Can a £300 gaming PC compare to a £3,000 one? Serious gaming on Ultrabooks. Seriously Turn your Linux PC into a gaming PC machine This was always going to be a year of transition. The one-trick gaming PC brick of yesterday is increasingly looking more like a Raspberry Pi running an Acorn emulator than an [...]

The Cloud Is Killing The PC, And Giving It New Life For several months we have been hearing about the imminent demise of the Personal Computer. After all, new computer sales dipped 14% last year, so surely the industry must be doomed, Doomed, DOOMED! The personal computer industry has certainly slumped, but these are dynamic [...]

Windows 8 Microsoft has made upgrading to Windows 8 really easy with its upgrade tool, but if you have special needs and need a more traditional installation disc, you might not know where to look. Here’s how to create one. Image remixed from Nemo and geralt (Pixabay). You may not realise this (I didn’t), but [...]

Is it worth upgrading your old PC for gaming? How to install memory Why PC memory no longer matters One of the greatest things about the PC is the sheer variety of hardware at our disposal. Whereas with a sealed-box console, or even a laptop PC, you’re stuck with the original hardware your device shipped [...]

Windows 8 Blue Upgrade Microsoft marketing chief Tami Reller says Windows 8 has sold 100 million licenses, and an upgrade (code-named Windows 8 Blue) is under development. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) confirmed an upcoming Windows 8 update, code named Windows Blue, that will enable the touch-enabled operating system to run on more devices (including smaller tablets) and, [...]

The pixel Be sad, fellow geeks, for we are witnessing the slow death of a staunch companion the pixel . Between the proliferation of Retina displays, ultrahigh-resolution smartphone screens, überexpensive 4K televisions, and the ironically named Chromebook Pixel, eye candy has never been so abundantly available, nor so abundantly delicious. Screens are saturated with millions–millions–of [...]

  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is preparing an update for Windows 8 as new licensing figures indicate the new operating system isn’t fueling enough demand to reverse a slump in personal-computer sales. The 100 million Windows 8 licenses sold since the software’s debut in October are in the “general ballpark” with the previous version during a [...]

IDC’s PC sales numbers show a dramatic fall, but they’re not the whole story. Before we blame one thing we need to take a much more nuanced view and look at the last decade of the IT world. After all, nothing is ever as simple as it seems. We’re at an interesting inflexion point in [...]

The third time might be the charm for Microsoft, which just released a third update in as many months meant to fix Wi-Fi connectivity issues plaguing the Surface RT tablet. Since its release late last year, hundreds of Surface RT users have taken to Microsoft’s support forums to complain about spotty Wi-Fi woes. They reported [...]

PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it’s starting to look like it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices reshapes the way people use technology. The latest evidence of the PC’s infirmity emerged Wednesday with the release [...]