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The laptop middle class is vanishing

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld reports that the laptop middle class is disappearing as manufacturers focus on either budget models with limited 8GB RAM or premium options starting around $1,300. Mid-range laptops are becoming scarce while performance models now cost around $2,000, with Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip targeting the high-end market exclusively. Smartphones…
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Computex got weird: A sword PC, a scented case, and a hologram cooler

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld reports on Computex 2026’s most unusual PC innovations, including Corsair’s cyberpunk katana sword PC, Tryx’s hologram-effect AIO cooler, and MSI’s triple-mode OLED monitor. These eye-catching products showcase creativity in PC design, with the sword PC being a one-off showpiece and the cooler using Pepper’s ghost illusion…
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The price of Nvidia RTX Spark PCs is going to hurt

How much will you pay to be on the frontlines of an agentic AI world? I’ve wondered this since Sunday night, when Nvidia unveiled its first-ever consumer processor for PCs at Computex 2026. With 20 CPU cores and 6,144 CUDA graphics cores packed into a single chip, the flagship RTX Spark is no slouch—and the devices sporting one won’t be, either. All of Nvidia’s device partners, which…
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Desktop CPU shipments plunge 20 percent. It may get worse

Desktop PC CPU shipments plunged more than expected during the first quarter of 2026, and darker clouds loom on the horizon. In total, the total number of X86 processors sold into the PC market — mobile, PC, server, IoT — only fell about 6 percent from a year ago, a…
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Firefox’s free email mask service got a massive update

If you don’t know what Firefox Relay is, you should. This free service provided by Mozilla (the developers of the Firefox browser) lets you create free email masks—that is, disposable email addresses that point back to your real email address. The idea is to share these masks when you don’t want to give out your real details. If an email mask is ever flooded with unwanted mail (phishing…
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