Chip, memory, battery and power upgrades add to laptop’s appeal along with new webcam and Apple Intelligence
Apple’s upgraded MacBook Pro for 2024 gets a significant power boost with the M4 chip, double the memory as standard, even longer battery life and a price cut, ending the year on a high.
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Latest Copilot+ PC is thin, light and speedy with a stunning screen, but can’t live up to AI and battery life hype
Samsung’s first take on Microsoft’s new Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs is the Galaxy Book 4 Edge, which promises to finally deliver the speed and battery life to properly take on Apple’s MacBook Air.
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This handy-dandy guide can help you avoid the most common PC building mistakes—and their associated frustrations. Few things in life are as satisfying as building your own PC. Cobbling together a softly purring, fully functional computer out of disparate parts offers a true sense of creation. Even better, rolling your own results in a cheaper...Continue reading
Many people do not realize how easy it is to build a desktop PC from parts. In fact, many systems that users build can outperform purchased desktop computers.Continue reading
Asus A7V When AMD slowly shifted their processor packages from Slot A over to Socket A, a new crop of compatible motherboards started to emerge (A7V). The Socket A package followed the latest trend in processor designs, with the CPU core exposed on the top of the chip, thus allowing a heat sink plate to...Continue reading
You’ll find all the hardcore technical specs for this graphics card in the chart below, but in sum they’re half that of the already modest $100 RX 560, which is launching in early May as the final release in AMD’s new Radeon RX 500 series. It’s one-quarter the GPU inside the $170 Radeon RX 570.
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If you’ve never done it before, the idea of building a computer from the ground up can seem very intimidating—but it’s one of the most satisfying projects a tech enthusiast can take on. Let’s take a look at Building a Computer from Scratch! Being more of a software person than a hardware geek, I had...Continue reading
Building a computer from scratch gives you the perfect machine for your needs, but it can be daunting the first time around. Here's our complete guide, from picking the parts, to putting it together and installing your OS.Continue reading
Building your own PC isn’t some arcane art or esoteric skill that only the most hardcore of hardware geeks can pull off. In fact, assembling a DIY PC is pretty straightforward once you’ve settled on your parts list.Continue reading
Build a cheap computer from used parts Got some old computer used parts?Why not use them to build yourself a new PC?We show you how to do it. By Bill O’Brien Ah, the joy of summer storms. A recent one involving a flooded basement (a torrential downpour traveled down a chipmunk burrow that led to...Continue reading
