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This week, the Steam Deck OLED with 512GB of storage went from $549 to $789, putting it even further out of reach for those who were considering getting one as they came back in stock after months of unavailability. I consider it a tiny consolation that there’s a decent PC gaming handheld that is currently […]

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MSI has unveiled a new Claw 8 handheld gaming PC ahead of the Computex 2026 show, and this model swaps out its predecessors' Intel Lunar Lake mobile chip for a specialized handheld processor. MSI describes the Claw 8 EX AI Plus as being the "world's first" handheld to contain the recently announced Intel Arc G3 […]

Lithium battery packs are only as strong as their weakest cell. Whether you're designing a drone battery, an EV pack, or an energy storage system, cell balancing plays a critical role in battery safety, lifespan, and performance. But many developers and hardware engineers still confuse passive balancing and active balancing , or underestimate how important balancing becomes in multi-cell lithium systems. In this article, we'll break down: Why battery balancing matters What causes cell imbalance How passive balancing works How active balancing works Engineering trade-offs between both methods Where each balancing strategy is commonly used 1. Why Battery Cells Become Unbalanced In theory, every lithium cell inside a battery pack should behave identically. In reality, that never happens. Even cells from the same production batch will have slight differences in: Internal resistance Capacity Self-discharge rate Temperature response Aging characteristics Over time, those small differences accumulate. For example: One cell may charge slightly faster Another may discharge deeper One may heat up more under load Eventually, the pack voltage becomes uneven. This is called cell imbalance . 2. Why Cell Imbalance Is Dangerous Imagine a 4S lithium battery pack. If one cell reaches 4.25V while the others are still at 4.10V, the charger must stop to avoid overcharging that single cell. That means: The entire pack never reaches full usable capacity Weak cells age faster Heat generation increases Safety risks become higher The same problem happens during discharge. If one cell drops below the minimum safe voltage earlier than others, the BMS cuts power to protect the pack — even though the remaining cells still contain energy. In other words: A battery pack is limited by its weakest cell. 3. What Is Battery Balancing? Battery balancing is the process of equalizing cell voltages inside a battery pack. The goal is simple: Prevent overcharge Prevent over-discharge Improve pack lifespan I

Did you know that a 35-billion-parameter model can generate tokens at the same compute cost as a 4B model? That single fact made me abandon a multi-model agent architecture I'd spent a weekend building. But I had to run the benchmarks first to understand why. Here's the full breakdown, with commands, numbers, and the architectural reason it all falls apart on shared-memory hardware. The Discovery That Changed Everything I'd been running qwen3.6:35b on my Minisforum UM790Pro for weeks as my daily coding assistant. 17.8 tokens/second -- genuinely usable for interactive work. But I kept wondering: could I run a lightweight sidecar model alongside it for quick classification and tool-calling in an agent pipeline? Before I even started benchmarking, I dug into what qwen3.6:35b actually is under the hood. It's a Mixture of Experts model: 256 total experts with only 8 activated per token. The architecture also incorporates SSM (State Space Model) components alongside traditional attention -- Mamba-style layers that handle certain sequence patterns more efficiently than pure transformers. The math hit me: 8 out of 256 experts means each token only touches roughly 4-5B parameters worth of compute. The model carries 36 billion parameters of knowledge , but its per-token cost is comparable to a small dense model. I was planning to run a separate 4B model for "fast tasks" next to a model that already operates at 4B-class speed. But I had to prove it with numbers. Hardware and Ollama Setup The UM790Pro specs that matter for this experiment: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS (Zen 4, 8C/16T) iGPU: AMD Radeon 780M (12 RDNA 3 compute units) RAM: 96 GB DDR5-5600 (~80 GB/s bandwidth) GPU memory pool: 2 GB dedicated VRAM + 46 GB GTT = 48 GB GPU-accessible That 48 GB GPU pool sounds enormous until you realize it's carved from the same DDR5 that the CPU also uses. There is no separate GDDR6 bus. Everything -- CPU inference, GPU inference, KV caches, OS operations -- flows through one 80 GB/s pipe.

Intel is barely in the handheld gaming PC space - but that might be about to change. After the embarrassment that was the first MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would create custom handheld gaming chips. Today, it's formally announcing them as the Arc G3 […]

For a few glorious years, a $399 portable gadget could run almost anything you'd want to play. In 2022, the Steam Deck finally made PC gaming portable and affordable. I played through the vast majority of Elden Ring on a Steam Deck, agape that such a rich world could comfortably fit between my two hands. […]

When you build a PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) component that will be used across multiple geographies, need to serve labels, button captions, validation messages, and tooltips in the user's preferred language. PCF has a built-in answer based on .resx resource files, the same format used by .NET applications. The mechanism is elegant in production — but surprisingly tricky during local development. This walkthrough takes you through the full setup, step by step, and then explains a problem that arises while locally debugging your PCF. Step 1 — Create the strings folder and your first .resx file PCF expects your localized strings to live in a folder (the conventional name is strings ) inside your component directory. Each language gets its own file, named with the pattern: <ComponentName>.<LCID>.resx The <LCID> part is the numeric Locale ID , not the textual code ( en-US , it-IT ). The framework relies on this naming convention to identify which file to load for a given user. Common LCIDs: Language LCID English (en-US) 1033 Italian (it-IT) 1040 German (de-DE) 1031 French (fr-FR) 1036 Spanish (es-ES) 3082 Japanese (ja-JP) 1041 Chinese Simplified (zh-CN) 2052 Portuguese (pt-BR) 1046 For a component called EquipmentGrid , the structure looks like this: EquipmentGrid/ ├── ControlManifest.Input.xml ├── index.ts └── strings/ ├── EquipmentGrid.1033.resx ├── EquipmentGrid.1040.resx └── EquipmentGrid.1031.resx Tip: Always include 1033.resx (English). The PCF runtime falls back to the first <resx> declared in the manifest when the user's preferred language isn't available, and English is the safest default. Step 2 — Author the resource file content A .resx file is just XML. Here's a minimal Italian version ( EquipmentGrid.1040.resx ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <root> <resheader name= "resmimetype" > <value> text/microsoft-resx </value> </resheader> <resheader name= "version" > <value> 2.0 </value> </resheader> <resheader name= "reader" > <value> System.Resou

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