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Samsung turned my trade-in into an $1,100 nightmare
A lot, as it happened. Samsung was offering a staggering $1100 for my Fold 6. I checked, and that was…
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Nvidia built the gaming laptop of the future. But don’t buy RTX Spark for games
But when most people think of an “Nvidia laptop,” they probably assume it’s for gaming. And the RTX Spark can…
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This $7,000 Asus RTX Spark laptop feels like Darth Vader’s MacBook Pro
My testing is deep, weird, and still underway. Stay tuned. But that review is going to spend a lot of…
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Congress has a radical idea: Let people own the games they buy
This is potentially a big deal for anyone who plays PC games, because just about every game you buy on…
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Hear me out: Xbox’s new Cloud Playtime streaming charges are reasonable
This could be a little confusing, so let me lay it out for you. You might want to pay for…
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Nvidia and Microsoft want to kill PC gaming’s shader-stutter nightmare
Nvidia says Advanced Shader Delivery can let supported games skip local shader compilation entirely, while Microsoft says the technology can…
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AMD just gave your old Radeon GPU a new lease on life
That last one’s particularly good to see, and it somehow manages to squeak in both ahead of official schedule yet…
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Star Wars Galactic Racer misses the glory days of podracing as much as we do
So you’ve got a cast full of characters who love racing…but no podracing to be seen. Podracers are so fast…
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This $3,200 RTX Spark laptop still wants me to pay for ad-free Solitaire
And it still wants you to pay $3 a month to get rid of the advertising in the built-in solitaire…
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Nvidia is no longer a PC gaming company. Get used to it
Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the surprising topics…
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Gamers don’t need a $5,000 RTX 5090 anyway. DLSS got good enough
When the RTX 5090 launched almost two years ago, Nvidia slapped a staggering $1,999 price tag on its new flagship.…
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I’m unreasonably excited about Googlebooks getting custom ROMs
A brave new (old) world This requires a bit of context. See, I’m an Android guy. I started my tech…
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