My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it’s a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It’s warm, it looks lovely, and it’s impeccably sharp. Also, it’s expensive as hell. I’ve dipped my toe in this world by testing a pre-production version of the upcoming Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, which […]
It’s the world’s worst kept secret that Nvidia is about to announce its own Arm-powered laptop chips at Computex this weekend, and now Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm are all openly teasing the announcement. The Windows and Nvidia GeForce accounts on X both posted “A new era of PC” earlier today, and now Arm has followed […]
I pondered the other day what’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PC lineup, and it looks like we’re about to find out. Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri has just teased “something new is coming for developers,” complete with a mysterious image of what looks like a curved display edge. Davuluri notes that whatever is coming […]
Acer is aiming to take on the MacBook Neo more directly with a new Swift Air 14, a new 14-inch laptop that starts at $699. The laptop will use Intel’s lower-cost Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake” chips – either Core 5 or Core 7 models, both of which are six-core processors. It comes in green, […]
MSI has unveiled a new Claw 8 handheld gaming PC ahead of the Computex 2026 show, and this model swaps out its predecessors’ Intel Lunar Lake mobile chip for a specialized handheld processor. MSI describes the Claw 8 EX AI Plus as being the “world’s first” handheld to contain the recently announced Intel Arc G3 […]
Intel is barely in the handheld gaming PC space – but that might be about to change. After the embarrassment that was the first MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would create custom handheld gaming chips. Today, it’s formally announcing them as the Arc G3 […]
They started at $1,000. Then $700. Then $600 budget machines. Now, Qualcomm says the price of its Arm-based Windows laptops will hit $300 this year. Even though RAMageddon has yet to subside and PC prices keep climbing, the company says it’s built a new budget laptop platform called Snapdragon C – “C” as in “Compute” […]
Microsoft is seemingly undecided on what to do with Copilot and AI on Windows 11, as the AI assistant has just been reverted to its original design.
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