It's not just you — MSI's confession proves it's the worst year ever for PC hardware
…arm, to focus on AI hardware. A 32GB kit of DDR5-6000 RAM, which used to cost around $100, shot up to over $400 within weeks and months as the supply shock…
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash costs 3x the model it replaced, and the era of cheap AI is ending
…The cost of a fixed level of capability has kept falling, and Epoch AI-linked work has estimated that the price of reaching a given benchmark capability level has fallen roughly 5…
AMD just dropped a compact AI workstation that makes discrete GPUs look outdated for running LLMs
…and Linux, consisting of the Ryzen AI Developer Center, apps and model preloads, and playbooks to offer guided workflows. ROCm is fully supported out of the box with optimized performance and SOTA…
Acer finally reveals a budget-friendly Windows on Arm device with Acer's Aspire Go 15
…The Acer Swift Spin 14 AI will be released in the US in August 2026 and will cost $699 for an Intel Core 5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage…
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Your NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
…force performance, TrueNAS gives you the tools to make targeted optimizations that deliver most of the same benefits at a fraction of the cost. As an aside, power consumption and noise were…
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is incredible, but entirely unnecessary
…X3D processors have historically owned the gaming performance conversation while pulling double duty for a specific breed of developers and creators, so it's a curious pivot to see AMD planting its…
The best PC components are rising in price, but the good, cheap alternatives are still staying cheap
…Related The best gaming upgrade in 2026 isn't hardware, it's AI upscaling and frame generation DLSS and FSR are improving faster than hardware right now.
AMD is resurrecting a 4-year-old CPU, and it exposes some uncomfortable truths about the PC industry
…upgrade costs, platform longevity, and why so many gamers simply aren't ready to move on. Related AMD kicks off 2026 with a new king of gaming CPUs and more AI Hello…
Claude Code, Codex, and Pi can create their own AI agents now, and that changes everything
…4.6 and DeepSeek v3.2 performed best with minimal guidelines, and the open-source models were within 95% of the performance of the closed-source models, showing that costs can be…
Acer’s massive 18-Inch Predator Helios AI laptop wants to replace your gaming desktop
…Seriously, I briefly checked it out at an Acer preview event, and it's big — like really big . Acer says that with the Predator Helios 18 AI, it wants to offer "desktop…