Latest Desktop PCs News

• 06 April 2015

• News: Intel Compute Stick, world's smallest PC, will cost $150 with Windows, $110 with Linux

  It look a little longer than expected, but Intel's Compute Stick PC is up for pre-order through some online stores.

• News: Acer's Revo One RL85 desktop comes to US with Broadwell chips

  Acer isn't as well known as Apple for product design, but its new Revo One RL85 compact desktop looks dapper -- and with Intel's latest Broadwell chip it also has muscles.

• 01 April 2015

• News: Acer to bring Chrome OS to an all-in-one PC, as vendors experiment

  Desktop devices running Chrome OS haven't exactly found much traction, but that hasn't stopped Acer from developing an all-in-one PC built for the Google operating system.

• 25 March 2015

• News: USB 3.1 set to reach desktops

  The emerging USB 3.1 standard is set to reach desktops as hardware companies release motherboards with ports that can transfer data two times faster than the previous USB technology.

• 18 March 2015

• News: Ideovitra seeks to slay PC power vampires with SensyBee smart switch

  There's a vampire-slayer stalking the halls at Cebit.

• 12 March 2015

• News: Sorry, Intel: As Windows XP upgrade cycle wanes, so does company's revenue forecast

  Guess Intel executives should have placed a call to Redmond before banking too heavily on the PC market. On Thursday, Intel lowered its first-quarter revenue guidance by nearly $1 billion to $12.8 billion, as a result of weaker demand for business desktop PCs.

• 27 February 2015

• News: Lenovo vows to stop shipping PCs with third-party bloatware after Superfish fiasco

  It only took an embarrassing adware scandal that put millions of PCs at risk, but Lenovo has had a revelation: People just want clean Windows.

• 03 February 2015

• News: The Witcher 3: Wildhunt release date, price, editions, DLC and more

  Here we bring you everything you need to know about The Witcher 3: Wildhunt including release date, price, editions, DLC and system requirements.

• 28 January 2015

• News: Alienware Alpha price cut could signal big changes for the former Steam Machine

  Alienware's Alpha quietly received a price cut this morning. which could portend either good news or bad news for the Steam-Machine-turned-console-competitor.

• News: Amid blow-out quarter, Apple barely mentions Mac sales

  Almost unnoticed on Tuesday during Apple's earnings call, the company said it sold 5.5 million Macs, a record for the December quarter.

• 26 January 2015

• News: The standardized PC served its purpose, but IT changes have rendered the approach obsolete

• 22 January 2015

• News: Surface RT won't get upgraded to Windows 10

  Microsoft has announced new details on Windows 10 but the Surface RT won't get the free upgrade.

• 21 January 2015

• News: Mouse Box wants to stuff a full PC into a mouse

  Forget the PC on a stick; a new concept called Mouse Box could take the next logical step by stuffing everything into a mouse.

• 16 January 2015

• News: The MintBox Mini is a silent, quad-core Linux Mint PC that fits in your pocket

  Linux users will no longer be left out of the miniature PC party with the MintBox Mini, a pocket-sized Linix Mint rig, due out next quarter.

• 13 January 2015

• News: Estimates peg Mac sales up 19% to new record

  Apple sold a record 5.75 million Macs in the quarter that ended Dec. 31, an increase of 19% that beat the overall industry by a wide margin, IDC said Monday.

• 08 January 2015

• News: Tesco in trouble: What the TalkTalk sale means for you

  It saw better-than-expected Christmas sales and has just launched its latest round of price cuts, but Tesco has announced several cost-cutting measures including the sale of Tesco Broadband & Homephone and Blinkbox to TalkTalk. We examine how these changes affect you, the customer.

• 07 January 2015

• News: Curved displays from TVs see uptake in PCs, monitors

  Curved displays may be a fad in TVs, but they could stick around longer in computer monitors.

• 05 January 2015

• News: HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC

  Late last year, HP kicked off the Windows war against Google's Chromebooks with its $200 Streambook 11, and now the company is back again to tackle Chromeboxes with its Stream Mini PC.

• News: CyberPower's Fang Trinity gaming PC is simply insane

  CyberPower's new Fang Trinity looks like no PC we've ever seen here at PCWorld. In fact, it looks more like a futuristic space pod than a computer.

• 04 January 2015

• News: You can't buy the Acer Revo One in 'murica but it's damned cute anyway

  The cutest little PC of CES contest hasn't even started, but Acer's Revo One RL85 may have already won it.

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