If you’re looking for an affordable everyday laptop, you’ve come to the right place. Acer’s selling the Aspire 5 laptop for $549.99, which is a savings of $100. The steel gray color scheme i
Setting up a new Windows laptop, or installing a fresh copy of Windows on a machine, is kind of a slog. While it doesn’t take multiple hours like it used to (thanks, SSDs!), it’s still a lot of time pressing one or two buttons, then watching a loading screen and waiting for the next button to appear. Microsoft might be alleviating some of the boredom by t
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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