According to the latest numbers from Statcounter, Linux-based desktop operating systems have reached a new milestone, sitting at a market share of 5.03 percent in the US. It’s a monumental moment as it’s the first…
PC sales worldwide have steadily grown since late last year. The U.S. PC market, however, has crashed back to earth. IDC’s preliminary numbers for the second quarter of 2025 show flat year-over-year growth of 0…
According to the latest statistics from Statcounter, 47.8 percent of desktop Windows users are now running Windows 11, which means that the operating system has pretty much caught up with its predecessor Windows 10, which…
When it comes to desktop graphics cards, Nvidia rules the roost even while gamers complain of rising prices and lowering value. According to a research firm, Big Green has more than 90 percent of the…
SSDs behave like any other silicon component in your PC: The faster they run, the more heat they typically generate. It’s enough that a small ecosystem of SSD coolers has sprung up. Now, another fanless…
Researcher IDC has unexpectedly concluded that the current administration’s see-sawing tariff plan is going to actually help the PC market grow in 2025. IDC said Wednesday that it now expects that the PC market will…
According to one late 2024 survey conducted by the Game Developer Collective, over half of the game developers surveyed consider the VR market to be stagnant or in decline. Worse still, barely a quarter still…
Qualcomm said Wednesday that it has made strong progress against its goals for Snapdragon PCs, and that its ongoing litigation with Arm had wrapped up. Specifically, according to Circana — which owns the NPD Group…
According to one analyst firm, the combined shipment of desktop and laptop computers in 2024 was 245.3 million units. That’s a big number — a new computer for one out of every thirty or so…
A gloomy new report on the state of the foldable phones market contains one chink of light: Apple is expected to save the day in 2026. Ross Young, a well-known and impressively accurate analyst, published…