- Knock knock.
- [James] Who's there?
- Tech news.
- [James] I should have seen that coming.
- Just tech news!
So gaming laptops and portability
have never exactly gone hand in hand.
But, Intel thinks it might have the solution
as details of its new Iris Xe MAX
mobile GPUs recently dropped.
- [Announcer] Intel's first discreet graphic solution
for thin and light laptops.
- Unlike the standard Iris Xe,
this is actually a discreet GPU
that Intel is marketing to both content creators
and casual gamers who don't wanna lug around a heavy laptop.
Intel seemed particularly proud
of something called, Deep Link,
which is a form of machine learning
that can intelligently load balance
between an integrated and discreet GPU
to increase performance and battery life.
As far as actual frame rates,
Intel is saying that Xe MAX will get in the range of
30 to 45 frames per second at 1080p,
in a number of modern AAA titles.
If you turn the settings down a bit.
So, it's not revolutionary,
but it looks, okay enough,
considering that Intel is going to be launching
a higher performance gaming chip next year,
which will hopefully show up in laptops,
and hopefully not heat the bezel up to
fry an egg temperatures.
If you're just desperate at this point,
to get your hands on
any graphics card from the RTX 3000 series,
there might be even more bad news on the horizon.
There's a rumor,
and we want to clarify, it's just a rumor at this point,
that the RTX 3060 Ti
has been pushed back a couple of weeks,
from November 17th to December 2nd.
Again, take this with a grain of salt
because Nvidia hasn't even officially confirmed
that there is a 3060 Ti at all.
But it's hard to imagine team green would wait too long
to release a more mid range chip.
Performance is speculated to be somewhere
around the level of the last gen RTX 2080 Super
for less than $400,
which would make it a pretty compelling deal, if it's true.
And if you could buy one before the bots get to them all
and they're on eBay for $900.
For those of you in the UK,
you probably know that the country is preparing
for a second pandemic lockdown that's supposed to start
this Thursday
Unsurprisingly, this has left many gamers concerned
about important things like,
what's gonna happen to their PS5 and X-Box series pre-orders
as both consoles are due to launch mid-November.
- [James] Drone delivery.
- Because the lockdown is (mumbles)
that would work.
Because the lockdown is supposed to last
until at least early December,
people have been concerned
that they may not get their consoles, in time.
But one major retailer has told consumers
they still have until Wednesday night to pre-order in store.
And the UK government has said
that businesses can stay open for delivery and pickup,
even for non-essential items like console,
what do you mean, non-essential items?
You know, might be essential if you
review games for a living.
- [James] Or play them-- - Or are bored.
- [James] for fun.
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Onto the bit quits.
Speaking of money,
Bitcoin seems to be continuing its recovery
from the infamous crash that it had experienced
a couple of years ago that I'm still reeling from.
This weekend, Bitcoin got up to about 14,000 US dollars,
it's highest value since January of 2018.
Although there's been a surge in interest
in cryptocurrency recently,
it isn't clear why Bitcoin specifically is doing so well.
Just whatever you do, don't pay 10,000 Bitcoin
for a pizza like that one guy did
way back in the day.
Ouch, right?
(mumbling in background)
Facebook is finally rolling out a test
of a dark mode feature on both Android and iOS.
Trials so far have been extremely limited,
which has frustrated many users
since most other oft used social media apps
have some sort of dark mode already.
Better late than never, Mark.
- [James] His soul is dark enough already.
- The original Crysis has already gotten a remake.
And now it sounds like remasters
of both Crysis Two and Three are in the works.
It's not clear how long it might be
until we actually see them,
since even the Crysis One remaster
was delayed by about seven months, which wasn't enough.
And it will be interesting to see how the games look
especially Crysis Three which is
still sometimes used as a benchmark and is
pretty good looking.
- [James] Crysis Three-mastered!
- Like, are they just tryna make them
hard to run on purpose at this point?
If you were looking to slap a custom face plate
on your shiny new PlayStation Five, by the way,
prepare to be disappoint.
As Sony has ordered a third-party manufacturer
to stop making them.
Reportedly Sony's lawyers told them,
that Sony owned the IP rights to the face plates.
Now, it's unclear why a licensing deal
wasn't just worked out.
Could be the usual corporate greed or,
maybe the face plates have some kind of
undisclosed chip in them.
- [James] First-party plates.
- Or maybe the third-party ones just suck.
And Sony thinks that
only they know how to face plate it right.
Whatever the reason is,
you can't get one right now.
And, heads up.
There's another Apple event scheduled for the 10th,
which is a week from, tomorrow.
It's online only
but it's still expected to be a major announcement,
as most outlets are speculating,
that it will be the unveiling of the new
Apple Silicon Macs.
As usual, Apple is officially mum on details,
but we all know what's coming.
It's kinda like how you should never be surprised that
anything happens in professional wrestling, for example.
Although that whole thing where
they aren't letting them go on Twitch anymore.
That was sort of, dirt baggy and surprising.
- [James] Even their news got news.
- Yeah, that sucked.
That's our show, come back Wednesday,
where we elbow drop y'all with some more tech news.
The people's tech news elbow!
(glass shattering) Oh God!