The Steam Deck is a powerful device, and I’m not talking about the frames it pushes on AAA games, at least not here. I’ve said before that the Deck beats a budget gaming laptop on long trips, and much of what I’ve argued has been due to the form factor, because in situations where you … Read more
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 is a powerful laptop that works well for a wide range of tasks. Available at Best Buy for $400 off, this model features a 15.3-inch 2K touchscreen, an AMD Ryzen 7 processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. For $600 it’s an absolute steal. Great for most people Choosing … Read more
If you’ve been following the PC hardware market, you know that GPU prices are on the rise again. So the cheap listing of a big Nvidia or AMD card is enough to warrant a second look when you’re a potential buyer. According to recent reports from Tom’s Hardware, the only card selling even close to … Read more
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the operations of the Famous Chollima threat group by arresting two suspects, charging 14 people and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker programs. The famous Chollima (aka WageMole) is often tracked as a North Korean threat actor associated with fraudulent IT worker … Read more
TrendForce predicts that global notebook shipments could decline by a high single-digit percentage by 2027, depending on how manufacturers respond to rising component costs. Here are the details. ‘Brands (to) face difficult trading’ In a report released this week, TrendForce predicts that global notebook shipments will decline in 2027, with declines ranging from low to … Read more
Ever since I used an old GTX 1080 to build a local AI hosting workstation last year, I’ve been benchmarking LLM final assignments on all kinds of hardware, from gaming systems to tiny single-board PCs and outdated cell phones. As you’d expect, devices with NPU and VRAM loaded graphics cards work fine with my local … Read more
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Add Android authority to Google: TL; DR Qualcomm shares that Snapdragon X series laptops will get Linux support. Debian compatibility should be released later in 2026. Ubuntu plans to support Snapdragon X2 devices early next year. It’s taken a few decades, but there’s something big about how we do … Read more
Published Sep 22, 2026 9:07 PM EDT Timi has been writing about technology for over a decade, focusing on smartphones, computers, and anything else he finds interesting in the tech space. He started out writing for XDA, covering all things mobile, but moved on to deal coverage with a mission to shine a light on … Read more
My Lenovo Legion 5 Pro has seen better days. It put me through university from 2021 to 2023, and one of its cooling fans failed, so every time I turned it on, it greeted me with a very horrible scream. Laptops age much more gracefully than desktop computers, so it’s easy to forget them in … Read more