- Look, if you came here because
you heard we made great paninis,
I don't know what to tell you.
We don't make paninis.
That doesn't even make any sense.
Between Apple ditching them,
and AMD keeping up the pressure in the PC market,
Intel hasn't had a great year.
So they're understandably looking
for any advantage they can muster.
On Friday, they apparently thought they had found one,
as they gave a briefing to journalists
detailing a flaw in AMD's Ryzen 4000 series laptops.
- [James] Got you now! - Almost.
Namely they went on battery power.
AMD's chips don't ramp up to full strength
until eight to 10 seconds,
after certain heavy workloads begin.
Now, Intel isn't wrong.
This behavior is part of what makes AMD's latest laptops
so great for battery life,
at the expense of a bit of performance.
But as Ares Technica and Extreme Tech point out,
it's not the Ace in the hole Intel might think it is,
because first off,
Intel modified their laptops to run at a higher TDP
than the AMD models in their tests.
They created specialized benchmarks,
which they say reflect real world usage,
when this issue doesn't cause
any problems for established tests.
And this weighting behavior
was an option AMD made available to laptop OEMs
to maximize battery life.
The issue here isn't that Intel doesn't have a point.
It's just that having a press conference about it
seems a bit desperate.
Like consumers don't want the strongest laptop.
They just want one that's confident in who it is.
That's true masculinity.
Wait, what are we talking about?
Let's talk about graphics card leaks.
Because the rate at which they are arriving has increased,
specifically ones about the RTX 3060 Ti,
which Nvidia still hasn't officially announced.
Even the leaks featuring the card
have been popping up steadily over the past month.
Now we even have a pretty official looking
slides of the card specs,
or at least MANLI's version.
There's a GPU company called MANLI.
- [James] The manliest specs.
- Anyways, this avalanche of leaks
claim the cards will launch on December 2nd for 399.
So get your wallets ready to not buy one,
because shopping online is now off limits to humans.
That's bot territory.
We also got a couple of leaks
regarding AMD's unannounced RX 6700 and 6700 XT,
which could both launch with 12 gigs of vRAM in early 2021.
So don't worry, there'll be plenty more opportunities
to spend some quality time with your computer, hitting F5.
That's refresh, James.
- [James] Oh! - Oh!
And one of the downsides of Apple's new M1 Mac processor
is the fact that it's a lot more complicated
to emulate Windows on macOS.
That's something that was pretty easy on Intel-based Macs,
thanks to Bootcamp,
which isn't supported on the new ARM-based models.
I can't believe Apple would do this.
Those scoundrels!
Well, Apple's Craig Federighi says,
said that Bootcamp could work just fine on M1 Macs.
Microsoft just has to enable it on their side.
Now Craig's actually referring to Windows 10 on ARM,
not x86 Windows.
x86 apps could already be emulated using Crossover on Mac
and Parallels is working to bring support for M1.
And currently, Microsoft doesn't license Windows 10 on ARM
unless the OEM pre-installed it on the device.
Ah, so it is up to Apple.
They just have to pre-install Windows on the M1 Macs.
You can't trick me, Craig.
Me and James, we know business.
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Was that the right slash, I never know.
You haven't seen the quick bits I have.
Phones leak too, not just graphics cards,
in case you were wondering.
It looks like Samsung might release their new flagship
a bit early this year, with rumors pointing to January 14th
as the release date.
OnePlus's Nine Pro is also getting some attention
in the rumor mill, with leaks pointing to a curved screen,
giant rear camera module,
and a release date in March.
But I don't know.
I think I can hold on to my Pixel3 till next September.
It's doing pretty good.
Comcast has to extend its 1.2 terabyte data cap
to all 39 States in which the company operates.
It just has to, it's got no choice.
- [James] Wait, legally?
- It has to.
Otherwise people will abuse the system
and clog the internet pipes with traffic,
even though multiple ISPs have said that the network
handled the pandemic field surge
in an internet activity just fine.
And Comcast engineers have said that monthly data limits
exist to generate revenue, not to manage congestion.
We need these caps, guys!
Snapchat has launched Spotlight,
essentially a mini version of TikTok
inside the existing Snapchat app.
But what's different about it, you might ask?
- [James] What's different about it.
- Well, Snapchat is giving the top video creators
a share of $1 million every day,
for the foreseeable future.
I don't know, to me, that sounds way more fun
and easy to use.
- [James] How many top creators, though?
Do I get a cent?
Do I get 100,000?
- Yeah, well I guess we'll see.
You gotta make apps, make videos first.
The Solomon Islands, which are close to Australia,
because I didn't know that,
plans to ban Facebook
due to widespread cyber bullying
and people using fake identities.
Nevermind that Facebook was the place
where official documents were leaked
showing government spending on COVID.
It's the cyber bullying.
Okay, fine, it is a real problem.
My mom comments on everything I post, please stop.
And in the latest example of "That's too much money,"
a rare copy of Super Mario Bros. 3
has sold for $156,000 at auction.
Apparently because it's a super early version of the game,
and the word Bros on the box is on the left side
instead of the right.
I need to go away now.
Come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
I'm sure we'll have something better for you by then.
- [James] Better than spending your money on that.
- Yeah.
Coulda done a lot of other stuff!