It’s been nearly one full year since I reviewed Apple’s 12-inch MacBook. That slim, light system was not only Apple’s only completely new laptop design since the 2012 MacBook Pro, but also among its most controversial. The knocks against this system — an odd-man-out, not part of either the Air or Pro MacBook lines — …

After teasing partnerships with PC makers for months, Oculus has announced the specific partners and systems in its “Oculus Ready PC” program. The first gaming desktops to join the program are from Asus and Dell, the latter including both Dell and Alienware-branded systems. On an update posted February 9 on the Oculus website, the company says: “Today we’re excited to …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: Coolest computers of CES 2016 13:33 Smartwatches, smart homes, smart cars, smart headsets that promise virtual worlds — this was the CES where every type of device decided to …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. New computers are always a big category at CES — the world’s biggest consumer electronics trade show that takes place in Las Vegas the first week of January — and that topic has …

We all just want to be listened to. Listened to, and understood. That’s why various attempts over the years to create technology that listens, understands and responds to your voice has always felt like it was overpromising and under delivering. That’s also why I now gladly start each morning in casual conversation with Alexa: Alexa, what’s the weather today? Alexa, …

There are plenty of great prices for the holiday season on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles, but this year’s big new games — from Fallout 4 to Star Wars Battlefront to Rise of the Tomb Raider — are all best played on a PC. Some of these deals for components, accessories and high-end gaming laptops and desktops are …

One of the big selling points of Microsoft’s new Surface Book laptop is that it offers an optional Nvidia graphics card in higher-end models. With a distinct lack of game-ready graphics hardware in most 13-inch laptops, that immediately caught the attention of PC gamers. Of course, there were some caveats. First, the graphics hardware from Nvidia was installed in the …

Nvidia Laptops have been getting better at playing computer games over the past few years, as mobile versions of PC graphics hardware have gradually tightened the performance gap between laptop and desktop graphics. Now, Nvidia is doing away with at least some of the remaining difference between laptop and desktop graphics cards by coming up with a version of its …

Apple Apple has updated its professional-level music creation and editing suite, Logic Pro X , for the second time this year. The new 10.2 version comes just eight months after version 10.1, and like the previous update, Logic Pro X 10.2 is available for free to current owners of Logic Pro X (the entire software package costs $199). The highlight …

Intel Coming right on the heels of Intel’s Broadwell line of processors, the new 6th generation of Core i-series CPUs, known by the code name Skylake, has officially debuted at the Gamescom video game trade show in Germany. But before you toss your current-gen laptop, keep in mind that the first wave of new Skylake processors includes only a pair …