Paul Lilly
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Now that the next-gen wireless dust has settled, it is no longer cost prohibitive to step into Wi-Fi 7 territory. Sure, there are premium models that cost a pretty penny, but as the holiday shopping season gets underway with early deals...
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We're still waiting for Intel to formally introduce its next-generation Nova Lake-S lineup, which is rumored to crash the desktop party with up to 28 cores initially before eventually culminating in a 52-core monster gaming CPU with gobs...
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This is the season of savings and rather than wait for Black Friday, Best Buy is hosting an "Early Black Friday Deals and Doorbusters" sales event this weekend. There are all kinds of markdowns across the retailer's vast selection of...
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As the cost of GPUs, memory, and storage keeps going up, PC enthusiasts could be forgiven for calling the current hardware market highway robbery. But in California, the expression took a more literal turn after thieves made off with half...
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Who says you should go big or go home? Not ASUS, which has unveiled a pint-sized graphics box for gamers and creators who want to flex more GPU muscle without lugging around a full-size desktop PC. This isn't the 1990s anymore and LAN...
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Nothing can ruin a house party quite like a portable speaker igniting into a fiery blaze. Such is the risk that lithium-ion batteries sometimes face, and it's the reason why Bose has issued a voluntary, massive recall affecting more than...
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Given the lingering shortage of memory and storage components combined with rising supply-side costs, it's fair to wonder if Nintendo will end up issuing a second round of price hikes for its popular Switch 2 console. As much as we'd like to
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Shopping for tech stopped being fun the moment widespread component shortages drove up pricing on memory, storage, and every product that relies on those crucial components. While no relief is in sight—the memory shortage is expected to...
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Watch out Samsung and move over Apple, because Motorola is coming out swinging with its new Signature 27 (first revealed in September), a premium Android smartphone that makes a serious play for flagship supremacy. Or in Motorola's own...
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Apple is anticipating even higher demand for its MacBook Neo next year and has told its suppliers to prepare for 16 million shipments, Digitimes reports. To put it into context, it's estimated that Apple shipped just shy of 8 million...
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Time is money, and Best Buy is making a compelling case for a high-end smartwatch. As part of its deal of the day promotion, the retailer is slashing $250 off select Apple Watch Ultra Series 3 models, making the last-gen flagship more...
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It's hard to believe that after years of waiting and amid all the hype, Grand Theft Auto VI is now only just two weeks away from releasing to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. Those who preorder a copy will have the opportunity...
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AMD is on the verge of surpassing Intel in quarterly revenue for the first time in its history, a milestone that once seemed almost unthinkable. It hasn't happened yet, but following a monster third quarter in which AMD's data center...
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If you thought the punishing price increases on PC components, smartphones, and consumer hardware in general would ease up anytime soon, prepare for another gut punch. As bad as it has been, the worst is yet to come, which is starting to...
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If you remember Project Larrabee, don't forget to take ibuprofen for your sore back and aching joints (a reminder for myself as much as anyone else). Project Larrabee was actually an earlier attempt by Intel to challenge AMD, which was...
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Hey, you there, the one with a PlayStation 5 console collecting dust in your entertainment center. Sony would like a word with you. As the highly-anticipated launch of Grand Theft Auto VI is now just a couple of weeks away, Sony is...
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Over the weekend, we highlighted a deal on Woot (owned by Amazon) whereby you can score a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 console for $469, which is $30 below the revised MSRP following Nintendo's price hike earlier this year. That deal is...
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In this week's episode of 'How the GPU World Turns', NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 from two generations ago picked itself up by the bootstraps and retook the top spot on Steam, one month after having conceded the position to the...
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Well, that didn't take long. Just a few days after rumors suggested NVIDIA was preparing to launch a GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card with 24GB of GDDR7 memory by January 2027, a new report is throwing cold water on that timeline. The...
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It's the first day of November, and that means retailers will begin ramping up their holiday sales pitches as we get closer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In recent years, the November-December period (and into January, really) has...
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Forget the bags of M&M's and fun-size chocolate bars, because Walmart is handing out a much sweeter treat this Halloween. The retailer has taken a monstrous $700 bite out of HP's HyperX Omen 15 gaming laptop, making it one of the more...
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If Apple's newly announced MacBook Pro could talk, it would probably channel its inner Ron Burgundy and say, "I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important." And it wouldn't be wrong—as the...
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