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Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060TI are actually priced like mid-tier cards

Maybe Jensen finally got the memo about the whole GPU shortage being over

Systems19 May 2023 | 15

Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby

Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?

AI + ML11 May 2023 | 36

Spectre of layoffs looms over Intel following dismal sales

Shareholders gotta get their dividends somehow, right?

On-Prem09 May 2023 | 4

You'll [BZZ] like Intel’s [BZZ] NUC 13 Pro once the fan [BZZ] stops blowing

Desktop Tourism Big i7 performance, tiny, tiny size

Personal Tech08 May 2023 | 40

The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep

Redmond ditches own line of mice, keyboards, webcams

Personal Tech28 Apr 2023 | 59

LattePanda's Sigma crams a 12-core Intel Raptor Lake CPU into an itty-bitty SBC

It's got an onboard Arduino Leonardo, too

Personal Tech28 Apr 2023 | 10

Intel's $2.8B Q1 loss and 36 percent revenue slide were slightly less horrible than expected

Updated CEO Gelsinger insists plan to grow a whopping foundry business will pay off

On-Prem28 Apr 2023 | 5

AMD probes reports of deep fried Ryzen 7000 chips

Updated Botched BIOS firmware, EXPO memory profiles possible culprit

Personal Tech25 Apr 2023 | 9

Techies all GUI-eyed as Xerox says goodbye to Palo Alto Research Center

Legendary R&D lab donated to SRI International where it will continue to innovate

Personal Tech25 Apr 2023 | 40

Mac shipments slump as Apple finally bitten by glum PC demand

On the bright side, higher inventories will give 'puter makers opportunity to flee China, IDC says

Personal Tech10 Apr 2023 | 17

MSI hit in cyberattack, warns against installing knock-off firmware

1.5TB of databases, source code, BIOS tools said to be stolen

Cyber-crime07 Apr 2023 | 8

Microsoft tells admins to autoreview your Autopatch alerts or autolose the service

And you wouldn't want that ... would you?

Security05 Apr 2023 | 20

Intel pours Raptor Lake chips into latest NUC Mini PC line

Big is not always beautiful

Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 15

Intel bumps up core counts for 13th-gen vPro chips

'We don't think it's a luxury' veep tells The Reg

On-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 8

Lenovo revs up a rackable Aston Martin … workstation?

It’s red, it’s fast, it packs 4th-gen Xeons and Nvidia RTX 6000s, and it looks like it’s been run over by a sports car

Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 14

IDC gets even more pessimistic about PC sales

Retirement of Windows 10 should eventually drive recovery in 2024 and 2025

Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 29

Wait, what? Workstation sales set new record in 2022?

Then they plunged properly like all other client devices

Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 1

How many premium portable sales = HP CEO's 2022 compensation?

977 EliteBook x360 830 G6 Notebooks makes one Enrique Lores

Personal Tech02 Mar 2023 | 5

Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year

Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs

SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8

Bringing the IBM Thinkpad 'Butterfly' back to life

Framework offers refurb kit and parts – for instance, to upgrade a decades-old subnotebook

Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 52

Heads to roll at Lenovo amid 'severe downturn' in PC sales

World's largest PC maker aims for $150m in cost controls, says never been a worse time to sell smart devices

Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 34

You can run Windows 11 on just 200MB of RAM – but should you?

Video Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

OSes08 Feb 2023 | 98

Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff

Memo tells staff freeze on hiring and travel expenses are no longer enough

Personal Tech06 Feb 2023 | 8

AMD's pricy cache-packed Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs ship this month

Who needs 6GHz when you can have 128MB of L3

Systems02 Feb 2023 | 6

Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever

Discounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates, conflict in Ukraine

Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 68

Polish for Windows Spotlight and tabs for Notepad in latest Insiders build

You will soon know more about what your PC lockscreen is showing you

OSes23 Jan 2023 | 18

Nearly 300 MSI motherboards will run any old code in Secure Boot, no questions asked

Updated 'I believe they made this change deliberately' claims researcher

Security17 Jan 2023 | 13

Intel offers desktop chip that can hit 6GHz if everything goes right, you can keep it cool, stars align, pigs fly

It'll do 8GHz when overclocked, if Chipzilla is to be believed

Systems13 Jan 2023 | 33

What goes up must come down: Logitech sales tumble amid PC slump

CEO 'disappointed' by prelim top and bottom lines for latest full quarter

Personal Tech12 Jan 2023 | 22

PC sales slump to pre-pandemic level in Q4. 'Boom' is over, says IDC

Vendors lower prices to stimulate demand but inflation, fears of recession trump discounts

Personal Tech11 Jan 2023 | 8

Intel: Please buy these new 13th-Gen CPUs, now with 24 cores

CES Look folks, we need the business - there's a recession on

Systems03 Jan 2023 | 39

Nvidia revives canceled RTX 4080 as 'new' 12GB RTX 4070 TI

Hopefully it comes with a 'new' competitive price, too

Personal Tech30 Dec 2022 | 25

GPUs dodge price hike as US extends China tariff deadline beyond 2022

Happy New Year! Concession is made on GPUs and other parts

Systems19 Dec 2022 |

Intel aims for lower-power GPUs as Nvidia pushes pricey energy guzzlers

GPU boss vows 'dramatic shift in the PC graphics landscape' with next-gen CPU

Systems12 Dec 2022 | 6

Asus' latest single-board computer packs a 12-core, 4.5Ghz Intel i7

Too bad the RAM is baked on

Personal Tech08 Dec 2022 | 16

Creator of spec for melting RTX 4090 cables urges Nvidia, others to 'ensure user safety'

Testing is your responsibility, not ours, says PCI-SIG

Systems02 Dec 2022 | 22

GPU shipments saw biggest nosedive since noughties recession

A sign of the computer industry’s sad state, but at least there’s supply!

Systems23 Nov 2022 | 13

HP Inc to lay off up to 6,000 staff, cut costs by $1.4 billion

‘Portfolio optimization’ plan aims to cull some PCs, sell more pricey subscriptions

Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 41

Windows 10 – a 7-year-old OS – is still having problems with the desktop and taskbar

If your device is becoming unresponsive, there's a workaround

Software17 Nov 2022 | 77

Qualcomm faces fresh competition in world of Arm-based Windows PCs

Comment Let the games begin...

Systems16 Nov 2022 | 10

Intel's top-spec Raptor Canyon NUC can double as a 700+W space heater

Stay warm this winter by fragging some baddies

Personal Tech08 Nov 2022 | 30

Intel plans to cut products — we guess where they’ll happen

Analysis To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose

Systems05 Nov 2022 | 30

Dell hit with Oz court case for misleading prices on monitors

Watchdog claims add-ons to computer purchases appeared to be discounted but did not reflect the standalone RRP

Personal Tech04 Nov 2022 | 4

Lenovo revenues drop due to falling demand for PCs

But overall profits are up thanks to cost cutting and success in other divisions

On-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 2

AMD says it's looking into gaming performance issues on Ryzen 7000

They better hop to it – Team Red's PC chip business nosedived in the third quarter

Systems02 Nov 2022 | 10

Microsoft mulls cheap PCs supported by ads, subs

Want a low-cost machine? Agree to be bombarded and the Windows giant could have a solution for you

Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 86

Thanks to 'resilient' American cloud plus games consoles, AMD squeezes into winter

PC chip slump forces break-even non-profit impression for a few months

On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |

Your next PC should be a desktop – maybe even this Chinese mini machine

Desktop Tourism They're tidy, speedy, small – and wall off your working life

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 113

Microsoft realizes it hasn't updated list of banned dodgy Windows 10 drivers in years

Hope no one was relying on that to block threats, er, yeah?

Patches26 Oct 2022 | 13

Logitech, that canary in PC coal mine, just fell off its perch

Pandemic gold rush for hardware slingers is over?

Personal Tech26 Oct 2022 | 35

Microsoft fixes printing gremlin, ends that block on Windows 11 upgrades

Bet ya can't wait to slap that 22H2 on your machine

OSes25 Oct 2022 | 22

Microsoft's Chinese website reveals free PC Manager utility

Yet more nagware to use the Edge browser, plus some usefully re-imagined tools liberated from the maze of the Settings menu

Software24 Oct 2022 | 10

Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason

Canalys Channels Forum Can expensive tech save this reporter's ugly mug? Not likely

Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 62

Hardware makers criticized for eco double standards

Canalys Channels Forum Don't penalize resellers for selling refurbished kit, educate shareholders on being Earth's friend

Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 20

When the chips fall: Intel preps for $16b Mobileye IPO

Far cry from the $50 billion valuation Gelsinger hoped would fuel foundry empire

Systems18 Oct 2022 | 2

Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt

Who, Me? This wasn't WarGames – it was far more serious

Software17 Oct 2022 | 114