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HP has announced a mini-PC (well, mini-ish anyway) based on AMD's new Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395. (Liliputing)

The Z2 Mini G1a is a desktop version of the ZBook Ultra 14 G1a. So it has up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 graphics cores, and 128GB of LPDDR5X RAM.

The desktop model supports two M.2 2280 SSDs, up to three Ethernet ports, two USB4 ports, two mini-DisplayPort ports, and four regular USB ports.

Prices should start around $1200 for a slower model with less memory.
Nvidia's Project DIGITS is a desktop supercomputer-ish. (Ars Technica)

It has a 20 core Arm CPU, a Blackwell GPU, up to 128GB of memory, and up to 4TB of SSD.

It delivers up to a petaFLOP of AI performance... At four bits of precision.

Prices will start around $3000.

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Speaking of Nvidia, how does the 5070 stack up against the 4070? (Tom's Hardware)

Well, it has faster memory, with 28GHz GDDR7 RAM replacing the 21GHz GDDR6.

Apart from that it's basically the same.
The Acer Predator XB323QX is a 5K monitor. (WCCFTech)

Which is pretty rare by itself. It runs at up to 144Hz at 5K and up to 288Hz at 2560x1440. And it covers 95% of DCI-P3, which is pretty good.

Pricing doesn't exist yet.
The man who ineffectually exploded a Cybertruck the other day reportedly used ChatGPT to plan the explosion. (The Hill)

Well, that didn't work.

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Disclaimer: Bee baba bada boop.

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