The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 and AMD Radeon RX 6800 lay at what can be considered the sweet spot in gaming performance: good thermals, great performance, and theoretically decent pricing. With recent MSRP and street pricing raging out of control, are they still attractive choices? Which is the best graphics card for you? Let’s look at their […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/544303/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-vs-amd-radeon-rx-6800-which-gpu-should-you-buy.html
This is our first look at an NVMe SSD from Corsair. In fact, it’s our first look at any sort of Corsair SSD in over seven years. And apparently we’ve been missing out, because the Corsair MP600 Pro XT is an absolute barn-burner. This PCIe 4.0 SSD hangs with and sometimes bests the fastest drives […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/544102/corsair-mp600-pro-xt-nvme-ssd-review-top-dog-performance-wet-or-dry.html
The Kindle is the undisputed leader in e-readers, and Amazon makes several models. Knowing which Kindle to buy depends on your budget and your reading preferences. With this guide and our in-depth reviews, we’ll help you find just the right Kindle for you or your lucky loved one. Alert: If you’re a longtime Kindle reader, […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/407402/the-best-kindle.html
Users of Google’s Chrome OS have been waiting years — and years, and years, Adobe — for the industry-standard Photoshop image editing tool to become available to them. Today that wait is finally over. Sort of. Adobe announced that subscribers to its Creative Cloud service now have access to a web-based version of Photoshop, which […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/547474/adobe-photoshop-is-finally-available-on-the-web-and-on-chromebooks.html
Switching to a solid-state drive is the best upgrade you can make for your PC. These wondrous devices speed up boot times, improve the responsiveness of your programs and games, and generally makes your computer feel fast. But not all solid-state drives are the same. You can find top-notch SSDs that offer solid performance at […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/407542/best-ssds.html
It’s fantastic that free and open source productivity suites exist, but let’s be honest—most can’t hold a candle to Microsoft Office. And today, you can save a little money on a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription at Amazon. The online retailer is offering a single year of Microsoft 365 Personal for $59. That’s $11 off the […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/547458/get-personal-microsoft-personal-for-59-today.html
Anyone who needs super speedy external storage at a reasonable price can fulfill their dreams at Amazon today. The online retailer is selling the 2TB WD My Passport SSD for $230, down from the usual $260 to $270. If you want awesome storage with a good capacity this is the drive you want. We reviewed […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/547452/grab-an-excellent-2tb-wd-external-ssd-for-just-230.html
Our pick for the best Kindle just got an overhaul. The Kindle Paperwhite now sports a larger screen, faster hardware, longer battery life, and the addition of an amber tone for the front light as new standout features, and that’s just the headliners. (Fans of the USB-C connector can rest easy at last.) But the […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/547219/kindle-paperwhite-2021-vs-kindle-paperwhite-2018.html
VPN Unlimited in brief: Number of country locations: 58 Cost: $60 (annual) VPN protocol: IKEv2/WireGuard Data encryption: AES-256/ChaCha20 Data authentication: SHA-256/Poly1305 Handshake: MODP-2048/Noise Protocol (IK Pattern) KeepSolid’s VPN Unlimited hasn’t changed much since we last looked at it (though it does have WireGuard now), but what’s changed is everything around it. KeepSolid still wants to […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/403522/vpn-unlimited-for-windows-10
Razer updated its Razer Book productivity laptop for the fall and the launch of Windows 11, and we were eager to see if anything had materially changed. To some extent, performance was slightly affected. But the strengths — and flaws — of the Razer Book remain largely identical to our review of a similar model […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/544572/razer-book-late-2021-review.html