Ironic timing, and all the more reason for all Windows users to ensure that they never find themselves out of support on their PCs. A week ago, Microsoft appeared to shutdown avenues to moving to ...

Jumping from Windows 11 Home to a Pro license supercharges Windows—useful if you need more advanced features. If you’ve been considering the leap, there’s good news for the holidays.

AMD (AMD) is showing off its latest AI PC and graphics chips at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. The company on Monday announced its new Ryzen AI Max, additional Ryzen AI 300, and Ryzen AI 200 central ...

Windows 11 has been around for a few years ... The problem is that having too many apps running in the background causes a significant slowdown. To stop a program from launching on startup ...

Consider the Steam Machine. In 2013, at the height of the console gaming era, Valve, the owner and operator of Steam, the biggest PC digital video game storefront, announced an attempt to ...

A loaded mini PC is often better than a laptop, providing more power and taking up less space on your desk at a cheaper price point, as long as you don’t need the portability that a laptop offers.

f you have built or been presented with a shiny new gaming PC for the Holidays, then you are probably fairly keen to test it out. However, to get the best out of it, you’ll need a few extra things.

It's still early days, but here's what sets these systems apart right now. PC hardware is nice, but it’s not much use without innovative software. I’ve been reviewing software for PCMag since ...

The best thing about PC gaming is arguably that you never know where the next big hit might come from. It’d be incorrect to say that smaller, independently produced games thrived across the ...

This is the latest iteration of the much-applauded Xbox controller, designed by Microsoft for console and PC gaming alike. Its comfortable and intuitive design lends itself just as well to the ...

Santa's been, the turkey's decimated, the drinks have been drunk, and the hangover's starting to abate. So, now what to do with that Christmas money your great aunt stuffed into a weirdly archaic ...

This year, there has been a glut of fresh CPUs from AMD and Intel for desktop PCs, with both vendors launching new processor architectures and model variants of older designs. Over in the Team Red ...