John Burek

1 month ago | me.pcmag.com | Tom Brant |John Burek

Most portable scanners don't need to be plugged into an electrical outlet to function. A few have batteries, and others get their juice via a USB tether to your laptop or desktop PC. Truly wireless scanners transmit data to your PC, phone, or tablet over Wi-Fi, and some support memory cards that let you scan without a computing device on hand. Many factors come into play when choosing a portable scanner.

1 month ago | pcmag.com | John Burek

Never have enough screens on your desktop? Fine. But how about on your laptop? At MWC 2025, Lenovo is unveiling three ambitious, intriguing proof-of-concept accessories for its ThinkBook 16p power-user laptop—and, whoa, are they bangers for multitaskers.

2 months ago | me.pcmag.com | Tony Hoffman |John Burek

Buying a rugged drive involves a lot of the same decision points you'd face with an ordinary external drive. Let's break them down. INTERFACE TYPE. The industry has settled on two main interfaces in external portable drives these days: USB 3 of various flavors (very common) and Thunderbolt (much less common). Which one is best for your needs depends on the ports on the computer or computers you are using.

Jan 23, 2025 | pcmag.com | John Burek

The cards don't go on sale for another week, but samples of the much-anticipated Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 are in the wild and in the hands of reviewers around the world. (See our initial unboxing of the card from a few days ago.) And we're all banging away furiously at these cards with our special benchmarking hammers: new and familiar synthetic test programs, GPU-accelerated productivity applications, and a mix of AAA games to push the limits of Nvidia's new silicon.

Jan 23, 2025 | flipboard.com | John Burek

13 hours agoA mystery NVIDIA Blackwell GPU with insane 96GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus has been spottedNVIDIA's new mysterious RTX Blackwell GPU spotted: features bonkers 96GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit memory bus, new workstation GPU …2 hours agoCyberpunk 2077 Patch 2.21 Adds DLSS 4 on PC and Additional FixesHere's Johnny! CD Projekt has announced that patch 2.21 for Cyberpunk 2077 is rolling out to players on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S.