For the past seven years, I have tracked consumer tech through constant shifts in hardware, platforms, and the way people actually use devices. Covering everything from budget gear to flagship ...

Intuit shut down the popular free budgeting app Mint in early 2024, affecting millions of users. Users were directed to Credit Karma, but many found it lacked the budgeting features they relied on.

Phone security has evolved well past requiring PIN numbers and passcodes to unlock them. These days, phones have biometrics, a form of identification that uses a person's unique traits to grant them ...

I started my career covering comic books and video games over a decade ago, and switched to focus on computer hardware for the last five years. I've tested laptops, desktops, smartphones, tablets, and ...

The Linux Mint team has published its January report, outlining several improvements and plans to move to a longer development cycle. The Linux Mint team has published its report for January 2026, ...

Zena is built on top of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (“Noble Numbat”), bringing Mint’s traditional desktop approach together with Ubuntu’s well-tested foundation and extensive software repositories. It ships ...

Rumor mill: HP's EliteBook X G2 laptops will feature AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm processors within a single chassis family, offering enterprise buyers access to three major CPU architectures under one ...

If you are looking to use Linux Mint without creating a separate partition on your computer, a hypervisor such as VMware Workstation is the way to go. In this post, we will see a step-by-step guide to ...

The Linux Mint team has officially unveiled Linux Mint 22.2, codenamed “Zara”, on September 4, 2025. As a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, Zara will receive updates through 2029, promising users ...

For the love of Pete! I’ve been reviewing laptops for a long time now, and it is rare that I try something truly different. The HP EliteBook 6 G1q is one of those rare instances of something different ...

The HP EliteBook 8 G1a is a Copilot+ PC with an excellent mix of CPU performance and battery life. It’s a solid package, but the display drags down the experience, and the GPU just can’t keep up with ...