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You're probably already well aware of the effects of the AI-fuelled surge in demand for flash memory products, which have pushed up consumer prices for RAM, SSDs, video cards and PCs. …
… Pricing and availability details haven't been confirmed, but somewhere in the region of $2000/£1750 for the handheld and glasses which are $850/£750 on their own seems likely. …
… Meanwhile, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ is available for pre-order at Currys for £1399 with an earlier release date of 18th August. …
… The processor appears to be derived from Nvidia's DGX Spark system, which is an extremely powerful £4000 AI-focused mini PC, with rumours suggesting a heterogeneous "big-little" architecture with 10 performance cores and 10 efficiency cores in the full-fat N1X. …
… Unsurprisingly, Nvidia is pitching RTX Spark as an AI-capable chipset, with " 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance " to run AI models and agents locally eg via OpenClaw . …
… The full patch notes are available via the link below. …
… It's a rare victory lap in hardware history, but it could also be the best way to build or upgrade a gaming PC with the current AI-fuelled price surges for DDR5 RAM. …
Over the past nine months, the Steam Machine has metamorphosed from a promising living room PC with a certain charm and a "console-equivalent" price to one that is even more capable than expected , but comes with a price point that puts it beyond the reach of the consoles and well into custom gamin… …
… If I turn on my computer after an update again and get the same euphemistic "change browser settings" prompt again, that's it - Linux time. What do you make of the changes, and have you thought about or actually started to move to Linux for gaming or just general PC use? …