How to extend your gaming laptop’s battery life
Gaming laptops are mostly awesome these days — performance wise, that is. As an example, you can pick up a laptop like the Acer Nitro V 16 for less than $1,000 and know that it’s…
Dominic Bayley
Dominic Bayley
Why Windows shouldn’t fear Valve’s SteamOS threat… for now
The announcement that Lenovo’s second-gen Legion Go S handheld is powered by Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS, the first PC gaming handheld to hold that honor, has started tongues wagging that Microsoft should be very worried about…
How iconic NUC mini-PCs are being reimagined for a new era
More than a year has passed since Asus’ acquisition of the NUC brand from Intel, which marked the first major change the brand had seen since Intel launched it back in 2013. After more than…
Do I need a gaming mouse with a 4K polling rate?
Gaming mice with 4K polling rates became the norm this year. In fact, we saw hardly any mice with 1,000Hz and 2,000Hz polling rates being released — period. These new-generation gaming mice weren’t hard to…
Heck yeah! HyperX gaming mice with custom 3D printable parts
When gaming mice don’t fit your hand or fail to perform as well as you hope, there’s one possible solution to try: personalization! Of course, different gaming mice support different levels of personalization. There’s the…
Creative and TGIF join forces to make a next-level gaming chair
There’s a joke that goes a little something like this: “How do you make a bandstand?” “You take away their chairs!” Standing may be the only option for that unfortunate band, but there’ll be no…
LG’s new 6K monitor supports Thunderbolt 5! But it’s not an OLED
Tech companies usually fall over each other to get the latest and greatest input and output ports into their devices in time for CES, but CES 2025 hasn’t yielded many Thunderbolt 5 devices. One company…
Asus’s new Vivobook laptops put AI and power efficiency first
Asus has fronted CES 2025 in Las Vegas with a strong lineup of Vivobook laptops, once again making its presence known in the lightweight and portable laptop category for creators, gamers, and casual users. The…
Asus’s 2025 Zenbook lineup includes a laptop with 32-hour battery life
We were wowed by laptops in 2024 with two-day battery lives. Now, Asus has gone one better, unveiling the Qualcomm-powered Zenbook A14, which boasts a 32-hour battery life – that’s almost three days of glorious…
Razer’s Project Arielle gaming chair warms and cools your butt year-round
It’s not enough to just expect your gaming chair to keep you cool during hot summer days anymore. No, it should also keep you warm when your bones start frosting over in the winter. If…