Disney Star Wars universe rage again? Make your own mark and tell your own story instead in KOTOR. Or any of the other RPGs out this month.

It’s no exaggeration by this point that every time Apple announces a new chip, everyone breathes a little harder. Either in anticipation, if you are a consumer looking to buy a laptop later in the year, or with dread if you are the competition. The new M2 is, to be expected, more incremental than revolutionary, but that alone itself points to the fact there’s catching up to do once again. M2 in a nutshell M2 is built on second-generation 5-nanometer technology that features 25 per cent more transistors (20 billion) than M1. It features an 8-core CPU and a 10-core GPU. With its larger cache, the CPU is 18 per cent faster than the M1 in multithreaded performance. Apple claims that their latest 10-core GPU (two more than M1) is twice as powerful than the latest equivalent 10-core PC laptop chip and with just a quarter of the power draw. Compared to a 12-core PC laptop chip, the M2 falls 10 per cent short of matching, but it uses just a quarter of the power to do so. Versus the M1 GPU, the M2 GPU is said to deliver 25 per cent more performance at the same power level and up to 35 per cent more when maxed out. Apple is claiming 2.3x faster performance at the same power level with the latest integrated graphics on a PC laptop chip while being able to match the competition’s peak performance using a fifth of the power. Personally, having used an M1 Macbook Pro for a year, I find it hard to use something else that gets significantly warmer – and I suspect this is a big draw for many as well. In addition, the Neural Engine is 40 per cent faster, and the memory controller delivers 50 per cent more memory bandwidth (100GB/s) over M1 and supports up to 24GB of fast unified memory. In real-world examples, the M2 enables the new MacBook Pro to be almost 40 per cent quicker than its M1 sibling when working with RAW images in apps like Affinity Photo. Meanwhile, games like Baldur’s Gate 3 are almost 40 per cent quicker. On the MBA, Final Cut Pro performance is claimed to be nearly 40 per cent faster and applying filters and effects in apps like Adobe Photoshop is up to 20 per cent faster than the previous generation. For Intel-based MBA users, this represents up to 15 times and up to 5 times faster respectively. Here’s the tale of the (rest of the) tape: Neural Engine processes up to 15.8 trillion operations per second (> 40 per cent more than M1) Higher-bandwidth video decoder that supports 8K H.264 and HEVC video Playback up to 11 streams of 4K and up to two streams of 8K ProRes video, convert to ProRes nearly three times faster than before Updated Secure Enclave for security New image signal processor (ISP) for better image noise reduction What’s notable is Apple’s attention to video workflow performance, making the M2-based MacBooks a …

We don’t think the remake will have the classic camp of the original, and it might just be better for it.

Belkin’s BoostCharge Pro 108W lists the range and limitations of its chargers, which is something that should be encouraged.