I'm a senior analyst charged with testing and reviewing VPNs and other security apps for PCMag. I grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley and have been involved with technology since the 1990s.

This is being used for what I would consider "light office work," the user is my father and he's a self-employed CPA. So, the majority of tasks are Word/Excel, Chrome, Quickbooks, and his dedicated ...

In December, Intel promised that its upcoming 10nm laptop CPUs will feature integrated graphics with over a teraflop worth of computing power. Ahead of its Computex keynote later this week, the ...

This post aims to assist you in deciding which type of graphics card to use. The difference between Dedicated and Integrated Graphics cards may be small, but a dedicated graphics card greatly improves ...

AMD has seemingly just inadvertently confirmed the existence of a CPU that's rumored to give you more gaming power than a PlayStation 5 without needing a graphics card. In fact, in terms of core specs ...

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Intel’s high-end desktop processors may soon ship without integrated graphics built in, which may be beneficial to users, like gamers, who need more performance from their PC setup. Recently, we’ve ...

Whether you're upgrading your desktop PC or building a new one, choosing the right processor is the most crucial and complex choice you will make. Let's simplify it! Here's how to make sense of AMD's ...

Intel this week revealed its plan to make virus scanning more efficient: integrated graphics. The goal, Intel says, is to let antivirus use what it calls Accelerated Memory Scanning to lighten the ...

In April, AMD announced versions of its Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs with integrated graphics cards, but it only made them available for prebuilt OEM systems, promising that it would sell the chips to ...

Ryzen 7000 CPUs based on AMD's new Zen 4 architecture were briefly teased during CES 2022, but there isn't a lot of other information sharted regarding the specs. But this rumor based on a recent ...