I use this local AI tool to turn boring documents into cool narrations
Ayush Pande May 17, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
Search
People also ask
Is 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 priceTop stories
My mesh Wi-Fi was actually making my internet worse - here's what actually worked
Jasmine Mannan May 21, 2026, 1:30 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…
I ran local LLMs on Intel's cheapest iGPU, and the results were surprisingly decent
Ayush Pande May 31, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
AMD locked FSR 4 behind new GPUs, but older cards can run it anyway
…these improvements behind RDNA 4-class hardware, specifically the RX 9000 series. Officially, RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs just don't have the required AI acceleration blocks to run FSR 4…
Your home network probably has a hidden bottleneck, and Wi-Fi 7 won't fix it
Jasmine Mannan Apr 26, 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…
Anthropic keeps taking features away from Claude Pro, and I'm running out of reasons to defend it
…hardware for completely free, but I know well that the average user doesn't have the hardware, the patience, or honestly the interest to set one up. For most people, "using AI…
The most useful upgrade for my gaming rig wasn’t inside my PC
Jasmine Mannan Mar 23, 2026, 7:30 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…
Don't waste your PC upgrade budget until you've fixed these 3 things first
…Related The best gaming upgrade in 2026 isn't hardware, it's AI upscaling and frame generation DLSS and FSR are improving faster than hardware right now.
Outlook is Microsoft’s neglected masterpiece
…Microsoft has boarded the AI hype, aggressively pushing Copilot into every corner of the mobile and web apps, whether we want it or not. Instead of focusing on fundamental email performance, they…
I still don't trust Nvidia's driver release notes after months of performance issues
…Related An RTX 3070 is living proof that software now matters more than hardware AI upscaling changed GPU aging forever, and the RTX 3070 is proof Nvidia's recent drivers feel like…