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Best streaming devices: Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku, or Google TV?

September 29, 2025
Nope, you don’t have to settle for the streaming apps on your smart TV. If you’re looking for a better video-streaming experience, you can scoop up a streaming player from the likes of Apple, Amazon, Roku, Google, and others. Just plug the player into TV’s HDMI port, and you’ll be able to use apps like Netflix and Hulu, possibly with a faster and smoother experience than your TV’s…
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You should know how to recover your Windows account. Do you?

September 26, 2025
Have you ever thought about what you’d do if you ever forgot or lost your Windows password? (That is, besides cursing fate.) In the old days, you could usually get back into the PC through other methods. The process could be time-consuming, but it usually worked. But now you could end up stuck. Why? Most people use a Microsoft account to log into Windows. You can’t circumvent this login…
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I ditched my laptop for a mini PC and couldn’t be happier

September 24, 2025
Sometime after my social feeds started to fill up with ads for mini-PCs, I realized that there’s a silent revolution going on in desktop PCs. Welcome to the era of the mini-PC, where you can do all your computing from a PC smaller than a box of Pop-Tarts and much cheaper…
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Tiny new YTX motherboard format trims the fat, adds M.2 slots

September 24, 2025
Motherboards come in various standard sizes, but for most of us, the choice boils down to ATX, micro-ATX, and mini-ITX, from largest to smallest. But that’s mostly variations on how many PCIE cards it can hold. There’s now a new standard that swaps a few things around, assuming you only want a graphics card and maybe fewer RAM DIMMs, traded for more M.2 storage options. It’s called…
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Firm predicts wildly optimistic view of 2025 PC gaming, then an exodus

September 22, 2025
The gaming PC ecosystem should benefit greatly from the forced transition to Windows 11, an analyst firm wrote Friday, with a 35 percent increase in hardware sales alone during 2025. But there are clouds on the horizon: Over the next five years, millions will leave PC gaming entirely. Jon Peddie Research, which has followed the PC graphics market for decades, issued the incredibly optimistic…
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