People everywhere are talking about Apple’s cheaper MacBook Neo laptop. Now Windows is preparing to retake the mainstream laptop market with Project Firefly, inspired by smartphone design.
Firefly aims to deliver characteristics associated with premium laptops like all-metal construction and a clean underside, free of ventilation. Inside sits Intel’s Core Series 3 series, aka “Wildcat…
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PCWorld reports that Valve’s SteamOS is now expanding to Intel-based handhelds, with the MSI Claw becoming the first major Intel device to receive beta support.
Early benchmarks show SteamOS performing slightly behind…
The AI PC era has a benchmarking problem
June 15, 2026
I like numbers. Data feels sure. What could be better than measurable progress, a way of quantifying the world to stop arguments before they start?
But as we all know, people find plenty of reason still to fight about performance, even in spite of PC benchmarks. (Half the…
An under-the-hood change in Windows seems to signal the further deterioration of Microsoft’s Copilot+ branding, which, at least historically, depended solely on NPUs as the engine of local PC AI. Now, PCs with dedicated GPUs will have access to those features.
An experimental release of the Windows App SDK on Github now allows certain AI-specific features to run on Nvidia RTX GPUs, rather than…
For the first time in decades, I wasn’t excited to review a Surface device. Now that I’m finished, I’m still not.
The Surface Laptop 8th Edition (or Surface Laptop 8) for Business has two things going for it: an upgrade to Intel’s excellent Core Ultra 300 series…
Freshly installed and straight into browsing — that’s how most users start their browser. Consequently, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox remain set to their default settings, which prioritize convenience and data collection over privacy or efficiency.
Browsers regularly prompt…
Mullvad VPN review: The ultimate privacy-first VPN
June 12, 2026
Sweden-based Mullvad has long been the privacy purist’s VPN. It collects remarkably little information about its users and continues to prioritize anonymity over the convenience features favored by most competitors.
When I say that Mullvad takes your privacy seriously, I mean it. Unlike other VPNs, Mullvad goes so far as to disconnect your account from an email by auto-generating an account…
With one quick search you’ll find that Google knows a lot about you. Type your name into Google Search and you may be surprised to see your old addresses, phone numbers, forgotten social media profiles, sketchy people-search listings, or other personal information you…
Yesterday, on Patch Tuesday for June, Microsoft released security updates to address 206 vulnerabilities. This is a new record, breaking the previous record of 175 in October 2025. In addition to Windows and Office, both Exchange Server and Microsoft’s cloud services are…
Framework’s Laptop 13 Pro looked and felt fantastic when the company showed it off in April. Unfortunately, a pair of manufacturing issues has delayed first shipments by about a month, pushing delivery out closer to the end of summer.
Problems with the Laptop 13 Pro’s stellar display, one of the things I was most impressed with in our Laptop 13 Pro hands-on time, has pushed the first shipments…
