Used enterprise workstations are the home lab upgrade everyone overlooks
…to upgrade piecemeal, especially when the systems are this capable for the price. When using this sort of hardware as a virtualization box or even as the base for a NAS, it…
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Cost is a major consideration when it comes to handhelds, and to pretend otherwise would be folly. In the aspect of pricing, Steam Deck OLED continues to decisively pull ahead of the competitors, and there's a special reason for this, which I have talked extensively about in the past. Valve has an ability to sell its handhelds at cost because of a structural advantage that no other handheld manufacturer does. Unlike ASUS or Lenovo, Valve isn't primarily in the hardware business. As a storefront operator collecting a commission on every purchase made through Steam, Valve can afford to price har
3 reasons I still prefer the Steam Deck OLED over Windows 11 gaming handheldsIs there a silver lining?
Right now, we are in a structural shortage that probably won't see relief for a good couple of years. As a result, so much consumer hardware feels like it's vanishing. With budget gaming PCs disappearing, Nvidia's Super Series potentially in jeopardy, and the Steam Machine currently in limbo too. The silver lining of all of this is that this crisis might force a software revolution where developers have to finally stop being lazy with RAM optimization. For now, the hardware we want is sitting on a shelf in a designer's drawer, waiting for the prices to drop to make it accessible for the averag
DRAM prices have tripled, and three products are paying the priceCAMM2 is replacing the RAM stick as we know it, and your next laptop will prove it
…light of the unpredictable PC hardware market we're living in right now. There have been some hopeful signs in the form of slightly lower RAM prices last month, but the AI…
I tested TrueNAS, Unraid, and OpenMediaVault to find the perfect NAS OS, and there's a clear winner
…Look, I’m all for paying developers for their extra effort, especially if it’s something as polished as Unraid. But considering the current PC hardware prices, spending extra money on an…
I stopped reaching for Raspberry Pi when the $60 board hit $95
…So this is not me retreating to a lesser class of hardware. It is me choosing the class that fits the job without dragging a price anchor behind it. My workbench looks…
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Intel's $949 GPU has 32GB of VRAM for local AI, but the software is why Nvidia keeps winning
…watching Nvidia's pricing climb year after year, that probably sounds almost too good to be true. Unfortunately, it kind of is... at least for now. The hardware is real, and there…
FSR 4.1 made older Radeon cards interesting again, but not for the reason AMD wants
…The DRAM crisis has effectively stopped hardware refresh cycles dead in their tracks at the moment, and standalone manufacturers aren't able to ship next-generation devices at sustainable price points. The…
Owning the latest GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD made me realize that software matters more than hardware in 2026
…most hardware, that difference makes the usability gap massive. Related I tested the RX 9070 XT against the RTX 4080 Super, and it's closer than you think Half the price, but…
Your desktop might already support one of the best storage upgrades nobody thinks to try
…P4500, Intel P4600, Samsung PM983, and Micron 9200 series appear for really competitive prices. Data centers refresh their hardware on cycles that have nothing to do with drive health; A U.2…
GPU prices shelved my upgrade plans, so I pushed my 5-year-old GPU to its limits
…After the September-October window, however, GPU prices breached the stratosphere, and all my upgrade dreams were shattered. With another two years (at least) of this hardware crisis on the cards, I…
The Alienware 15 cuts the fluff and doubles down on what actually matters — performance and price
…Such is the case with the Alienware 15, which aims to bring powerful gaming hardware to a wider audience of gamers. However, just because it's aimed at a lower price point…