It looks like the new floor for laptop prices will be around 700 dollars. And that isn’t going to get you a whole lot of laptop, especially if you want memory for RAM-hungry browser tabs. So if you can’t spare the cash, Acer would like a word: Why not just plug a big screen and a keyboard into the expensive phone you already have in your pocket?
The Acer PM1 system is, at its core, a portable…
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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…
In the new Chrome versions 149.0.7827.53/54 for Windows and macOS, and 149.0.7827.53 for Linux, the developers have fixed more than 400 vulnerabilities, some of which are critical. According to Google, none of the patched vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild…
The MacBook Neo is a revelation, full stop. Apple’s $599 laptop looks, feels, and sounds premium in ways that similarly priced Windows laptops never even tried to match. It’s no surprise that the PC industry scrambled to muster a response, with the initial volley breaking cover at Computex – spearheaded by Dell’s $699 XPS 13, a new notebook that rightfully mopped up in our Best of Computex…
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…
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…
There were quiet cheers when Tali Roth, responsible for core Windows experiences, showed how Windows’ widgets button wouldn’t automatically trigger when the user hovered over them. They grew louder when she showed how Windows Search could produce just the files on a user’s PC and nothing more.
And where did all that applause come from? Not developers. Not customers. Not execs. Just regular…
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…
Corsair’s Warthog is the PC case for Halo fans
June 4, 2026
There are a lot of different ways you can go with a desktop PC build, from disco light show to mini-fridge. One of the less common themes I’ve seen repeated is “military surplus equipment.” That’s the vibe that Corsair is trying to hit with the new Warthog mid-tower…
Ignore the name — you’ll be able to buy Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box as a consumer, Microsoft executives confirmed this week at its Build conference.
In an interview with my colleague Alaina Yee, Andrew Hill, corporate vice president of Surface for Microsoft, confirmed that consumers will be able to buy the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, the mini PC with Nvidia’s latest RTX Spark chip…
