Apple no longer replacing entire iPad mini 6 just to swap the battery

With this one model, you may actually get your iPad back, new battery and all.

Apple backtracks, will extend Stage Manager multitasking support to older iPads

External display support remains exclusive to M1 iPads, coming "later this year."

Early-adopter tax is in full force for the first batch of AM5 motherboards

You can spend as much on a board as some people do on their whole PC.

First AMD Drivers for Ryzen 7000's Super Slow iGPU

AMD has released its first Adrenalin GPU driver supporting the Ryzen 7000's new integrated graphics chips.

TeamGroup Unveils DDR5-7200 Memory Modules

TeamGroup's T-Force Delta RGB DDR5 memory boasts a 7200 MT/s data transfer rate, aimed at Intel's Raptor Lake processors.

Intel’s 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” CPUs are official, launch October 20

High-end chips have more cache and cores; laptop and mid-range CPUs come later.

The Roomba j7+ learns to mop with a dramatic swing-arm setup

iRobot's wild mop design can move from the top of the robot to the bottom.

Intel's 13th-Gen 'Raptor Lake' CPUs Are Official, Launch October 20

Codenamed Raptor Lake, Intel says it has made some improvements to the CPU architecture and the Intel 7 manufacturing process, but the strategy for improving their performance is both time-tested and easy to understand: add more cores, and make them run at higher clock speeds. From a report: Intel is announcing three new CPUs today, each with and without integrated graphics (per usual, the models with no GPUs have an "F" at the end): the Core i9-13900K, Core i7-13700K, and Core i5-13600K will launch on October 20 alongside new Z790 chipsets and motherboards. They will also work in all current-generation 600-series motherboards as long as your motherboard maker has provided a BIOS update, and will continue to support both DDR4 and DDR5 memory. Raptor Lake uses the hybrid architecture that Intel introduced in its 12th-generation Alder Lake chips last year -- a combination of large performance cores (P-cores) that keep games and other performance-sensitive applications running quickly, plus clusters of smaller efficiency cores (E-cores) that use less power -- though in our testing across laptops and desktops, it's clear that "efficiency" is more about the number of cores can be fit into a given area on a CPU die, and less about lower overall system power consumption. There have been a handful of other additions as well. The amount of L2 cache per core has been nearly doubled, going from 1.25MB to 2MB per P-core and from 2MB to 4MB per E-core cluster (E-cores always come in clusters of four). The CPUs will officially support DDR5-5600 RAM, up from a current maximum of DDR5-4800, though that DDR5-4800 maximum can easily be surpassed with XMP memory kits in 12th-generation motherboards. The maximum officially supported DDR4 RAM speed remains DDR4-3200, though the caveat about XMP applies there as well. As far as core counts and frequencies go, the Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs each pick up one extra E-core cluster, going from four E-cores to eight. The Core i9 gets two new E-core clusters, boosting the core count from eight all the way up to 16. All E-cores have maximum boost clocks that are 400MHz higher than they were before. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Intel Arc A770 Launching Oct. 12, Starting at $329

Intel is launching the Arc A770 GPU on October 12, starting at $329, to bring some more competition to the mid-level GPU market.

NZXT Brings Shroud-Slathered Design to Raptor Lake With N7 Z790 Motherboard

NZXT has announced the Z790 version of its N7 motherboard, ready for Raptor Lake