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Daily dispatch from the parts we track — supply, demand, gaming, AI, the market behind the price.
The Antivirus Question for the Mac on Your Other Desk
Most PC builders own a Mac too — a laptop for client work, a partner's machine, a music rig. The honest answer on Mac AV in 2026, and where Intego earns its keep.
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AMD's Enterprise Stockpile Hits the Floor
A 96-core Zen 4 monster that launched at $11,805 is sitting on Newegg's clearance shelf at $3,000. The math behind a 75% strike-through, and what it says about who is — and isn't — buying enterprise compute right now.
Radeon's Last Big Card Goes On Sale
PowerColor's Red Devil RX 6950 XT — 16GB of GDDR6, 80 RDNA2 compute units, the chip that was supposed to compete with the 3090 — is at $489. The deal is good. The reason it's available is interesting.
The Workstation GPU Nobody Talks About
NVIDIA RTX A4500 — 20GB ECC, 7,168 CUDA cores, the unloved middle-child of the Ampere professional stack — is at $1,479. The quiet thesis for buying a card that won an Ada and a Blackwell refresh have buried.