The words “Samsung” and “affordability” have rarely been found in the same sentence over the past few years, but now the company is looking to change that stigma with its latest 28″ UE590 4K gaming monitor. The Samsung UE590 comes with all the features that gamers want at a price that won’t bust your budget – earning it the number two spot on our best computer monitors for 2016 list – but will that low cost alone be enough to forgive its stagnant stand and smaller display size?
AC-equipped wireless routers have been flooding into the market by the handful over the past few years, taking over the dominant spot that was once occupied by lesser technologies like b/g/n. But what exactly is an AC router, and more importantly, which is the best AC router for you?
When it comes to PC gaming, there are few components that slip under the radar as often as the monitor. People will spend thousands on the latest CPU and graphics card, only to forget that the monitor is what makes your games really come alive.
When it comes to PC gaming, there are few components that slip under the radar as often as the monitor. People will spend thousands on the latest CPU and graphics card, only to forget that the monitor is what makes your games really come alive.
4K TVs have spent the past few years out of reach for the average consumer, priced out of most people’s pockets thanks to the higher pixel density screens which cost more to make than standard 1080p sets. Now in the tail end of 2017 however, 4K TV prices have finally come down to reasonable levels, and there are sets of every shape and size that feature a baseline series of stats that won’t break the bank before this holiday season.
If you’re on the hunt to find the best home router in 2016, it can be a hard, oftentimes confusing process filled with every kind of buzzword that networking hardware manufacturers like to use to separate their product from the pack.
What makes a good home router better than the rest can be a lot of things, but overall it comes down to three main factors: range, features, and price.
With the summer months officially upon us (or ending depending on the part of the world you’re in) and heat waves bearing down like we’re stuck in the middle of the Sahara, it’s time to start shopping for an upgrade to your old, leaky A/C unit for a Wi-Fi air conditioner which runs, if you’ll forgive the pun, just a little bit cooler.
Now that Pascal graphics cards have officially begun the steady process of flooding the market with new laptops and desktops, MSI has updated their GE line of laptops with the release of the comfortably portable and highly adaptable GE62VR Pro Apache gaming laptop.
The BenQ P-Seriese PV3200PT is an unapologetic monitor built for a very select, specific number of functions to help film editors, animators, and CAD/CAM designers get their job done in glorious 4K resolution. But with a desk-crunching weight of 33lbs and 32″ of screen real estate, is the BenQ PV3200PT too big for its britches (and your cubicle at the office)?
The latest ultra-portable BenQ i500 LED projector incorporates a short-throw lens, Bluetooth speaker, and wireless streaming capabilities into a single sleek and compact device that’s made to keep up with “youthful” users who are always on the go and want something they can pop out of their backpack and get watching in minutes. But will BenQ’s focus on portability prove to be too much for such a small projector that costs the same as others twice the size and three times the performance?
With the announcement of the Pascal generation of Nvidia graphics cards coming out this summer, many AMD fans were left wondering “what’s next for us?”. Smartly, it seems that instead of trying to directly compete with the likes of the GTX 1080 high-end cards, the latest Polaris variants of AMD’s cards have their sights set squarely on the budget-oriented gamer, those who need the most performance possible out of their gaming desktop and don’t want to drop an arm and a leg to get it.
In recent years, mechanical keyboards like the SteelSeries Apex M500 have surged in popularity with hardcore PC gamers and casual gamers alike. Their sturdy base and ultra-quick responsiveness are exactly what gamers need during the heat of battle, when a missed keystroke can virtually mean the difference between life or death (no pun intended).
Over the past year, the term “mesh networking” has been on the lips of tech bloggers and wireless router manufacturers alike, touting the technology as the next big revolution in home Wi-Fi solutions. This August, the new AmpliFi HD mesh router system from Ubiquiti Labs joins the ranks with other contenders like the Luma and Eero, designed with working professionals in mind who are tired of hiding their big, bulky routers in the shadows. With a modernized design and serious horsepower underneath the hood, will this router be the first to lead the charge into a whole new era of wireless networking appliances for mid-to-large sized homes?
The new ASUS ROG G752VS is the first of what is sure to be dozens of gaming laptops that will be released over the next few months that feature Nvidia’s refreshed Pascal-based GTX 10XX line of GPUs, touting twice the horsepower and overall efficiency of the previous generation.
As more devices are being released that can finally take advantage of MU-MIMO beamforming technology, routers like the latest TP-LINK Archer C5400 are here to show that speed, performance, and design can form a beautiful marriage when combined in just the right way. But can a router that’s barely bigger than an iPad really outpace its larger, louder competition when it comes to raw, unrestricted wireless speed?
The Zenbook Pro UX501VW is another in a long line of ASUS laptops that try to be everything to everyone at once, by including all the features the average user could want while also pumping things up for professionals with the addition of a 4K touchscreen display and a screaming-fast 512GB PCIe SSD. But will the tactic of throwing in high-end components on a laptop that can barely run games at 4K be the laptop’s eventual downfall?
If you’ve been paying attention to the news over the past few years, you already know that with Google’s purchase of Nest and similar pickups by Cisco and Samsung, the smart home, and in this case smart home security, is the wave of the future for gadget makers everywhere.
The BenQ HT3050 is yet another addition to the company’s extensive lineup of powerful projectors that give the rest of the competition a run for its money. The HT3050 sets itself apart with the inclusion of Cinematic Color Rec. 709, an industry standard that screams “looks as good as real life”, but will that feature alone be enough to give the projector the boost it needs to make it into the ranks of the greats?
The Optoma HD142X is the latest in a long line of entertainment devices made by a company that’s not here to revolutionize the way we watch media, but at the very least wants to make it more accessible for people who can’t afford the upfront cost that other home theater projectors like it might set them back. But will its budget-level price keep it from performing the way we hoped it could in our tests and be nominated to our best home theater projector list?
We’ve all done it before. You sit down to log into your Windows machine, type in what you think is the password, and bang, you realize you forgot what it was! You scramble to try different combinations of letters and numbers to see what will fit, but nothing works. What do you do now?
Thankfully, the process of recovering your password in Windows 10 is much the same as it has been in Windows 8 and above, albeit with a few slight tweaks. Here’s how you can recover both your Microsoft Live 10 login, as well as the credentials for any other users registered with the local machine.
The Dell U2717D UltraSharp is the latest entry into one of the company’s longest running line of monitors, and this time it’s back with the company’s other patented screen-assist, InfinityEdge. The nearly bezel-less design gives the U2717D a sleeker, more futuristic look that not many other monitors can match, but will this be enough to carry it past its subpar response times and higher cost of entry?
