In a surprise first for the ages, PassMark has revealed that the average CPU performance on desktops and laptops in 2025 has declined year-on-year. Despite new Intel Arrow Lake and AMD Fire Range ...

Average CPU Performance on PCs Stalls After 20 Years of Gains PC performance scores submitted to PassMark show what appears to be the first-ever dip in average CPU performance across two decades of ...

The takeaway: Qualcomm claims that its new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is the best laptop processor on the market, and early third-party benchmarks mostly supports this assertion. However, Apple ...

The first wave of reviews of Apple's new M4-powered MacBook Pro models were published this morning. We've collected some of the latest impressions from YouTube channels and select media outlets below.

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Intel’s Core 285H chip, the first member of its Core Ultra 200 or “Arrow Lake-H” family for laptops, has a big crater to fill. Yes, crater: This processor essentially bombed on the desktop. In laptops ...

Apple made a splash earlier this month when it debuted a slew of new products, but the stand-out was undoubtedly the budget minded MacBook Neo, which one PC executive says sent a “shock” through the ...

Despite all the inroads AMD has made in recent years with its Zen desktop CPUs, Intel has broadly managed to maintain one critical edge against its longtime rival: gaming performance. For those ...

If you're of a certain age, you might remember those Maxell cassette tape ads that featured a man in sunglasses in a recliner being literally blown away by the sound coming out of his hi-fi speakers.