Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Running Factorio from over 1,000 floppy disks is a masochistically manual process that surely sets a new record for game load times
News Put aside a week to get the game loaded.
Framework 'held off as long as we could' but just cranked up prices of its Desktops and Mainboards
News 32 GB and 64 GB models only up a little, 128 GB option now very spendy.
Nvidia's long-awaited N1X Arm chip for consumer PCs spotted in a near retail-ready Dell laptop
News But some of the details suggest Nvidia's near-mythical Arm chip may have been delayed.
Trump announces that AI companies must 'pay their own way' for energy consumption to prevent consumer utility bills from going up
News Ironically, capping energy prices is something the 'Radical Left' could get on board with.
Here's one solution to the ongoing PC memory crisis: Make your own DIY DDR5
News So, how's your soldering...?
Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU did not appear at CES but the rumours just won't go away
News G31 GPU shows up again, this time in an Intel driver package.
Gigabyte's new OLED gaming monitor debuts 'HyperNits' brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best?
CES 2026 In a word, no.
AMD leaves the door open to an official 'beta' version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs
News Just don't expect anything terribly optimised.
Intel's new handheld gaming chip rumoured to be called 'Core G3 Extreme' and rocks a full-spec Xe3 iGPU with 12 graphics cores
News It's the Panther Lake laptop chip, just slightly tweaked.
LG's new 39-inch 5K2K OLED is easily my favourite new PC monitor at CES 2026 and it might just be the gaming panel I've been waiting for
CES 2026 LG's latest OLED tech, 4K pixel density and ultrawide immersion, yum!
Intel had the most exciting product launch at CES 2026 and I absolutely wasn't expecting that
CES 2026 Intel's Panther Lake had zero competition, but it's still genuinely exciting.
LG and Samsung announce new TV OLED panel tech cranking out 4,500 nits of brightness, but don't expect anything like that for PC monitors
CES 2026 TV and PC OLED panels are related, but not quite the same.
These new dual-slot Nvidia RTX graphics cards from PNY are a throwback to a simpler time of sensibly-sized GPUs
CES 2026 But the pricing will no doubt be distinctly 2026.
Asus launches new gaming monitors with two completely different 'RGB stripe' OLED panel technologies
CES 2026 Okay, this is officially confusing.
Dell resurrects XPS brand with slick new laptop that's smaller than a MacBook Air, lasts 40 hours and relies on Intel's Panther Lake chip for gaming grunt
CES 2026 Fancy battery tech and tandem OLED screens are among the highlights.
MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 gaming monitor review
Score: 92% The latest QD-OLED tech is something very special.
PC gaming on Arm chips didn't quite happen in 2025, but the die is cast for an epic battle with x86 CPUs in the next few years
Arm-y There's a veritable CPU Arm-y marching towards the PC.
Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia
News Meanwhile, Razer Lake, Hammer Lake and Titan Lake take the fight to AMD.
Samsung outs world's first 1,040 Hz and 6K 3D gaming monitors ahead of CES
News If RAM prices are making a PC upgrade impossible, maybe 2026 is the year for a new gaming monitor?
Intel Panther Lake laptops leak early onto retailer sites, so it looks like 18A really is ready to roll
News Is this the beginning of Intel's comeback?
Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it
News That's one way to light up some Reddit threads...
AMD is allegedly sizing up Samsung's new 2 nm node as an alternative to TSMC's N2 silicon for its next-gen chips
News Keeping TSMC honest would be very good for the PC industry.
Microsoft's new guide to PC gaming hardware is very slightly more useful than you might expect but oddly has never heard of upscaling
News The shameless plug for Copilot+ AI PCs is a turn-off, too.
