Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Power? Contact. Fuel? Check. Ignition? Go! This, ladies and germs, is the way to boot up your desktop PC
News Delayed gratification at its finest.
OK, the Xe3 GPU in Intel's Panther Lake chip officially isn't Celestial, it's really just Xe2 'Plus Plus,' but even Intel itself doesn't yet understand how it all relates to its shock new deal with Nvidia
News So, that's all cleared up now. Not.
Windows 10 might be a goner but there are still some ancient icon relics inside Windows 11 that date all the way back to Windows 95
News Four score and 20 operating systems ago...
TCL's new OLED megafactory is purpose-built to make 'high-end' screens for monitors, laptops and tablets cheaper thanks to a low-cost inkjet manufacturing process
news An OLED factory that isn't all about TVs.
OpenAI launches its new agentic AI Atlas browser with the intention of taking over 'most web use' and a warning to 'weigh the tradeoffs' of using its most powerful features
News It's for Apple Macs only for now. Windows, iOS, and Android devices will submit to Atlas 'soon'.
Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.
Reports of OLED's death are greatly exaggerated and it's not about to be replaced by RGB mini-LED displays
news For now, nothing else can do the per-pixel lighting thing.
AMD's dual V-Cache uber CPU gets a (rumoured) name and a high-clocked single-die cousin: Give it up for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D
News 5.6 GHz across the board...
This utterly mesmerising beehive PC desk build took six months of painstaking labour and hypnotically simulates the bittersweet rise and fall of bee colonies in real time
News A stunning fusion of advanced DIY engineering and exhausting hand-finished craft.
Nvidia's little gold box of pure AI power, the DGX Spark, is finally out and the comparison with AMD's much cheaper Strix Halo chip is looking a little fugly
News FP4 to the rescue?
Apple announces new M5 chip with double the per-core performance of the M1 and it's got me wondering why AMD and Intel can't keep up with Apple's single-core performance gains
News New M5 chip is about twice as fast as the original M1 in raw single-thread benchmarks.
AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now
News Apparently, AI slop doesn't do well in searches.
The plot thickens as Intel announces a new data center GPU that could also preview its next-gen gaming graphics cards, but there's still no mention of Celestial
News This GPU was made for inferencing.
I've never really been sold on the whole external GPU thing, but I can't deny this Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock is seriously slick, it'll even charge your phone wirelessly
news Could this thing really transform a thin-and-light lappy into a gaming beast?
Uh oh, it's happening: ADATA chairman says the perfect storm of simultaneous DRAM, SSD and HDD shortages is already upon us and it looks like prices are only going in one direction
news All in the name of AI slop.
Best OLED gaming monitors in 2025: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.
Intel attempts to clarify whether the new Xe3 iGPU in Panther Lake is next-gen Celestial technology but I'm left confused and fearing for the future of Intel Arc graphics
News So is it Celestial, or not?
When will the AI bubble burst? As OpenAI signs yet another megabucks deal with Broadcom, can anyone make sense of the trillions of dollars involved?
News A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Hooray for the PC: Sales are up by nearly 10% on last year, but predictably things are quite a bit slower in the US
News That'll be those tariffs, then.
Kiss goodbye to your smartphone OS, ChatGPT wants to become an operating system complete with an AI app store
News Apple and Google will not like this one little bit.
Discord says 70,000 age-verification ID photos may have been leaked in recent security breach that also includes names, usernames, emails, credit cards, and IP addresses
News I just died of not-surprise.
Microsoft is planning to make it harder than ever to install Windows without an internet connection and a Microsoft account
News The number of work arounds is ever shrinking...
This new 4K gaming monitor is so ridiculously bright I'm gonna need to wear shades
News 1,600 nits of eye-popping panel power.
