The Surface Duo made quite a splash at launch, and then the reviewers got their hands on the device. The shortcomings in the software were immediately evident, and it all went downhill from there, culminating in fire sale pricing for certain models. It’s really too bad, as the hardware was pretty good (not perfect, certainly). I initially bought a device at launch with some significant trade-in incentives, but sold the phone 2…

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Problem Statement While benchmarking different games to see if Broadwell still holds up in early 2022, I had a thought: was I wrong to report the average framerate…

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My initial investigation set out to determine whether AnandTech’s revisit of Broadwell in 2020 was reproducible. This extends that work by adding modern 8- and 4-core CPUs, and…

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