Hands-on with HP’s overhauled Spectre, Omen, and Victus laptops
HP is coming in hot with a host of new laptop designs. At an event in New York City, the company showed them off to us: the new Spectre x360 13, Victus […]
Author: BEST PC TIP
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 will power tomorrow’s best Android phones
Premium Android smartphones will have a new Qualcomm Snapdragon processor option when they debut this fall: The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, which will boost GPU performance by about 10 percent while tacking […]
AMD’s FSR 2.0 makes a strong first impression—even on Steam Deck
AMD has released its new Fidelity Super FX Super Resolution 2.0, and that’s awesome news for the Steam Deck. If you don’t know why, you’re probably not alone. This is some complex […]
Microsoft Edge taps AI to make grainy images look nice and crisp
If images begin to look sharper on Microsoft Edge compared to other browsers, there’s a reason for that. Microsoft is building in what it calls a “Turing Image Super Resolution engine” into […]
AMD “Mendocino” chips promise budget laptops with 10 hour batteries
For years, a lack of processor performance doomed AMD to the value notebook space with its A-series processors. Now, the tables have turned: AMD is taking its powerful Zen 2 architecture and […]
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors will run ‘significantly above 5GHz’
At Computex, AMD executives added key details about their upcoming Ryzen 7000 processor, including demonstrations that pushed clock speeds well above 5GHz, and a confirmation that its new AM5 socket will preserve […]
Corsair’s first laptop has all-AMD guts, an Elgato Stream Deck inside
It’s rare to see a gaming peripheral company take the plunge and make its own in-house laptop design. But it just got a little less rare, as Corsair has announced its very […]
The new Asus ROG Swift 500Hz is the world’s fastest gaming monitor
For a certain type of gamer, there’s no such thing as too fast. Whether it’s CPU clocks, frames per second, or refresh rates (so you can see those frames per second), that […]
Windows 11 widgets might actually be useful soon
Later this year, Microsoft will begin inviting third-party developers to create their own widgets for use in Windows 11, Microsoft said at its Build 2022 developer conference. “You’ll be able to start […]
Big changes to the Microsoft Store could make Windows better, or a lot worse
The Microsoft Store app suffers from two major flaws: it doesn’t have as many apps as users would like, and what apps there are suffer from a plague of infrequently updated lookalikes. […]
