You’ve heard it a million times: “The best camera is the one you have in your hand.” Well, kind of. The reality is different cameras suit different genres, and deciding which camera to put in your hand certainly has an impact on the pictures you can take. When it comes to street photography, you’re going […]
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First Look: The 2019 Alienware Aurora R9 Is a Sci-Fi-Styled Powerhouse
Alienware’s completely redesigned gaming desktop looks like it comes from the future, and can pack the best parts available in the present. PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. The Alienware Aurora R9 is the latest rev of the company’s premium gaming desktop […]
Best Labor Day sales: What deals you should expect in 2019
Labor Day 2019 lands on Monday, September 2 this year, marking the final hurrah of summer sales. Labor Day was originally organized as a celebration of various labor unions’ contributions to the U.S. economy, but it has since become somewhat of a buying holiday for consumers. With Prime Day in its wake and Black Friday […]
The Best Chinese Phones for 2019
The Top Phones You Can’t Get in the US The Chinese smartphone market is much more robust than what we have here in the US. There are dozens of phone manufacturers in China that release amazing handsets that never make their way to the States. As a US-based publication, we don’t typically review phones or […]
From Air to Pro, here are the best MacBook deals for August 2019
Finding a deal on a MacBook isn’t easy. They’re high-end machines, and Apple keeps a pretty tight watch on how it is priced around the internet. On top of that, there’s a large selection of models, including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and 12-inch MacBook, as well as different sizes and configurations, to consider. Throw […]
The best Adobe Lightroom alternatives for editing RAW photos in 2019
Related Adobe Lightroom is a powerful RAW processor with some advanced editing tools, but an equally important feature is its ability to organize large collections of photos, making it possible to find that one specific picture you took on a trip three years ago that’s only named “DSC_3245.” Lightroom is now two applications: the newer […]
The best Photoshop alternatives for 2019, from Affinity Photo to GIMP
Bill Roberson/Digital Trends Photoshop is to photo editing what Xerox is to photocopying. Beyond the professionals who use the program, the word itself has become part of the popular lexicon and is often used as a verb, as in, “Can you Photoshop this to make it look better?” More often than not, when flipping through the […]
The best gaming tablets for 2019
The elitist idea that gaming is something you can only do on a flashing, multicolored PC or on the box under your TV is dead. Mobile gaming is here to stay, and it has lured millions of people in with a wide range of challenges that go all the way from matching three fruits to […]
Microsoft closes fiscal 2019 with revenue spikes driven by cloud services
Enlarge / Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks at the Microsoft Annual Shareholders Meeting in Bellevue, Washington, on November 30, 2016. Jason Redmond / Getty Images Microsoft has reported its financial results for the final quarter of the 2019 fiscal year. The tech giant saw notable gains in sales for Azure in its Intelligent Cloud […]
HP Envy 13 (2019)
Envy, as you probably know, is HP’s upscale-but-not-deluxe brand, positioned above its Pavilion PCs but below its Spectre models. You can think of the new Envy 13 (starts at $ 749.99; $ 1,199.99 as tested) as a replacement for the much-missed Spectre 13 ultraportable—while it has a touch screen, it’s a clamshell laptop that doesn’t […]
Digitize old photos and film with the best photo scanners for 2019
Document scanners and photo scanners are not created equal. For quickly digitizing large collections of prints, the best photo scanner is the Epson FastFoto FF-680W. It offers more resolution and better color reproduction than a scanner designed for text, along with photo-editing features that will make you as happy as the woman in the above […]
Dealmaster: All the best Amazon Prime Day 2019 tech deals we can find
Enlarge Ars Technica Greetings, Arsians! Your friendly neighborhood Dealmaster is back and reporting for bargain-hunting duty—and boy, is he going to need some extra coffee. That’s because today marks the start of Amazon Prime Day 2019, the increasingly misnamed sales event that sees the nation’s largest online retailer discount products beyond number to Black Friday-level […]
Dealmaster: Amazon discounts almost its entire product lineup for Prime Day 2019
Enlarge Valentina Palladino Prime Day is nearly upon us, and Amazon has already pushed out a bunch of deals on its own devices. Like Prime Days past, Amazon has discounted most of its devices and services in the hopes that more people will take the plunge and try Echo speakers or other Alexa-enabled devices, Kindle e-readers, […]
The best Micro Four Thirds lenses for 2019
Micro Four Thirds cameras may have smaller sensors, but that makes it easier to get lenses with more reach — and at sizes and prices that won’t break your back or the bank. The Micro Four Thirds mount is a standard format, which means you can mount a Panasonic lens on an Olympus camera and […]