Back to school season is in full swing, friends. Whether you’re jumping the nest and heading off to college for the first time or you’re wrapping up your final year, you’re going to need a reliable laptop.
Fortunately, Lenovo’s annual back-to-school sale is on fire right now, with deals that can get you up to 68% off on laptops. From convertibles to powerfu
Asus was the first major vendor to make a real competitor to Valve’s Steam Deck. And even though Windows-based gaming handhelds still aren’t as well-regarded as Valve’s SteamOS-based original, the ROG Ally is probably the best of the first batch.
And it just got a whole lot more interesting because Valve has confirmed that it’s
Loading up the space shooter Helldivers 2 on PC for the first time, I found myself catapulted into the frantic action on the surface of an alien planet with not a clue as to what I was doing.
Of course, I wasn’t alone. Other players had spawned with me, they were experienced, their high-ranking insignias a giveaway as to their battle-hardened readi
Yesterday, Microsoft sent out a new preview version of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders, and it holds an interesting change: the max size limit on FAT32 partitions is being bumped up to 2TB.
FAT32 is a type of file system used t
If you find it hard to work on-the-go because a single laptop screen crams your style, what you need is a portable monitor—like this sleek 15.6-incher by Arzopa that’s seriously only $60 right now on Amazon, a huge drop from its usual $130 price tag.
Arzopa’s trav
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: gaming laptops are awesome. After decades of being looked down upon by “real” PC gamers, they can now go toe-to-toe with gaming desktops.
But if you want ultimate performance, you still need a full-blown desktop bui
You don’t need a PhD to see that gaming rigs are significantly more expensive than their non-gaming counterparts. But what’s interesting is that gaming laptops tend to be more expensive than gaming PCs, at least in terms of what you get for your money.
There’s a wide chasm in perceived value between gaming laptops and gaming PCs, and
One of my favorite Windows features, Windows Sandbox, is finally testing some new features that I’d characterize as something like an improved airlock.
I think of Windows Sandbox in the same vein that I do
SSDs are now the most common type of hard drive in both laptops and desktop PCs. They’re compact, they’re quite, and they outperform traditional hard drives by a mile — but they also tend to slow down over time (and eventually stop working altogether).
But it’s not as bad as it sounds. There are several things you can do to keep your SSD going at tip-top pe
Laptops are used for all sorts of things in college. In addition to completing assignments and researching topics, they’re also used for general web browsing as well as streaming the hottest shows and playing games. That said, graphic design majors (depending on what their course requires) will need a more specialized configuration than journalism majors. For example