
Jeremy Laird
Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
Latest articles by Jeremy Laird

If you want to know why graphics cards are still so painfully pricey, you might want to take a look at TSMC's record-high profits which are heading for $50 billion this year
By Jeremy Laird published
News Would sir care for just one more wafer?

OptiScaler has been updated to theoretically support AMD's FSR 4 in all games with upscaling that don't use Vulkan or anti-cheat—which is nice, but why the heck doesn't AMD do this?
By Jeremy Laird published
news FSR 4 is great, which is why the limited game support is so disappointing.

Mercedes just put in a bid for the worst idea ever by enabling you to stream yourself driving during those vital Teams meetings
By Jeremy Laird published
News Oh, and they're adding Microsoft 365 Copilot, too. Hurrah!

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant can now optionally see your entire desktop—maybe it will be able to finally explain what Windows error code 0x8007002c means
By Jeremy Laird published
news Oh, and you can make it look like Clippy, too...

Intel rumoured to be working on a Nova Lake-based CPU with a mega iGPU to take on AMD's Strix Halo
By Jeremy Laird published
News Lots and lots of XE3 compute units.

MSI releases new all-bright HDR mode update for its QD-OLED gaming monitors but OLED's underlying limitations remain
By Jeremy Laird published
news A welcome addition, just be aware it can't make OLED do anything that it inherently isn't capable of.

Intel job losses mount as 4,000 layoffs are reported across multiple sites in California, Oregon, Texas and Arizona
By Jeremy Laird published
News But there could be much worse to come.

As if being worth $4 trillion isn't enough, Nvidia claims the US government says it can start selling AI GPUs to China again
By Jeremy Laird published
News But still not the really powerful ones.

Finally, a good use for crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs: You can track Europe's record-breaking heatwaves as they fall over, according a Firefox browser dev
By Jeremy Laird published
News Bugs apparently don't like the heat.

Pour one out for the stunning RTX 5080 gaming laptop deal that is now merely a good one. I mean, it remains the cheapest RTX 5080 notebook you'll find, but still 🥲
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day HP's Omen Max 16 is the laptop in question and it's still significantly cheaper than any other RTX 5080 gaming notebook.

Uberwide 49-inch OLED gaming monitors used to be $2,000, you can still get one for $729 and it might just be the best Prime Day monitor deal around
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day More screen than you can possibly imagine.

I've been reviewing screens since forever, and the Prime Day gaming monitor deals this year are the best I've ever seen
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Prime Day 1440p high refresh for $150, OLED for well under $500, there's just so much to choose from.

A 4K 32-inch MSI OLED gaming monitor for $699? Please take my money and call it quits for Prime Day 2025
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day Is this peak PC gaming?

I love OLED monitors more than is strictly healthy, so I spent all day finding the very best Prime Day OLED gaming monitor deals for 2025
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day All OLED, all the time.

I gave Alienware's 34-inch OLED gaming monitor five stars when it was $1,100 but now it's half price at $550 for Amazon Prime Day
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day OLED gaming monitors are actually getting affordable.

At just $470 thanks to this Amazon Prime Day deal, this is the first 27-inch 1440p OLED gaming monitor that actually makes sense
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day 240 Hz, 27 inches, 1440p and all the OLED goodness.

OLED is the must-have gaming monitor tech and I've got some great early Prime Day deals for you
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day Ole, ole, ole, OLED.

Amazon will soon deploy more bots than it employs people now that it has a million robots
By Jeremy Laird published
News Wait, Amazon has over one million employees?

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Turns out you can transform your very ordinary car into an actual Mario Kart controller (but you probably shouldn't)
By Jeremy Laird published
News Just about the only way to make a 2016 Renault Clio interesting.

Intel's ex-CEO said he bet the company on the 18A node but now a new report claims Intel is pushing customers to next-gen 14A instead
By Jeremy Laird published
News 18A lives on for Intel's Panther Lake CPUs, but will that be enough?

Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
By Jeremy Laird published
News Ditch Google, Gmail and Android, add a Deck, Graphene and a Raspberry Pi.

'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team
By Jeremy Laird published
News It's much easier for Microsoft to slap an Xbox sticker on an existing piece of hardware and call it day.

The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
News Looks like the end of the road for most GeForce GTX graphics cards later this year.
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