Desktop machines might take home the prize in absolute raw power, but most users are still going with laptops for practicality and ease of use. So the new 12th-gen “Alder Lake” Intel processors, now freshly available in portable form, are a welcome upgrade for those who need their premium processing in a to-go package.
PCWorld’s Gordon Ung took care of our usual exhaustive review of the new generation of Alder Lake chips, starting with the absolute top-of-the-line Core i9
Microsoft said Tuesday that about 1.4 billion users use either Windows 10 or Windows 11 every month, providing a “powerful on-ramp” for the company’s own services.
“Three months in, and we are delighted by the response to Windows 11,” Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said during the company’s calendar fourth-quarter 2021 earnings call with analysts. Microsoft reported that revenue for Windows OEM licenses shot up a substantial 25 percent compared t
Intel must be fans of Netflix’s Cobra Kai because it’s taken the mantra of “strike hard, strike first” to heart with its 12th-gen “Alder Lake H” laptop CPUs. And yes, there’s no mercy either, because the 12th-gen Core i9-12900HK leaves the floor covered with the bodies of both its direct predecessor and AMD’s rival Ryzen 9.
If this is a little too 1980s throwback for you, then maybe the simple math of “14 is more than 8” is more me
It’s a good day to rock out in style for a little bit less. Amazon is selling the Beats Studio3 over-the-ear headphones for just $175, which is down from around $200. These cans are also just $5 above the all-time low at the current price. The deal ends just before midnight on Tuesday evening, Pacific time.
The Beats Studio3 over-the-ear headphones feature active noise cancelling (ANC) and Apple promises up to 22 hours of listening time with this feature on. There’s also a quic
Amazon’s on a roll today with its slew of one-day sales. We’ve already seen a deal on Beats headphones and there’s a bunch of discounts on external storage. Well, Amazon strikes again with this one-day sale on Eufy security gear. It ends just before midnight on Tuesday evening (PST), though, so you’ll want to act fast. Here are our top picks from the sale.
First up, the Eufy Security SoloCam E40 for $90. That’s down from $125 to $130 and an all-time low. We gav
At a glanceExpert’s Rating Pros$199 price pointGood 1080p gaming performance at Medium/High settingsVery power efficient and coolWhisper quietTrixx Boost software feature speeds up performanceModern features like ray tracing and AMD Smart Access Memory4GB memory buffer can’t be used for Ethereum mining, hopefully reducing cryptocurrency demandConsWill $199 price point stick on the streets?Limited PCIe lanes reduce performance on older PCIe 3.0 systemsUnorthodox memory configuration
You hear the terms all the time. Artificial intelligence. Neural networks. Machine learning. But even as a tech savvy consumer who might understand what those terms mean, does that mean you actually understand how a computer thinks for itself? Or how to craft an algorithm? Or what decision trees do?
There’s smart – and then there’s rubber-meets-the-road smart. If you’ve got the world’s greatest app idea, maybe it’s time to learn enough about compute
AT&T said Monday that it’s rolling out multi-gigabit fiber to consumers across 70 cities, and simplifying the company’s existing metro pricing to boot.
Customers in parts of Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles now have the option to choose symmetrical 2Gbps or 5Gbps fiber, the company said Monday. (Symmetrical plans mean that customers receive the same speed both for downloading and uploading data.) AT&T is currently working to upgrade existing fiber customers to those plans throug
Have you finally reached the point where you can’t do without Windows 11? No problem—getting your hands on Microsoft’s latest operating system is straightforward.
You can obtain it one of three ways: waiting for Windows 10 to push it to you, triggering the download using an application, or creating installation media. We walk you through each method below.
However, before getting started, we advise first verifying that your PC is compatible with Windows 11. It can
One of the most important things you can do to protect your data is to create a backup. However, once you’ve done that, you should also consider protecting your hardware in the event of a power surge. Right now, you can do that for a little bit less with Amazon’s one-day sale on APC uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). There are two options in today’s sale and the deals end just before midnight (PST) on Monday evening.
First up we have the APC BGM1500 and BGM1500B for $1