Between reviewing new hardware and poking at used laptops before I buy them, I spend time benchmarking machines that aren't mine. Installing tools on someone else's PC is always awkward, so I decided ...

Qualcomm has taken the wraps off of its latest and greatest computing chips. After a relatively successful year with the launch of the Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite, the company has started ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. CrystalMark Retro 2.0, from Crystal Dew World, is a free benchmarking tool that has just been updated to support Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me ...

Microsoft has unveiled a groundbreaking benchmark called Windows Agent Arena (WAA) to test artificial intelligence agents in realistic Windows operating system environments. This new platform aims to ...

If you’re still using a computer you bought during the Clinton administration, interesting news: Crystal Dew World, developers of apps like CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalDiskMark, have released an update ...

Staunch Linux advocates have been saying for some time that the Unix derivative's application performance outstrips that of Windows, assuming all other factors are equal. Valve even proved it back in ...

That's called progress: SteamOS started life as a lightweight Linux-based system built for Valve's Steam Machines that never really picked up steam (pun intended). Now, it powers the Steam Deck and ...

Windows 11 does a lot under the hood to speed up a PC’s performance, but PCs tend to slow down over time as they accumulate apps, files, drivers, and other detritus. Even zippy ...

A number of Windows settings can have meaningful impacts on well your PC runs and its productivity performance. Here are my ...