If you’re looking for a powerful laptop that provides some additional horsepower for more demanding tasks, then chances are you’ll be considering a 15-inch laptop. There was a time when your choices were limited to a traditional clamshell, but that’s changing. Today, there are more powerful 2-in-1 options that offer higher-end CPUs. In this battle […]
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HP Spectre x360 13 vs. Dell XPS 13 2-in-1
The convertible 2-in-1 laptop, which has a display that can swivel from normal clamshell mode to tablet mode with tent and media modes in between, has come into its own. No longer are they too large to be used as tablets or too underpowered to be used as clamshells. The form factor is epitomized by […]
First Spectre, now BranchScope — another vulnerability in Intel processors
Researchers from four universities discovered a new vulnerability in Intel’s processors dubbed as BranchScope. The problem resides in the method a processor uses to predict where its current computational task will end, aka speculative execution. By exploiting this flaw, hackers with access to the PC could pull data stored from memory that’s otherwise inaccessible to all […]