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Akasa Unveils Turing A50 Aluminum Case for ASUS PN50 Mini PC
Akasa has unveiled the Turing A50 all-aluminum fanless chassis that can replace the ASUS PN50 mini PC case.
ASUS PN50 Mini PC is powered by AMD Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” series processors (Ryzen 3 4300U, Ryzen 5 4500U, Ryzen 7 4700U, Ryzen 7 4800U). The maximum amount of RAM – 64 GB, storage – 1 TB. Graphics card – AMD Radeon Graphics.
The Turing A50 case is one of the Turing NUC case options that hit the market back in February 2019. The internal design of the Turing A50 has been redesigned to accommodate an ASUS PN50 motherboard.
Inside, users will find a base for installing a cooler above the processor; from the base there are several copper tubes that transfer heat to the aluminum case in order to dissipate it further.
The cost of the Turing A50 case has not been announced. It is reported that the case will enter the market in February 2021.
Akasa is known not only for quality cases, but also for modding products such as LED strips and anti-dust filters.
Akasa Rolls Out Turing A50 Case for ASUS PN50 Ryzen 4000-powered Mini PC https://t.co/FH6eD5dJKJ pic.twitter.com/Y74zeNUFHU
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Components
MSI declassifies the performance of the Arc A380 graphics card from its M301 Dragon Shield computer

MSI has unveiled the gaming performance figures for the Intel Arc A380 graphics card that will be installed in its new M301 Dragon Shield PC. This data was leaked from promotional materials that mentioned several esports games. All of them use medium or low graphics quality settings.
In Naraka: Bladepoint, the card produces about 85 frames per second, in League of Legends – more than 200 frames per second, in PUBG – more than 94 frames per second, and in Overwatch – more than 100. This is approximately the level of Arc A370M mobile graphics cards.
Note that MSI is preparing two versions of desktop PCs with Intel graphics cards – a model with a Core i5 12400F processor and a regular Arc A380 graphics accelerator, as well as a version with a Core i7 12700KF processor and an overclocked version of a 6 GB graphics card.
It is not yet reported when the new desktop video cards will enter the global market. At the moment, they are offered only in China and only as part of finished PC assemblies. But laptops with Arc A370M cards have already appeared in the US.
Components
Almost like a full-fledged computer: iPadOS 16 will allow you to connect external PCI, USB and audio devices to iPad based on Apple’s own processors

Last week, Apple held its annual WWDC conference, where it talked about future versions of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS. Now it has become known that the new iPadOS 16 will support the DriverKit API, which will allow device manufacturers to create more accessories for tablets.
DriverKit API is a framework originally created for Mac computers in 2019. It allows you to write custom drivers for the iPad and make your products compatible with the tablet. Currently, this framework supports USB, PCI and audio devices, and the drivers can be easily transferred from macOS. In the future, drivers can be distributed through the App Store. So far, this only works with devices based on Apple’s own processors (for example, M1), that is, in terms of tablets, everything is limited to the iPad Pro 2021 and iPad Air 2022 models.
iPadOS 16 will arrive as a public beta in July. The release assembly will be released this fall.
In addition, iPadOS is expected to support the Metal 3 graphics framework, which will allow you to run “heavy” games on tablets, such as No Man’s Sky.
Components
You don’t even need to boot up your computer to play. Doom launched in the BIOS of the motherboard

Coreboot is a non-commercial project for a unified BIOS that can be installed on different motherboards instead of the original system from a specific manufacturer. Coreboot performs all the initialization functions of the hardware, like a regular BIOS, but after that it can run the so-called “payload” – a term taken from the space sphere. In version Coreboot 4.17, Doom, the original shooter from 1993, became such a “payload”.
On which systems Doom has not been launched, but now you can use the BIOS for this. More precisely, Coreboot. However, you will have to put up with some limitations: coreDOOM (the Coreboot version of the game) only supports a keyboard connected to a PS/2 connector. It is impossible to save in the game, the soundtrack is also missing. And after exiting the game, everything freezes tightly. But after all, Windows often hangs in games. True, these are completely different games.
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