If you want to anger a PC hardware nerd, just use the incorrect nomenclature when referring to the clock–err–transfer rate of a computer’s RAM subsystem. Example: If a PC has 32GB of DDR5/4800 and you…
MacBook buyers still fuming from Apple’s decision to sell expensive laptops with just 8GB of RAM wish they had what Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P1 has: The ability to offer fast and power efficient RAM that…
I find it really hard to recommend any Windows-powered machine these days with less than 16GB of memory. Windows 11, not to mention essentials like Chrome and other browsers, just chug on anything less. So…
Windows is getting pretty heavy in terms of memory, to say nothing of frequently-used applications like Chrome. That’s why it’s hard for us to recommend any new Windows machine, even a deal, with just 8GB…
Determining the specs for a new laptop (or a laptop upgrade) can be a delicate balancing act. You want to spend enough so you won’t be miserable in the future, but not so much that…
Microsoft’s Surface series has become something of the standard-bearer for Windows laptops…and boy, don’t they know it. While the hardware is generally well-received, its pricing is not, running a few hundred bucks above even the…
Is your Mac running painfully slowly? Has an application just hung? Did you see a “Your system has run out of application memory” message or the dreaded spinning beach ball? All of these can be…
The DDR5 memory standard, which was officially finalized in July 2020 with AMD Ryzen 7000 (“Raphael”) and Intel Core 13000 (“Alder Lake”), only really started to slowly replace its DDR4 predecessor in the desktop over…
When it comes to PCs, it’s important to know a thing or two about the hardware inside of them. Along with the CPU and GPU, RAM is one of the essential hardware components of any…