First things absolutely first – the APC team and I send our hopes that you are faring as well as can be in this unbelievable, surreal, barely comprehensible crisis. The national statistics would unfortunately indicate that many of you reading this wi

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Managing demand during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak seems to have already begun to prove difficult for Amazon after shoppers reported delays when trying to purchase nonessential items from the ecommerce giant. The company announced that it would

As trade shows and events all fell one-by-one to the coronavirus effect, Computex organisers held on as long as they could, but now the show – which was scheduled for the first week in June – has now been put off until September 28-30. The show also

Six new Comet Lake H 10th-gen mobile CPUs have been announced by Intel, and are expected to start appearing in partner laptops soon. These new CPUs compliment Intel’s lower power and lower performance Ice Lake 10th-gen CPUs, with Intel hoping these C

In the last (479) issue of APC, our review of the Aorus 17 XA stated in one section that the laptop was powered by a GTX 2080 GPU. This was an error, the laptop comes equipped with a GTX 2070 GPU. We apologise for the error. ■

In 2021, Apple is expected to start launching several Macs computers with Arm processors instead of x86 Intel CPUs, according to a report from MacRumors. The rumour comes from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, and it isn’t the first time he has said this w

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Variety is the spice of life, and that’s true for your PC too. If you’re stuck in a rut with Windows, increasingly bored with the endless routine of system maintenance, word processing and web browsing, we’ve got just the tonic to inject some spice b

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If you have accidentally lost precious data because of hasty Shift+Del, we have a quick solution to prevent further mishaps. You can use chattr to change the associated attributes for a file. The default syntax is chattr [operator] [switch] [filename

Our original tablet project relies on the official Pi 7-inch touchscreen display. Instead of being limited by this, consider alternative displays. You might prefer a 4-inch HyperPixel display, a 5-inch screen, or even the 10.1-inch Industrial Touchsc

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FREE | PC | PIXELSHUH. ITCH.IO/THE-SUPPER This is a game about rooting out ingredients, and bunging them in a big, bubbling cooking pot, before serving them up to your guests and… seeing what happens. It’s a twisty interactive fantasy story, made b

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“There is a huge demand for IT equipment with people getting ready to work from home, attend school from home, and even some businesses trying to capitalise on the tax incentives put in place by the government in an attempt to bolster the stalling ec