Apple Sets New Record of Sales for iPhone 6 Models

Samsung's worst nightmare is happening. It appears Apple was right when they bet on a bigger iPhone and most Android users are now switching to the best phone around. When the Apple Store was supposed to open last night, many users around the world saw delays, errors and downtimes. Some people saw that as an Apple weakness and another fail after the Keynote live stream downtimes. However, this time the problem was not with the servers, but with huge demand. iPhone 6 Plus, the most wanted device And the situation was no different on carriers websites or third party vendors. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were a hit. So much so, that Apple admitted the larger model is actually sold out. Mark Siegel, the AT&T spokesman told...

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Windows 9 Builds 9835 and 9836 Spotted Online

Microsoft continues work on Windows 9, and it appears that some new testing builds have recently been compiled and sent to partners for testing purposes. While the screenshots that leaked yesterday show that build number 9834 has recently been released to a number of Microsoft partner, now log information also reveals that new ISOs are ready to be shipped. Windows 9 builds 9835 and 9836 have both been spotted online, and although it’s unclear whether they bring anything new as compared to the version we saw in the leaked screenshots, it’s another sign that Microsoft is working at a really fast pace to bring the new operating system to the market as quickly as possible. At the same time, it could also be an indication that before...

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New Windows 9 Video Leaks, Shows a Windows 7-like Start Menu with No Live Tiles

There’s no doubt that the Start menu is going to be a really important addition to the Windows 9 feature lineup, so interest in this particular change remains quite high these days. After the first video showing the Start menu in action got leaked this morning, a second clip which was published online only a few minutes ago reveals a different UI of this feature, that brings it in line with the design used by Microsoft in Windows 7. At the beginning of the video, you can see the Start menu featuring the same design first presented by the software giant itself at the BUILD 2014 conference in San Francisco, but after the user removes all live tiles, the appearance is very similar to what you can find right now in Windows 7. The classic...

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Intel: This Is How You Build a Thin, Fanless Tablet/Laptop with Core M Chips

Intel talked about the Core M processor platform which will soon power thin, light computers like tablets, laptops and 2-in-1s back at Computex 2014. During the same event, the chip maker also showed a reference design which was dubbed “Llama Mountain.” As we already showed you in an earlier piece, there are about eight devices using the chip architecture in the pipeline, getting ready to launch this year like the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix 2 or ASUS Zenbook UX305. And according to the preliminary benchmarks, it appears the new processors won’t be extremely power hungry, but will be able to deliver pretty strong performance. Intel wants to help device makers build thin, fanless systems As we mentioned above, there are already a few...

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ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS, Dual-Socket Intel Xeon CPU Motherboard Released

We thought that the ASUS X99-E WS LGA 2017-A motherboard would be the only one with seven PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, but it turns out that is not the case. There are others, or at least there is one other now. ASUS still holds monopoly though. This may change once other mainboard suppliers start to release their respective platforms based on the X88 chipset, but for now no dice. Anyway, ASUS has formally released the Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard, which has two CPU sockets instead of just one. The company intends for it to be used in high-end, powerful workstations. Curiously, though, the newcomer still has “only” eight memory slots, meaning that you won't be able to go above 64 GB of DDR4 RAM, despite the presence of two CPUs. The expansion...

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ASUS Formally Launches X99-E WS LGA 2017-A Motherboard with Skylake Support

ASUS has finally released the X99-E WS motherboard, a product we have been keeping a close eye on since well before it even got officially previewed. Primarily because of the unusual socket it boasts. This is actually the strange part about the press release. ASUS has formally launched the X99-E WS motherboard, sure, but it hasn’t mentioned the really important parts. Or at least the long term implications. Fortunately, we caught wind of them a while ago, so we can reiterate them. First off, the socket is not a normal LGA 2011-3, although it does support Haswell-E Intel CPUs just fine. Instead, it has six extra pins, which allow it to accept Haswell-EP Xeon CPUs as well. More importantly, it will supposedly let the mainboard accept...

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Intel Skylake CPUs Will Debut in July 2015, LGA 2017-A Socket Already Out

Intel's Skylake central processing unit series will succeed Broadwell in 2015. This much we already knew. However, we've just been told that the next generation of CPUs and associated chipsets will ship as early as July, 2015. Admittedly, this doesn't really go against previous reports about Intel Skylake coming out in the second half of next year. However, it's still quite early, considering that it implies that Broadwell will have a market life of just around 9 months. We already knew that this generation of chips would not be as long-lived as others, but it is still going to be a fairly jarring transition. After all, we can't even call the Broadwell architecture “current-generation” yet, unless we count the Core m mobile CPU from...

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