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Hands-on with the Acer Swift Go 14 AI

1 week ago | microcenter.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez |Micro CenterOfficial

The Acer Swift Go 14 AI looks like it belongs in a college lecture hall -- quiet, polite, and likely watching Netflix in the background instead of paying attention. This Copilot+ laptop wants to be your next everything machine: work, school, and some streaming, all for under $800. Its battery life highlights a lot of what we like about the Snapdragon X-series laptops we’ve been seeing lately. Specs and design The Acer Swift 14 Go 14 AI has an unassuming look.
This Week in AI: Llama 4 Launches

1 week ago | microcenter.com | Ian Sherr

Meta released its next-generation AI technology, Llama 4, which it says is more capable than its predecessors and able to perform tasks using dramatically less computer power.
This Week in AI: Image Gen Hits New Heights with OpenAI

2 weeks ago | microcenter.com | Ian Sherr

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says more than 700 million images have been created by more than 130 million users over the last week using its new generator, making it one of the company's most popular product launches ever. And there's good reason. Shortly after its release, people flooded social media with all manner of images, including pictures created in the style of top Japanese animator Studio Ghibli.
Four Expert Laptop Picks from Micro Center Champion Ron W.

3 weeks ago | microcenter.com | Ron Woodson |Sean Mekinda |Dan Ackerman

Member Pricing Free Until 2026 Meet Micro Center Member Pricing Unlock savings on the products you love with Member Pricing today! Completely free until 2026 No credit card needed to join Sign in with your verified account to qualify Even more savings on top of already great deals Savings automatically applied during checkout Returns are always free and you can save time by starting returns online Look for the green tag throughout the site to unlock more Member Pricing! Already have a Micro...
Let's Build a PC: Mystery Edition

3 weeks ago | microcenter.com | Sean Mekinda |Dan Ackerman

Member Pricing Free Until 2026 Meet Micro Center Member Pricing Unlock savings on the products you love with Member Pricing today! Completely free until 2026 No credit card needed to join Sign in with your verified account to qualify Even more savings on top of already great deals Savings automatically applied during checkout Returns are always free and you can save time by starting returns online Look for the green tag throughout the site to unlock more Member Pricing! Already have a Micro...
Tips for 3D Printing with Glow-in-the-Dark Filament

3 weeks ago | microcenter.com | Dan Ackerman |Sean Mekinda

My latest 3D printing obsession is not Stanley tumbler accessories or handy card kits -- it's printing cool sculptures in a stunning rainbow glow-in-the-dark PLA. I'm currently using Inland's Glow in the Dark Fluorescent Multi-Colored PLA Filament, which has produced amazing results, but took a little more work than just adding a new spool to my workflow.
Buying Guide: The First NVIDIA RTX 508 and 5090 Gaming Laptops Are Here

3 weeks ago | microcenter.com | Dan Ackerman |Micro CenterOfficial

The latest generation of gaming laptops has arrived, bringing with them NVIDIA's new RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs. It’s not every GPU generation that sees laptop versions launching this close to the desktop cards. Often, there’s a solid gap of half a year or more between the desktop debut of a new NVIDIA lineup and its mobile counterparts making it into gaming laptops. But with the 50-series, NVIDIA isn’t wasting time.
NVIDIA 50 Series Laptop are Coming Soon

3 weeks ago | microcenter.com | Micro CenterOfficial |Richard Baguley |Matthew Smith

Just a few short months ago, we were celebrating the launch of NVIDIA’s next-generation graphics card, the 50 series. Now, several launches later, those same GPUs are going mobile when 50 Series laptops start dropping next week, 3/31. The NVIDIA 50 Series - both desktop and laptop versions - feature massive improvements over the past generation of cards and bring with them some fancy new features, like DLSS4, faster VRAM, and fifth generation Tensor Cores.
This Week in AI: Search is Changing Faster Than Expected

3 weeks ago | microcenter.com | Ian Sherr |Micro CenterOfficial

At the beginning of 2024, research firm Gartner said it expected search engine volume would drop 25% within two years, as people switched to chatbots and other AIs. Fast forward to last December, and a survey from Future found that 27% of Americans had already done exactly that. Respondents to Future's survey said that speed, ease of use and convenience were among the reasons they'd switched.
How to Tame Your Raspberry Pi's Local AI

4 weeks ago | microcenter.com | Richard Baguley |Matthew Smith |Micro CenterOfficial

In the first part of this project, we showed you how to build an AI voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi using a combination of OpenvoiceOS and Ollama. But we're not done yet. The problem is that the AI part of my voice assistant Boris takes ages to respond, because the Raspberry Pi only has a limited amount of computing power, and the Large Language Model (LLM) Boris is running requires significant amounts of memory and processing power to run.