The unpredictable chaos of the Trump administration’s tariff whims put modular laptop maker Framework through a gauntlet this week, who removed its lowest-cost designs and delayed the scheduled pre-order of the new and affordable Laptop…
Damn! Damn, damn, damn. Just a few weeks ago, I lost my resolve and finally picked up an OLED gaming monitor—so I missed out on this deal, which would have gotten me a much bigger…
I might grouse and moan about Windows 11 at every opportunity, but I have to admit that Windows Hello (which was introduced with Windows 10—oops, there I go again) is great. It brings that near-instant…
Valve was working on the Steam Deck for a long time, pouring its successes and failures from the Steam Machines, Steam Controller, and Steam Link into one portable device. We know this because Valve showed…
Keyboards are kinda my thing. I review them, I build them, I occasionally even use them to type up computer news. And I was very impressed by 8BitDo’s first attempt at a mechanical keyboard. Even…
As someone who’s used a lot of gaming keyboards, I can tell you that the worst aspect of PC gaming accessories is often the software. Having to run an extra RAM-sucking program in the background…
Framework announced a bunch of stuff last month: powerful AMD upgrades for its bread-and-butter Laptop 13 design, its first modular desktop, and a brand new, smaller, more affordable model, the Laptop 12. This 2-in-1 with a…
As the economy reels from President Trump’s punishing import taxes on China—now reaching a staggering 104 percent—sectors of the tech industry are bracing for even more pain. Trump threatened TSMC, the world’s most prolific silicon…
It’s hard to find a good laptop for under $500 these days, at least if you want one that can run Windows 11 and Chrome at the same time without choking. If you’re on a…
I’ve gone on the record before as being in favor of graphics cards themed after—if not necessarily covered in—anime waifus, to say nothing of motherboards themed after delightful cartoon cats. We deserve variety in our…