Emily Young

43 minutes ago, xnamkcor said:

Edit: It's completely possible Origin PC puts "malware" on computers.

Nah. I know it's a sponsored video and all so take what I say with a grain of salt, but while setting up I noted the Origin image is pretty much a stock Win11 install. The only extras I saw were wallpapers, user profile icons, and in our case an RGB lighting profile in iCUE (not sure if that's standard or not), though in fairness I didn't run a malware scan so I guess I can't confirm. Either way, CCleaner and WinZip were installed by me.

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Apple’s Mac Studio got an upgrade with M2 Ultra. But all is not what it seems over at Apple’s marketing department… Is it truly a worthy successor to M1 Ultra?

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They weren’t around for that long, but IBM’s microdrive had a major impact on multiple industries.
 

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An entire generation of games are unplayable unless you kept your old PCs. Isn’t there some emulator we can use to bring the early days of 3D graphics back to life? There is! It’s called PCem.

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