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Ayush Pande Mar 26, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
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I used Claude Code, Google Antigravity and OpenAI Codex to develop an app, and found only one worth using
…A lifelong tech enthusiast who has built three gaming and productivity powerhouse PCs since 2018, his passion for technology keeps him closely following the semiconductor industry, from NVIDIA and AMD to ARM…
I spent a week making Windows 11 usable, and the fact that I had to is the whole problem
…Microsoft doesn't care about new user onboarding and forces you to dance to its tune. The first hurdle is the inability to create a local account . You must sign in with…
Googlebook repeats Pixelbook's biggest mistake, and Gemini won't save it
…A lifelong tech enthusiast who has built three gaming and productivity powerhouse PCs since 2018, his passion for technology keeps him closely following the semiconductor industry, from NVIDIA and AMD to ARM…
Your GPU upscales way more than just games, and old videos look incredible
…Sign in to your XDA account Most of us first noticed GPU upscaling through games because of the cleaner edges, the sharper image quality, and, well, the "free" performance. Features like DLSS…
The XPS 16's redesign proves Dell learned from its mistakes
…Unlike earlier XPS models, this is a Copilot+ PC , since all Panther Lake CPUs have a sufficiently strong NPU. That means extra webcam tweaks and a few other handy things. And one…
I tested Qwen3 Coder Next against four other local AI coding models, and the gap was embarrassing
…a mini PC powered by Nvidia's GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. It has 128 GB of VRAM for local AI workloads, and can be used for quantization, fine-tuning and all things…
I built a Plex server to escape streaming app fatigue — and it actually worked
Rich Edmonds May 26, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
I turned my phone into a local LLM server, and it handles vision, voice, and tool calls
…My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry…
SteamOS 3.8 just dramatically improved a lot of handhelds except the Steam Deck itself
…It expands compatibility, improves performance, and lays the groundwork for something much bigger than a handheld. And yet, on the Deck itself, this massive new update doesn't feel like a huge…