The best free PC software programs aren’t about the cost (or lack thereof), they’re about a fresh opportunity—collections of code that put the dumb hardware in your computer to smart use ...

If you want space savings, power, and flexibility—all from a single desktop computer—you need an all-in-one (AIO) PC. Our guide of fully tested products will help you shop for one of these ...

It’s also backwards compatible, so it’ll transform a Windows 10 Home license to Pro if your PC doesn’t meet Windows 11’s system requirements. For most folks, a move to Windows 11 Pro is to ...

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources ...

PC offers by far the most varied gaming library in the industry. While associated with raw graphical power due to the ever-growing capabilities of GPUs and CPUs, major AAA projects that need ...

By Michael Levenson A stone tablet that was described by Sotheby’s as the oldest in the world inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold on Wednesday for just over $5 million to an anonymous buyer ...

In August, an Asus thermal engineer goofed by revealing the existence of possibly the most powerful tablet PC ever made — an Asus ROG Flow Z13 powered by an unannounced AMD “Strix Halo” chip ...

I work from my home, and did it long before pandemics made it cool. My first editorial job (as a nascent copy editor) was at PC Magazine. I started working here in 1997, when print was huge (as ...

Microsoft has made up its mind about Windows 10’s retirement and won’t make it easy to transition to Windows 11 PCs as well. It’s not budging from the complex ...

The smaller the PC, the bigger the problems. That's what I've long believed in my many years of building relatively functional computers. You have to consider tolerances, sizes, form factors ...