We’re happy to see an update to the MacBook Air models: 13-inch MacBook Air 15-inch MacBook Air 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display M2 or M3 chip M3 chip Starts with 8-Core GPU 10-Core GPU Four-speaker sound system Six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers 52.6-watt-hour battery 66.5-watt-hour battery …
The open source, locally ran software Stable Diffusion has announced their next version which is not yet available to download. Current versions of Stable Diffusion don’t produce text coherently but this new versions appears to change that significantly, amongst some other incremental improvements to image generation, especially with multiple subjects. …
There are now rumors of Nikon releasing a global shutter camera using Sony’s global shutter sensor. Likely a lower megapixel model compared to the Z8/Z9. However, for Nikon’s purposes a non-global shutter with a fast read out would make a lot of sense so we’re not at all certain that …
Rumors seem to be indicating that we might see the Nvidia RTX 5000 Blackwell cards in 2024. We certainly hope this is true. Not much is known about these cards yet although we are seeing several sources say there could be a 40% generational improvement which would be quite significant. …
Some updates about the forthcoming Nintendo Switch 2: Nvidia SoC using Samsung’s 8nm technology Better than expected performance Delayed until 2025 Can output 4K with reasonable image quality Like 12GB of ram Discuss on the Gear Rumors Forum
The MSI CLAW is already available in some places but will be coming to most of the world in later March. There will be 3 versions available: Entry level MSI Claw A1M featuring an an Intel Core Ultra 5 135H CPU with integrated Arc graphics and 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM …
As mirrorless becomes more dominant and relevant to filmmakers, manufactures have started to produce more lenses for their platforms. Mirrorless mount physics should make possible a better quality of lens than what was possible before. Zeiss has released this interesting set of lenses with 6 focal lengths all at T1.5: …
It looks like we’re finally going to see a significant architecture change (new 2.5D interconnect tech) with AMD’s Zen 6 generation that will lead to better bandwidth, latency, better scaling, and power efficiency. This will increase cost, however. AMD is on a roll and have been able to consistently produce …
This camera is really overdue. Nikon’s doing well at the high end with their Z8 and Z9, but their mid-range camera bodies have been lacking for quite a while, especially on the video side. We’re starting to get excited about this camera though as it’s looking to be decently video …
Finally some reliable information has come out about AMD’s next generation of video cards. What we’ve learned: Monolithic dies via TSMC 4NP (all this really means is that they got slightly better dies than NVIDIA has right now) We’re seeing boosting of between 3.0-3.3 GHz FP8 and matrix hardware now …