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PCMag’s “All About AI” series distills a messy, fast-moving industry pivot into a practical playbook for buyers, explaining why the new class of AI-capable PCs matters, what the hardware metrics actually mean, and which Windows features are likely to change day-to-day workflows. Background /...

Razer’s CES presence this year felt less like the steady stream of incremental peripherals and more like a series of bold experiments: a desk-sized holographic AI companion that actually speaks and moves, smart headphones with first-person cameras that promise continuous AI assistance, an...

HP’s CES 2026 slate reframes the PC not as a single device but as a distributed, Copilot‑enabled ecosystem — from a full Windows PC inside a keyboard to 85‑TOPS NPUs across business and consumer notebooks, printer‑side Copilot integrations, and a unified gaming brand — a coordinated push to make...

HP’s OmniBook Ultra 14 is less a single product and more a statement: a supremely thin, Copilot+‑ready ultraportable that pairs Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 Elite silicon (in an HP‑exclusive variant) with a high‑fidelity 2,880 × 1,800 OLED panel, an integrated vapor‑chamber cooling system...

NVIDIA’s new Rubin platform, unveiled at CES 2026, promises to redraw the economics and architecture of large-scale inference and agentic AI by combining a six‑chip, rack‑scale co‑design with a new AI‑native storage layer — and with headline claims of up to 10× lower inference cost and...

Dell has quietly but unmistakably bowed to a chorus of criticism and brought the XPS name back into its premium laptop lineup — this time with a full redesign that pairs a more conventional, user-friendly input layout with modern AI-ready silicon and a renewed focus on build quality and battery...

LG’s return to the Wallpaper concept at CES with a 9mm‑class, True Wireless OLED — the LG OLED evo W6 — reintroduces one of the most design‑forward TV ideas of the last decade while packing modern brightness, AI smarts and a wireless “Zero Connect Box” that promises visually lossless 4K video up...

Now that the confetti has settled on the holidays, CES 2026 is ready to prove an argument that felt half-theoretical a year ago: AI is no longer a single feature on a product spec sheet — it’s the new substrate of consumer electronics, from the silicon inside laptops to the LEDs behind your...

2025 began as another year of incremental gadget refreshes and closed 12 months later with an unmistakable industry diagnosis: we had collectively slopified our devices. What started as earnest experiments in generative assistance, on-device inference, and conversation-driven UIs became, for...

2025 closed as an unmistakable inflection point: a year when the tech industry deliberately pruned entire product families, retired long‑running services, and folded experiments into larger platforms — moves driven by AI readiness, cost discipline, regulatory standardization, and changing user...

Olares One lands as a striking proof‑of‑concept: a 3.5‑litre mini PC that packs laptop‑class flagship silicon, a top‑tier mobile GPU and workstation‑class memory into a palmable chassis — but it also surfaces uncomfortable questions about software compatibility, long‑term reliability and the...

Microsoft’s next big Windows moment—widely referred to in leaks and forum chatter as “Windows 12”—remains, for now, an industry rumor rather than an announced product, but the timing of Windows 10’s end-of-support and Microsoft’s public push for AI‑ready hardware have created fertile ground for...

Microsoft’s hardware strategy appears to be entering a new phase: industry reports say the company is in advanced talks with Broadcom to co-develop custom AI chips for Azure, a move that could recalibrate supplier relationships, ease capacity constraints for large-scale inference workloads, and...

Logitech’s CEO cut through the hype: many standalone AI gadgets are solutions looking for problems, and that blunt assessment is reshaping how hardware makers — and buyers — should think about artificial intelligence in everyday devices. Background The past two years have been a feeding frenzy...

Logitech’s CEO Hanneke Faber has stirred the tech pond by calling out a growing trend she sees as AI for the sake of AI: standalone, AI-first consumer gadgets that, in her words to Bloomberg, are “a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t exist.” Her remark lands oddly because Logitech...

Dell’s own numbers make something plain: the Windows 11 migration is slower and messier than Microsoft hoped, and that slow pace is reshaping OEM planning, PC refresh timing, and the narratives Microsoft is using to sell the next generation of AI-capable machines. Background / Overview The crux...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced a sweeping three‑way strategic partnership that binds Anthropic’s Claude models to Microsoft Azure at massive scale, secures deep co‑engineering between Anthropic and NVIDIA on next‑generation hardware, and includes headline investment and compute...

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic have announced a landmark three‑way alliance that reshapes the competitive map of generative AI and hyperscale cloud infrastructure: Anthropic has committed to purchase roughly $30 billion of compute from Microsoft Azure and to initially deploy up to one gigawatt...

Windows 12 is not arriving this year — and Microsoft’s roadmap makes clear why the company is leaning into Windows 11, Copilot+ hardware, and iterative feature updates instead of rushing a numbered successor. Background / Overview Microsoft’s next major Windows chapter has been the subject of...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have announced a sweeping, three‑way strategic partnership that ties Anthropic’s Claude family of models to Microsoft's Azure at massive scale, brings deep co‑engineering with NVIDIA, and includes multibillion‑dollar investment commitments that could reshape...