I don’t usually get my hopes up for Black Friday CPU deals, but I found one that’s just too good to pass up. Right now, you can get the Ryzen 5 7600X — still one of the best processors for value-focused gaming — for basically $105. No, that’s not the actual price listed on Newegg where you’ll find the deal, but there’s a lot going on with this sale.
For starters, the CPU itself is marked down by 24%, bringing the $299 list price down to $225. Not a great deal for a last-gen chip. However, you can save an additional $30 by using the promo code BFEDY2A33, and more importantly, you’ll get a free Kingston NV3 1TB hard drive with the order. That’s a PCIe 4.0 SSD that normally costs $90.
This is, without a doubt, the craziest deal I’ve seen so far. I keep looking over the listing to see if I missed anything, but I didn’t. The price of the Ryzen 5 7600X isn’t bad when you factor in the promo code, but the fact that you’re getting the $90 drive (already a great price) for free is just insane.
Now, I know. AMD just released its Ryzen 5 9600X, which is also on sale for about $240. As you can read in our Ryzen 5 9600X review, the newer chip isn’t significantly faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X, and the performance gains become even more negligible when more than $100 separates the two CPUs.
Moreover, the Ryzen 5 7600X is based on AMD’s AM5 socket. The company has said it will support this socket until at least 2027, so you’ll be able to upgrade your CPU without changing out your motherboard and memory down the line. We’ve already seen Ryzen 9000 launch on the platform, and we’ll get at least one more generation — and possibly two.
As a six-core CPU, the Ryzen 5 7600X doesn’t have a ton of grunt in productivity applications, especially stacked up against flagships like the Ryzen 9 9950X and Core Ultra 9 285K. However, it’s a monster when it comes to gaming. Most games don’t call for more than six cores, and in the few that do, the Ryzen 5 7600X still puts up impressive results. Those results are even more impressive when the CPU is basically $105.
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.