Category: General Technology

Looking to make that upgrade to a brand-new laptop? If so, you’ve come to the right place. In our never-ending quest to find the best laptops, we’ve scoured the market looking for…

Tests of the microcode used to patch AMD’s recent “Inception” bug don’t appear to seriously affect day-to-day performance on Ryzen processors, including gaming. Creative users who use image editing tools on Ryzen…

The mechanical keyboard craze has never been hotter. But if you’re a newbie, like PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray, all the different choices and modifications might seem a bit intimidating. It’s a good…

Editor’s Note: Adobe has added the Adobe Firefly generative AI art tools to Adobe Express as of August 16, as well as in Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Express is part of most Creative…

4K resolution is going mainstream—even among PC monitors. Delivering a pixel count four times higher than a 1080p display, 4K provides a massive and obvious improvement to image quality. It’s useful not…

The War on Cables rages on. Corsair’s iCue Link system made a splash at Computex, enabling users to daisy-chain fans and all-in-one cooling systems together on a single power and control cable….

Touchscreens seem to be taking over the laptop world, perhaps mirroring their ubiquity in the mobile space and elsewhere. But it’s still hard to find a touchscreen stand-alone monitor, unless you count…

In March 2023, the fist Windows 11 users began complaining about their NVMe SSDs running much slower than before (well, again). The operating system’s Moment 2 update (update KB5023706 specifically) introduced a…

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Lowest price per gigabyte Very good backup of iPhone and iPad Homekit Secure Video Cons Unintuitive interface for sync management No support for Android No general…

Chromebooks aren’t for everyone, but for some folks, they’re a perfect fit. Running Windows isn’t always the right call—its complexity often makes life harder for users easily confused by computers (and the…