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Hard Drive, SSD, NVMe, M.2: What's Best?

Seeking a storage boost on Cyber Monday? I've edited more than a thousand reviews of drives of all kinds in my career, and my ...

Building a gaming PC on a budget in 2025 doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice performance. With the prices of mid-range ...

Those of you who have built multiple PCs might have some old SSDs lying in a drawer, next to your ancient HDDs. While you might turn your nose up at an old SATA or Gen3 NVMe SSD, it still has several ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

Every new Windows laptop starts the same way. It looks tidy, but within a day you notice the small annoyances. Finding files takes too long, multitasking feels clumsy, and some formats still need ...

Ubuntu MATE uses the MATE desktop (which is lightweight yet full-featured), which makes it easy for new users to hop onto the Linux bandwagon. MATE is as easy as it gets, with a bottom panel, a top ...

A freshly installed system starts up quickly and responds swiftly. A few updates and new software installations later, however, Windows seems to become slower and slower. There are several ways to ...

Windows 11 is a solid operating system that offers some benefits over its predecessors. It features a fresh design, solid gaming performance, and offers much better multitasking over the prior version ...

The outlook for PC component prices look grim for 2026. Storage and RAM in particular is affected, with prices already risen in recent weeks. (Blame AI datacenters.) So in contrast to previous years, ...

Microsoft has released the KB5072753 out-of-band cumulative update to fix a known issue causing the November 2025 KB5068966 hotpatch update to reinstall on Windows 11 systems repeatedly. As the ...