This project gives a whole new meaning to DIY PC. We don’t know how capable you were as a teenager, but could you have designed your own Ryzen-based mini PC? Whilst making repairs to laptop internals, ...

This may come as a surprise: Though I work at PCWorld, I don’t build computers. Well, I can. I have. But it’s one thing to buy a few thousand dollars’ worth of parts and then build a desktop on a ...

The modular computing company, Framework, deviated from its usual hardware lineup, showcasing its first desktop PC at a launch event in San Francisco, California on Tuesday. The new product, called ...

We typically see desktop PCs as powerful, zero-compromise machines that easily trump mini PCs in every single aspect. But is this really the case? While nothing can fully replace a desktop for certain ...

A Framework…desktop? Yes, and it’s coming soon: the Framework Desktop harnesses Framework’s talent for building modular PCs and applies it to desktops — and AMD’s killer Ryzen AI Max processor (also ...

Framework’s main claim to fame is its commitment to modular, upgradeable, repairable laptops. The jury’s still out on early 2024’s Framework Laptop 16 and mid-2025’s Framework Laptop 12, neither of ...

When Framework teased it had been working hard behind the scenes for the last two years to deliver a trio of massive announcements, that apparently wasn’t marketing hype. The company just took a big ...

Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging ...

Laptop computers have gotten pretty powerful in recent years, but desktops still have a few advantages. Want a user-replaceable CPU or GPU? With a few notable exceptions that’s not possible with ...

It’s been two whole weeks since the Steam Machine was revealed to the world, and we still have no idea how much it’ll cost. I still don’t know when Valve is going to announce the price, but in the ...

I’m an avid PC builder. I built my first PC nearly 20 years ago as a teenager with the help of my mom, and I fell in love with the whole process almost instantly. I was already a PC gamer at the time, ...