Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Role-playing video games are a timeless staple of the medium, but if you’ve ever owned a Game Boy, you know they’re particularly great on portable devices. Which brings us to the portable game player of the moment: Valve’s Steam Deck. With a typical focus on story and strategy over visuals, RPGs might…
Windows 11 has a few rough spots. But for power users, there are none rougher than the new interface, specifically Microsoft’s new approach to the Start menu and taskbar. What had evolved into a surprisingly functional and elegant tool as of Windows 10 seems to have taken a few steps back, imitating other modern operating…
Stardock Software’s Start11 utility is shipping today as a 1.0 release, and if you hate the reductionist new design of the Windows 11 Start menu and taskbar, you’ll want to check it out. Start11, among other handy tricks, lets you move the taskbar around your desktop and configure the Start menu to emulate Windows 10’s…
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This gaming app demands a surprising amount of resources. Mark Hachman / IDG Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors As laptop performance improves over time, you may be excited to discover that the PC you reserved exclusively for Excel and Zoom calls now can…
Don’t have time for endless benchmark charts and technical-ese? Read this. The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT hits shelves on March 18—and so we’ve put it to the test for you all. In this video, Alaina gives a quick rundown of the top 5 things you should know about this mid-tier card’s performance, price, and…
The results are definitive: The Surface Pro 7+ absolutely crushes the Surface Pro 7 in graphics performance. Mark Hachman / IDG Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7+ (or Surface Pro 7 Plus) launched unexpectedly last month, stepping up from the…
Snapdragon 765 vs Android’s fastest phones Qualcomm Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors If you’re spending time poring over Android phone spec sheets when deciding which phone to buy, then you know there are basically two processors to look for: the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon…
Can an eGPU upgrade your laptop’s gaming chops? Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Thunderbolt 3 based eGPUs have been around for many years, offering the ability to plug a full desktop-class GPU into a laptop. Theoretically it’s an appealing idea,…