Everyone, learn this chant
A trouble ticket is escalated to this pilot fish from the help desk after that group spent nearly two days with someone who works from...
Tag : Hardware
Wayback Wednesday: He’ll figure it out
It’s a hot day, and the building where this IT pilot fish works has no air conditioning, although it’s quite cool and pleasant in his...
Apple’s Silicon Macs promise screaming performance
Promising Apple Silicon Mac performance benchmarks have appeared on Geekbench as developers begin to speed test these new Macs. It appears they already run as...
Why AMD’s energy efficiency milestone is important to the emerging cloud desktop
AMD this week announced it had exceeded its goal to increase energy efficiency 25-fold by 2020. Called the 25×20 goal, it has been a driving...
Which Macs will run Apple’s macOS Big Sur?
Even as Apple abandoned the “X” for this year’s macOS upgrade, it retained the odd-even cycle for the refresh’s system requirements, knocking older systems in...
What Apple’s Mac move away from Intel means to the enterprise
Apple’s announced move to its own ARM-based processors to power upcoming Mac computers beginning in 2021 makes sense. The company can rationalize its environment across...
Tell me if this starts to hurt
This pilot fish has a computer-repair business, and over the years, he’s had some clients whose tech knowledge was, shall we say, extremely thin. Case...
The argument for dedicated collaboration hardware
One of the mistakes I think the tech industry has made is in trying to make a PC into a communications device for video and...
Apple aims at pro Mac markets with all-new AMD GPU
Apple’s business has grown so extensive that enhancements that might once have been major announcements now arrive in the form of quiet, stealthy product updates...
Apple ARM chips: WWDC’s big hardware announcement
After 15 years of Intel processors, Apple is expected to announce its transition to its own ARM chips at WWDC 2020. These new chips will...