Paul Lilly
Paul is a seasoned geek who was first seduced into the world of computers and technology by the Commodore 64, and through the years he’s courted a number of OSes and platforms from DOS on up to the latest version of Windows. Having joined the HotHardware team in 2011, Paul is now a mainstay of the site covering the news beat and reviews, and resident wiseguy who keeps the mood light. He’s also an experienced freelance technology writer whose work has appeared in a number of online and print publications.
Opinions and content posted by HotHardware contributors are their own.
Recent posts
Are you holding on to an aging wireless router in hopes of stretching out the bang for your bucks? That's admirable—no sense in throwing away and filling up a landfill with electronics that are still useful—but depending on the model, it...
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It was around this time last year when I reviewed Razer's Iskur V2 gaming chair, which I'm still using as my daily rump-rester. At the time, I didn't anticipate that there might be first-party accessories for it, but enter Razer's new...
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Folks, for those who care (like myself), the 18-inch laptop form factor is alive and well. Just ask Lenovo, which is rolling out a beast of a system in its new Legion 9i (18", 10). Designed for both gamers and game developers (as well as...
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Forget about the pricing premium compared to the first-generation model (and even the upgraded OLED variant) or the inflated cost of first-party games, which is ballooning to $80 a pop. Also forget about all of the uncertainty surrounding...
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Intel's Arc Battlemage GPU is going Pro this month. The Santa Clara chip maker confirmed as much in a post on X, though it stopped short of offering up any concrete specifications or other details, such as availability and pricing. All...
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At a time when tariffs and the threat of much higher PC part prices have dominated the discussion, Intel is out here slashing prices on some of its newest desktop processor models based on Arrow Lake. And we're not talking about piddly...
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Is there a worse feeling than securing a preorder for a red-hot gadget that millions are trying to obtain, only for the retailer to turn around a cancel it? Well sure—falling off a cliff or stepping on a LEGO block with your bare foot both...
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AMD just delivered its biggest Q1 earnings in the history of the company, with revenue increasing 36% year-over-year to $7.44 billion. Even more impressive, AMD's net income tallied $709 billion, for an impressive 47% sequential gain and a...
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Turns out that recent leaks suggesting that new Surface hardware was on the horizon were right on the money. How so? Microsoft today unveiled a couple of new Surface models, including the Surface Pro, 12-inch and Surface Laptop, 13-inch...
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On paper, the launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 family brought the price of Blackwell to below $500. In practice, the GPU situation is what it is—'frustrating', if summing it up in a single word—but there is reason to be a bit...
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Roku has been catching heat for its decision to inject ads over HDMI to TVs and other streaming clients when a user presses the pause button, an unpopular (among its users) feature that began rolling out recently. Adding insult to injury...
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Spring as sprung and you know what that means, right? It's riding season, so do us bikers a solid and watch out for motorcyclists while puttering about the roadways. One that you're not likely to miss, should you encounter it during your...
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Well, here is something you don't see every day—ASUS has unveiled a compact gaming PC that mates a mobile Intel Core i7 or Core i5 processor based on Raptor Lake with a full-fledged desktop graphics card based on NVIDIA's latest-generation...
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Chip smugglers have reportedly found all kinds of creative ways to sneak semiconductors into China, such as hiding them with live lobsters, inside fake baby bumps, and other means designed to evade customs and, more broadly, import and...
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Amazon recently announced that it's next official Prime Day sales event will take place sometime in July. That's only two quick months away, but if you don't want to wait and are in the market for an Apple iPad tablet right now, we have...
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Microsoft surprised the console community when, just a few days ago, it announced a round of significant price hikes to its Xbox hardware lineup, including new MSRPs for its aging Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S systems ranging from $80 to...
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Butter. Corn on the cob. Potatoes. White wine. These are all things that pair nicely with lobster. But chips? Not so much, though when it comes to the non-edible variety (you know, semiconductors), there's a report claiming that smugglers...
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G.Skill continues to push out higher capacity and faster DDR5 memory kits at a frenetic pace. It's latest offering, which is announced but not yet available at retail, is a large capacity 128GB memory kit comprised of two 64GB modules...
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Without a doubt, Grand Theft Auto VI is one of the most anticipated games of all time, despite Rockstar Games having (so far) only released a single trailer. A trailer that recently crossed 250 million views and 1 million comments, that...
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These are some wild times we living in. Nintendo is pushing the price of first-party games to $80 with the release of its Switch 2 console, Microsoft is jacking up prices of all Xbox hardware (up to $100) and also following suit with...
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It's widely anticipated that AMD's next graphics card launch will be the Radeon RX 9060 XT. If the rumors are accurate, the mainstream SKU will offer a more affordable entry into RDNA 4 territory and flesh out a lineup that currently consists of the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070. The...
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There aren't any major triple-A games releasing this week that we are aware of (soon, though), but there is a new 'Game Ready' driver release by the folks at NVIDIA all the same. It's version 576.28, it's WHQL-certified, and it's yet...
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