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fromZDNET
1 day ago

My two Raspberry Pi boards cost as much as a laptop now - and AI is to blame

RAM prices are skyrocketing, driving up the cost of products that rely heavily on memory. The price of Raspberry Pi boards has now soared to the point where two 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 boards will cost you as much as a new laptop.
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Science
fromNature
2 days ago

Breakthrough computer chip tech could help meet 'monumental demand' driven by AI

A new light source enables the creation of 8 nm wide structures on silicon wafers, increasing transistor density for advanced computer chips.
fromTechzine Global
2 days ago

IGEL OS can now run AI models locally on endpoints

AI Armor provides dynamic runtime security and relies on a central policy engine in the Universal Management Suite (UMS) to meet compliance requirements, ensuring that organizations can manage their security effectively.
DevOps
#raspberry-pi
Tech industry
fromTheregister
3 days ago

Prices hiked on most Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 variants

Raspberry Pi has introduced a 3 GB variant of the Pi 4 due to rising memory costs affecting pricing across its product range.
Business
fromTheregister
3 days ago

Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb

Raspberry Pi reported significant revenue and profit growth, but its focus is shifting from hobbyist origins to broader industrial applications.
fromZDNET
1 month ago
Gadgets

I tested Raspberry Pi's new USB flash drive - and it has a critical advantage over competitors

Tech industry
fromTheregister
3 days ago

Prices hiked on most Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 variants

Raspberry Pi has introduced a 3 GB variant of the Pi 4 due to rising memory costs affecting pricing across its product range.
Business
fromTheregister
3 days ago

Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb

Raspberry Pi reported significant revenue and profit growth, but its focus is shifting from hobbyist origins to broader industrial applications.
fromZDNET
1 month ago
Gadgets

I tested Raspberry Pi's new USB flash drive - and it has a critical advantage over competitors

Software development
fromArs Technica
3 days ago

Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama's MLX support

Ollama enhances local language model performance on Apple Silicon with MLX support and improved caching, catering to growing interest in local models.
#apple
Apple
fromMail Online
3 days ago

Apple quietly discontinues popular product after nearly 20 years

Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro line after nearly 20 years, marking the end of an era for the iconic product.
Tech industry
fromEngadget
3 days ago

The RAM crisis is Apple's best chance in decades to capture the PC market

Apple is well-positioned to leverage the current RAM shortage to enhance its market presence with products like the MacBook Neo.
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fromgizmodo.com
3 days ago

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

Apple launched the $600 MacBook Neo, which received positive reviews despite some tradeoffs in features and specifications.
Roam Research
fromZDNET
4 days ago

No internet? This 'survival computer' has everything you need offline - including AI

Project NOMAD is an offline information database and AI tool for Debian-based Linux systems.
DevOps
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 days ago

Arm works with IBM to deliver flexibility on mainframe | Computer Weekly

IBM and Arm are collaborating to create dual-architecture hardware for enterprise AI and data-intensive workloads.
fromComputerworld
1 week ago

Enterprise laptops adopt Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chips

Users of systems running on the new chips will see over 30% faster performance, up to 80% better graphics, and up to 4x AI performance compared to four-year-old systems.
Information security
#macbook-neo
fromZDNET
2 weeks ago
Apple

MacBook Neo vs. Mac Mini: I compared Apple's $599 models, and the choice is easy for me

Apple
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

MacBook Neo review: the budget Apple laptop powered by an iPhone chip

Apple's new MacBook Neo offers high-quality features at a lower price, challenging the PC industry with its A18 Pro chip.
Apple
fromZDNET
2 weeks ago

MacBook Neo vs. Mac Mini: I compared Apple's $599 models, and the choice is easy for me

Apple's $599 MacBook Neo offers an affordable, complete laptop package with portability and 10+ hour battery life, while the Mac Mini provides more processing power but requires separate peripherals and additional investment.
Apple
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Apple unveils a lower-cost MacBook. Take a look at 'Neo.'

Apple launched MacBook Neo, a $599 budget laptop with 256GB storage, $500 cheaper than the M5 MacBook Air, powered by the A18 Pro chip with up to 16 hours of battery life.
#mini-pc
fromZDNET
3 weeks ago
Gadgets

Blackview MP20 review: A tiny but mighty Mac Mini alternative for Windows users

fromKotaku
2 months ago
Gadgets

Amazon Offloads This Ryzen 7 Mini PC at Its Lowest Price (32GB RAM, 1TB SSD), Cheaper Alternative to the Mac Mini - Kotaku

fromKotaku
2 months ago
Gadgets

Dell Mini PC Quietly Drops to 75% Off on Amazon, Emerging as a Budget Alternative to the Mac Mini - Kotaku

fromKotaku
2 months ago
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This Ryzen 7 Mini PC (32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) Drops to Its Lowest Price and Is Selling Fast as a Mac Mini Alternative - Kotaku

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fromZDNET
3 weeks ago

Blackview MP20 review: A tiny but mighty Mac Mini alternative for Windows users

The Blackview MP20 is a compact, lightweight mini PC offering desktop-class performance in a palm-sized form factor with practical connectivity options for modern computing needs.
Gadgets
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 weeks ago

This $959 Mini PC Looks Like an NES But Runs 70B AI Models - Yanko Design

The ACEMAGIC Retro X5 combines nostalgic 1980s console aesthetics with modern Windows 11 Pro performance, featuring AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, expandable storage, and comprehensive connectivity for serious computing tasks.
fromKotaku
2 months ago
Gadgets

Amazon Offloads This Ryzen 7 Mini PC at Its Lowest Price (32GB RAM, 1TB SSD), Cheaper Alternative to the Mac Mini - Kotaku

fromKotaku
2 months ago
Gadgets

Dell Mini PC Quietly Drops to 75% Off on Amazon, Emerging as a Budget Alternative to the Mac Mini - Kotaku

fromKotaku
2 months ago
Gadgets

This Ryzen 7 Mini PC (32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) Drops to Its Lowest Price and Is Selling Fast as a Mac Mini Alternative - Kotaku

Apple
fromThe Verge
4 days ago

For $200 more, you can get a MacBook Air

The MacBook Air was pivotal in shaping modern laptops despite initial skepticism and high price.
Tech industry
from24/7 Wall St.
1 week ago

RAMageddon Arrives: AI's Endless Appetite Just Killed the PC Comeback

The global PC market is recovering, but rising CPU prices and AI demand are creating a supply squeeze, impacting consumer and commercial PC orders.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 weeks ago

This classic 1979 LEGO computer brick hides a fully functional Mac mini workstation inside - Yanko Design

The DIY centers around the familiar wedge-shaped Slope 45 2×2 LEGO piece, a part historically used in LEGO space-themed sets as a representation of computer terminals inside spacecraft cockpits. Staal enlarged this element to roughly ten times its original size, turning it into a functional housing that blends retro toy aesthetics with contemporary computing power.
UX design
Apple
fromComputerworld
1 week ago

Hexnode CEO: MacBook Neo forces IT to rethink its budget laptop strategy

Apple Business aims to enhance MacBook Neo's appeal in business and education markets with improved integration and competitive pricing.
Tech industry
fromWIRED
1 week ago

Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips

Arm is producing its own semiconductors, marking a shift from licensing to manufacturing in response to AI demand.
Gadgets
fromZDNET
4 days ago

Don't ignore your desktop PC's empty M.2 slots - they're more useful than you think

M.2 slots in desktop PCs can be utilized for various upgrades beyond storage, enhancing performance and connectivity.
Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

An exclusive tour of Amazon's Trainium lab, the chip that's won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple | TechCrunch

Amazon's $50 billion investment in OpenAI and its Trainium chip aims to disrupt Nvidia's AI chip monopoly.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

Your next car night need 300GB of RAM, and so will robots

Micron Technology projects sustained growth driven by AI demand, with autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots requiring 300+ gigabytes of DRAM, while the company tripled revenue year-over-year to $23.86 billion in Q2 2026.
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fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

SuperMicro takes on server leaders as AMD pushes on-premise AI | Computer Weekly

SuperMicro surpassed Lenovo and HPE to become the second-largest PC server maker globally, driven by AI infrastructure demand and 134% fourth-quarter growth.
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerWeekly.com
4 weeks ago

Edge AI: What's working and what isn't | Computer Weekly

Edge AI deployment success depends on identifying efficient, narrow use cases with manageable risks rather than pursuing sophisticated, large-scale models across all applications.
Apple
fromgizmodo.com
3 weeks ago

MacBook Neo Review: No Other Budget Laptop Can Compete

Apple's $600 MacBook Neo offers exceptional value for budget-conscious consumers despite hardware limitations, featuring an iPhone chip and minimal storage but premium build quality.
Apple
fromIntelligencer
4 weeks ago

Apple Is Finally Making Cheap Computers

Apple is aggressively entering budget market segments with new affordable products like the $599 iPhone 17E and $599 MacBook Neo, maintaining low prices despite rising production costs.
Gadgets
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Rabbit's Cyberdeck is a modern take on a netbook

Rabbit is developing Project Cyberdeck, a portable AI-forward PC designed for vibe coding with a quality keyboard, targeting a $500 price point inspired by the Sony Vaio P netbook.
Apple
fromComputerworld
4 weeks ago

Leaked Mac benchmarks show that Apple offers tomorrow's AI PCs today

Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro delivers the fastest consumer PC processor with highest single- and multi-core scores, while the MacBook Neo provides excellent everyday performance at budget pricing.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation | TechCrunch

The new Nano Banana 2 retains some of the high-fidelity characteristics of the Pro model but produces images faster. The company says you can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, in different aspect ratios.
Artificial intelligence
Silicon Valley
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Meta already deploying Nvidia's standalone CPUs at scale

Meta has deployed Nvidia's standalone Grace CPUs at scale and will deploy Vera CPUs and millions of Superchips to power general-purpose and agentic AI workloads.
Tech industry
from24/7 Wall St.
1 month ago

AMD Looks to Displace Intel With World's First Copilot+ Desktop Chips

The AI PC market will grow at 30% annually from 2025 to 2034, reaching $967 billion, driven by on-device AI demand, with AMD's Ryzen AI 400 Series challenging Intel's x86 dominance through superior AI performance capabilities.
fromdzone.com
2 months ago

Managing Changing Hardware/Peripherals in a Robust POS

Retail point-of-sale systems today offer a wide range of options for peripherals and hardware. Their technical specifications play a major role in selection, and big retailers often choose multiple vendors to reduce a single point of failure. This gives them an advantage to negotiate price or support as well. Technically, these peripherals also require updating with new models and may have new feature sets. This necessitates the redevelopment of point-of-sale applications, increasing development costs.
Information security
Gadgets
fromTheregister
1 month ago

NUC, NUC! Who's there? ASUS with a thin client for cloud PCs

Dell and ASUS now manufacture Windows 365 cloud PC devices alongside Microsoft, expanding the market for machines that boot directly into cloud-based operating systems.
#mac-mini
fromKotaku
2 months ago
Apple

Apple's M4 Mac Mini Restocks at an All-Time Low in Another Clearance Push Against Windows Mini PCs - Kotaku

fromKotaku
2 months ago
Apple

Apple's M4 Mac Mini Restocks at an All-Time Low in Another Clearance Push Against Windows Mini PCs - Kotaku

Gadgets
fromZDNET
1 month ago

Skip the $1,500 laptop - why Mini PCs are the way to go as RAM prices skyrocket

Lenovo IdeaCentre Mini X provides near-laptop performance with 32GB RAM and strong value, making mini PCs a budget-friendly alternative to expensive modern laptops.
#on-device-ai
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference - and it's paying off | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference - and it's paying off | TechCrunch

Gadgets
fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

Review ASUS NUC 15 Pro: brings computing power to impossible places

ASUS NUC 15 Pro is a compact mini PC offering reliable, flexible connectivity and redundancy ideal for point-of-sale, control panels, and space-limited business deployments.
#ryzen-ai-400
#dram-shortage
Tech industry
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

The RAM shortage's silver lining: Less talk about "AI PCs"

RAM and flash memory shortages driven by AI data-center demand pushed PC memory and storage prices up, prompting higher prices and lower-RAM configurations to protect margins.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Intel greets memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation CPUs

The Xeon 600 lineup spans the gamut between 12 and 86 performance cores (no cut-down efficiency cores here), with support for between four and eight channels of DDR5 and 80 to 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0 connectivity. Compared to its aging W-3500-series chips, Intel is claiming a 9 percent uplift in single threaded workloads and up to 61 percent higher performance in multithreaded jobs, thanks in no small part to an additional 22 processor cores this generation.
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fromTheregister
1 month ago

Supermicro has dodged drama and delivered datacenters

Supermicro's AI-focused GPU systems drove rapid revenue growth to $12.7B in Q2 2026, while gross margins fell to 6.3%.
Apple
fromwww.engadget.com
2 months ago

Apple's Mac mini M4 is back on sale for $499

Apple Mac mini M4 is discounted to $500 with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD; higher SSD/RAM tiers and the M4 Pro are also on sale.
Tech industry
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

The PC market braces for an AI-driven storm

Memory shortages driven by AI data-center demand are causing RAM and NAND price surges that will raise laptop and PC prices into early 2026.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

AI Mini PCs Don't Need to Hide: This One's a Sci-Fi Pyramid - Yanko Design

Mini PCs used to be defined by how invisible they could be, small black rectangles tucked behind monitors or under shelves. That made sense when they were just low-power desktops, but feels out of step now that these machines are running models, listening, watching, and routing data. If AI is going to sit on your desk, it might as well look like it belongs there instead of hiding like a piece of infrastructure.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about - and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini

Clawdbot is an open-source, locally running AI agent that manages users' digital lives 24/7 and connects to common consumer apps.
#intel-panther-lake
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

This DIY Cyberdeck With a 12-Inch Screen Actually Works Like a Laptop - Yanko Design

A laptop-class cyberdeck uses a full-size keyboard footprint, 12-inch touch display, low-profile mechanical keys, and refined enclosure engineering to be practical for writing and tinkering.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

The LG C5 and Apple's M4 Mac Mini are both steeply discounted this weekend

Best Buy kicked off its so-called "Winter Sale," introducing a whole host of price cuts that range from not-so-good to legitimately great, at least for this time of year. Apple's M4 Mac Mini, for instance, is receiving a $100 discount at Amazon and B&H Photo, while LG's 65-inch C5 OLED TV is on sale at eBay for a little over a grand.
Gadgets
fromComputerworld
2 months ago

AI PCs to gain speed, cut cloud costs - and help workers upskill

Windows PCs have faced death threats for decades from a variety of rival devices, including tablets, Macs, Linux computers, and other hardware. But the rise of Ai in recent years could be helping to revive interests in PCs as company's contemplate upgrades in the near future, The first " AI PCs" were introduced amid much fanfare in 2024, and shipments are growing. But enterprises that picked up early AI PCs have been stymied in their embrace of the technology as meaningful offline applications haven't yet materialized.
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fromZDNET
2 months ago

Your Raspberry Pi 5 just got a big AI upgrade - thanks to this new add-on

AI HAT+ 2 upgrades Raspberry Pi AI acceleration to 40 TOPS with 8GB RAM, enabling local LLM, VLM, generative and vision AI workloads.
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