…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…
…It's an OS that's designed to be everything for everyone , yet it feels like it's optimized for no one . Out-of-the-box optimization has never been the platform…
Jasmine Mannan May 19, 2026, 7:00 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…
…A lifelong tech enthusiast who has built three gaming and productivity powerhouse PCs since 2018, his passion for technology keeps him closely following the semiconductor industry, from NVIDIA and AMD to ARM…
…The RTX Spark is optimized for Windows and several specific apps, including Adobe, Copilot, Epic, and more. The laptop will release this fall, but pricing hasn't been confirmed yet. Following months…
…As such, you might often end up buying a USB dongle for Wi-Fi and perhaps another one for Bluetooth, much like I did when I built my first PC years ago…
…PC optimizers are the same trick in a bigger wrapper. Most of them are a registry cleaner, a temp-file deleter, and a startup manager bolted together, sold with a professional looking…
…The operating system with the highest desktop footprint inherently dictates development priorities, which means that all PC gaming, from competitive shooters to narrative-driven single-player titles will always be optimized for…
…cure-all for poorly optimized games , Auto Shader Compilation still feels like a step in the right direction, thanks to its quiet clean up of one of PC gaming's most persistent…
Rich Edmonds May 20, 2026, 8:03 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…
