computing articles published July 23, 2025
July 23 articles
- Students: Grab one of our favorite laptops while it's on sale — Long battery life, solid performance, and a lower price make it ideal for heading back to school
- 6 Things That Haven’t Changed From Windows 1.0 to Windows 11
- Developers rewrite old assembly code and claim insane FFmpeg speed boost that may not mean much
- Maingear Amps Up the 90s Nostalgia With New Retro95 Desktop PC
- 'Wayback' Keeps Old Linux Desktop Environments Alive on Wayland
- Nvidia’s N1X Notebook Chip Reportedly Hits Another Snag With Windows
- Thunderbolt 5 is fast, but this weird flat GPU dock wants your desktop to get even messier
- Asus launches a Mac-friendly 6K screen with pro features, vivid colors, and an affordable price
- The Spirit Of Digital
- GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon
- Dell Pro Max 18 Plus comes with up to 128GB RAM, and will soon double it, but avoids AMD Ryzen entirely
- Say Goodbye to the Blue Screen of Death
- Windows XP Is Back, Thanks to a New Web-Based Emulator
- Windows 11's Big Update, a Better Narrator, and More: Windows Wednesday
- Hate Windows 11 and don't want to upgrade? Microsoft's scheme providing another year of (free) Windows 10 updates is now live
- Get a Surface SE Laptop With a 16-Hour Battery for $185
- How to Host Your Own Private Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Edge Tab and Bookmark Sync
- The reason Nvidia's upcoming Arm CPU is delayed is apparently in part because Microsoft isn't sorting out its next-gen OS quickly enough
- Hyte lowers prices for PC cases in the US after hiking them in response to Trump's tariffs, but innocent weebs are still paying the price
- Luxury PC company Maingear launches '90's style Retro95 beige PC — company known for flashy rigs with custom cooling and automotive paint brings old-school aesthetics to modern hardware
- Top 5 Student Laptop Deals Under $500 Right Now
- Unverified BIOS allegedly pushes RTX 5090D to over 2000 Watts — extreme firmware update designed for Asus ROG Astral 5090D is not for the faint-hearted
- Apple user troubled after noticing concerning pattern in several devices: 'Different locations, different batches, different months purchased'
- Months after Elon Musk's DOGE crusade to wipe it out, LTO tape storage is bigger than ever — a record 176.5 exabytes shipped in 2024, the fourth consecutive year of growth
- HP Series 7 Pro 34-inch WQHD Conferencing Monitor (734pm)
