Lilbits: The Mac Pro reaches the end of the line

Apple is pulling the plug on the Mac Pro, more than 20 years after launching its first high-performance desktop computer with an iconic “cheese grater” design. The company has released several major updates over the years, but the last big change to the design came in 2019, and the last processor update came in 2023 when the company made the move from Intel to Apple Silicon.

But the newer Mac […]

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Lilbits: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, Razer Blade 16, and more fallout from Chuwi’s processor mixup

Two recent laptops from Chinese PC maker Chuwi that were supposed to ship with AMD Ryzen 5 7430U processors actually had Ryzen 5 5500U chips inside. That means instead of getting a processor with a Zen 3 CPU, customers were getting notebooks with chips featuring AMD’s older Zen 2 architecture.

But the only way to prove this was to actually open up the computer and remove the CPU cooler to look […]

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Lilbits: Arm’s first silicon, Chuwi’s not-quite-apology, and Pebble’s Time 2 smartwatch ships soon

Arm has just introduced a new processor for data centers. There’s nothing too unusual in that statement… except that for the first time the chip designer is actually making its own processor. The company has been licensing its designs to third party chip makers for decades, but the new Arm AGI CPU is an Arm-branded processor that Meta plans to use in data centers.

In other recent tech news […]

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Lilbits: Anbernic’s unusual handheld, reMarkable’s next tablet, and SteamOS 3.8

Anbernic is a Chinese company that has made a lot of handheld game consoles over the years. But a short video making the rounds shows an upcoming handheld from the company that’s unlike anything else we’ve seen from Anbernic.

At first it looks like a tiny phone with a small square touchscreen display. But then the person holding it flicks the screen so that it rotates 90 degrees while it […]

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Lilbits: Rabbit’s Project Cyberdexk, Apple’s MacBook Ultra, and Qualcomm’s Arduino Ventuno Q

The Rabbit R1 launched in 2024 as a handheld AI device with an unusual design featuring a bright orange case and a scroll wheel for navigation. It was widely panned by reviewers for failing to live up to its limited promise. But the company behind the device has continued to plug away at the software in an effort to make the weird little device more useful.

Now Engadget reports that Rabbit is […]

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Lilbits: Epic Loves Google now, ZTE launches a 7.5 inch phone, and Chuwi’s shady laptop processor changeup

More than five years after launching an epic legal battle to challenge Google’s Play Store policies, Epic Games has reached a settlement with Google that will result in Google reducing fees and making it easier for developers to offer third-party app stores and third-party billing services for Android devices.

Shortly after I saw a Google blog post describing the changes, I also noticed that […]

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Lilbits: iPad Air with M4 (and 12GB RAM), Qualcomm brings AI to smartwatches (and prepares for 6G), and Lenovo says it IS still supporting the Legion Go

Apple is holding an event on March 4th where the company is expected to introduce new MacBooks. Rumor had it that the company would also use that event to introduce the iPhone 17e and maybe some new iPads… but Apple did that today instead.

The iPhone 17e looks like a solid mid-range smartphone with the same processor as the iPhone 17, but a less impressive camera and display. And the new […]

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Lilbits: Zinwa’s Android-powered BlackBerry Key2 clone, Razer’s laptop sleeve with wireless charging, and Android 17 Beta 2

A small Chinese team called Zinwa have been making modern BlackBerry-style smartphones in small batches for a little while… first by literally stuffing the actual shells of old BlackBerry phones with modern motherboards running Android software, and more recently by developing new phones with designs that are heavily influenced by BlackBerry.

Now Zinwa has shared a teaser for an upcoming […]

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Lilbits: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display, Apple’s touchscreen MacBooks, and an overkill Raspberry Pi 5 cooler

Most modern high-end smartphones have screens with wide viewing angles, allowing you to easily see the display whether you’re directly in front of it or looking from a 178 degree angle. But the new Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra offers you the option of limiting those viewing angles dramatically in order to keep folks standing nearby from seeing what’s on your screen.

This isn’t one of those cheap […]

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Lilbits: Pebble smartwatches, Linux 7.0, and the uncertain future for Lenovo Legion Go graphics drivers

If you’ve got a PC that works, there’s not that much reason to worry about getting frequent driver updates unless you want to plug in some currently unsupported hardware. But if you’ve got a gaming PC, then frequent driver updates can be pretty important, as NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel often tweak graphics drivers to add support for new games and improve performance for existing titles.

So a […]

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