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The LG C5 and Apple’s M4 Mac Mini are both steeply discounted this weekend

The LG C5 and Apple’s M4 Mac Mini are both steeply discounted this weekend

The LG C5 and Apple's M4 Mac Mini are both steeply discounted this weekend Small footprint. Speedy performance. | Image: The Verge Happy Saturday, folks! This week, Best Buy kicked off its so-called “Winter Sale,” introducing a whole host of price cuts that range from not-so-good to legitimately great, at least for this time of […]

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great Is this… bliss? | Screenshot: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop. In November, I got fed up and said screw it, I’m installing Linux. Since that article was published, I have dealt with one minor catastrophe after another. […]

Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch

Nvidia and Intel’s  billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch

Nvidia and Intel's $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD's lunch Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world’s most valuable company (Nvidia’s at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a $5 billion lifeline to a struggling competitor. Nvidia quickly shut down several possible […]

The Framework Desktop made me fall for small form factor PCs

The Framework Desktop made me fall for small form factor PCs

The Framework Desktop made me fall for small form factor PCs The Framework easily fits on any desk. Framework has built a name for itself by taking the locked down world of laptops and making them modular, upgradable, and repairable. So it’s surprising – and maybe even controversial – the way that Framework has approached […]

Microsoft’s miniature Windows 365 Link PC is available to buy now

Microsoft’s miniature Windows 365 Link PC is available to buy now

Microsoft's miniature Windows 365 Link PC is available to buy now Microsoft’s miniature Windows 365 Link PC is available to buy now Microsoft’s business-oriented “Link” mini-desktop PC, which connects directly to the company’s Windows 365 cloud service, is now available to buy for $349.99 in the US and in several other countries. Windows 365 Link, […]

Here are all the Nvidia DGX Spark versions so far

Here are all the Nvidia DGX Spark versions so far

Here are all the Nvidia DGX Spark versions so far Nvidia showed off its own Grace Blackwell-powered “personal AI supercomputers” yesterday, but it also made another announcement: third-party manufacturers can come and make their own versions as well. So far, Asus, Dell, and HP have come forward showing their own mini PC designs that tout […]

Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed

Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed

Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft's first desktop gracefully failed Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed Editor’s note: Ahead of Microsoft’s 50th’s anniversary, we’ve fixed the layout on this story — which we originally published in 2012 when Windows 8 launched. Now’s a good time to revisit our look at an operating system […]

Apple launches new Mac Studios with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips

Apple launches new Mac Studios with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips

Apple launches new Mac Studios with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips The new Mac Studio. After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio with a curious new quirk: it straddles two generations, with an M4 Max for the base model and an M3 Ultra for the upgraded model. You […]

Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass

Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass

Framework's first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass Framework, the modular computer company, has just announced its first desktop PC, which is something it absolutely did not need to do — but I’m glad it did. Partly because the […]