Lenovo previously had an unsatisfactory answer, but it’s come around:
For affected processors, we will honor Intel’s 2-year processor warranty extension and recommend customers impacted by any CPU instability issues to contact Lenovo service for support.
Fuller statement in our big story:
Intel recently informed us that the impacted 13th and 14th generation processors facing instability issues will have an extended warranty. Dell will support Intel’s extended warranty terms for a total of five-years on these processors.
Pretty much every brand is on board now, save Lenovo and Acer:
The company’s answer was brief:
MSI will cover 2 year extended warranty on all MSI Desktop.
We asked all its competitors the same question about Intel’s crashing chips. Here are the answers:
The number-one PC maker has answered our question whether it’ll honor Intel’s two-year extended warranty on damaged chips — but the answer doesn’t even include the word “warranty.”
Lenovo has been made aware of the instability issue affecting Intel’s 13th and 14th Generation Processors and is working with Intel to understand the potential impact on our products and how to best resolve them. We will work toward integrating into our future product BIOS any fixes provided by Intel once available. We recommend customers impacted by any CPU instability issues to contact Lenovo service for support.
Intel is footing the bill for replacements; this shouldn’t be a hard decision for Lenovo.
Puget Systems writes it’s indeed seeing higher failure rates with 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core processors — so it’ll extend warranty to three years for affected buyers. Normally, Puget only warranties parts for one year.
We don’t yet know if Intel is helping PC makers extend warranty. So far it’s only extended warranty on its own retail chips.
[Puget Systems]
This fast AMD mini PC comes with a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, a Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU, and two NVMe SSD slots. And at $1,249 for the barebones model, it’s cheaper than the Asus ROG NUC with an Intel Core Ultra 9.
Correction: Only one SSD slot is PCIe 5.0; the other is 4.0.
The Verge’s favorite methods for keeping our tech in reasonable order.
IDC and Canalys disagree whether this is the second or third consecutive quarter of growth, but either way, the slump is definitively behind us — and we haven’t even seen the impact of this year’s Qualcomm, AMD and Intel chip launches yet.
Mini Maker wasn’t on our transparent gadget radar, but I’m fixing that now! The Turbo Mini X looks incredibly svelte for something with a 65W Intel desktop chip inside, and there’s a companion eGPU with direct PCIe connection that’s allegedly faster than Thunderbolt. It’s not just vapor: Tom’s Hardware saw one.
Originally I was just excited for LPCAMM2 modular laptop memory, but low-profile desktop RAM too? Hells yes.
ASRock just traveled back in time from a distant future where USB-A is dead. Here’s its new Taichi Aqua motherboard as proof (via VideoCardz).
Like a certain Asus monitor we saw at CES and an LG before that, the new Acer Predator X32 X3 has a dual-mode panel that can do 480Hz at 1080p, or 240Hz at 4K. Typical brightness is just 275 nits, but it can peak at 1,000 — and it offers built-in KVM with 90W of USB-C PD charging, all for $1,200.
As an engineer for DEC in 1965, Bell played a pivotal role in shrinking room-sized computer systems into minicomputers.
An $18,000 prototype Bell created inspired the compact PCs we enjoy today. Bell later started the Computer History Museum.
[The New York Times]
Final shipments to vendors end on June 28th, 2024. I doubt this has anything to do with certain PC games crashing, but my partner did recently exchange his brand new Core i9-13900K because he was having the same issue. The 12th-gen K-series chips seem to be sticking around, too, at least for now. Curious...
They join our Best Monitor of CES, the $1,199 Alienware AW3225QF — though both the Asus and MSI panels are flat rather than curved, and add single-cable 90W USB-C docking and passive cooling. They’ve all got three-year burn-in warranties, though.
The Asus costs $1,299, while the MSI is just $949. Both companies announced availability today, but it depends on region: I’m only seeing notify me buttons for now. This HP is still on the way, too.
It’s good to see Intel’s gaming NUCs are alive and well under new management! This one’s definitely a NUC: loads of ports despite a small 2.5-liter chassis, Intel Core Ultra processors, and up to 140W of GPU power from what’s presumably mobile RTX 4070 graphics?
Here are the spec sheets and an early product page. We don’t have pricing or dates yet.
The Epomaker DynaTab 75X looks super flashy here at CES, and it’s not all that expensive: under $150 for hot-swappable keys, USB-C, Bluetooth and 2.4GHz wireless (with hidden dongle), and a 10,000mAh battery. It’s a Kickstarter.
Part of an upcoming crop of 32-inch 240Hz 4K OLED panels — this one’s got a powerful KVM. Plug in a USB-C laptop to get a 2nd monitor, peripherals, and 140W PD charging, then switch its many USB ports over to your desktop via DP 2.1 or its pair of HDMI 2.1 video inputs instead. Plus, it’s got a small square base: I hate the big V-shaped ones.
While it strangely topped out at an RTX 4070 Ti at launch and no unlocked K-series CPUs, you should soon be able to nab a slimmed $3,499 prebuilt with an RTX 4090, Intel’s new Core i9-14900KF with 240mm liquid cooling, 32GB DDR5, two 1TB M.2 NVMe SSDs, and a 1000W PSU.
The Revolt has a integrated handle that folds flush into the case, a pop-out headphone holder, toolless side panels, and separate cooling zones for the CPU and GPU — and the $2,099 Platinum configuration seems a solid price for a prebuilt RTX 4070 machine with i5-13600K, 32GB of DDR5 and RGB.
The highest-end configs seem overpriced, though, and what’s with the low storage capacities? BYOSSD. Hyte also sells the case by itself for $130.
Last week, I told you how 42 Dough customers accused the company of stringing them along for months or years without shipping their products or issuing refunds.
Since then, 35 more customers have stepped forward — only two of which say they got satisfaction.
I have now sent Dough a partial list of order numbers that are waiting for fulfillment, with our readers’ permission. Dough owes those people as much as $50,000.
Eve, the monitor and tablet company that some accuse of walking away with their money, hasn’t fixed its reputation.
VideoCardz:
Our sources indicate that Intel plans to launch the new series on October 17th, which is when the CPUs will become available for purchase, and reviews are expected to go live.
These may not be the Starfield chips you’re looking for: MSI’s big Intel leak suggests the gains are primarily in multithreaded workloads, and the game isn’t well-optimized for Intel there yet.
Framework sells its modular laptop motherboard a la carte to fulfill DIY desktop and cyberdeck dreams — and now, it’s selling off extra stock of these 11th Gen Intel Core models at deep discount.
You’ll also need storage, memory, and possibly ports (it’s only got four USB-C by itself). There’s also this neat transparent $39 Cooler Master case if you want to DIY an unofficial Intel NUC.
Plus FSR 3 with frame generation and ‘native anti-aliasing.’
