PERSONAL TECH Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets
Legal Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program
Offbeat Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space
Personal Tech Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery
Systems Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes
Personal Tech Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades
Personal Tech HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz HP IQ can chat, share files, and break down everything people said in the conference room.
On-Prem Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again?
Systems PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought 'This is perhaps the biggest challenge the industry has faced since its inception'
Personal Tech Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet
Public Sector UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months Massive procurement deal for laptops and software comes after minister vows to squeeze better value from big vendors
Public Sector Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11 Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline
Personal Tech Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive
Systems Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January
Security Data destruction done wrong could cost your company millions Doing a simple system reset may not be enough to save you from fines and lawsuits
Personal Tech Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys
Personal Tech Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it We almost got more butterfly keyboards and foldable workstations
Personal Tech Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each year
Personal Tech M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair Cupertino’s latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says
Personal Tech Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus Desktop family gets chip boost as MacBook Air bags an M4 upgrade, more memory, price cut
Personal Tech Lenovo teases solar-powered and folding screen concept laptops Annual Barcelona tech fest brings demo devices that aren't commercially available... will they ever see light of day?
Personal Tech Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative Chromebook-area pricing for latest designs
Personal Tech Laptop makers stalled on repairability improvements Apple, Dell made some progress, but MacBooks are still the worst to crack open, says PIRG
Personal Tech Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot
Personal Tech Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung Lenovo’s already showing them off in a bonkers laptop
Systems Additional Microprocessors Decoded: Quick guide to what AMD is flinging out next for AI PCs, gamers, business Plus: A peek at Nvidia's latest hype
Personal Tech Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap
Personal Tech Windows 10's farewell tour – not AI PCs – set to drive laptop sales in 2025 Impact of AI-integrated notebooks on overall market remains limited for now, says TrendForce
Personal Tech Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board One of the braver lightning talks we've seen: Swapping motherboards, live on stage
Public Sector Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86 Four-core crawler can’t beat current – or ancient – AMDs or Intels
Systems Qualcomm triples Windows on Arm OEM design wins since May Snapdragon X Plus 8-core platform gains traction with 58 laptop designs ... but will Windows users care?
Personal Tech Fujitsu claims 634-gram 14-inch Core i7 laptop is world's lightest Lightweight 'FMV Zero' is only sold online in Japan, dammit
Systems Qualcomm 'pausing' X-Elite Dev Kit, offering refunds Five months in, only 200 units reached customers, Qualy tells El Reg
AI + ML Intel's 120 TOPS Lunar Lake AI PC chips have landed And all it took was some good old fashioned outsourcing to TSMC
Personal Tech 'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos The wild world of wrecking our tech
Personal Tech The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard Impressively home-made, this is the sort of laptop we wish we could buy new
Personal Tech China's Honor debuts laptop with bonkers removable camera that lives in a little slot Privacy preserved, with potential to lose the camera in your pocket or beyond
Personal Tech Microsoft's latest Surface devices almost as easy to fix as they are to break iFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind
Personal Tech World's first RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu preloaded touts AI smarts and octa-core chip Might be more of a paper tiger given it runs at 2 GHz and has just 2 TOPS
Personal Tech PC makers hopeful that Chromebook refresh cycles about to kick in Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill
Personal Tech HP BIOS update renders some ProBook laptops expensive paperweights Customers not amused
Personal Tech ASUS creates a substance: Ceraluminum, which fuses aluminum and a ceramic Not unobtanium or vaporwareum, as it's coming soon to a 16-inch Zenbook lappie
Personal Tech Latest user-repairable Framework laptop includes Core Ultra, 2.8K display Customize and replace it all with one tool
Storage iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market
Personal Tech Intel fuels Huawei's AI PC ambitions with Meteor Lake CPUs in MateBook X Pro But for how much longer?
Personal Tech Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3 The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU
Personal Tech Microsoft's first AI PCs Surface with Intel cores and a Copilot key Upgraded fondleslab and laptops limited to business buyers only, for now
Personal Tech Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession
Personal Tech Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs Plus a new anodization seal should make Midnight edition more resilient to gamer grease
Systems Nvidia talks up local AI with RTX 500, 1000 Ada mobile GPUs As always, the lack of memory could prove limiting
Personal Tech Apple and Samsung tussle over whose gizmos are hardest to fix Chromebooks earn 'Least Likely to Survive a Screwdriver' award
Personal Tech AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least 16GB of RAM should be enough for anyone that wants to run models locally. GPUs, NPUs and more kit will be needed, too
Personal Tech Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook processor was made in Taiwan, not China Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock!
Security 23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms Also: 'well-known Bay Area tech' firm's laptops stolen and check out some critical vulns
Personal Tech How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators Better than a Pi? It’s an open and shut case
Personal Tech The 15-inch MacBook Air just nails it Vast battery life, zippy performance, and rich speakers make an impressive package
CxO Enterprise wallets to sustain European IT growth as devices lag Software and services set to save continent's tech growth into 2024, says Gartner
Personal Tech Lenovo’s phantom ThinkPad X1 foldable laptop finally materializes The day after Halloween, at a slightly less scary price than LG, HPE, and ASUS charge for their folding laptops
Personal Tech Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025 And the repair parts will be repairable too. Batteries, SSDs and more will no longer be sealed into casing
Personal Tech Google doubles minimum RAM and disk in 'Chromebook Plus' spec Some may be made in India, where the Big G has teamed to make kit with HP
Personal Tech ASUS's Zenbook S 13 is light, fast, and immediately impressive Taiwanese brand is a portability and productivity contender
Personal Tech LG has its own folding PC now, but good luck getting your hands on one The 'Gram Fold' looks limited to LG's home of Korea
OSes Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you
Personal Tech HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop There’s a weird one-and-a-half screen laptop mode, too
Personal Tech CrowView: A clamp-on, portable second laptop display Elecrow's dual-screen peripheral is more versatile and cheaper than the old Lenovo version
Personal Tech Framework starts taking orders for 16-inch repairable, upgradeable laptop Coming soon and looking very promising – if you like your models skinny, anyway
Personal Tech After decades contributing to science, John Goodenough powers down The American lithium-ion battery inventor has died aged 100
Personal Tech Lenovo's Yoga 9 is flexible at home, but stretches the friendship at work Rotating sound bar sounds better in theory than in practice
Personal Tech Microsoft dabbles in self-repair with Surface devices now DIY-friendlier Replacement components available in US, Canada, France only for now
Personal Tech Chromebook expiration date, repair issues 'bad for people and planet' US PIRG slams Google for selling schools short-lived, repair-resistant kit
Personal Tech Fresh models of Framework modular laptops in the works What to expect? 16 inch model, a desktop case, and both Intel and AMD variants
Personal Tech Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery
Personal Tech The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop Is Lenovo's fastest, thinnest, lightest flagship good at this sort of thing?
Personal Tech Puri.sm puts out LapDock for its Librem 5 smartphone If a phone is as mighty as a laptop, why not make it convertible and use it as one
Personal Tech The Balthazar laptop: An all-European RISC-V Free Hardware computer Plus new developments in the world of the MNT Reform
Personal Tech 200MP smartphone and first premium PC spearhead Samsung's pro push Updated Galaxies dive into Apple territory
Systems Intel: Please buy these new 13th-Gen CPUs, now with 24 cores Look folks, we need the business - there's a recession on
Personal Tech A dip in Alder Lake with an HP Elitebook is spoiled by avoidable mistakes It does most things well, some things right, and a few things bafflingly badly
Personal Tech Heavy, man: Tuxedo puts out 2.2kg Stellaris AMD Gen 4 Apparently, you can still get laptops with good keyboard feel
On-Prem Lenovo revenues drop due to falling demand for PCs But overall profits are up thanks to cost cutting and success in other divisions
OSes Why I love my Chromebook: Reason 1, it's a Linux desktop We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner
Personal Tech Lenovo reveals rollable laptop and smartphone screens Can't say when they’ll roll out for sale or why you want kit with more moving parts
Personal Tech Warning: That new AMD Ryzen 7000 laptop may not be as fresh as you think The House of Zen is back to its tricks: Chips with three-year-old cores
Personal Tech AMD admits its Ryzen mobile naming scheme is a mess, promises to clean it up Finding Zen just got a little easier
Personal Tech Meet the CrowPi-L – a clever, slightly rustic, Raspberry Pi laptop chassis Mobilises the Pi nicely but also frustrates in a few ways
Personal Tech Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000
Personal Tech Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC Tablet sales tumble, too – except at Amazon
Columnists Dell and Ubuntu certify latest model of XPS 13 ultrabook Computer giant's Project Sputnik extends to the 2022 model series
Personal Tech Apple forgoes cooling systems in M2 MacBook Air Screwdriver fiends iFixit ponder the wisdom of a 'fanless, heatspreader-less, non-upgradable laptop'
Personal Tech You can liquid cool this Linux laptop to let the GPU soar Or to make the fans shut up. Either way, you won’t be moving much with this setup
Personal Tech Intel axes Nvidia-powered NUC X15 laptops for Arc GPU reseller push Soon enough, you won't have to turn to a large PC vendor to buy an Arc laptop
Personal Tech Linux laptop vendor Slimbook updates its ranges Fresh lick of paint for KDE Slimbook, Slimbook ProX, and Slimbook Executive models
Personal Tech Laptop option on the way for ortholinear keyboard hipsters in form of MNT Reform add-on
Offbeat UK artists seek 'luvvie levy' on new gadgets to make up for all the media that consumers access online
Personal Tech Desktop renaissance? Nope, rebound of hefty PCs is just because there's notebook shortage – analysts
Personal Tech Remember Apple's disastrous butterfly keyboards? These lawsuits against the iGiant just formed a super class action
Personal Tech Lenovo's ThinkPad line goes under the knife: X13 models look a bit taller but worry not, the 'nipples' are still intact
Personal Tech Now there's another thing on Earth that be can seen from space: UK lappy sales in pandemic-struck 2020
Personal Tech All it took was a pandemic to revive PCs: Canalys proclaims sales up 25% in Q4 as world+dog stays home
Personal Tech Straighten up the tie pin, dear! Razer slaps on a suit with its totally-not-gaming laptops
On-Prem Laptops are on fire! In a good way (if you're selling). PC sales race to highest growth rate since 2011
Personal Tech Something to consider in case Dell freezes over: HP unfolds 2-in-1 laptop with Intel Tiger Lake brains, bigger screen
On-Prem Ports in a storm: The Matebook 14 won't set your world on fire, but it's still a half-decent laptop
Personal Tech The Honor MagicBook Pro looks nice, runs like a dream, and isn't too expensive either. What more could you want?
Personal Tech Huawei Matebook X Pro 2020: Nothing too crazy but at least it's more fixable and cheaper than comparable Apple wares
Personal Tech Teardown nerds delve into Dell's new XPS 15 laptop to find – fancy that – screws and user-serviceable parts
Personal Tech Choose your own adventure: HP's new Omen 15 gaming laptop offers choice between AMD and Intel processors
Personal Tech Fujitsu unveils new laptops 'optimized for remote work' – erm, isn't that what laptops have always been for?
SaaS Mystery cloud added 10,000 new AMD Epyc servers in under ten days to handle demand for you know what
Personal Tech Honor MagicBook 14: Nice keyboard and ports aplenty – but with a webcam forever fixed on all of your chins
Personal Tech Chin up, kids, and mind the webcam: Honor lifts lid on MagicBook 14-inch and 15.6-inch laptops
Personal Tech HP's Elite Dragonfly lappie to let Tile gadget-trackers stalk it till they're Blue in the tooth
Personal Tech Latitude 9510 lappy has a speakerphone so you can tell the conference call all about your 30-hour battery
Personal Tech Weird Flex but OK: New Samsung laptop lines haul QLED monitor tech squinting into the sun
Personal Tech My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)
Personal Tech Did you buy a hot Asus Rog Strix notebook? Like, really hot? Like, super hot? Like, ow-ow-ow my lap's on fire hot?
Personal Tech Enemy of the Matebook: Huawei shuts up laptop shop. When is it back? Depends on America's Entity List
Security America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights
Personal Tech MacBook Air 13-inch: If you squint hard enough, you'll see a lesser-spotted Apple Price Cut
