Paul is a seasoned geek who cut this teeth on the Commodore 64. When he's not geeking out to tech, he's out riding his Harley and collecting stray cats.
Toshiba's 65-inch C350 series Fire TV is already a budget model in the realm of televisions, but it just got even more affordable with a limited time deal at Best Buy that drops the price down to an ultra-low $249.99. That's as low as we...Read more...
A user on X has posted several images of a reference Intel laptop equipped with a Wildcat Lake processor, and it looks ready to spar with Apple's MacBook Neo, at least from a design language standpoint. Like the MacBook Neo, Intel's...Read more...
Days after a memo surfaced by Microsoft's new boss of Xbox, Asha Sharma, saying that Game Pass "has become too expensive for players," Microsoft has issued a round of price cuts affecting the top subscription tier and also PC Game Pass...Read more...
Hot on the heels of AMD launching its Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, Dell has gone and injected the chip into its Alienware Area-51, becoming the first bulk OEM to bring the flagship chip to market in a prebuilt PC. It's...Read more...
Maingear has redesigned its MG-1 desktop PC and while it appears similar to the variant we reviewed a few years ago, the boutique builders says this amounts to much more than a minor refresh. Instead, the latest generation of the MG-1...Read more...
Nintendo does not really make it a habit to mark down its consoles, but there are still opportunities to catch one on sale. If you are in the market for a Switch 2 console, the best place to buy one right now is Woot, a dedicated deal site that Amazon acquired way back in 2010. The caveat is...Read more...
Try to hide your surprise, but according to Microsoft, Windows 11's built-in security is just fine for most people, negating the need to seek out a third-party antivirus solution. What, you're not actually surprised? Try this one for size...Read more...
Kioxia is rolling out a new solid state drive (SSD) line, the EG7 series, that is its first client solution to feature the company's BiCS Flash generation 8 4-bit-per-cell, quadruple-level cell (QLC) technology, the company announced...Read more...
The MacBook Neo is such a popular item that Apple is sold out of inventory for the month of April. Not without good reason, the MacBook Neo is the most affordable MacBook ever, and while the specifications are not mind blowing, it proving capable for general purpose computing and even some...Read more...
SK hynix has begun mass producing 192GB SOCAMM2 designed for NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin platform that will power agentic AI factories, the company announced. According to SK hynix, its big-capacity memory modules also deliver big...Read more...
Apex Gaming PCs is recalling multiple power supply unit (PSU) models over the absence of warning labels to alert users to electrical shock and electrocution risks. The PSUs lack permanent warning stickers outlining the dangerous nature of...Read more...
A user on Reddit is claiming a massive 20°C temperature drop on an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card simply by removing the stock thermal compound it shipped with and replacing it with a phase change thermal pad based on...Read more...
Building a brand new PC from scratch these days is generally more expensive than it was before AI disrupted the landscape, creating a shortage of key components, and in particular PC DRAM. As such, some users are turning to older...Read more...
It was a safe prediction that the MacBook Neo would be a popular seller, and lest anyone needs more proof that things are panning out for Apple, just head to the company's online store and check out the wait time for new orders. Both the...Read more...
Meta is getting ready to raise the price of both its Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets, as the production costs have "risen significantly," the company announced. Starting on Sunday, April 19, official pricing for the Quest 3s will increase to...Read more...
Retailers are prepping their online storefronts for the upcoming release of AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, and for a brief period, Amazon was even accepting preorders. The caveat? While preorders were still live, Amazon had set the asking price at $999, which is $100 above...Read more...
Amazon is refreshing its least expensive Fire TV Stick dongle with a new model that offers a range of improvements, not the least of which is a farewell bid to the requirement for a power adapter that plugs into your wall. Instead, the...Read more...
Intel fired a return shot at Apple's MacBook Neo with today's launch of its Core Series 3 processors, otherwise known as Wildcat Lake, based on the same Intel 18A process node as Panther Lake. While Intel is not releasing any laptops of...Read more...
Elvis may have left the building never to perform live again, but there is another king that may be returning, according to a leaked image that is making the rounds. That would be AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D, a chip we once declared to be the...Read more...
Good for you if you manage to avoid the temptation to pick up Motorola's Razr Ultra (2025) when it came out last year in hopes that it would eventually fall to a more palatable price. Your patience paid off, as the handset we called a "masterful folding flip phone" in our review is now selling...Read more...
A rash of reports suggest that NVIDIA is getting ready to launch new variants of its GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 mid-range graphics card with 9GB of VRAM, but according to a prominent leaker on X, that is not actually the...Read more...
Would you rather settle for having less DRAM in your PC or less solid state drive (SSD) storage? It's a fair question in today's landscape, and according to Lexar, most gamers are more inclined to skimp on system memory versus skimping on...Read more...