The New Year is a great time to play a new game, and my first of 2025 is Half Sword — an amazing medieval combat sim that's completely free-to-play right now.
Qualcomm has entered the affordable $600 laptop market with its new 8-core Snapdragon X processor, which should shake up the budget-class Windows laptop space.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-ces2025
Oyster shells are great for composting, and apparently also great for building eco-friendly laptops. Check out Acer's Aspire Vero 16, a carbon-neutral AI PC.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/acer-aspire-vero-oyster-announcement
In a striking move, Dell has decided to rebrand its entire line of PCs and laptops for the era of AI PCs. Here's what that looks like.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/dell-rebrands-pcs-2025-announcement
Hyperkin has announced that it is making a brand new 'Competitor' Xbox controller. It will feature a button layout similar to PS5 DualSense gamepad, Hall Effect joysticks and triggers, and more.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/hyperkin-competitor-controller-xbox-pc-ces-2025
Dell just announced a whopping seven new laptops from its new Dell Pro range of devices. The standout is the Dell Pro 14 Premium, which features a tandem OLED display.
AMD unveiled two new Ryzen 9 X3D desktop CPUs at CES 2025, with the flagship debuting ahead of any other chip on the market in terms of power. It also teased new RDNA 4 desktop GPUs, making it a great time to be a PC gamer.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/cpu-gpu-components/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-ces-announcement
Acer announced a variety of new Copilot+ PCs powered by AMD and Intel chips at CES 2025, but the standout is a mini PC with slick design, lots of ports, and a powerful NPU.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/acer-ces-revo-box-copilot-announcement
Dell just announced it Dell Pro Max 14 and Dell Pro Max 16 at CES. The laptops pair the latest Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processor with powerful graphics and are among the first devices under Dell's new branding.
Dell's rebranding of its PC and other devices is meant to simplify things, but has it created more confusion? These laptops show how Dell's new names can get tricky quickly.