Last week I spent a few days watching the Asus and Best Buy websites like a hawk, waiting for that slinky little Zenbook A14 to start shipping. It’s a really cool, lightweight laptop with battery life for days, literally. But it has one design problem that I see all too often on otherwise good laptops: The USB-C ports are only on one side.
This sucks. Allow me to use several hundred words to…
The latest version of Firefox for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android brings a number of improvements to privacy protection, the built-in PDF viewer/editor, and the VPN feature, plus fixes for over 30 security vulnerabilities. Updates are also available for the ESR…
Samsung makes a darn good monitor, though it tends to make you pay for the privilege. The company was also at the forefront of the gaming OLED space, though again, it’s far from anything approaching “affordable” territory unless you find one on sale. That trend…
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PCWorld reports on the ZeroWriter Fold, a specialized laptop designed exclusively for distraction-free writing with an e-ink screen and mechanical keyboard.
Designer Adam Wilk emphasizes affordability and reliability, creating an “instant-on” device without typical computer bloat or AI features.
The device represents an evolution from the…
We’ve all been in this situation: You know what you want to say, but you’re too mentally exhausted, distracted, or confused to actually say it. Google’s new conversational AI, Docs Live, wants to help.
The metaphor Google is using here is a “brain dump,” and Google…
One of the unsung productivity heroes of your laptop is the humble utility app. It’s the piece of software your laptop manufacturer installs to manage and customize your device.
At its best, it’s a fascinating, nerdy collection of tools and features–things you never…
It sucks when a failing battery or a slow PC lets you down at crucial moments—and Windows 11 in particular has repeatedly struggled with such issues. Microsoft now officially acknowledges that these problems appear to be linked to faulty drivers.
As reported by Windows Latest, Microsoft has addressed this long-standing issue. At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2026, the…
You might be inclined to blame insufficient graphics performance for a Windows system’s failure to hit its limit during gaming. But often it’s memory and file access that slow things down. This is precisely where a so-called “dev drive” can help. This refers to a…
Buying a new TV and a new streaming device used to be separate decisions, as televisions didn’t always come with adequate smart TV software.
These days, though, it’s virtually impossible to buy a television that isn’t a smart TV, with Roku, Fire TV, or other streaming…
How much should a gaming laptop cost? The answer is—depressing and unhelpful as always—”it depends.” If you insist on an Alienware logo on the top and you’re looking at the Dell shop today, then the answer starts at a hefty $1,299. That gets you a relatively recent CPU… and an RTX 4050 graphics card from 2023.
The Alienware 15 is ostensibly what’s replacing the Dell G series of…
