Microsoft cut the price of Game Pass. Now it should reinvent the Xbox
…The price increased by a whopping 50 percent in October of 2025, up to $30 a month for the full-fat service, at the same time that gaming hardware and the Xbox…
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Best of Computex 2026: The most intriguing and innovative PC hardware
…Affordable, efficient laptops feel more important than ever because of rising memory prices. People need more accessible options, especially as Computex continues to push high-end performance hardware, which is why I…
Investigation: RAM prices are falling. Don’t fall for it
…As a result, prices for RAM, finished computers, storage, game consoles, phones, even products as innocuous as SD cards are rising higher and higher. It’s a terrifying development for PC enthusiasts…
The ZeroWriter Fold is an anti-AI laptop with one job: writing
…was in any reasonable ballpark price. And on top of that, there's a bigger opportunity here, long-term to change how people do hardware companies. I don't want to…
The new Ryzen 9: Did AMD just announce a CPU for exactly no one?
…The PC industry is in crisis, plagued by shortages and skyrocketing prices for RAM, storage, GPUs, and other components being gobbled up by AI titans. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will no doubt…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark just turned Arm into a real PC threat
For hardware enthusiasts, Computex 2026 could have felt subdued—if you only looked at the x86 side of the fence. The usual players offered low thrills. AMD trotted out a $350 rehash…
'Neural texture compression' might save gamers in a RAM-starved world
…and existing hardware in the coming months. All told, it's an exciting potential solution to the ongoing scarcity of RAM and video RAM, which is driving up prices (including video cards…
Local AI is finally practical: 7 things you can do on your PC right now
…Topaz Labs offers popular paid professional apps for AI video and image editing work, with all the processing happening on your PC's local hardware. It's a pricey solution designed for…
The laptop middle class is vanishing
…Performance is amazing, but devices that used to be affordable are beginning to balloon in price. And "affordable" is now a rapidly moving target, with computers of the same price getting less…
At Computex, the laptop market looks K-shaped
…Performance is amazing, but devices that used to be affordable are beginning to balloon in price. And "affordable" is now a rapidly moving target, with computers of the same price getting less…