Tech Advisor - UK (2021-05)

M AY (^2021) FROMIDG INSIDE: INTEL CHALLENGES APPLE’S M1 CLAIMS AERO 15 OLED (2021) REVIEWED: ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO PROTECTING YOUR ...

2 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 CONTENTS NEWS 4 Surface Laptop 4’s big change will be its Tiger Lake, Ryzen processors 6 Microsoft Viv ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 3 GUIDETOPCSECURITY 74 Bestantivirussoftware 89 Bestpasswordmanagers 96 5 easytasksthatsupercharge yours ...

4 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 NEWS M icrosoft’s next-gen Surface Laptop 4 will follow Microsoft’s recent trend of upgrading internal ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 5 11th-genTigerLakeprocessorsand AMD’sRyzenprocessors– though whetherthey’llbea ‘SurfaceEdition’ chipbas ...

6 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 NEWS M icrosoft has announced Viva, a new ‘employee experience platform’ that integrates with Microsof ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 7 allowemployeestoseekoutanswers fromtheircolleagues.If theycan’t help,Learningis designedtoprovide comp ...

8 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 NEWS mayworrysome,asit appearsMicrosoft is stillaggregatingemployeeworkhabits. Thetechgiantappearstoha ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 9 differentialprivacy,”accordingto Microsoft,in describingVivaInsights. “Thismeanspersonalinsightsare vi ...

10 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 NEWS corporatejargon.If there’sanunfamiliar acronymorspecial project that might not be familiar to an ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 11 A lthoughAMDexecutiveshave toutedtheirmarket-sharegains in thePCprocessormarket during 2020 as a whol ...

12 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 NEWS aswellas1.2percentagepointsin the mobilemarket,DeanMcCarron,principal analystat MercuryResearch, ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 13 A ftermonthsofsilenceabout Apple’simpressiveM1chip, Inteljustclappedbackwitha carefullycraftedtakedow ...

14 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 NEWS ANALYSIS In batterylife,it’sprettymucha wash. TheMacBookProwouldn’tpassmuster to be certifiedas ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 15 What you can question is whether Intel picked tasks that favour its own CPU design. But even if you b ...

16 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 NEWS ANALYSIS nonetheless impressive) apps that were designed to take advantage of the hardware accel ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 17 Our take: Okay, we get it. Macs suck for gaming. All we can is say no rational person would disagree. ...

18 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 NEWS ANALYSIS Acer Swift 5 lasted 10 hours, 6 minutes. The difference? Intel said it used Safari to w ...

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 19 free. We’ve seen developers use the opportunity (which might be justified) to fix issues in the next ...

20 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021 REVIEWS G igabyte’s new Aero 15 OLED laptop is the first we’ve seen to feature one of Nvidia’s brand ...