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iQOO 3 : Worth buying in 2021?

iQOO, for those of you who don’t know, is a subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Vivo, whose Parent company, in-turn is BBK Electronics. The first smartphone that iQOO launched here in India was the iQOO 3 , which quite surprisingly launched at a good price, considering what it came packed with. It was launched at 37K INR. But in a year’s time, the price’s has dropped significantly. It currently retails at 25K on Flipkart . iQOO 3 Shot on iPhone 5s (Blogger compression killed it -_-)  Having got it on Flipkart, I’ve been using the iQOO 3 for about two weeks now and here’s my review of the same.  Performance The iQOO 3’s got 2020’s flagship SoC, Snapdragon 865 . And just like any other flagship chip, this too performs exceptionally well. Day-to-day tasks are child’s play and graphically intensive tasks too are handled really well. For me, who previously used the Redmi 7, with the Snapdragon 632, this feels so much faster. What betters the experience is the 8 Gigabytes of DDR5 RAM...

Apple Mac Pro: ABSOLUTE MONSTER!!!

Till date, you have seen some of the most powerful gaming PCs. But this one's surely going to blow your mind. This is not a blog suggesting anyone buy anything mentioned in the blog. So here are some of Apple Mac Pro's mind-Boggling highlights. 
Note: All these are the highlights of the top-end variant of the Mac Pro.  

Image Courtesy: MacRumors


  • It is powered by a 28 Core 2.5GHz Intel Xeon W, with a turbo boost of 4.4GHz. Massive!
  • This mind-blowing processor is coupled with 1.5 TB DDR4 RAM (12 128GB sticks). Most gaming laptops don't even come with a 1TB of storage, while this is next-level. 
  • The GPU here is a 64GB AMD's Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, which can ease through all kinds of Graphically intensive tasks. 
  • The Storage: It comes 8TB SSD storage, way faster than HDD, with 2*4TB modules.
  • Now, the most important highlight: The Price: The Mac Pro starts at 4,99,900 INR and the top-end variant, the specs of which are mentioned above costs about 50,00,000 INR.
The list goes on and on. These were just some of the main highlights of the Mac Pro. 
This was a short blog, just mentioning some of the key specs of the over-powered Mac Pro and trying to convey how Apple have NAILED it here! 
Hope you liked it :)

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