Windows licenses are expensive—almost painfully so. Shelling out $139 for Windows 11 Home or $200 for Windows 11 Pro feels rough when Linux is free, since that much cash is easily a third of a budget PC build. But with less developer support for Linux, Windows is an inescapable necessity for most of us. What’s not a given is paying full retail.
Whether you’re a Windows 10 Home user or you’ve gotten some refurbished tech, making the jump to Microsoft
Amazon’s Prime Day sale is happening once again on October 10 and 11, and as always, you’ll need to be a Prime member to p
OLED gaming monitors are the new hotness, but at the moment they’re outside of the price range of most PC gamers. Even the cheapest and smallest models edge towards the $1,000 mark and Samsung’s typically inflated sticker prices mean that it’s not really an option if you’re hunting for value. Today, and today only, is the exception: Amazon&rsq
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For the second time this month, Mozilla has to patch a 0-day vulnerability in Firefox that initially seemed to affect only Chrome and its derivatives. The vulnerability CVE-2023-5217 in the libvpx program library is already being used to attack Chrome users. Google released an emergency update for Chrome on September 27 to fix the exploit. The following day,
If there’s any hobby that comes close to PC gaming in terms of obsession (and perhaps flagrant disregard for practicality), it’s sneaker culture. Cooler Master has decided to combine the two, showing off an eye-catching Mini-ITX case and components in the shape of a massive tennis shoe in the halls of Computex. If you’ve been waiting for it to arriv
The new Windows Backup app and the restore process attached to fresh Windows 11 big fall updates confirms feelings I’ve held for a long time: I just can’t stand Microsoft’s approach toward backing up my files in the cloud.
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Ah, Chromebooks. What’s not to love? Rugged, reliable, and largely virus-free, these machines are designed with everyday people in mind. While Chromebooks have a lot to offer to the day-to-day user, traditionally speaking, they’re not the most powerful laptops around… until now.
Today, Google officially announced the release of Chromebook
Let me ask you: When you receive an email with the subject line, “Updates to our privacy policy,” do you open it right away? My guess is the answer is no.
I’ll confess—I don’t always open those messages immediately, either. But when such an email from Patreon hit my inbox recently, I read it instantly. I hadn’t even