It may take some extra considerations to swap hardware in custom setups. Here's some issues I recently ran into. As we entered 2024, one of my big priorities has been to refresh the IT hardware that I ...

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update is expected to arrive with yet another hardware requirement. Centered around SSE4.2 or Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2, a crucial component for modern ...

Unsurprisingly, with little more than a year to run before Windows 10’s unpopular end-of-life becomes reality, speculation continues to mount as to whether Microsoft will relent and extend support or ...

As part of CRN’s AI PC Week, Lenovo’s new North American president talks about why the rise of AI PCs combined with a need to upgrade to Windows 11 will create a ‘perfect storm’ for a 2024 PC refresh.

Microsoft has started rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker capabilities in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 ...

There are a whole bunch of ways you can make your games and apps run better in Windows 11. But one of the simplest ways, in theory, is to enable hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAG). Switching on ...

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