The Steam Deck is back, and affordable PC gaming is dead
…The rush on RAM and storage as chip producers prioritize profitable "AI" data centers has left both consumers and PC manufacturers with few options but to pay, pay, pay. While memory prices…
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The MSI AI PC Buyer’s Guide: From Mini AI PCs to Powerful AI Workstations
…Additional storage options and higher memory capacity also make it a practical choice for those working with larger files. The PRO DP180 AI is aimed at creative professionals, advanced office users, and…
Forget AI: Nvidia RTX Spark could be game-changing for gaming handhelds
…RTX Spark unites an Nvidia CPU and GPU in a single System-on-Chip with up to 128GB of memory. Nvidia's pitch centers RTX Spark around agentic AI, but I'd…
At Computex, the laptop market looks K-shaped
…Trying to get your money's worth out of the RTX Spark laptop platform, in gaming or other GPU-heavy productions (including the "agentic AI" rigamaroll Huang touted on stage) will need…
Microsoft says Windows 11 will get faster as it scales back Copilot
…Microsoft sounds like it also wants to reduce the actual memory footprint Windows requires. Today, Windows 11 technically requires just 4GB of memory to run, though PC vendors typically include at least…
Investigation: RAM prices are falling. Don’t fall for it
…AI data centers are gobbling up memory manufacturing capacity. The trend is expected to continue for quite a while, and there’s almost no capacity left for consumer-level RAM and storage…
Intel's new Core Series 3 is its answer to the MacBook Neo
…AI, with an NPU capable of just 17 TOPS, though the company claims the CPU, NPU, and GPU combined reach 40 TOPS of performance. Yes, laptops will use pricey DDR5 memory, but…
Watch out, MacBook Neo: Cheap Windows laptops are getting good again
…For the last nine months or so, rising memory and storage costs have elevated PC prices into the upper echelon, along with high demand for GPUs and rarified, AI-specific chips like…
This Acer laptop made me a Panther Lake believer
…Acer Swift 16 AI: Specs The Acer Swift 16 AI includes a high-end Intel Panther Lake processor and GPU. The Intel Core Ultra X7 358H is a 16-core CPU that…
Lenovo's 2-pound ThinkPad is the first real test for AMD's next laptop chip
…Lake) or AMD's Ryzen AI 400 processors. The former has earned itself an excellent reputation, though that's in part due to the terrific integrated GPU that Intel included on its…