It’s one of the arguments of the age: like Coke vs. Pepsi, Apple vs. Samsung, or Nike vs. Adidas, the choice of Xbox or PlayStation is a highly contentious one. There are a lot of factors that fans take into account, but arguably the biggest one is simply your choice of controller layout; where Xbox pads have the left stick far and the right

Source: Hot Hardware – Huzzah! Steam Finally Embraces Sony’s DualSense Game Controllers

Amazon typically offers a wide array of excellent deals in the lead up to Black Friday, but it offers some of the deepest discounts on its own products. Such is the case with the family of Fire TV products that are marked down up to 50% off at the moment.

Kicking things off, we have the headline deal in this series with the Fire TV Stick

Source: Hot Hardware – Fire TV Streaming Device Deals Up To % Off Cook Up Big Savings For Black Friday

Dell Inspiron 16 Plus (7630) Notebook (Starts at $999, as tested $1,249) The affordably-priced Dell Inspiron 16 Plus offers plenty of productivity and gaming performance, and doesn’t sacrifice on battery life. Solid productivity performance Good gaming performance Big, fast display with wide viewing angles Excellent battery life  Beats…

Source: Hot Hardware – Dell Inspiron 16 Plus Laptop Review: Understated Beauty And Brawn

If you’ve ever watched a review of a fancy car showcasing a hidden fridge in the rear seat, we’ve got something more impressive to show you. ASUS has recently shown off its unique NVIDIA Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, complete with a built-in M.2 SSD slot. Even If one is not impressed with the paltry 8GB of VRAM onboard, you now at least have one

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD Graphics Card With A Built-In M.2 Slot Is Official

Early last year, an obsolete part of a Chinese space rocket crashed into the lunar surface, leaving behind two visible craters. A team of researchers from the University of Arizona found definitive proof it caused the duo of craters and that it also had an undisclosed payload.

The event was unique in that most lunar impacts caused by space

Source: Hot Hardware – China Slammed A Rocket With A Secret Payload Into The Moon Causing Multiple Craters

It’s only fitting that one of the big discounts for Black Friday applies to Samsung’s biggest gaming monitor, an absolutely monstrous 49-inch display with drool-worthy specs. Don’t worry if you don’t have the space or desire for such a dominating display, though, because we’ve rounded up a bunch of Black Friday discounts on a wide range of

Source: Hot Hardware – Go Big With With Samsung’s 49″ OLED Monitor For 0 Off And More Gaming Display Deals

NVIDIA has found its golden goose in AI chip design, which contributed heavily to another massive spike in revenue during the company’s third quarter of fiscal 2024—it tripled year-over-year to $18.12 billion. That’s also a sizable 34% gain from the previous quarter and a new quarterly revenue record, and it led to a huge profit of more than

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Crushes Earnings On Monster AI Chip Demand And Big Gains In Gaming

For those who have an Apple lover on their holiday shopping list, there are more than a few Black Friday deals going on. From iPads to MacBooks to accessories, get a bite of an Apple product to satisfy anyone’s taste buds.

Apple iPad 9th Generation

The Apple iPad 9th gen comes with an A13 Bionic chip, a 10.2-inch Retina display, and

Source: Hot Hardware – 10th Gen iPad Falls To Lowest Price Ever For Black Friday Plus More Great Apple Deals

As you’ll know if you’ve been reading our deals posts recently, this Friday is Black Friday. The infamous day of deals heralds the beginning of the holiday shopping season. If you have kids, then you probably already know what they want as gifts, and there’s a pretty good chance it’s video games.

Actually, that would be a pretty darn decent

Source: Hot Hardware – Study Reveals What Kids Want Most For The Holidays And You Won’t Be Surprised

Black Friday might not be here yet, but there are a plethora of good CPU deals already going on. Several of AMD and Intel’s most popular chips, like the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Core i5-13600KF are discounted significantly at the moment, with prices dropping by as much as 20%. Cooler prices have also dropped quite a bit, so we’ve taken the liberty

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel And AMD CPU Prices At Amazon Are Falling In Early Black Friday Deals

Meteor Lake, the first-generation “Core Ultra” processors, will be Intel’s first “disaggregated” or chiplet-based CPUs. The launch of these important chips is less than a month away, and Intel is continuing to drip-feed details to the press and the public. The latest news comes from a video posted to the “Intel Technology” YouTube channel,

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Details Meteor Lake GPU Clock, Core And Architecture Advancements

The Russian espionage machine is both vast and prolific, as shown by a recent Russian code outbreak making its way into U.S. government systems. With the war in Ukraine in full swing, this behemoth of a program is not only throwing tools and resources at Ukraine, but is also driving its efforts into other countries, such as the United States.

Source: Hot Hardware – Russia’s Sinister LitterDrifter Malware That Spies On Ukraine Worms Into The US

Tim Sweeney, Epic Games CEO, described Google as “crooked” during his testimony in the anti-trust trial currently underway in San Fransisco, CA. The trial is a result of Epic attempting to break free from having to pay Google a 15-30% commission on in-app transactions, which Epic alleges is illegal price gouging.

Time Sweeney spoke about

Source: Hot Hardware – Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Slams Google As A Crooked Adversary In Antitrust Trial

Mediatek is aiming for the premium-oriented midrange smartphone market with the release of the Dimensity 8300 chipset. This new chip uses TSMC’s 2nd generation 4nm process and Arm’s latest v9 CPU architecture. It’s an eight core CPU that packs 4 Arm Cortex-A715 cores along with 4 Cortex-A510 cores. There is also an Arm Mali-G615 GPU onboard.

With

Source: Hot Hardware – MediaTek Dimensity 8300 Flexes Generative AI Muscle To Arm Wrestle Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

It was only last week when we reported that an overclocked Threadripper Pro 7995WX broke the world record for Cinebench R23, but as of the time of this writing, the record has been broken five more times by overclockers using the same chip. The initial world record was set with air cooling, so it was expected that water cooling and liquid

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch AMD’s 96-Core Threadripper 7995WX Pro Hit 6GHz In Wild Race For Top Cinebench Score

TeamGroup’s growing family of high-speed solid state drives (SSDs) just got a bit bigger today with the launch of four new models, including the T-Force G70 Pro, T-Force G70, T-Force G50 Pro, and T-Force G50. All four drive families share PCI Express 4.0 DNA and use an Innogrit controller. What separates them, however, are top speeds and certain

Source: Hot Hardware – TeamGroup Launches G70 And G50 SSDs To Amp Your Gaming PC With Blazing-Fast Storage

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a bedazzling image of the center of the Milky Way with an unprecedented infrared-light view. The image contains a portion of the center of our galaxy that includes never-before-seen features that astronomers have yet to be able to explain.

The “chaotic region” at the “heart of Milky Way”

Source: Hot Hardware – JWST Captures Milky Way’s Chaotic Heart In Unprecedented Detail Leaving NASA Stunned

Have you seen how much space some AAA games take up these days? There are several that approach and even exceed 100GB install sizes (Starfield takes up around 140GB), and that’s before any DLC and/or mods—ARK: Survival Evolved, for example, can tip the storage scale at 400GB. Fortunately, Black Friday deals on storage have arrived with some

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD Is Off And Other Banging Black Friday SSD Deals

The ebbs and flow of time often dictate one harsh reality, and that’s survival of the fittest. The GPU ecosystem is no different than your average jungle, with the strongest climbing its way to the top regardless of a new competitor. With the NVIDIA GeForce RTX Super refresh rumored to be coming soon, it’s likely to wipe out at least two existing

Source: Hot Hardware – At Least One GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU May Stick Around After NVIDIA’s Super Refresh

It may be cold outside, but Best Buy has some super-hot deals on DJI drones that will heat things up. Whether someone is a beginner or a seasoned flyer, there is a deal for all.

DJI Air 2S Fly More Combo
The DJI Air 2S makes for a great addition to any drone arsenal. The drone features a 1-inch CMOS sensor, powerful autonomous functions,

Source: Hot Hardware – Best Buy’s Black Friday Deals On DJI Drones Are So Good They’re Flying Off The Shelf