I'm loving the OLED screen on this Acer laptop
…It delivers excellent internals with a Copilot+ PC-capable AMD Ryzen AI 7 processor, Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The beautiful 14.5-inch OLED screen…
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I wanted to like this Lenovo laptop, but it's just too slow
…Foundry / Matthew Smith The IdeaPad 5a 2-in-1 endured about 10 hours and 30 minutes in PC World’s standard battery test, which loops a 4K file of the short film…
I've tested a ton of USB-C hubs, and these are the best
The best USB-C hubs add ports to your PC, providing connections to legacy peripherals like mice, keyboards, printers, or more. If you follow my advice, you shouldn't pay that much…
This Acer laptop made me a Panther Lake believer
…Thanks to Panther Lake, this machine is incredible, with high CPU performance, enough GPU performance for PC gaming, and long battery life. Performance is solid even when running on battery power, too…
The reviews don't lie: These are the 5 best laptops for engineering students
…We've been covering PCs since 1983, and we now review more than 70 laptops every year. All of the picks below have been personally tested and vetted by our experts, who…
We tested a bunch of external drives, and these 9 are our favorites
…It’s in our name! PCWorld's reviewers have been testing PC hardware for decades. Our storage evaluations are thorough and rigorous, pushing the limits of every product — from performance benchmarks to…
This Lenovo laptop is powerful, but a real mixed bag
…Battery life When Qualcomm first introduced its Snapdragon X chips for PC, efficiency was one of the big promises with the PCs meant to catch up to Apple’s laptops. While I…
This Lenovo laptop is better than it looks
…Foundry / Matthew Smith Our HandBrake test runs on an older version without an Arm-native build, and it provides a glimpse of what can happen when Arm-native software isn’t available…
Cyber Acoustic CA-2890 speaker bar review: Surprisingly good for $25
…Since joining the team in 2016, she’s written about CPUs, Windows, PC building, Chrome, Raspberry Pi, and much more—while also serving as PCWorld’s resident bargain hunter (#slickdeals). Currently her…
Tested: LG's Ultragear Evo GX9 ultrawide OLED is expensive, but fantastic
…You could connect two game consoles, a desktop PC, and a laptop PC (with USB-C) simultaneously. The USB-C port includes up to 90 watts of Power Delivery. While I expect…