Between CPU compatibility and TPM support, the requirements for running Windows 11 are proving to be frustratingly restrictive. As things stand, millions of PCs will not be compatible with Windows 11 and will instead be forced to run a five-year-old OS with an end-of-support date set for October 2025. How to enable TPM 2.0 on Windows PCBest laptops in 2021Best college laptops for students in 2021 Microsoft has a chance, if not to change the requirements, then to at least clarify them prior to the launch of Windows 11 later this year....

Credit: Microsoft Windows 7 owns an astonishing 36.4% of the desktop OS market despite its impending expiry date of Jan 18, 2020, a decade after the OS was launched, according to a report from NetMarketShare (first reported by TechRadar). That presents a serious problem for Microsoft, as Windows users appear reluctant to switch to Windows 10, which now accounts for 44.1% of the market share, a small improvement over the 43....

Lenovo lists the X1 Yoga’s OLED screen as having 300 nits of brightness, a strong number for a laptop. However, when we tested the panel with our Klein K10-a light meter, we got a measurement that was over 20 percent less than advertised. It’s not unusual for a laptop to be dimmer than its manufacturer claims, but after some experimentation, we discovered that we could get over 300 nits if we lowered the amount of white content....

If you’re not sure whether the Surface Pro 6 is right for you, this quick look at the major pros and cons can help. Credit: Laptop Mag The Surface Pro 6 finally brings 8th-Gen Intel processors to Microsoft’s detachable, and the performance benefits are obvious in everyday use. The quad-core Core i5-8250U CPU and 8GB of RAM in our review unit delivered test scores that were roughly 47 percent better than those from the previous generation....

Which GPU is right for you?Best business laptops What is Intel vPro? Worry not, we’re here to answer all of your questions. And to do that, we called in two seemingly identical Dell XPS 13 laptops (1080p display, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD). The difference being that one is outfitted with an Intel Core i7-8550U, and the other has a Core i5-8250U. Let’s see how they stack up. Intel Core i5 vs....

But Acer didn’t stop there. It outfitted the 21-inch laptop with an overclockable Intel Core i7 processor and two Nvidia GTX 1080 GPUs in an SLI configuration and a pair of 512GB NVMe PCIe SSDs in a RAID 0 configuration.The 21 X also features a customizable maintenance panel, an enhanced cooling system and one of the best mechanical keyboards I’ve typed on all year. But for all that money, I would have preferred a 4K display and more audio boom....

Design If you took an encyclopedia and turned to the page for “laptop,” you’d get a picture of the Acer Swift 3. It looks like a prop notebook for a TV show without a product placement deal. The silver lid and chassis are aluminum, which I appreciate, but no one is going to give this laptop a second look. When you use the system, you’ll open it to find a 15....