O11 Air Mini: Hands-on with Lian Li’s new airflow-focused case
You’ve probably already seen a Lian Li O11 case before. Visit any forum where people show off builds, and the O11 Dynamic comes up time and time again. But the Dynamic isn’t […]
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Hands-on: NZXT’s Function is the premium keyboard for mech newbies
The market for advanced, customizable mechanical keyboards is heating up. Formerly the domain of small-batch, super-expensive designs or homebuilt one-offs, you can now find mod-friendly keyboards on Best Buy shelves. NZXT is […]
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 […]
Surface Pro 9 hands-on: Intel and ARM share Microsoft’s tablet
Microsoft’s Surface series of laptop-tablet hybrids is now in its ninth generation. And any consumer technology that lasts that long in tends to settle into a comfortable groove. The Surface Pro 9 […]
Surface Laptop 5 hands-on: AMD out, Thunderbolt in
Pour one out for the AMD Ryzen-powered Surface Laptop. Despite impressive leaps forward for the Ryzen 6000 series, Microsoft’s self-branded machine is now an all-Intel affair. Aside from the new 12th-gen Core […]
Hands-on: Microsoft’s new Bing AI can write essays and plan vacations
Bing’s new AI-powered chatbot is basically ChatGPT with ads…and one that refuses to do your homework for you. Well, sometimes. That’s not necessarily a derogatory criticism; the new Bing is pretty amazing. […]
Hands-on with the Dall-E 2-based Bing Image Creator: It’s good!
Today, Microsoft begins integrating AI art into its AI-powered Bing Chat chatbot with Bing Image Creator…and it’s surprisingly good. Microsoft began previewing Image Creator last fall in select markets, and its generative […]
Asus ROG Ally hands-on: More powerful than Steam Deck
You can run Windows on the Steam Deck. And you really, really shouldn’t. Valve’s portable machine has singularly carved out a new hardware niche for PC gamers, but it did so with […]
Hands-on: The Zenbook S 13 is a practical ultraportable
When you go for the thinnest, lightest laptop you can, you make certain sacrifices. Take the darling of the category, the Dell XPS 13, for example. If you buy one, you might […]
Hands-on with Corsair iCue Link at Computex
The War on Cables is raging, aiming to make the main chamber of your desktop PC as clean as a vegetarian’s barbecue grill. Corsair’s newest idea is on display at Computex: A […]
