EXCELLENCE

If you read TechLife regularly over the last few months, 2021 is the year that Facebook had so many front page scandals it had to change its name. It was also the year many of us had to Google the word fungible and then follow up with why on earth non-fungibility was so expensive. It was the year of the metaverse and it was the year of sold-out tech equipment thanks to an ongoing global chip shortage. It was the year Facebook and Google threatened to drop the Australian market rather than pay for local news content. Despite all the hurdles of a seemingly endless pandemic and the other complications thrown at it throughout the year, the PC space still managed to have a cracker of a year. Apple designed a battery powered laptop CPU that was more powerful than any consumer desktop processor put out by Intel or AMD. Windows soft-launched a new OS that wasn’t a complete flop and GPUs and monitors really started working together to deliver HDR games and media.