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From Apple's Mac Mini to Valve's Steam Machine—and everything in between—mini PCs are everywhere and only getting more popular. Not everyone needs a laptop, but at the same time they don't need a big, ...

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 ...

The new Khadas Mind Graphics 2 is a 2nd-gen external graphics dock with a new GPU that Khadas says is “positioned in the ‘sweet spot.’ While the company’s original graphics dock had an NVIDIA GeForce ...

The original Framework Laptop’s sales pitch was that it wanted to bring some of the modularity and repairability of the desktop PC ecosystem to a functional, thin-and-light laptop. For nearly half a ...

I recently tried to use a Raspberry Pi 5 as a regular desktop PC. The experiment wasn’t a failure—I was able to use a Pi to get most of my work done for a few days. But the device’s performance, and ...

A reliable desktop PC is a necessity for professionals and students alike. They’re not portable like laptops, but desktop computers provide stable performance that you can improve over time by ...

Hop on the Mini PC bandwagon for 2026 with this powerful tiny titan that can run up to four 4K monitors to create the ...