Summary of the week of November 8, 2021

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Apple makes iPhone 13 repair difficult

The people at iFixit have discovered that if you change the screen of the iPhone 13, the Face ID stops working. Tests have been done with different phones and the same behavior is always reproduced.

AMD gives details of Zen 4

The future Zen 4 will come with up to 128 cores with 5nm lithography and up to 768 MB of level 3 cache.

Game deals

Ubisoft is having an Anniversary and is giving away the Assassins Creed Chronicles Trilogy. Salu2! Gamers!

DDR4 vs DDR5 in an Alder Lake

Using a Core i9-12900K along with different configurations of DDR4 and DDR5 memory, it has been seen that the new memory represents a notable improvement in performance, although the price increase does not currently justify its use.

3DMark now tests SSD drives

3DMark Storage Benchmark is a new benchmark designed to test the performance of SSD drives in games. It evaluates load times, speed in level restarts, and interruptions during the game.

Microsoft presents its 250€ laptops

The new Surfaces will have prices starting at 250€, will come with Windows 11 SE (designed for the cloud) and will mount some very poor Celeron N4020 (two Gemini Lake cores) with 4GB of RAM.

Analysis of the M1 Pro

In this complete analysis of Apple's new micro, it can be seen that the M1 Pro surpasses none other than the Ryzen 9 5900HS in multiple benchmarks.

64TB SSD drives at 26GB/s

OWC has presented its new SSD drives with capacities of up to 64TB and rates of 26GB/s, a speed that will be reached if a PCIe Gen 4 slot is used.