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

MSI MPG 322UR X24 monitor
MSI MPG 322UR X24 gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 92% The art of QD-OLED very nearly perfected.

Score: 92%
Kingston A400 SATA SSD 100 million sales graphic
SATA drives are still going strong as Kingston announces it has shipped 100 million A400 SSDs

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Perfect for when you're feeling precious about PCIe lanes...

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Google Chrome
Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it

By Jeremy Laird Published

News 'Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.'

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A screenshot of Windows 95, with WordPad running on the desktop
Microsoft exec. confirms Windows 11 is just as full of old code as you suspected: 'We were thinking flying cars and moon stations by the year 2026, not Win32'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News "Did anyone in the '90s expect Win32 to still be a first-class API surface in the year 2026? And I think I can safely answer, no."

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Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO
'In China we have now dropped to zero': CEO Jensen Huang bemoans Nvidia's market share and calls for US to export AI 'like crazy'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Restricting sales of GPUs to China has 'backfired.'

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Alienware AW2726DM monitor
Alienware AW2726DM gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 85% Alienware's surprisingly affordable, but still pretty excellent, QD-OLED gaming monitor.

Score: 85%
Image of the DualSense controller from the front on in situ.
Raspberry Pi-based homebrew dongle enables full wireless Sony DualSense controller functionality on the PC including haptics

By Jeremy Laird Published

News With better latency than a generic Bluetooth dongle, too?

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ChatGPT ascii art goblin
'Where the goblins came from': OpenAI's strange but not entirely surprising story of little critters infesting ChatGPT's output

By Jeremy Laird Published

News 'Goblins, gremlins, and other creatures...'

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A screenshot from the promotional video for the Apple Vision Pro headset, showing a long haired man holding on to a pair like Dambuster goggles
Apple has reportedly 'given up' on the Vision Pro headset and that doesn't seem like a good thing for VR, generally

By Jeremy Laird Published

News No more Metaverse, Vision Pro apparently dead, VR just can't get a break... roll on Steam Frame.

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A screenshot of DLSS 5 running in Starfield
Microsoft announces Shader Model 6.10 preview, bringing neural rendering into the mainstream and just maybe making the games industry a bit less reliant on Nvidia

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Max out your GPU's matrix hardware without paying fealty to Nvidia.

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Keychron Q0 Mini 8K Action Key
Keychron unleashes big, eminently bashable $65 mechanical single-key keyboard with 8K polling for ultra-low latency tantrums

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Fully mechanical stress relief...

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Samsung Odyssey G8-G80hs 6K monitor
Samsung's 'world's first' 6K 32-inch gaming monitor goes on sale for 1,499 euros

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Expect a similar dollar price.

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Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White
Valve is 'hard at work' on the Steam Deck 2, but over four years after the OG Deck there's still no indication of a launch date

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Valve wants the next Steam Deck to be a really major upgrade.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren
'I know a bubble when I see one': US senator's grave warning about the AI industry

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Senator Warren fears another '2008-style financial crisis'.

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Man with hands out using a VR headset.
Is smellovision the future of VR gaming?: 'Projectile vomiting as your headset psychically projects the scent of yeast-infected rotting fish from the pregnant fox OC on the other side of the room'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Be very careful what you ask for...

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A cropped screenshot of an AMD video, in which Sony's Horizon Forbidden West is used to demonstrate AMD's FSR 4 upscaling technology
Former head of FSR development at AMD posts 'big trouble' meme when asked why the company won't release the INT8 version of FSR 4 for older GPUs

By Jeremy Laird Published

News The guy that previously lead development of FSR 4 thinks AMD should release it for older GPU owners.

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CHIBA, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 26: The Xbox logo is seen during the Tokyo Game Show 2024 at Makuhari Messe on September 26, 2024 in Chiba, Japan. The gaming exhibition is one of the world's largest and will be held through September 29th. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
Microsoft's Xbox 'Helix' chip is reportedly the basis of next-gen consoles made by Asus and MSI, but you won't be able to buy it separately

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Probably not the budget PC gaming saviour we've been hoping for.

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. TSMC is scheduled to release earnings results on Oct. 19.
TSMC reportedly plots ultra-advanced sub-1 nm chips with 'trial' production starting in 2029 [Updated]

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Meanwhile, TSMC's A14 node is supposedly go for 2028.

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Gigabyte GO27Q24G
Gigabyte GO27Q24G gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 75% This cheaper WOLED gaming monitor comes at an image quality cost.

Score: 75%
Gigabyte MO27Q28GR
Gigabyte MO27Q28GR gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 90% This is surely the sweet spot for 1440p OLED gaming.

Score: 90%
GlaDOS from Portal
Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions

By Jeremy Laird Published

News It definitely won't be anything like GlaDOS...

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MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36
Use this handy cheat sheet to keep track of all those confusing Samsung QD-OLED gaming monitor panel generations

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Know your RGB V-stripe from your HyperEfficient EL 3.0.

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Holding an Xbox controller in front of a keyboard
Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits

By Jeremy Laird Published

News If yours was missing batteries, Microsoft will send you a freebie.

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Intel Arc Pro B70 GPUs
Intel updates Arc graphics driver with 'gaming support' for the GPU gamers aren't getting

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Intel Arc Pro B70 is the GPU we want but can't have.

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Apple MacBook Neo in Citrus colour.
Apple's MacBook Neo is reportedly close to selling out which has got me thinking about why we can't have more simple and affordable gaming PCs like the Steam Deck

By Jeremy Laird Published

News An RTX 5090 is nice and all, but...

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