The average life expectancy of a hard drive is about three to five years. Over time, you may notice clunking sounds, laptop freezing issues, or degradation in the overall performance. These are the common signs that your storage device is failing, and it’s time for a replacement. Upgrading a laptop’s hard drive canboost its performanceand evenimprove storage space. However, you need to know certain things before getting a new disk drive and the proper technique for its removal....

In situations where your mac keyboard misbehaves or is not recognized by your computer, you could try resetting it. Resetting a keyboard reverts back all the settings back to default. So, any button configurations you may have changed along the way will disappear and cease to exist. Once back to its default state, you can still customize your button preferences on your own time. However here, we shall look through all the ways through which you can reset your mac keyboard....

If you have an old laptop, you’ve probably wanted to sell or donate it. But what if we tell you it’s possible to bring it back to life and make it function much smoother than before? Basically, Chromebook is a new laptop breed running Chrome OS, making it comparatively cheaper, stable, and faster. With its increasing popularity and user demands, Google has now come up with a similar operating system –Chrome OS Flexthat can easily run on most PCs....

If your monitor isn’t functioning well, it’s best to update your monitor’s firmware. It can update like any other driver as well. Maybe not as easily but definitely possible. A firmware update depends on your monitor build model and brand. Every hardware model has firmware made specifically for those machines only. They upload the firmware and drivers on their websites available for any user to download. But, not all monitors are suitable for firmware updates....

Hoping to simplify the ever-expanding world of the PC buyers' market, HP put out apress releasedisclosing its new Omni-, Elite-, and Pro- prefixed naming scheme across its entire line of laptop and desktop PCs. This new naming scheme is being introduced alongside HP’s own AI PC logo dubbed an “AI Helix”, and an even-odd numbering scheme with even numbers denoting PCs for commercial users and odd numbers denoting PCs for consumers....

In many parts of the US, PC enthusiasts take the availability of Micro Center retail stores for granted. Until just a few days ago, Micro Center stores were open in 18 states, with New York having the most locations (the state has four compared to three for Ohio). One additional stateofficially joined the frayon June 7: North Carolina. Micro Center’s first North Carolina location is in Charlotte, one of the big financial hubs in the southern United States....

We visited the Asus HQ in Taipei for a technology briefing, to enjoy some NUC desktop and ROG laptop hands-on time, and to glean exclusive hardware design insights.Tom’s Hardwarereaders are probably going to be most enthralled by the details and images we have of the upcomingROG NUC 2025(a very close relation to the NUC 15 Performance). We also saw the complete Asus ROG 2025 laptop lineup with RTX 5080 and 5090 GPUs, stripped down to the silicon for some PCB peeking....

Being one of the world’s largest companies with deep pockets, Intel invests in hundreds of startups around the world in a bid to foster the growth of companies in emerging and established domains and strengthen the high-tech ecosystem and supply chain. Intel Capital holds stakes in 43 Chinese technology startups and has invested in more than 120 since its inception in the early 1990s, reports theFinancial Times. As a result, the company not only owns stakes in tens of China-based companies but also in startups that pose concerns for the U....

Intel hassubmitted a progress reportto the Ohio Department of Development. Its progress in developing two new semiconductor manufacturing facilities in Licking County hasn’t been stellar though, far from it. The iconic US chipmaker promised $20 billion of investment in the project and that the new fabs would be operational by 2025. However,the report(PDF) published by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Friday suggests that Intel has invested just $1.5 billion and the fabs will be operational “between 2027 and 2028....

The official name for Intel’s next-generation desktop platform and flagship chipset has been under wraps since Intel gave us a sneak peek at the platform (i.e., the LGA1851 motherboards) inComputex. A leak fromHXL on X(Twitter) has confirmed that Intel’s flagship series will take on the Core Ultra moniker similar to its Meteor Lake counterparts and confirmed the name of Intel’s flagship chipset, Z890. HXL shared a photograph of the motherboard of a next-generation Gigabyte Aorus series Z890 Aorus Pro ICE motherboard....

Intel has shelved plans to build an advanced packaging and chip assembly plant in Italy, reportsReuters. The Industry Minister announced the postponement at a presser in Verona, in the north of the country, this week. We first became aware of Intel’s outline plans to build mega fab locations in Germany, France, and Italyin February 2022. The following month, we learned that Italy was preparing a$4.5 billion fundto welcome the chipmaker. This was in addition to the probableEU Chips Actmoney that would become available....

JAR files, also called Java Archives files, are archives of Java class files. In a nutshell, JAR files are groups of files that can contain images, audio, visuals, etc., and can run as a single executable program when paired with the Java Runtime Environment. They are predominantly used by Java developers for coding and programming. However,jar files refusing to openis one of the many issues that can happen while using them....

TheKhadas Mind 2has just been released for public pre-order, with a starting price of $799. This tiny workstation comes with an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB M.2 2230 SSD. But if you prefer the higher-powered Intel Core Ultra 7 155H with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, the price will jump to $1,099. The Khadas Mind 2 is the successor to the originalKhadas Mind, which is powered by a 13th-gen Intel Core processor, and is still labeled as a portable workstation aimed at professionals....