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.
One of the cooler things we saw in person at CES this year is MSI's new GeForce RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z. A flagship GPU like the GeForce RTX 5090 is capable of standing on its own for noteworthiness, but what separates this one from the...Read more...
Forget for a moment that ASUS is already embracing the Wi-Fi 8 standard when the vast majority of consumers have yet to upgrade their home networks to Wi-Fi 7 hardware, let alone Wi-Fi 6E or even Wi-Fi 6. The real story here is the design...Read more...
After coming to a revised royalty rate agreement with the U.S. government, NVIDIA has orders from China for more than 2 million H200 AI chips at around $27,000 each, but will only ship the orders if they are paid in full upfront, Reuters...Read more...
If you had Razer entering the AI workstation market on your 2026 Bingo card, then you're off to a stellar start. Razer, best known for its gaming peripherals, announced the Forge AI Dev Workstation at CES, and it packs some serious...Read more...
Gamers clamoring for a more powerful version of Lenovo's Legion Go handheld with SteamOS instead of Windows will get their wish in a few months. At CES, Lenovo announced it's planning to release a SteamOS edition of its second-generation...Read more...
Why buy a mechanical gaming keyboard and Stream Deck separately when you can have them both in the same package? The easy answer is because an integrated all-in-one solution was never a solution...until now. Announced at CES 2026...Read more...
Lenovo is refreshing its ThinkPad X1 laptops with some exciting new hardware upgrades, not the least of which is the debut of what it calls a Space Frame design to facilitate better cooling and to make swapping out components a lot easier...Read more...
After many years attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one thing we've learned is that not every concept device shown off at the annual event in Las Vegas becomes a shipping product. One that most definitely will, however, is...Read more...
Micron's out at the Consumer Electronics Show shouting, 'You get a Gen5 SSD, you get Gen5 SSD, you get a Gen5 SSD!'. Okay, maybe not quite literally, but it did use the annual tech showcase as a launchpad for its new Micron 3610 NVMe solid...Read more...
There's a whole lot of uncertainty in the consumer DRAM and storage space with AI pushing demand for NAND flash memory chips to unprecedented levels, but one thing is for certain—the accompanying parts are in place for whenever the market...Read more...
It took a minute, but NVIDIA has finally answered the call to deliver a native Linux app for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service (timely too, with recent Steam's survey data showing Linux on the rise for gaming). Same goes for select...Read more...
Samsung is making quick work of deploying Intel's newly launched Core Ultra Series 3 processors, otherwise known as Panther Lake, which underpin its latest generation Galaxy Book6 laptop lineup. Announced at CES, the new Galaxy Book6...Read more...
PNY put the GeForce RTX 50 series on a diet with a new lineup of slim models designed for small form factor (SFF) gaming PCs, or anyone who simply wants a more compact GPU. The new cards span the GeForce RTX 5070, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, and...Read more...
If the mission is to go big or go home, someone tell Dell not to stay up waiting. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Dell unveiled a big and bold 52-inch ultrawide display with a curved IPS Black panel, 6K resolution, and...Read more...
After a yearlong hiatus, Dell's XPS brand is back! Dell announced the return of the iconic brand at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), the same event where it was officially retired last year in an effort to streamline Dell's various...Read more...
HP acquired HyperX from Kingston five years ago in a bid to capitalize on the booming PC gaming and peripherals market, and for the first time since the acquisition, its fusing HyperX with its Omen gaming for a new line of performance...Read more...
Acer is taking advantage of Intel's new Panther Lake processor lineup by injecting the chip maker's latest silicon into refreshed Predator Helios and Nitro V gaming laptops. Paired with NVIDIA's mobile GeForce RTX 50 series discrete GPUs...Read more...
SanDisk is bidding farewell to its WD Black and WD Blue storage brands and replacing them with its new Optimus line, which it has broken down into three performance tiers: Optimus, Optimus GX, and Optimus GX Pro. A bolder design...Read more...
HP is trotting out a bunch of new laptop and desktop designs (among other things) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, one of which is its sleek OmniBook Ultra 14 powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite chip...Read more...
Qualcomm is expanding its latest-generation Snapdragon chip line for Windows laptops with the Snapdragon X2 Plus, and with the new addition comes the promise of a "legendary leap in performance." It slots underneath the existing Snapdragon...Read more...
As is customary at most Consumer Electronic Show (CES) events for a long while now, there is much ballyhooing on the latest TV technologies and product offerings. This year is no exception, and one of the more interesting announcements is...Read more...
After collaborating with Microsoft on the ROG Xbox Ally X and Ally, ASUS is now teaming up with XREAL to launch a pair of AR glasses that seamlessly connects with the handheld with "zero setup" to deliver a massive floating display. The...Read more...