Apple iPhone XR benchmarks show near identical performance to the iPhone XS

Benchmarks are not the be-all and end-all for determining if a phone is worth your time. But it does set some expectations. And all signs point to a positive experience with the more affordable iPhone XR. Packing the same A12 Bionic chip as the iPhone XS, it’s expected the performance was going to be similar. Macworld just shared the benchmark results and it shows that it gets the same performance but from last year’s iPhone X. It even tops the GPU test, which most likely comes from the fewer pixels the phone has to push. It’s also supposedly said to have better battery performance, even when compared to the iPhone 7 Plus (which has roughly the same display size and exact same battery).

Google's Pixel Slate is now available for preorder

Google's second coming of the tablet, the Pixel Slate is starting to become available for preorder (at least for our American readers). Bringing the best of Chrome OS, Android and Linux (under the Crostini-layer that allows Linux apps to run in a container) the Pixel Slate is a powerful tablet-first 2-in-1 that can be used in laptop mode with an optional keyboard case.

Canadian pricing will start at $1,049.99 but can increase considerably for higher performance models as well as when you add the Pen and Keyboard accessories.

MSI launches new ultrabooks and workstations for creatives

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

MSI is highly regarded for its gaming laptops which bring insane processing and graphics power to aggressively styled gaming laptops. The company is now taking all the things they've learned from making gaming notebooks and applying it to their new ultrabook and creative workstation products.

The slim and elegant MSI PS42 and the beefier yet vastly more performant MSI P65 both offer the latest 8th Generation Intel Core i7 processors (in quad-core and six-core variants), large 16GB of RAM and fast SSDs. The new notebooks are designed for portability and performance.

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Google releases statement regarding RAM management issues of some Pixel 3 phones

One of the problems plaguing the new Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL is related to the phones’ ability to manage its RAM. Reports claim that background apps are being released from the RAM prematurely. One case points out how music players playing in the background unexpectedly stop while taking a couple of photos with the camera. Google has responded to these issues and told 9to5Google that it’ll address the problem “in the coming weeks.” However, it won’t be coming with the November security patch. It’ll most likely arrive with the December one.