…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
…The Combo boards get rid of that constraint altogether. A potential builder can scan the market, see which generation is available (and affordable) and buy accordingly. The flexibility cuts both ways, too…
Rich Edmonds Jun 4, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…In many cases, improving the prompt delivers a bigger payoff than upgrading the model. And that's a lesson that applies no matter which AI tool you use.
…It’s to make a home lab more tolerant of maintenance, mistakes, and ordinary hardware failures. In that context, “good enough to restart elsewhere” is a meaningful upgrade over “everything is down…
…The drivers were a mess, the performance was all but consistent, and hardware reviewers were quick with their verdicts. Two years later, the Battlemage arrived, and the $250 Arc B580 completely changed…
…Every week, the agent would pull current street prices for relevant hardware categories, and alongside it, fetch the latest pricing trends from industry analysts that I manually specified. The skill performs ten…
…The interface is controller-native, power management is tuned for the thermal and battery constraints of the Deck, and the sleep and resume behavior works the way a handheld should. This is…
…The problem, however, is that a lot of those habits just haven't aged with the hardware. SSDs replaced HDDs , internet speeds exploded exponentially, and our operating systems have gotten smarter. The…