PC Gaming
Slimmer, slower, and cheaper than a Surface Pro 3 Microsoft just expanded its Surface line with the Surface 3, a less expensive version of the Surface Pro 3 that’s also smaller and less powerful. Other than size (10.8-inch display, 8.7mm thin) and weight (1.37 pounds or 622 grams), the physical design is the same as…
To 4GHz and beyond Back in February, Boxx Technologies rolled out its impressively spec’d Apexx 5 Workstation crammed full with five GPUs, demonstrating a combination of raw power and boutique building chops. Well, Boxx is back, this time with a pair of mobile workstations armed with Intel Core i7 desktop processors and optional Nvidia Quadro…
Another reason to no longer use Google+ It is hard to believe that Google+ is still around. However, for a service that we dubbed as one of Google’s failures last year, it is still kicking. Whether it will continue to exist is still anyone’s guess, though today another reason to use it has been removed…
Top Deal: Bill from accounting spilled coffee on your favorite shirt, and because you had to change, you were late to your meeting, prompting the boss to give you the stink-eye as he ponders who to promote to VP next week. And in your rush to get home and put the day behind you, you…
A fully loaded desk computer Mathieu “Sassanou Watermod” Heredia is back with another spectacular mod. This time, it’s the Watermod Ares III Desk and it’s exactly what its name implies. A custom-made desk houses an aggressively styled computer based on the Microcool Banchetto K test-bench case. Straight lines, sharp angles, and a clean color scheme…
From half a dozen to several dozen support Lumia phones When Microsoft made available its first Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones, it only officially supported six Lumia handsets (630, 635, 636, 638, 730, and 830). The reason? Microsoft had to select from a set of phones that had sufficient system partition sizes configured by…
Not likely to happen For college basketball fans, it’s been a crazy weekend, and March as a whole. That’s why it’s called March Madness, and this time around, there were a number of notable upsets and surprises, like Michigan State advancing to the Final Four (I had them getting knocked out by Virgina in the…
Google’s OSes Duke It Out Windows is dead. Haven’t you heard? Yeah, right, we don’t believe that for a parsec (although we wouldn’t mind if Modern got swallowed alive by a Sarlacc to be slowly digested alive for a thousand years.) Still, for those who are living in their post-PC fantasy, the OS of choice…
Top Deal: Ah, so you read our RAID 0 guide, grabbed yourself a pair of drives, and are now rocking a super fast setup — congrats! Just remember that RAID 0 isn’t a backup solution. Heck, it’s not redundant. So if you need to backup your data, one possible solution is today’s top deal for…
Enticing offer for the Android camp It doesn’t appear that Samsung needs much help selling Android fans on its recently released Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones, but just in case you’re on the fence, the South Korean handset maker is hoping a little nudge from T-Mobile will help. That nudge comes in the…