Buying a mechanical keyboard? Consider these 6 points of caution
When I bought my first mechanical keyboard in 2015, I had no idea what I was doing. Coveting the clackety sound and glorious key travel of mechanical switches, I sprung for a […]
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Buying an older CPU: How far back should you go?
On the whole, the cost of computers has dropped a lot. (When adjusted for inflation, the mid-1990s equivalent of today’s basic $650 computers came in around $4,000.) But PCs still aren’t cheap—so […]
Cheap laptop demand disintegrates following pandemic buying surge
Analyst firm Mercury Research said that the low end of the notebook PC and Chromebook market “evaporated” in the third quarter, leading to the worst quarter-over-quarter downturn in mobile CPUs in the […]
Buying a laptop? Look for PCs with these CPUs and GPUs
Laptops are complicated, holistic pieces of machinery. Everything from the display to the keyboard to the internals matter. But the CPU and GPU are the engines that drive everything else. With laptop […]
Sony is buying Bungie, the game studio that created Destiny and Halo
Microsoft is trying to buy onetime PlayStation figurehead Crash Bandicoot (and the rest of Activision Blizzard) in a deal that would rewrite gaming history, and now Sony is striking back. On Monday, […]
6 things to consider before buying a used graphics card
Who doesn’t love a good deal? Especially if it’s on something that’s basically new or lightly used. We’ve been devoid of any such deals on graphics cards for the last few years, […]
Buying a used mining GPU rewards the people who ruined PC gaming
If you’re cruising eBay, Craigslist or Offerup looking for a “lightly used mining GPU” for your gaming PC, I’m here to tell you not to. My position isn’t new, but it is […]
Are we buying power supplies the wrong way?
If your PC plugs into the wall, it has a power supply. The workhorse of computer components is one we often don’t think about, but having a PSU with sufficient juice (not […]
Buying a PC with an Intel CPU? It may soon cost more
The past few months have been good times for buying or building desktop PCs, with discounts galore on computer components. That included Intel processors—a shocking occurrence, given how steadfastly Intel resisted price […]
AMD’s ridiculously complex Ryzen names make buying a laptop hard
“What should I buy? What’s good?” are the two questions our readers ask us and what we try and answer. AMD’s new mobile processor naming scheme makes those questions nearly impossible to […]
