Alienware didn’t settle for a spec bump to mark its 30th birthday. The company overhauled the entire gaming laptop architecture for 2026, introducing three new machines that pair Intel’s latest Arrow Lake HX Plus processors with Nvidia’s full RTX 50-series GPU lineup inside a completely redesigned chassis. The Alienware 16X Aurora, Alienware 16 Area-51, and […]
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The budget mini PC market has been quietly taking over desk setups for years now, but finding one that actually delivers on its spec sheet without costing as much as a mid-range laptop has always been the real challenge. The KAMRUI Pinova P1 just made that search a lot easier. Amazon dropped the price to
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The first generation of Snapdragon X processors proved that ARM chips could run Windows laptops without feeling like a compromise. Solid battery life, quiet operation, and enough raw speed to handle everyday work without stuttering. The second generation isn’t interested in proving anything. It’s just posting numbers that make the competition look slow. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon
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ARTICLE – Most laptop concepts shown at trade shows exist purely to generate press photos and social media clips. They look impressive behind glass, get a few hundred thousand views, and then quietly disappear from the product roadmap. Lenovo has been breaking that pattern with its ThinkBook line, turning recent concepts into confirmed products. The
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The mini PC market isn’t short on horsepower these days, but it’s desperately lacking in personality. ACEMAGIC’s new Retro X5 changes that equation. It’s an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 mini PC wrapped in a shell that looks like it time-traveled straight from 1985, and it’s up for presale now at $959 with shipping
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NEWS – Apple made it official: the Mac mini is getting built in America. The company announced Tuesday that it’s expanding factory operations in Houston, Texas, bringing Mac mini production to US soil for the first time in the product’s 20-year history. It’s a move that doubles the Houston campus footprint and creates thousands of
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Laptop launches happen in waves at CES, and most of what gets announced is noise. Processor bumps that look impressive on spec sheets but vanish in real use. Display brightness claims that sound dramatic until you realize the difference between 800 and 900 nits doesn’t register to human eyes in typical lighting. Battery estimates that
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REVIEW – I have always been a fan of the Raspberry Pi. I love the size and versatility it offers. There are so many creative projects you can do with them. Not that I have done much more than setting up a retro gaming device, but still. I also love all the different cases available
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CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – We’ve been reviewing several mini PCs in the past year and it’s no wonder that this form factor has become so popular because they are both portable and powerful. With a mini PC, you don’t need a lot of room on your desk for one, and at the same time, small doesn’t
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REVIEW – If you told me in 2004 that in a few short years there would exist PCs (and Macs of course) that would be the size of a small stack of CDs, I would have rolled my eyes at you. My latest gaming PC then was the size of a small refrigerator, and laptops
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REVIEW – I have been fortunate to be able to test several mini PCs as a search for my new compact setup and possibly use them to replace my laptop and my larger computers in my home office/studio. So far, all the mini PCs I have tested have been built with AMD CPUs. Now I
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DEAL NEWS – Mini PCs make it easy to add a computer to any room in your home because they are small and don’t take up that much space. You can even take one with you when you travel if you pair it with one of the many USB-C monitors that we’ve reviewed here on
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REVIEW – A few months ago I tested the ACEMAGICIAN AMR5 mini PC and I loved it so much that I have since been using it in place of my laptop that developed a power problem. I have also been replacing all of my outdated computers with mini PCs, and I was happy to test
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – It seems like large, over-the-top PC builds are all the rage today. But, for every neon-lit, liquid-cooled, monster tower computer, there’s a PC building enthusiast running out of desk space. For those of us looking to save some room on our desktops, the XULU XR1 Max Mini PC is making its debut
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DEAL NEWS – Power, performance, and practical use of space are the selling points of this refurbished, tiny Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 desktop computer, now only $199.99. The days of the giant desktop computer tower are over. Today, nobody wants a huge metallic monstrosity cluttering up their workspace. However, if you’re still a devotee of the
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REVIEW – A few months ago I tested the ACEMAGICIAN AMR5 mini PC and I loved it so much that it is the PC that I use most frequently in my home office for regular browsing, documents, and audio and video editing. Last month, my EDC laptop developed an issue with the power port that
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REVIEW – A few months ago I tested the ACEMAGICIAN AMR5 mini PC and I loved it so much that it is the PC that I used most frequently in my home office for regular browsing, documents, and audio and video editing. Last month, my EDC laptop developed an issue with the power port that
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