Windows wants to be your only OS. It's up to you whether it succeeds.

Breathing life into old hardware has been getting increasingly complicated, but it can work out if you know how to.

An aging 2012 laptop shed its bloat and booted in minutes with a stripped Fluxbox setup that sips under 500MB of RAM.

Alienware's expensive AW3926QW is even more of a massage for the eyeballs than its previous 32-inch QD-OLED. Reading time 9 minutes Unfortunately for us all, Alienware has convinced me that I’ve ...

Anti-cheat systems for online multiplayer games can flag individual PC parts, which can be a problem if you're trying to find ...

For the past seven years, I have tracked consumer tech through constant shifts in hardware, platforms, and the way people actually use devices. Covering everything from budget gear to flagship ...

Earlier this year, Dell announced the "world's first 39" 5K monitor with RGB stripe tandem OLED technology." You can finally get your hands on one. The new Alienware AW3926QW has just been listed at ...

The 2026 Alienware 16X Aurora is a simple refresh of last year’s model, squeezing in new CPU options and an updated OLED display. It’s still a high-performance machine with tamer looks than the ...

Giving my old hardware the TLC it deserves.

Dual booting Linux and Windows is a pain. It’s an involved process, and one that is very prone to breakage. More so if you happen to install both operating systems on the same drive. It was for this ...

Opinion A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.… When I was a teenager, I was forbidden to look at Playboy Magazine. I just wanted ...

Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX 24c/24t, 8 x 5.4 GHz Intel Lion Cove P-Core, 16 x 4.6 GHz Intel Skymont E-Core, 164 W PL2 / Short Burst, 98 W PL1 / Sustained, Arrow Lake-HX Realtek RTL8168/8111 Gigabit-LAN ...