It’s been a long time since Windows 11 last received optional updates with new features included. As usual, the developers at Microsoft took a well-deserved break over the holiday season. But now that we’re in 2025, W
Ten years ago PC gamers were eagerly awaiting Steam Machines, console-style Linux boxes built from the ground up to play PC games. They flopped, due in no small part to Steam operator Valve’s lack of experience working with hardw
The recent release of Firefox 134 brings several improvements to the browser, including better video playback on Windows and better support for touchpads on Linux, as well as fixes to several security flaws. Firefox ESR and Tor Browser have also received security updates.
Asus just completely sold me on mobile GPUs by dropping the world’s first eGPU and dock with Thunderbolt 5 connectivity at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. Spoiler alert: It’s ripped with power and stacked with ports.
The Asus ROG XG Mobile (2025), which looks a bit like a mini PC, can harn
Tech companies usually fall over each other to get the latest and greatest input and output ports into their devices in time for CES, but CES 2025 hasn’t yielded many Thunderbolt 5 devices.
One company that has taken the leap, however, is LG, who showed off the LG UltraFine 6K display with Thunderbolt 5 ports in Las Vegas this week. The LG UltraFine 6K is a
The Steam Deck has been the biggest PC gaming hardware story of the last few years. So it’s no surprise that the idea of running SteamOS (perhaps the most celebrated component of that machine) on other handhelds like the Legion Go S is also a b
There’s a joke that goes a little something like this:
“How do you make a bandstand?”
“You take away their chairs!”
Standing may be the only option for that unfortunate band, but there’ll be no standing for gamers that want to lap up every detail in the soundscapes of their favorite games now thanks to a partnership between Creative Te
Around Christmas time, Ventiva launched its Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE), the latest in what has been an unexpectedly disappointing industry of fanless cooling solutions for laptops. But with Ventiva, there’s a key difference: It has a customer.
Ventiva, Intel, and Dell have collaborated on a proof-of-concept laptop that the company is showing off here at the
How fast do you need your PC’s storage to be? If the answer is always “faster” (even if you don’t actually need that speed for gaming), you might want to check out Crucial’s latest PCIE 5 drive. The P510 that just debuted at CES is claiming read speeds of up to 11,000 megabytes per second, with 9,550 on the write side of things.
That’s incredibly fast, but