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
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Hard to believe but Secure Boot BIOS security has been compromised on hundreds of PC models from big brands because firmware engineers used four-letter passwords
By Jeremy Laird published
News Critical encrypted file with mere four-character password to blame.
![Best gaming monitors on a green background with the PC Gamer Recommends badge in the top right of the image](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kQ24HdzUS9YedZTLwTc7zb-320-80.jpg)
Best gaming monitors in 2024: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
By Dave James last updated
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
![Two of the best OLED gaming monitors on a blue background with the PC Gamer Recommends badge.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LYYsX8uTEoVbQ8v54tcYbi-320-80.jpg)
Best OLED gaming monitors in 2024: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.
![Two of the best 4K gaming monitors, the MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED and the LG UltraGear 27GR93U on a grey background with the PC Gamer recommended logo in the top right corner](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WxPAR33Yh7pFgYCh9hxmdA-320-80.jpg)
Best 4K gaming monitors in 2024
By Dave James last updated
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.
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Mark Zuckerberg launches Meta's latest AI model, moans about Apple being mean and imagines a future of AI bots commenting on each other's social media posts
By Jeremy Laird published
News Truly, the Zuck is an irony-free zone.
![The Asus ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDM and the Alienware 34 QD-OLED AW3423DWF ultrawide gaming monitors on a blue buying guide background with a PC Gamer recommended logo in the top right](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ikWQMN2nVjvTKYm3gMUzGW-320-80.jpg)
Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2024: the expansive panels I recommend for PC gamers
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Expansive It's time to go wide... ultrawide: these gaming monitors are wider, brighter, and faster than ever.
![A delidded AMD Ryzen 9000 series processor held in a hand, showing the two CCD and one IOD chiplets](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zu72JJXmoXDK29xyhrkFqh-320-80.jpg)
AMD is already prepping a 3nm update to its new Zen 5 CPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
News 4nm and 3nm Zen 5 plans are so close, they're "on top of each other".
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Microsoft's latest speech generator is so good it's afraid to release it to the public
By Jeremy Laird published
news VALL-E 2 will remain a research project due to the potential risks of 'misuse'.
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Chrome beats all comers in web browser drag race, never mind the memory footprint and privacy problems
By Jeremy Laird published
news Faster than Edge, Firefox, Opera, and the rest.
![Lenovo Legion 7000K MoDT gaming PC](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MgDTDjotiis647sZpkwpNn-320-80.jpg)
PC sales are finally on the up again as Lenovo tightens its grip on the top spot in the charts while Dell takes a dip
By Jeremy Laird published
news All the big brands are up... apart from Dell.
![Intel Meteor Lake CPU](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qr2wbBpWWySKuox8g3UVn7-320-80.jpg)
Intel reportedly won't make any cheaper GPU-less 'F' spec versions of its top Arrow Lake CPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
news But we could still see some pure CPU models with the iGPU turned off further down the range.
![Intel Alchemist GPU renders on a blue gradient background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PksMGDUAVreZjfT5HEYasQ-320-80.jpg)
Why TSMC's 4nm silicon will make or break Intel's new Battlemage GPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
news Has the competition gone for N4 or N3?
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Mark Zuckerberg accuses AI competitors of attempting to 'create God'
By Jeremy Laird published
news The Zuck warns against the quest for 'one true AI'.
![A promotional image by security software company 0patch, for its intended security update package for Microsoft Windows 10](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XcmAHiyxmaAysq37AGQMSA-320-80.png)
Ageing Windows 10 PCs will live on an extra five years thanks to third-party security patches
By Jeremy Laird published
news 0patch's "micropatches" can be applied without a reboot and easily reversed.
![Intel Lunar Lake](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4WXf5z3SZ657wbzMadBm4g-320-80.jpg)
Intel denies Lunar Lake laptop chip delay but reports say Arrow Lake could actually go on sale first
By Jeremy Laird published
news Intel's seemingly intentional vagueness has the rumour mill in a tizz.
![A photograph of a silicon wafer from TSMC, showing multiple rows of individual dies](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dack3ubkkCLzGNpiVehom7-320-80.jpg)
Super-tiny capacitors could enable a 'whole new realm' of ultra-efficient devices, maybe even handheld gaming PCs with more than 15 minutes of battery life
By Jeremy Laird published
news Dare we hope for a gaming handheld with usable battery life?
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Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD gaming monitor review
By Jeremy Laird published
DumbTV disaster So frustrating, it'll make you cry.
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SSD prices could steady or even drop as NAND chip makers boost production
By Jeremy Laird published
News Not that SSD pricing ever got all that bad.
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Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company, but will somebody please think about poor old PC gamers?
By Jeremy Laird published
News Adios Apple and Microsoft, you're old news.
![Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corp., during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 13, 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/d5UvepN9xcPy68xoLQBH93-320-80.jpg)
Microsoft president grovels before Congress, takes responsibility for a 'cascade' of cybersecurity errors
By Jeremy Laird published
news Chinese hackers accessed US government data thanks to Microsoft's 'avoidable errors'.
![Snapdragon X Elite](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PFiCdx5kbSAJSKjJAV3yzJ-320-80.jpeg)
Qualcomm touts Intel-beating gaming performance for its Snapdragon X Arm chip, promises gaming app plus monthly GPU driver updates
By Jeremy Laird published
news Qualcomm is making quite the push for PC gaming with its new chip.
![AMD Ryzen render with orange glow under the chip](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Vqwo2hcrrSy7bcXouxsXCM-320-80.jpg)
Pay no attention to AMD's horribly misleading benchmarks for its 'new' Ryzen 5000 XT CPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
news And really pretty naughty.
![AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RcVVsARLbsaPXhxEoQg525-320-80.jpg)
AMD's greatest gaming CPU won't be beaten by AMD's latest gaming CPU, and that's according to AMD
By Jeremy Laird published
news But upcoming X3D versions of Ryzen 9000-series chips will be even better.