Michael Crider

The Acer Swift X 14 is a lot of laptop. This particular model has a 16-core Intel processor, an Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and topping it all off a gorgeous high-res, high-refresh OLED display. Today, B&H is […]

Valve’s Half-Life 2 is still a wonderful milestone of PC gaming more than 20 years after its original release, but it recently got its dated visuals pumped up with a mod that lets you flex the power of a cutting-edge

It’s hard to find a good budget laptop, especially one that packs enough memory to actually run Windows 11 without choking. Today, Woot is offering a refurbished Dell Inspiron 15 with a Ryzen processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of

Why is your computer running like a dog? (A slow dog, that is. Not a greyhound or one of those dogs that likes to herd sheep.) Ask a technically inclined friend and they might suggest a RAM upgrade or a

Buying goodies from a trendy food truck can get expensive. But I’ll bet that even the most desperate TikTok foodie hasn’t dropped more than a grand at once on something they can’t actually eat. But you can if you’re attending

Do you need a lot of external storage? Do you need lots of external storage that’s tough? Do you need lots of tough external storage for not a lot of money? Then head over to B&H because they’re selling a

Far be it from me to tell the most valuable company on the planet what to do. But Nvidia, you do realize that your whole schtick is graphics cards, right? You know, GeForce, those chunky go-fast gadgets you’ve been selling

In the PCWorld office chat, I call the Acer Nitro V gaming laptop “Old Faithful” because it reliably goes on sale every few weeks. Today, we’re seeing its typical big discount from an unusual source: MicroCenter. You can usually only

Why is your computer running like a dog? (A slow dog, that is. Not a greyhound or one of those dogs that likes to herd sheep.) Ask a technically inclined friend and they might suggest a RAM upgrade or a

If you’re using a workstation-class laptop, odds are pretty good that you didn’t buy it. Your employer did. These things are only “portable” in the sense that it’s technically possible to carry a cinder block around, and they’re designed to