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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut first impressions; Apple unveils M1 Pro and M1 Max; Microsoft Weekly

October 18, 2021

Disco Elysium has been available for a while now on other platforms, but it just launched on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. How does the game perform on Microsoft's latest console? Read on to find out.

Microsoft has put up a simple buyer's guide for shoppers looking to buy Windows 11 PCs. In its recommendations, the company has mentioned Intel's Evo devices but AMD hasn't been brought up.

AMD's Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature will remain disabled by default in future Ryzen-based Linux PCs. That's because the feature has been found to be very problematic on some of those systems.

The Windows 11 Insider build 22000.282 carries a patch that claimed to fix the poor L3 performance for Ryzen CPUs. AIDA64 tests have confirmed today that the patch indeed works as it says.

Apple has unveiled two new MacBook Pro models powered by the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips which were also showed off during its Unleashed event. The new devices have prices starting from $1,999.

This week, Microsoft released the usual Patch Tuesday updates, which this month included Windows 11 as well. A fix for AMD Ryzen performance issues on Windows 11 rolled out, and much more.

Parallels Desktop 17.1 is bringing full support for running virtualized Windows 11 and macOS Monterey. There's no need to manually switch on support for TPM, as opposed to the previous version of it.

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