Jeremy Laird

Jeremy Laird

Hardware writer

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

Snapdragon X2 Elite
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Arm CPU pops up in Geekbench and wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance

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News How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.

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A photo of an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X processor
AMD's CPU division is booming as CEO Dr. Lisa Su says sales 'far exceeded my expectations'

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News And yes, of course, it's down to AI.

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Microsoft Windows Event
Rumor that Microsoft plans to launch a 'modular' Windows 12 this year retracted by its source, refuted by others [Updated]

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Microsoft does not plan to ship a Windows 12 this year, according to sources reacting to a now-retracted PCWorld article.

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Apple MacBook Air M5
Apple somehow just doubled the amount of storage in the new MacBook Air M5 base model to 512 GB despite the memory crisis

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News Though the base price has gone up $100.

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Nvidia's GB10 Superchip
The cores in Nvidia's upcoming PC processor achieve 'performance parity' with Intel and AMD's latest chips, but will it actually be any good for games?

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News X86 emulation is the big unanswered question.

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card from various angles
Nvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures

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News Yep, it's probably China again, but maybe not just the usual Lunar New Year holiday buzz.

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CHONGQING, CHINA - DECEMBER 29: In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of “Claude,” an AI language model by Anthropic, with the company’s logo visible in the background, illustrating the rapid development and adoption of generative AI technologies, on December 29, 2024 in Chongqing, China. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of China’s strategic ambitions, with the government aiming to establish the country as a global leader in AI by 2030.
Anthropic ditches its defining safety promise to pause dangerous AI development because it's basically pointless when everybody else is 'blazing ahead'

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News There's apparently no point being the only careful AI company.

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CPU infinite ice cooler
YouTuber sets out to cool a CPU with infinite ice loop machine and actually achieves it

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Inefficient and impractical, but what the heck it actually works.

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An Intel Core Ultra Series 3 gaming laptop
New Intel graphics driver claims a remarkable 35% performance boost for Panther Lake's nifty little iGPU in Witcher 3 at 1080p

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Ye olde Arc A770 gets some fps upgrades, too.

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A photo of a 128 GB Crucial DDR5-6400 CUDIMM kit.
The company that stopped making memory for gamers just explained how important memory is for gamers. Yeah, really

By Jeremy Laird Published

News You want 96 GB of VRAM, apparently...

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HP Omen 30L
HP warns that memory now makes up around 35% of the cost its PCs, double that of a year ago

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Yet another entry for the annals of the memory crisis.

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Dog vibe coding
'I taught my dog to vibe code games': Yup, someone actually managed to get Claude AI to code a game based on the keyboard inputs of a pooch

By Jeremy Laird Published

News If this is what a Cavapoo can do, goodness knows what a Border Collie would code.

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AMD Instinct MI300 chip render.
AMD and Meta announce yet another circular megamoney GPU deal, this time for $60 billion of chips and potentially a 10% stake in AMD for Meta

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Meta to buy $60 billion in GPUs but might end up owning $35 billion share in AMD.

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Intel's first High NA EUV tool set up.
The company behind the machines that make pretty much all our computer chips reckons it has worked out how to increase production capacity by 50%

By Jeremy Laird Published

News All it takes is a little more light...

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Abxylute 3D One Handheld PC
Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 63% It's the world's only glasses-free 3D gaming handheld... for a reason.

Score: 63%
VR CRT
This YouTuber's homebrew VR headset using mini CRTs is way cooler and more usable than you would ever imagine

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Gordon Gekko would approve...

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Nvidia's GB10 Superchip
Nvidia dumps its $140 million stake in Arm but licensing deals remain and its new PC CPU is still go

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Nvidia once planned to take full control of Arm.

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Computerbase upscaling
Nvidia's DLSS upscaling beats AMD's FSR and plain old native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Upscaling is only becoming more important.

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Bose headphones
New research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Add this to your list of things to worry about.

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NZXT H2 Flow PC case
NZXT's latest mini-ITX PC case looks seriously nifty, I'm just not sure how I'm going to afford the RAM for the build...

By Jeremy Laird Published

News If you want a desktop PC that actually fits on your desktop...

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Windows 11 2H22 update screenshots
Windows 11 is getting a handy internet speed test built right into the taskbar

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Plus a load of other quite welcome tweaks, fixes and enhancements.

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Phison E26
Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says

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News This mess is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

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PS5 Pro
Bloomberg claims 'rampant AI demand for memory' is forcing Sony to consider pushing back the launch of its next-gen PlayStation as far back as 2029

By Jeremy Laird Published

News A plague on all our computing houses.

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A battery of WD hard drives.
Old school hard drives are getting more reliable according to a new survey but good luck buying one later this year thanks to AI demand

By Jeremy Laird Published

News 1.36% overall HDD failure rate reported as one drive maker says it's sold out for 2026.

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Samsung Penta Tandem QD-OLED
Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense

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News Five times two is 10?

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