Just days after we reported that AMD was set to release the budget-friendly Radeon R7 250X graphics card, the company has made it official.
AMD updated its R7 graphics card page to include a column for the 250x, which was not present the other day. Priced at $99, the Radeon R7 250X sports a GPU that’s clocked at “up to” 1 GHz. It also packs up to 2GB of RAM (there will be 1GB and 2GB models), and supports up to 640 stream processors, as well as 4k resolution, Mantle, Direct X 11.2, and OpenGL 4.3.
If you’re going to drop $99 on an R7 250X, however, you might as well snag a version that squeezes as much performance out of it as possible. On Friday, we saw an overclocked version of the R7 250X sporting a price tag of $99.99. At the time, the base clock speed for the R7 250X was unknown, and the product page for the R7 250X from Diamond barely listed any of the card’s specs at the time. Now though, the Amazon page lists a “boost core clock” of 1.05 GHz. An extra 50 Mhz might not mean much in terms of extra performance over the standard 250X, but why not opt for the overclocked version if Diamond’s unit and the base model Radeon R7 250X are priced more or less exactly the same?
AMD is laying its crosshairs on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 650 card, with PNY’s version currently going for $110 on Froogle. According to AMD, the R7 250X out-guns the GTX 650 in a multitude of popular PC games, including Starcraft 2 and DOTA 2, while running at 1,920 × 1,080. That said we won’t know if the 250X measures up to those claims for sure until we get to test it out for ourselves.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.