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I used the Dell XPS 16, and it's a mixed bag
…minutes on older hardware with the same amount of cores. Dell’s cooling appears to hold out better than a smaller laptop like the MSI Prestige Flip 14 AI+ though, as the…
I turned a Raspberry Pi 5 into a real SSD-powered PC for less than $200
…The AI-fueled RAM and storage crisis is making consumer hardware painfully expensive. In addition to the above, you will need a mouse, keyboard, and a monitor -- otherwise you will have to…
This Asus gaming laptop isn't what gamers need
…budget workstation for creative and AI workloads. Foundry / Matthew Smith PCMark 10 is a holistic system benchmark that stresses most elements of a laptop’s hardware. It tends to reward well-balanced…
Is that security alert a scam? How to tell the real from fake
…Fraudsters use AI assistance to forge emails that look deceptively real, but they almost always fail on these three points: The golden rule: If you receive a warning, close the email first…
The best PC webcam doesn't have to bust your wallet
…Windows Studio Effects uses the AI capabilities within a Copilot+ PC to blur your background, provide audio filtering, and provide a facsimile of eye contact, even if you aren't looking directly…
Computex got weird: A sword PC, a scented case, and a hologram cooler
…This article is not about the best PC hardware of Computex 2026 -- hit the link for that. This is a celebration of the glorious over-the-top PC gear you can only…
20 free Windows apps that fix the most annoying parts of your PC
…This app is super capable at editing PDFs, whether through annotations or direct file editing. It works with text, images, and graphics. It can merge PDFs together. It can convert PDFs into…
This Lenovo laptop does a lot right, but the graphics fall short
…There are some outliers, however, and those outliers often use Intel or Qualcomm hardware. The MSI Prestige Flip 14 AI+, for example, has an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H and exceeded 30…
This Lenovo laptop is better than it looks
…Most budget laptops with Qualcomm hardware are still using the older Snapdragon X chip. Model number: 15Q8Y11 CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus X2P-42-100 Memory: 16GB LPDDR5X-9523 Graphics/GPU: Qualcomm…