Windows 11 and Windows 10. How to copy and paste in Windows…

If you're working on a Word document and it fails to save, the power goes out, or your laptop battery suddenly dies, do you know how to recover the unsaved document? If you're begging to get that 1,200 word term paper back in time for class tomorrow, just remember that where there is a will there is a way. Here’s how to recover unsaved Word documents using every trick in the book. How to recover Word documents with Document RecoveryThe easiest method to recover Word documents? Just start Microsoft Word up…