How to turn your laptop into a desktop workstation
The big difference between laptops and desktops is that the latter are, well, big. You need a desk or a table and accessories like a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to use them. But if you…
Michael Crider
Michael Crider
Will’s PC is crashing on Fortnite — let’s fix it!
PCWorld contributor Will Smith loves him some Fortnite. (Don’t hate, it’s a solid online shooter!) But for the last few months, his gaming PC has been crashing soon after he departs for his mid-air bus…
The Full Nerd: Nvidia shows off how AI NPCs can revolutionize gaming
“AI” is the buzzword for just about everything this year. Nvidia is probably the biggest benefactor of the AI trend, but it’s not content to sit on its laurels and sell billions of dollars in…
Oregon outlaws parts pairing in new repair law
Enshrining the rights of consumers and third-party technicians to repair their own devices is a long slog of a legal process, but Oregon just took a big step forward. The state just signed its new…
Get my favorite giant robot game for just $3
In the immortal words of Weird Al Yankovic, “You dig giant robots, I dig giant robots, we dig giant robots, chicks dig giant robots.” With apologies to said chicks for unnecessary specificity, there’s no better…
An ‘AI PC’ needs a Copilot sticker, says Microsoft
This year everything is “AI,” whatever that means. Every new computer, game, software service, and soft-serve ice cream machine is apparently imbued with digital sentience, at least according to its branding. But when it comes…
Feds subpoena YouTube viewers for certain videos
We’ve all made that joke, “Searching for this in Google is gonna get me on an FBI watch list.” But according to a recent report, that might actually be true if you watched some very…
Samsung’s biggest OLED ultrawide monitor is $800 off today
OLED monitors are the cream of the crop when it comes to gaming, and Samsung makes one of the biggest, widest ones out there. The Odyssey OLED G9 is 49 inches of super-saturated, perfect-black glory,…
China restricts Intel, AMD, and Microsoft imports
Economists and politicians love to talk about “the free market” as some kind of capitalist ideal. But when countries start duking it out with policy instead of bombs, trade restrictions are often their first weapon…
Does Windows suck for handheld gaming?
The Steam Deck is a huge hit for PC gamers, and it was inevitable that competition would pop up. Devices like the Asus ROG Ally, the Lenovo Legion Go, and the MSI Claw all try…