My test laptop was a non-descript Lenovo machine with an Intel Core Ultra X9 388H onboard, the top-end Panther Lake CPU from ...
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How We Test Desktop PCs

Desktop PCs were the first computer category PCMag, in its infancy, started out covering, and they're still one of the most important. (They're in our very name, after all.) And we've been testing ...
With major new GPU muscle in the M2 chips, Macs are amped up for gaming like never before. Is the power worth the spend to switch to Mac just for play? From the laptops on your desk to satellites in ...
Hitman 2 was released last year and is the latest in a string of games from IO Interactive, but the developer recently updated the game with some new tricks: namely DX12, and in the last few months a ...
When we reviewed the Dell G5 15 SE, an all-AMD gaming laptop that features an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor and a Navi-based Radeon RX 5600M, we didn't have a chance to dive into integrated graphics ...
I'm dating myself with this reference, but for anyone who gives a hoot, one thing I learned a long time ago from a cartoon owl is that it takes three licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a ...