The biggest news at Computex is how Snapdragon chips are storming the beaches of the Windows-based PC market, spearheading Microsoft’s huge Copilot+ laptop push. We’ve seen Arm-based PC hardware before, but the designs have improved…
All the cool kids have a Steam Deck-style portable gaming PC these days. (And by “cool kids,” I mean “multi-billion-dollar PC manufacturers.) Zotac is ready to sit at their lunch table with the new Zone,…
We’ve seen customizable systems for mice, keyboards, and other gadgets before, but usually from the likes of WASDKeyboards and ColorWare. Microsoft was the first big supplier to take up the mantle with its Xbox controllers…
When the rumors of the ROG Ally X started coming out, one of the first things they said was that it didn’t replace the Ryzen APU from the original design a year ago. That made…
There are a lot of Steam Deck alternatives out there right now, but MSI’s version is the only one based on Intel hardware instead of AMD or Arm. The original Claw only came out a…
It’s getting pretty hard to find a laptop with a user-accessible SO-DIMM slot to upgrade the memory. And it’s about to get a lot harder. Starting with its upcoming Lunar Lake laptop CPU series, Intel…
Intel’s fastest processors have included hyperthreading, a technique that lets more than one thread run on a single CPU core, for over 20 years — and it’s used by AMD (which calls it “simultaneous multi-threading”)…
If you want to get a deal on Apple hardware, you’re often forced to look for used or refurbished models. But there’s one exception: when new stuff comes out. That’s the time you can find…
If you bought an AM4 motherboard way back in 2016, you might want to sit down for this: You’ll be able to drop a brand new AMD Ryzen 5000 processor into it next month. That’s a…
Here on the Computex show floor, the biggest and boldest players in the PC world are roaming about. Adam managed to lasso Donny Woligroski, AMD’s Senior Technical Marketing Manager, in order to pick his brain…