Intel blames software, COVID lockdowns for Arc GPU delays Intel Vision And China to get first dibs when graphics chips do ship Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 3
UK government preps tech suppliers for £8bn mega framework Software? Ticked. Hardware? Ticked. Kitchen sink? Oh go on then, why not On-Prem21 Apr 2022 | 6
Intel’s neurochips could one day end up in PCs or a cloud service The brain-like chip technology could aid with low-power AI tasks like speech recognition Systems15 Apr 2022 | 9
Chromebook sales train derails as market reaches saturation Vendors didn't 'diversify' adoption beyond education, CIOs flirted with form factor and nothing more Systems14 Apr 2022 | 25
PC sales start to ebb as pandemic buying spree ends: IDC Analyst says it's not a 'downward spiral' as sales are still defying predictions Personal Tech11 Apr 2022 | 19
The Souls noob's guide to Elden Ring The RPG FromSoftware's magnum opus, made with input from George R R Martin, invites new and veteran players alike Offbeat09 Apr 2022 | 23
AMD Threadripper CPU supply severely low, PC makers say Special report Some fear they'll lose workstation sales to Lenovo, AMD's exclusive launch partner for the T Pro 5000 Systems08 Apr 2022 | 15
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buys 11.4% stake in HP Even notoriously tech averse stock market gambler can't resist piece of pandemic-boosted PC extravaganza Systems07 Apr 2022 | 14
TSMC sees slowdown in demand for PCs, smartphones Foundry giant's staff could be sleeping at work during new COVID lockdown Personal Tech31 Mar 2022 | 6
APAC region's PC market growth flattens out COVID saw sales surge, but there's less reason to buy in the new normal Personal Tech25 Mar 2022 |
Lost Ark: A pulpy Korean MMO-lite for idle hands The RPG Approach with caution Offbeat26 Feb 2022 | 6
Dell PC backlog woes strike again amid component shortfall Servers, storage parts challenges too, according to Q4 earnings call On-Prem25 Feb 2022 | 4
India surpasses a billion active mobile subscriptions Also has more than 100 million 2G subscribers, and a tiny PC market Networks25 Feb 2022 | 7
God of War: How do you improve on perfection? You port it to PC, obviously The RPG The migration of PlayStation exclusives continues to be a great idea Bootnotes29 Jan 2022 | 39
Even desktops showed up on growth radar in global PC shipment stakes for 2021 341 million units sold last year, up 15% Personal Tech12 Jan 2022 | 5
Halo Infinite ups the nostalgia factor for fans of the originals, but it's not without limits The RPG 343 Industries brings open world to the long-running military sci-fi epic Columnists05 Jan 2022 | 11
PC market pulls past peak pandemic demand, and IDC says it will keep growing Lappies are leaping – albeit a little lower – and gamers are growing, but tablets are turgid Personal Tech09 Dec 2021 | 9
Battlefield 2042: Please don't be the death knell of the franchise, please don't be the death knell of the franchise The RPG Another terrible launch, but DICE is already working on improvements Bootnotes04 Dec 2021 | 31
Dell: We and our customers understand the supply constraints now. The 'wildcard is logistics' Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away Personal Tech24 Nov 2021 | 7
Indian PC market sets all-time records as Q3 shipments top 2019 total Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt Personal Tech19 Nov 2021 |
New World: Grindy? Check. Repetitive? Check. Fun? We hate to say it... but check The RPG Goddamn it, Jeff Bezos' lot can make a passable MMORPG after all Columnists30 Oct 2021 | 31
Inflation hits PC market as laptop and desktop prices jump, and most businesses are last in the line for kit Constrained supply of parts like USB-C among reasons for price hikes Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 3
Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors x86 is an eighty-sixed ex Personal Tech18 Oct 2021 | 103
Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation Personal Tech13 Oct 2021 | 41
IDC: Global PC market growing pains in Q3 due to 'softening' of sales in America Ok, time to call death to PC again? No, definitely not. Did we mention prices due to go up again? Personal Tech11 Oct 2021 | 3
Real world not giving you enough anxiety? Try being hunted down by the perfect organism in Alien: Isolation The RPG 2014 stealth-em-up hasn't aged a day Personal Tech28 Aug 2021 | 21
Indian tech market settles into second year of coronavirus as PC and smartphone sales soar Lighter lockdowns meant more effective manufacturing and logistics Personal Tech13 Aug 2021 |
Beige Against the Machine: The IBM PC turns 40 5150: Not just a medical emergency, also the beginning of the office brick Personal Tech12 Aug 2021 | 80
Chromebooks fighting for mind share at PC makers with higher-margin Windows 11 machines in the lead, says IDC Colour us surprised Personal Tech02 Aug 2021 | 11
Desktop PC sales bounce back – but only because of laptop component shortages HP missed the boom for both, posted 2.7 per cent growth as market surged 13 points over 2020 Personal Tech12 Jul 2021 | 5
UK artists seek 'luvvie levy' on new gadgets to make up for all the media that consumers access online 'Smart Fund' would be redistributed among creators and performers Offbeat29 Jun 2021 | 101
Wish you could play tabletop Dungeons & Dragons but have no friends? Solasta: Crown of the Magister offers a solution The RPG Plus: A tale of tech woe and E3 best bits Bootnotes26 Jun 2021 | 31
Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there The RPG Decent port of a PlayStation 4 'exclusive', but it's far from original Bootnotes29 May 2021 | 20
Desktop renaissance? Nope, rebound of hefty PCs is just because there's notebook shortage – analysts Lenovo ops chief adds: 'Everything that is able to be built is selling' Personal Tech28 May 2021 | 25
ASUS baffles customer by telling them thermal pad thickness is proprietary Updated Replacing such cooling measures are the PC equivalent of an oil change Personal Tech20 May 2021 | 119
Octopath Traveler: Love letter to JRPG golden age has great combat but retro graphics highlight the genre's tedium The RPG You sure have to press 'A' a lot Bootnotes01 May 2021 | 7
PCs continue to sell like hot cakes and industry can barely keep up with demand – analyst Retailers prep for what could be the biggest sales year on record Personal Tech26 Apr 2021 | 51
Rogue elements: Hades and Loop Hero manage to draw on the same legacy while having very little in common The RPG Let's go round again, maybe we'll turn back the hands of time Bootnotes27 Mar 2021 | 13
Asian PC shipments flatlined in 2020 as global sales soared by 13% – why? Supply chain hardships hit the region harder than most, and 2019 had already been a bumper PC-buying year Personal Tech19 Mar 2021 | 3
Huawei's first desktop PC to be sold outside China is a sleek business machine with optional 'smart' keyboard But relies on integrated graphics, and what's the serial port for? Personal Tech11 Mar 2021 | 19
Extended lockdowns to fuel 'strongest growth on record' for PCs into EMEA for Q1 Partly chalked up to someone applying a plunger to the supply chain blockage Personal Tech04 Mar 2021 |
Bloody Dell! The humble notebook made the difference between a crappy fiscal 2021 and a good one Yes, we will never mention the death of the PC again, at least until next time On-Prem26 Feb 2021 | 10
Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks? The RPG Now, this might shock you, but it's something we like to call 'fun' (if you have friends) OSes26 Feb 2021 | 60
India dangles billion-dollar incentive scheme for server, PC makers willing to open up shop on the sub-continent Tablets also sought with call for top builders to diversify operations Systems25 Feb 2021 | 6
Subnautica and Below Zero: Nurture your inner MacGyver and Kevin Costner on an ocean-planet holiday The RPG Yes, survival games can tell great stories too Offbeat29 Jan 2021 | 9
Cyberpunk 2077: There's a great game within screaming to get out, but sadly it was released 57 years too early The RPG Over-promised, under-delivered, and plays like an alpha – try again later Bootnotes25 Dec 2020 | 77
Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a monastery-burning romp that would be way better if it was not an Assassin's Creed game The RPG Can we start a petition to abandon the whole 'lol jk ur in a simulation' arc too? Personal Tech27 Nov 2020 | 33
How Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers Expandability traded for performance Storage19 Nov 2020 | 76
Tablets and Chromebooks are hot, towers and desktops are not: El Reg combs through Q3 PC numbers Flippin' Dell! All major vendors lifted by pandemic purchasing frenzy... except one Personal Tech17 Nov 2020 | 36
India has 1.3 billion people. They bought 3.4m PCs in Q3 Best result for seven years comes as tragedy shows tech remains out of reach for many Personal Tech12 Nov 2020 | 13
Luke Skywalker used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16 on Tatooine. But Star Wars: Squadrons misses the mark The RPG Sadly, the space opera franchise's first proper starfighter game in yonks just isn't that good Bootnotes30 Oct 2020 | 39
Oh! What a lovely lockdown: Lenovo enjoys soaraway sales for Q3 2020 as PC shipments jump – Dell, not so much HP is top dog stateside On-Prem13 Oct 2020 | 1
Laptops are on fire! In a good way (if you're selling). PC sales race to highest growth rate since 2011 Canalys Forum 2020 - Updated Response to pandemic elevates simple laptop to centre of universe... Dell only vendor to shrink, says Canalys On-Prem12 Oct 2020 | 16
Death of the PC? Do me a favour, says Lenovo bigwig: 'I'm expecting the biggest growth in a decade... for 2021' Canalys Forum 2020 Exec adopts a build-and-they-will-come mentality On-Prem07 Oct 2020 | 38
Can The Register run Crysis Remastered? Yes, but we don't see why you would want to The RPG It's the 'gaming funk' edition, also starring Wasteland 3, Crusader Kings 3, and Among Us Bootnotes25 Sep 2020 | 25
There’s no new normal coming for PC sales, just the boring old normal of a long, slow decline IDC says 2020 will be a unique and beautiful snowflake as shipments pop three percent because you can't go to the movies Personal Tech03 Sep 2020 | 15
Death Stranding: Essential worker simulator unites its players amid a lockdown far worse than the real-life one The RPG Trudging through PC port of 2019 console title in 2020 is weird Bootnotes28 Aug 2020 | 24
Modular edutech PC crew opens fresh Kano beans with expanded kit and accessories Brit firm inks deal with Best Buy in US as it eyes government tenders abroad Personal Tech14 Jul 2020 | 6
Pandemic proves just the tonic for PC sales as shipments shoot upwards Supply chains are working again Personal Tech10 Jul 2020 | 23
CEO of motherboard maker MSI dies after plunging from headquarters' seventh-floor Foul play not suspected Personal Tech09 Jul 2020 | 54
Purism's quest against Intel's Management Engine black box CPU now comes in 14 inches Privacy-focused Librem 14 laptop available for pre-order Personal Tech02 Jul 2020 | 26
Lockdown team building: Actualise the potentiality of your workforce... through the power of video games The RPG Human: Fall Flat, Left 4 Dead 2, Embr, Sea of Thieves – goodness, we've been having a blast Bootnotes26 Jun 2020 | 20