Not everyone wants to run local AI on their own PCs. But if you do, there’s a major problem. Most sophisticated models can’t fit inside the limitations of your PC’s memory and storage. Phison and Intel are working on a solution.
Using Phison’s aiDAPTIV solution, a 26 billion parameter AI model can be run on a laptop with 16GB of RAM, versus the 32GB of RAM it would normally require. That…
Dell’s latest XPS 13 might not have set out to specifically challenge Apple’s MacBook Neo, but it arrives at the right time. Its $599 price for students directly challenges the MacBook Neo’s own $599 price, with either Intel’s latest “Wildcat Lake” or the more…
Alienware (or Dell, to its friends) remains one of the most popular suppliers of OLED gaming monitors out there, and I’m pretty sure it’s because it’s the only major supplier that seems laser-focused on value. But its new flagship OLED, announced at Computex, is going…
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AMD reissues the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a $349 “10th Anniversary Edition” for AM4 on June 25. It also launches the Ryzen 7 7700X3D (8c/16t, 4.5GHz, 120W) at $329 on July 16. AMD globally releases the Radeon RX 9070 GRE (12GB) at $549 on June 1.
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AMD is re-releasing the popular Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a ’10th Anniversary Edition’ for…
A year or two ago, gaming handhelds were the most exciting, fastest-growing segment in the PC market. So exciting that Acer announced a couple of models that I’m not sure ever actually landed at retail. But in 2026, as memory and storage shortages cripple the consumer PC…
It’s been four years and change since Valve shook things up with the Steam Deck. In all that time, nearly every single competitor and alternative handheld gaming PC has used an AMD chip. MSI is the only exception, and even it has an AMD alternate model. At Computex 2026…
Google made headlines a short time ago for a plan to expand its Gemini prompt box as it combines AI and search. Microsoft is taking a different tack: it’s also dynamically expanding its prompt box, but with an eye towards improving its productivity apps instead. Right now, Microsoft’s efforts are traversing the outer reaches of its productivity solar system, being tested internally with a few…
The first surprise came before I even opened a browser tab: The seven-year-old Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 booted faster than the brand-new laptops I tested it against.
That wasn’t supposed to happen. Whenever laptop or chip makers don’t have much to say about how a PC…
Microsoft is following through on a previous announcement with a new optional update for Windows 11 that makes the operating system genuinely faster, especially in certain situations. It’s called update KB5089573 and it includes the “Low Latency Profile”…
The Steam Deck, harbinger of a portable PC gaming revolution, has been out of stock for three months. Now it’s back… at almost double the price of the original model. It’ll cost you $789 USD to get the 512GB OLED version, $949 for the 1TB upgrade. The original LCD model, which debuted at $400, is resigned to the dustbin of history.
Welcome to PC gaming in 2026, where the K-shaped economy has…
