Daily Tech News 24 May 2023

• Nvidia has finally brought its new Linda Lovelace architecture (motto: Suck it, losers) to the mainstream with the RTX 4060 Ti, and there's never been a better time to buy a graphics card. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Just not this one, because it's garbage.
  
  The only thing it achieves is making other cards look good by comparison. Certainly AMD's 6700 / 6700 XT / 6750 XT range is more appealing than they were last month, with more memory and more memory bandwidth than the 4060 Ti at a much lower price.

• If you're looking for a 2TB M.2 2230 SSD Kioxia's BG6 looks like a good option. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's DRAMless - there's not much room for a DRAM cache on a device the size of a postage stamp - but it's TLC rather than cheaper QLC, and runs at PCIe 4 speeds for up to 6GB per second transfer rates. Should be more than enough for any device that uses 2230-size SSDs.
  
  
  
• Clippy's Revenge: Microsoft is hell-bent on shoving AI "assistants" into everything. (Dev Class)
  
  For example, the company promises a new AI assistant for configuring Windows, when all they need to do is fix the fucking settings panel, which has been broken for 14 years.
  
  
  
• Intel's new NUC 13 Pro is a different colour to the regular NUC 13. (Liliputing)
  
  That's it, really.
  
  
  
• The Schenker Vision 14 has a 14" 2880x1800 90Hz IPS display, an Intel 13700H CPU, optional RTX 3050 graphics, two SODIMM slots for up to 64GB (and maybe 96GB) of DDR5 RAM, and a choice of 30 different keyboard layouts exactly none of which include the Four Essential Keys. (Notebook Check)
  
  Because we can't have nice things.
  
  
  

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