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Corsair’s new low-profile keyboard makes me angry

March 18, 2026
Corsair, you’re killing me here. After a good showing at CES, your Stream Deck smashed into a mechanical keyboard proved me wrong: a little screen on a keyboard can make sense. And then you decided to do it again… but worse. In fact, the small LCD on the new Vanguard Air 99 keyboard is exactly why I hate this trend and want it to die. Alright, let’s back up a bit. The Vanguard Air 99 is a…
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Gaming desktop PCs get plastic surgery in the RAM crisis

March 17, 2026
RAM is insanely expensive right now, and it’s likely to get more so in the coming months. In the face of hundreds of dollars needed to outfit memory for a decent gaming system, at least one supplier is turning to an older idea: dummy RAM. It’s the hardware equivalent of…
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Mislabeled Ryzen CPUs spotted in Chuwi and Ninkear laptops

March 17, 2026
Hardware specifications are generally trusted, if only because they’re hard to fake. But a recent batch of budget laptops from brands originating in China may have done just that, swapping in older, less-powerful AMD Ryzen CPUs and allegedly cheating customers. Chuwi and Ninkear have been the target of investigations showing Ryzen 7000 chips swapped for older 5000-series CPUs. According to…
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AI is changing PC graphics. Microsoft wants DirectX ready

March 16, 2026
Games are increasingly being rendered using AI, so Microsoft is bringing AI into the way future graphics chips will render games. Microsoft introduced DirectX Linear Algebra as well as the DirectX Compute Graph Compiler into its DirectX programming interface on Thursday…
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AMD wants you to buy a $2,000 ‘agent PC’ just for AI

March 16, 2026
You already have a laptop or desktop PC, but now AMD thinks you need another one—an “agent PC” to support your main machine. AMD has responded to the growing success of OpenClaw’s AI agents with a new suggestion: customers should buy “agent PCs,” which would take the power of the Ryzen AI Max+ processor (surprise!) and repurpose it to run an agent swarm. AMD’s idea is that you should…
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Acer Swift 16 AI review: An incredible OLED laptop that lasts all day

March 13, 2026
The Acer Swift 16 AI is a 16-inch laptop with Intel’s Panther Lake hardware. Thanks to Panther Lake, this machine is incredible, with high CPU performance, enough GPU performance for PC gaming, and long battery life. Performance is solid even when running on battery power, too — even gaming performance is decent on battery! At a premium $1,899 price point, some of this laptop’s components…
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