We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In many parts of the world, owning a personal computer is practically required in order to operate in society, and it has been for quite a ...

We may be a country obsessed with fixing our homes and tricking out our cars, but we usually throw away our PCs when they start to give us trouble. These days, however, the recession and the tight ...

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I have an old Dell XPS 8100 desktop that I haven't used for years. The last time I took it out, I remember I upgraded it to windows 10 for free. Before that it used windows 7. I also remember before ...

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Buying a desktop computer may seem old-school, but retailers keep selling them for good reason. Compared with similarly priced laptops, they often are more powerful, offer more storage, and let you ...

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