…With shorter length caps, these newer standards can also deliver more power reliably. For instance, the newest USB4 standard can push 240W on hardware supporting the USB-PD 3.1 Extended Power…
…one of Lenovo's lightest at ~2 lbs, Intel Core Ultra or AMD Ryzen AI Pro 400, starting at $1,499. ThinkPad L14 Gen 7 and L16 Gen 3: affordable 14/16…
Jasmine Mannan Apr 12, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…Powerful code editing the way it used to be, with added extensions and AI Coding environments span a spectrum, with hands-on, basic Notepad at one end and hands-off, AI-powered…
…sipping power from the wall The beating heart of my home lab right now is a lunchbox-sized mini PC with ridiculous amounts of power. Inside is the Ryzen AI Max+ 395…
…For instance, most people run a single graphics card on their PC, but if you need to add a second GPU for AI workloads , rendering, or PhysX, the supplementary PCIe power header…
…though, modern local models have become genuinely impressive, and are capable of writing, summarizing, coding, and reasoning on capable hardware, of course. However, at the end of the day, local AI still…
…The state of modern AI development The annoyance of endless hopping My developer setup looked like this: I would fire up VS Code, tinker with custom themes, tweak my keyboard shortcuts, and…
…So, Nvidia isn't really building an AI chip, but more of a complete package. An RTX Spark PC will be a developer box, gaming laptop, local agent platform, and rendering powerhouse…
Jasmine Mannan Apr 20, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…