Hardware
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Under The Hood: Corsair Neutron GTX 256GB Vs Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
The pace of development in the SSD world is staggeringly awesome, as each generation of SSD controllers has delivered substantial increases in performance and reliability, while at the same time we’ve seen flash prices drop like a stone. It’s a great time to be storing and accessing data, for sure, but we’ve also seen the…
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This Is The Chip Apple Is Using To Stop You From Buying Cheap Cables
If you’re looking for a cheap, third-party Lightning adaptor to go with your new iPhone 5, you might want to hold off. An authenticator chip has been found in Apple’s official adaptors, and third-party adaptors won’t work without it.
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Apple’s Improved EarPods Squeeze In Tiny Guts
Jony Ive and Tim Cook made a big hubbub about all the design that went into improving Apple’s famously terrible earbuds. We might disagree about how much better they really are, but take a look at these itty-bitty guts.
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iPhone 5’s A6 Boasts 1GB Of Samsung RAM
During the iPhone 5 announcement, Apple mentioned the new phone would have its own new chip, the A6. Specific specs were sparse at the time, but AnandTech did some sleuthing and found the chip packs 1GB of RAM and 33 per cent more peak memory bandwidth than the iPhone 4S.