i used to be just like you i didn't have
a single tech news to my name
and now look at me i've got so much tech
news it's oozing out of my pores
got tech new zits apple is
infamous for making it less than easy to
go get your expensive ijunk repaired at
a third-party shop but
that looks like it might finally be
changing apple is going to start sending
official parts
to independent repair businesses which
will make it a lot
easier for consumers to have their mac
serviced reportedly apple is
even going to provide training resources
and
you know i i got the only conclusion i
can come up with here is that
the epic lawsuit hit them a bit too hard
in the head
cause this is this is not the apple i
remember
i like it though the move comes on the
heels of explosive sales growth for max
as more people are working and learning
from home
wow apple you finally changed your ways
and all it took was a worldwide pandemic
on the subject of laptops you may have
noticed that it's been a little trickier
to come buy an affordable one recently
because so many school districts in the
u.s are moving to online classes as
schools start back up for the fall
there is apparently a shortage of lower
cost laptops
in the united states chromebooks have
been in especially high demand as many
households
and school districts require only a
laptop with basic functionality for
virtual lessons
wow that's like kind of the opposite of
a humble brag
humble diss in fact acer's us division
said that they weren't
even close to pumping out enough
chromebooks for all the students that
want them
while another industry analyst has
pointed out that laptop sales are up by
as much as
40 percent the good news though is
you'll probably still be able to get
that beefy 4 000
gaming laptop you've been lusting after
assuming that they ever give you another
stimulus check
by the way please please don't use it on
a 4 000 game laptop
speaking of budgets though motherboards
built around amd's budget a520 chipset
have recently
leaked yes my friends we filled them
with water and they did not hold the
water
the a520s big brothers the x570 and b550
have already been around for a while but
the a520 will allow you to build a
current gen ryzen system
at a lower cost now you will be giving
up some features
notably cpu overclocking pci express 4.0
ssds
and running your graphics card at x16
speed
but in terms of real-world performance
that last one shouldn't be too much of
an issue
rumors indicate that asus msi and azrock
will all be rolling out a520 boards as
soon as this week
so keep your eye out from them if the
very idea of overclocking
gives you anxiety wait what's that riley
you got something to say
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at checkout jiminy cricket bites
after removing fortnite from the app
store apple has responded to epic games
lawsuit by informing the studio that on
august 28th
apple will terminate their developer
accounts
and remove access to apple developer
tools which developers use to create
and update games that run on epic's
unreal engine
wow the gloves are freaking off now
aren't they epic has filed an injunction
to stop this from happening i mean it's
clearly retaliatory
but if it does happen epic not just epic
any developer
that uses unreal engine would be left
unable to modify their games
now this fight has moved from summer
entertainment to something with real
world potential
impact like can't they just settle this
in game first a headshot
gaming personality alana pierce says a
retail worker sent her a photo of the
xbox series x on their store's internal
system with a price tag
of 5.99 meanwhile other rumors are
pointing to a 4.99 price point for the
ps5 so the question remains then
would you pay a hundred dollars more for
the most powerful console ever
that will play the games you can already
play
on your other machine you already own
i guess we'll find out in november now
if you're interested in games you
actually
can't play anywhere else nintendo is set
to stream the latest installment of
their indie world showcase
tomorrow at noon eastern time but don't
expect any news on
big ticket first party franchises like
zelda smash bros metroid
etc unless you really enjoy
being disappointed it's a strange kink
but
hey i'll respect it google has been
making efforts to keep chrome from
sucking as much battery on your laptop
and the software giant is reportedly
taking things a step farther with an
experimental feature that will let
websites tell chrome to do things
like slow down frame rates or scripts so
that it won't use as much power
hopefully it won't make your tech linked
viewing experience less buttery smooth
though
and ea is rebranding some of its online
services because we know that's
always gone over well for unpopular
companies and their
unpopular services ea access and origin
access will now be known as
ea play with origin access premiere
becoming ea play pro
he is also bringing updated aesthetics
and new features
hopefully you know one of those will be
cheaper content
and that's our show for today come back
on wednesday for more 100
free tech news as long as you don't mind
paying with your time
that's right it's going to cost you time
which
time equals money though yeah see so you
got lots of money
we're all rich right now we're all rich
unless
unless we don't have much time left i'm
afraid
some of us are just out of time wow this
is don't yeah cut this off before it
reaches the end