Tag Archives: PCs

The best budget computer speakers: Surprisingly sound choices for $100 or less

Your laptop’s built-in speakers aren’t doing any favors for the gigs and gigs of music and movies on your hard drive. Even the best ones can leave your audio sounding thin and lifeless. External PC speakers—along with a good set of headphones—are a must for getting the best fidelity from your media files. A trip… Read More »

PCWorld’s September Digital Magazine: Intel’s 10th-gen CPU is here

Stay on top of the latest tech with PCWorld’s Digital Magazine. Available as single copies or as a monthly subscription, it highlights the best content from PCWorld.com—the most important news, the key product reviews, and the most useful features and how-to stories—in a curated Digital Magazine for Android and iOS, as well for the desktop… Read More »

Best cheap laptops: We rate the best-sellers on Amazon and Best Buy

When you’re looking for a good, cheap laptop, good market insight will allow you to get what you want. Every budget machine (which we’re defining as Windows laptops costing $500 or less) is the product of compromise—corners carefully cut here and there to hit a price point. I’ll show you what to look for by… Read More »

Acer unveils a hulking $14,000 gaming cockpit, a 300Hz Predator laptop, and more at IFA

Acer rolled into the annual IFA tradeshow in Berlin with plenty in store for PC gaming enthusiasts, showing off a hulking $14,000 multi-monitor gaming cockpit, a laptop with a blazingly fast 300Hz display, an affordable new gaming notebook, and more. Believe it or not, the $14,000 Predator Thronos Air is actually $6,000 cheaper than the… Read More »

Logitech unveils next-gen MX Master 3 smart mouse, MX Keys keyboard

On Wednesday, Logitech announced the Logitech MX Master 3: Its next-generation intelligent mouse, and the MX Keys wireless keyboard. Both are expected to ship in September and will cost $100 apiece.   The 4,000dpi MX Master 3 mouse features: New MagSpeed mouse wheel, which the company claims is 90 percent faster. Unfortunately, like before, the… Read More »

Intel: Core i9-9900KS, Cascade Lake-X chips will ship in October

  Intel said Wednesday that it plans to ship two high-end desktop processors next month: both its monstrous Core i9-9900KS processor and its upcoming Cascade Lake-X gaming processor will go on sale.In a presentation from the IFA show in Berlin, Ryan Shrout, chief performance strategist at Intel, said that Intel is aware of the competition, specifically… Read More »