Long ago, Black Friday was a single day of shopping excess. People woke up early the day after Thanksgiving, headed to malls, and fought over deeply discounted sweaters, coffee makers, and TVs. If you looked hard, you could find amazing deep discounts amid piles of questionable “bargains.” A while later online retailers cooked up Cyber […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/402850/black-friday-everything-you-need-to-know.html
Wait long enough, and a newer, faster CPU always comes along. That’s fact. And the alleged benchmark leaks for Intel’s upcoming Alder Lake processors only seem to back that truism. But when it comes to Intel’s new hybrid processors, which marry “big” performance cores with smaller “efficiency” cores, you should be waiting for more information […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/540270/yes-you-should-wait-for-alder-lake-but-not-because-of-the-leaks.
Windows 11 has finally been released to the public, and you can download it right away, if you’d like! Here’s how to get Windows 11, a free upgrade for your Windows 10 PC. Downloading the official final version of Windows 11 is very much like downloading the original Windows 11 beta, but there’s an additional […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/542194/how-to-upgrade-to-windows-11.html
If you’re like most people, you didn’t think about whether your computer had a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) until Microsoft made it part of its system requirements to run Windows 11. Now that Windows 11 has arrived, it’s a vital piece of whether or not you’ll even be able to upgrade. We’ll explain what a […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/394765/what-is-a-tpm-where-do-i-find-it-and-turn-it-on.html
Nearly everyone knows traditional routers—they’ve been around forever at this point. You need just one to manage the internet connection provided through your modem. For some folks, this may be the combination modem/router (also known as a “gateway”) provided by your service provider. Mesh routers came on the scene around 2015, and with them came […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/539680/mesh-wi-fi-vs-traditional-router-which-ones-best-for-your-home.html
The Acer Predator Triton 500 SE is a gaming laptop that doesn’t just want to be a gaming laptop. Instead, it falls into a burgeoning category of more work-friendly gaming rigs, joining the likes of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G15, Gigabyte Aero 17, and Dell XPS 17 9710 in toning down its wild side. There are […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/541771/acer-predator-triton-500-se-review-a-gaming-laptop-thats-safe-for-work.html
If you’ve been itching to build a new PC, we’ve found a “starter kit” at a good price that should make things a bit easier. Today only, Amazon is throwing a deep sale on PC components from Intel, AMD, MSI, Corsair, and more. The deals end just before midnight Pacific time on Tuesday evening. Here […] https://www.pcworld.com/article/543868/get-a-desktop-pc-starter-kit-for-under-500-with-this-one-day-sale.html
Falling prices for multi-gig (2.5/5/10GbE) equipment make upgrading your network to a faster standard very affordable. https://www.techhive.com/article/3564821/how-to-make-your-home-network-faster.html#tk.rss_all
I’ve reviewed a lot of Aukey products, but never had the chance to test out one of the company’s power stations. So a few months ago, I reached out to the Aukey team and asked to check out the $250 PowerTitan 300.This power station offers enough ports to connect and power almost anything you can think of, and it’s not terribly expensive. Additionally, Aukey sells a 100W solar panel kit that you can use to charge the PowerTitan or small devices, like your phone or tablet, when you have a clear
PNY’s new LX3030 NVMe SSD isn’t for everyone. It’s marketed directly at Chia cryptocurrency plotting, a very high-bandwidth sustained write task. If you want some info on how much data Chia requires, you can find it here. But if your workload involves something similar, such as continuous large-scale backup, video encoding, or anything else that involves writing lots and lots of data, it might also be of interest.Why? The LX3030 is the fastest PCIe 3.0-based sustained writer we’ve tested and