computing articles published May 4, 2026
May 4 articles
- This Iconic '80s Gadget Is Considered A 'Buy It For Life' Item - Here's Why
- 5 Reasons To Avoid Buying An Ultrawide Monitor
- Kindle Battery Dying Fast? A Stuck Indexing Problem Might Be Why
- Microsoft highlights recent Windows 11 changes as it works to rebuild trust
- 'We're working to make widgets feel less distracting and overwhelming': Microsoft tames some of the ads in Windows 11 — and promises huge taskbar change is 'coming soon'
- You Should Never Put Stickers On This Part Of Your Laptop
- 6 months after Windows 10 was put to pasture, over a quarter of Steam users are still on the dying OS
- Walmart’s bestselling 11-inch tablet is now only $110
- MacBook Pro M4 vs iMac M4: which Mac is best for you?
- The Best Laptops for Programmers in 2026
- Exclusive: Next-generation TCL NXTPAPER aims to fix everything that's wrong with OLED
- Apple Just Made the Mac Mini More Expensive Without Actually Raising Its Price
- MacBook Neo vs. iPad Air: How I'm choosing between Apple's $599 laptop and tablet
- This Free Windows App Shows You Everything Your Computer Is Secretly Doing
- China unveils ambitious CPU-only exascale system
- You Should Stop Believing This Common PC Myth About Your Desktop Files
- Intel's Enhanced 18A-P Process Node Is Faster, More Efficient, and Easier to Cool
- Whatever you do, don't buy cheap DisplayPort cables for your PC - here's why
- Miss Windows XP or 7? Then I have a free, open-source alternative for you
- Your funny Wi-Fi name is secretly ruining your home network
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 435G APU breaks cover in early benchmarks — six-core Zen 5 chip goes head-to-head with the Ryzen 5 8600G for budget PC builders
- I turned a USB drive into a Linux app Swiss Army knife
- 5 MacOS command line tools I swear by over their GUI counterparts
- A TrackPoint you control with your feet exists and the reason why is unexpected
- This Samsung display tech offers a glimpse into what a Galaxy e-reader could look like
- 3 things you can do with the HDMI port on your NAS
- I thought you needed advanced math to build machine learning models, but I was wrong
- Apple stops selling its cheapest Mac Mini, moving the starting price to $799
- Stop opening ports on your router to access your home server (do this instead)
- The Best 4K Monitors for 2026
- Intel's Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU with 32GB of VRAM gets tested in games — Roughly twice as fast as Arc B580 on average, beats RTX 5060 Ti in some titles
- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M4) vs MacBook Pro 16-inch (M4): Which is the one for you?
- The server monitor I run on everything is 5MB and tracks every metric I need
- I held off on the MacBook Neo. I hope the next one fixes these 5 papercuts before I plonk cash
- Everyone assumes SSDs will win the next storage war (but they are secretly losing to old tech)
- Windows Photos now does what you paid Adobe for
- If You Have Fiber Internet, It Matters What Router You Have — Here's Why
- Can a smartphone beat a professional 3D scanner? I printed the results to find out
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 APU could arrive with 192GB of unified memory — leaked PassMark benchmarks suggest modest update over Strix Halo
- The best homelab services run 24/7 and get used maybe once a week
- AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D spotted on Passmark — company's first PRO chip with 3D V-Cache also bumps the lineup up to 16 cores
- Europe’s relationship with US Big Tech has reached a breaking point
- Amazon has a 2-in-1 laptop and tablet for just $60 that comes in 3 colors
- ‘Restart And Shut Down’—Microsoft Confirms Windows Update ‘Disruption’
- This 'cardputer' sits between the Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero - but it's uniquely better
