Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Dell Latitude 13 7390 2-in-1 Review
Fitbit Aria 2 Wi-Fi Smart Scale Review
Fractal Design Focus G Review
G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 C16 16GB Dual-Channel Kit Review
GIGABYTE AB350N-Gaming WIFI (AMD B350) Motherboard Review
HP EX900 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Review
HP EX900 500GB M.2. SSD Review
Intel Core-B Processors: 8th Gen BGA with 65W TDP
Microsoft Windows 10 Spring Creators Update delayed
Team Group Night Hawk RGB DDR 3200 MHz 16 GB kit Review
The Best Storage Devices: SSD, HDD, External Drives and NAS

Dell Latitude 13 7390 2-in-1 Review

Dell’s XPS lineup of consumer laptops are some of the best in the business, and Dell started the thin-bezel trend that has now taken over the industry. But if you’re in the market for a business laptop and the practicality that implies, their Latitude lineup is likely more suited for your needs. To that end, today we’re taking a look at the latest Dell Latitude 13 2-in-1 model, the 7390. This latest business model from Dell features all of the latest features, including 8th generation quad-core CPUs, and the business features you’d expect like vPro, and optional Smart Card support. It even offers cellular connectivity for those that need to work on the go.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Fitbit Aria 2 Wi-Fi Smart Scale Review

In line with the aesthetically pleasing design, I would discourage users from storing them away when not in use (and certainly not in an upright position) otherwise it will throw off the unit's measurements, requiring a number of recalibrations before resuming accurate readings. Wisely eschewing integrated batteries, Aria 2 requires four AA batteries, which I've yet to replace in nearly eight weeks of use.

Upgraded with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz) module, Aria 2 syncs rather flawlessly to the Fitbit cloud, integrating it alongside data from any other Fitbit devices you might own to present a fuller account of your personal fitness.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Fractal Design Focus G Review

The Fractal Design Focus G is the company's current entry-level ATX chassis. It comes in multiple colors and sports a sub-US$50 price tag, which makes it an extremely interesting choice for budget-minded first-time builders. With some of the DNA of the Core 2300, it will be interesting to see how things have evolved over time.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 C16 16GB Dual-Channel Kit Review

G.Skill has been earning its reputation as an enthusiast memory brand for years, all the while slyly undercutting the pricing of its top competitors' top kits. Quality has been the thing that’s kept G.Skill from being labeled as a “budget alternative” within the enthusiast market, but let’s be realistic: Lower pricing certainly hasn’t hurt its sales.

On the other hand, the middle of the enthusiast memory market (currently, memory rated DDR4-3200 to DDR4-3600) has far greater sales volume, far more pricing competition, and a far greater opportunity…for your opponents. G.Skill covers those bases with its F4-3200C16D-16GVKB DDR4-3200 CAS16, a 16GB dual-channel kit.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

GIGABYTE AB350N-Gaming WIFI (AMD B350) Motherboard Review

Today we are taking a look at a dynamic B350 mini-ITX motherboard, one that was provided to us for our Raven Ridge review. The motherboard itself is much like other AMD mini-ITX motherboards, but overall layout differs from other products we have seen. It's also aimed at gamers, and as such as the word Gaming in its model name.

Many users have opted to go with a B350 motherboard instead of an X370 motherboard for their Ryzen builds. The B350 chipset doesn't support SLI, has a few less PCI-E lanes from the FCH (chipset), fewer USB 3.0 ports, and fewer SATA6Gb/s ports. However, since this is a mini-ITX motherboard, you wouldn't be able to take full advantage of the benefits the X370 offers, so you really aren't losing too much. Let's take a look at this affordable B350 motherboard.

Read full article @ TweakTown

HP EX900 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Review

Today, Legit Reviews is taking a look at the HP SSD EX900 series of M.2 PCIe x4 NVMe 1.3 certified SSDs that just happen to be aimed at the entry-level market with capacities of 120GB, 250GB, and 500GB. The HP SSD EX900 drive series offers sequential speeds of up to 2100 MB/s read and 1500 MB/s write. Read on to see how the EX900 500GB drive performs!

The Silicon Motion SM2263XT PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 SSD Controller is new to us here at Legit Reviews, so we took a closer look at it. It turns out the SM2263XT has a DRAM-less design that supports the Host Memory Buffer (HMB) architecture. This means that the SSD uses your PCs DRAM to cache needed data (mapping tables) and you can visually see that in the block diagram below. That sounds scary at first. What happens when the power goes out or the drive is accidentally removed. It turns out the NVMe 1.3 specification was written to ensure the controller on HMB drives won’t have data loss or data corruption while the Host Memory Buffer feature is being utilized. Basically the controller writes updated mapping information to the HMB, but there is still a master copy on the drives NAND Flash before being flushed. This is said to have very little impact to CPU resources and and a tiny hit to the systems memory bandwidth and capacity. We tried to see how much memory was being used by this design and noticed about 0.3 GB less RAM being available on systems with 8GB and 16GB of system memory. Windows 10 began enabling this feature (Host Memory Buffer) by default with the Fall Creators Update and is not officially supported on older operating systems.

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HP EX900 500GB M.2. SSD Review

This review covers the new HP EX900 series, this more affordable series EX900 500GB model is plenty fast with a rated sequential read speed up to 2100 MB/s and sequential write speed up to 1500MB/s. In our testing, often this SSD surpassed these speeds.

The specs are great, but will this unit deliver what it claims? M2 is the interesting form factor, these small storage units are evolving from being "just as fast" as a regular SSD towards double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuple and perhaps in the future even octuple that performance. It comes in a different package, M.2. Using the PCIe lanes interface it is so much more capable as it can deal with way more bandwidth using PCI-Express lanes. As such, M.2 solutions are intended for high-end and enthusiast class motherboards and laptops. The EX920 series M.2 SSDs are a stunningly fast series of storage technology as they offer enthusiast class performance as you are looking at a product that reads well over 3GB/sec and writes close towards 2 GB/sec. These new M.2 units use the NVMe protocol and that means storage technology at millennium falcon hyper-fast speeds while remaining competitive in pricing.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

Intel Core-B Processors: 8th Gen BGA with 65W TDP

During the mêlée of last week and Intel announcing the next wave of 8th Gen Core processors, there were a few products that Intel did not include in the official announcement. The ones that we caught were the Pentium Gold and Celeron desktop product line, but over the weekend we have also noticed that Intel is introducing a new line of ‘B’ processors.

The key features of the B processors are that they are named and perform similarly to the desktop processors the names are based on, but are not designed for socketed desktops: they use BGA mounting, similar to notebook processors. The high-end notebook processors, Core-H, are historically denoted by their 45W TDP, while these new Core-B processors have a 65W TDP. Intel has stated that this is not a ‘new B-series’ of processors, however they do not fall into the standard Core-S desktop definition, nor do they really qualify as notebook processors, siting above the Core-H line in a high-power segment that Intel defines for All-in-One types of systems (monitor with the PC embedded in the back).

Read full article @ Anandtech

Microsoft Windows 10 Spring Creators Update delayed

A bug was serious enough to delay Redstone 4's rollout for 'a couple of weeks'. Microsoft's Windows 10 Spring Creators Update was due to arrive on Tuesday but as a serious bug was discovered at the last minute the launch has been put back by a couple of weeks, according to Windows Central editor Zac Bowden. A so called 'blocking bug' in Windows 10 version 1803 was discovered ahead of its scheduled widespread rollout thanks to feedback from Insiders in the Fast, Slow, and Release Preview rings - saving Microsoft issues and tissues.

Read full article @ Hexus

Team Group Night Hawk RGB DDR 3200 MHz 16 GB kit Review

Team Group has been creating high quality memory products for two decades and their Team T-Force performance line-up is aimed at the enthusiast gamer. We received a T-Force Night Hawk RGB DDR4 3200 MHz 2×8 GB CAS16 memory kit for review (TF2D416G3200HC16CDC01) from Team Group, and we will see how it compares at stock and at overclocked speeds to the more expensive HyperX Predator DDR4 3333 MHz CAS16 memory kit.

Team Group’s Night Hawk RGB DDR4 line-up has been updated to provide RGB LED compatibility on a white (or black) 10-layer PCB that uses stylized hawk wings in the design of its heavy aluminum heatspreaders. The overall aesthetics of the Night Hawk memory in white with a soft and ever-changing RGB glow inside of a PC are amazing. The RGB lighting is completely customizable, and Night Hawk can sync with ASUS AURA, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion and MSI Mystic Light motherboards to produce millions of combinations. BLITZ software from the Team Group website (scroll to bottom, “software download“) can be used to also customize the RGB lighting for other motherboards.

Read full article @ BabelTech Reviews

The Best Storage Devices: SSD, HDD, External Drives and NAS

With solid state drives now fully mainstream and hard drives being more affordable than ever, there is a broad a mix of high-performance and high-capacity options to choose from in a range of form factors. Fortunately for you, we have spent dozens of hours testing storage devices, so we have a pretty clear idea about what devices are worth buying.

The SSD 960 Evo showed no faults throughout our testing back in 2016 and its price vs. performance ratio remains largely unparalleled, being even more affordable today at $200 for around 40 cents a gig for the 500GB version. Offering sequential reads and writes of 3,200MB/s and 1,800MB/s, the 960 Evo is available in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB versions, though the smaller drive will cut down on performance, so our buying recommendation exclusively applies to 500GB and larger variants.

Read full article @ TechSpot