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Today, Razer is launching the all-new Razer Book 13, a high-performance laptop for productivity in today's mobile world. The Razer Book 13 is also Intel Evo certified, a badge intended to indicate the best in thin-and-light laptops. Under the hood, you will find an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 or …

Apple has had two events over the last couple of months, announcing new iPads, iPhones and other accessories. The company isn't done yet though, as another ‘One More Thing' event has been announced for next week.  Today, Apple began teasing that it has ‘one more thing' up its sleeve for …

UL Benchmarks is updating its PC benchmarking roster with a new addition. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing is now available, just in time for AMD's new RX 6000 series GPUs.  With Radeon RX 6000, RDNA 2 equipped next-gen consoles and Nvidia's own RTX GPUs, there are plenty of ray-tracing capable graphics cards …

In the last week of October we heard about the Acer Swift 3x laptop with Intel Iris Xe Max graphics and were at a bit of a loss as this was a new name that Intel had not yet revealed. A few days later we had a call with Intel that made things clearer and now, on 1st November, you will find a handful of laptops that use Intel Max. Leo took the opportunity to address the question 'What the Heck is Intel Iris Xe Max?'

In the latest video from Leo, he discusses Intel Rocket Lake S and the possible problems Intel might have. Leo also took the time to ask Intel a couple of questions about the upcoming launch. Leo, as always speaks his mind and asks the tough questions. Leo discusses his thoughts on the new platform, including the Rocket Lake S maximum core count of 8 (16 threads) as well as some of their claims, The Intel XE graphics, Intel Deep Learning, the new Intel 500 Series chipset and their new memory controller with official support of DDR4 3200 memory speeds. But what about the clock speeds?

The folks at Overclockers UK are getting into the Black Friday spirit early, with sales kicking off today. In the first round of deals, you'll find discounts on gaming monitors, laptops, SSDs and more.  One of the most impressive deals here is the LG 27GL850-B, a 1440p IPS gaming monitor …

A few weeks ago, we began hearing rumours of acquisition talks between AMD and Xilinx. Now, the deal is as good as done, with AMD announcing that it will be acquiring the company for $35 billion in an effort to create "the industry's high performance computing leader". 

Google has faced antitrust allegations all across the world, facing cases in Europe, Asia and other territories. Now, the US Department of Justice is also aiming at Google, filing a new antitrust lawsuit.  The US DOJ says Google has an unfair monopoly over search and search-related advertising. Android is also …

SK Hynix is already huge in the NAND flash and storage business but it is about to get bigger. Today. the company announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Intel's NAND memory and storage business for $9 billion.

If you are in need of some extra storage, or just a new SSD entirely, then you'll want to shop around today. Amazon Prime Day is taking place and Kingston is amongst the list of tech/hardware companies delivering big discounts.  You will find M.2 and traditional SATA SSDs on sale …

Our Amazon Prime Day coverage continues, this time our attention turns to ASUS, which has a lengthy line-up of deals on today. This ranges from peripherals to networking gear and even gaming monitors. There are also a few sneaky gaming laptop deals to be found too. We'll start off with …

If you've been meaning to pick up some new PC gaming gear, then Amazon Prime Day is the time to shop around. There are plenty of deals going around on Amazon UK today, including a lot of deep discounts from Razer.  The deals here are all peripherals, so if you're …

At the KitGuru modding workshop today, we delve into the ins and outs of DIY electroplating and show you how you can jazz up your components for very little cost, using many of the things you may already have around the house...

Apple is all set to announce the next batch of iPhones next week but it looks like the company may still have more product launches planned before the end of the year. Today, reports indicate that another Apple event will come in October to introduce the very first Apple Silicon …

AMD is reportedly in 'advanced talks' to acquire Xilinx, an acquisition that would strengthen AMD's position in the data centre market.

One of the biggest stories of 2020 has been Epic Games' sudden war with Apple and its iOS app store practices, resulting in Fortnite being booted from the App Store. A big lawsuit has been brewing ever since, but there is going to be a bit of a break on …

Let the mods begin! Today we strip down the Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO modules and mod out the heat spreaders...

Microsoft is lowering the entry bar for the Surface ecosystem this week with a new Surface Laptop Go. This is a 12.5-inch notebook, providing a middle ground between the Surface Go 2 tablet and the Surface Laptop 3, set to compete with the Chromebook market.  The base edition of the …

After plenty of extra time in development, Lenovo is now officially ready to launch the world's first foldable PC. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold was first unveiled last year, with a more recent prototype shown at CES 2020. Now all these months later, the device is ready for prime time, …

While Apple might not be all that interested in helping pave the way for game streaming services on iOS, others are. This week, a lone developer shipped a new browser app on iOS, which contains everything needed to stream games from Google Stadia.  Stadia is not officially available on iOS …

Intel is deeply excited about their imminent 11th Gen. Tiger Lake mobile CPU which is due to go on sale at the end of September. We know this because Intel sent us a sample of Tiger Lake in an MSI laptop so we could take a good look for ourselves and also share the benchmark results with our KitGuru audience.

Today, KitGuru embarks on a new area of content by kicking off on a series of projects in which we work in partnership with manufacturers to create unique one-off PC systems and modding projects. We begin this new venture working together with Seasonic to create what we are calling the Seasonic AURA system, a fully customised and unique system with a Seasonic theme.

Google has a number of devices still due to launch before the end of this year and while COVID-19 may have put a stop to any physical events taking place, there is still plenty of opportunity for a virtual launch event. This week, Google began sending out invites for just …

CES 2020 was able to take place this year just ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic. That won’t be the case for CES 2021 though, which will be an all-digital event due to continuing health concerns. Still, big names will continue to be involved, including AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, who …

Just as previously rumoured, NVIDIA is indeed going to acquire ARM. Last night, the GPU giant confirmed that it will be spending $40 billion buying Arm from SoftBank, who previously acquired the company in 2016 for $32 billion. 

KitGuru is on the look out for another YouTube reviewer to join our team - if you've ever wanted to be a video reviewer, now is your chance!

Back in 2019, Nvidia began making its biggest acquisition in the company’s history, reaching “a definitive agreement” to acquire Mellanox for roughly $7 billion. That deal officially completed in late April 2020 and now, Nvidia has fully absorbed Mellanox, renaming it ‘NVIDIA Networking'.   For those out of the loop, Mellanox is one …

The Intel Gamer Days celebration is underway at Overclockers UK, bringing discounts to those looking to upgrade their PCs, in addition to some freebies and prizes to be won. At the top of the list is a giveaway for an Intel Core i5-10600K.  In terms of discounts, until the 6th …

Last week staff writer LEO WALDOCK published a review on the new Thermaltake ToughRAM RGB 4600mhz kit. Several days after the review was published Thermaltake contacted myself to say that they didn't feel the review was fair in places and I told them that they could send us an official statement and I would get Leo to investigate their concerns.

It has been five years since Nvidia originally released the Shield TV and the team is still shipping updates. This week, owners of the original Shield TV will be getting their 25th software upgrade, meanwhile those who own a newer 2019 SHIELD TV can expect some upgrades to the AI …