The Morning After: Does the Mac Pro cost too much? – Engadget, Engadget

After months of thinking, curating, photographing and more thinking, we’ve come up with aholiday gift guidethat covers all the bases (and budgets), from laptops and mobile devices, to toys, to the smart home, to book and media recommendations (only on nerdy subjects, of course). All told,there are more than**************************************************************************************************************************** items in our guide, spanning 20 categories, with advice from of our writers and editors. You know, the people testing and reviewing this stuff all year long.

And it looks like a home theater PC.The next Xbox is called Series X

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Previously known as Project Scarlett, the next-generation Xbox resembles a PC tower, and it arrives holidays . Xbox chief Phil Spencerwrote in a blog postthat the Series X design allows Microsoft to pack in four times the processing power of Xbox One X “in the most quiet and efficient way.” It’s said to be no louder than an Xbox One X, helped by a single fan that pushes air through the top.

Microsoft says the Xbox Series X can handle 4K visuals at (frames per second, and potentially up to (fps) . The console will also offer hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable refresh rate, along with 8K capability. It’s compatible with software going back to the original Xbox and will work with Xbox One controllers. The controller it comes with is similar to the current Xbox pad, but it’s very slightly smaller and adds a dedicated DualShock 4-like Share button. As far as games,Halo: Infiniteis in development , and with the unveiling, we got a peek at Nina Theory’sSenua’s Saga: Hellblade II.

Cybertruck in the wild.Elon Musk took Tesla’s Cybertruck for a weekend drive around LA

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Los Angelenos spotted the Tesla bossdriving his electric truck down theand getting some dinner at Nobu.

Starts at $ 6k and goes up from there.The most expensive new Mac Pro configuration costs $ (***************************************************************************************************************************************************************,******************

Apple has started taking orders for the redesigned Mac Proand itswebcam-lackingPro Display XDR. The workstation is available starting at $ 5, with an eight-core 3.5GHz Xeon processor, (GB of RAM, Radeon Pro) ****************************************************************************************************************************** (X graphics and a) ******************************************************************************************************************************************** GB solid-state drive. All told, you’re looking at close to $ 68, 02 if you max out the system with 1.5TB of RAM and a set of $ (wheels -) which we did here.

(This rocket is preparing for a mission to the moon in (**************************************************************************************************************. NASA unveils ‘the most powerful rocket ever built’

(**********************************This week at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstinegave the public its first up-close look at the Space Launch System, or SLS. The SLS program is running rather behind schedule, with launch originally aimed for 2021 and a possible manned first mission being considered. Now, the first test of the SLS is aimed for (****************************************************************************************************************, to be ready for the Artemis mission to the moon in 2024.

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The $ 1 , 488 Pixelbook Go with 4K display is now available