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If you work with computers, you need a good driver kit. Hell, if you just live in the modern world and occasionally have stuff that breaks, you still need a good driver kit. And the best one I’ve used is iFixit’s Pro Tech Toolkit. Normally $75 and worth every penny, Amazon is selling the kit for just $59.96 today.

AI isn’t just a buzzword trying to drive PC sales to consumers. It’s also becoming a huge and very lucrative business — just ask Nvidia, which has more than doubled its stock price in the last year off of selling GPUs to data centers powering the backend of generative artificial intelligence apps. And chip competitor Arm, and its business daddy SoftBank, wants a piece of that pie.

Microsoft has released a new version of its free Windows tuning tool, dubbed PC Manager.

At a glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

• Very good value
• 1440p, 30Hz
• Autofocus, which works well in good lighting
• Good noise-cancelling mics
• Decent imagery

Cons

• Autofocus doesn’t work as well in dim lighting
• Somewhat precarious connection to a laptop
• Unnecessary utility software

Our Verdict

The eMeet’s SmartCam C960 2K is a decent $50 midrange webcam that’s a good value, with decent imagery in good lighting. Читать дальше...

It wasn’t very long ago that Samsung’s enormous, super-mega-giga-ultrawide gaming monitors were seen as a ridiculous extravagance, out of reach to all but the wealthiest of PC gamers. But good things come to those who wait, and now you can get a 49-inch Odyssey ultrawide gaming monitor for a much more attainable price. Today Amazon is selling it for just $699.99, a whopping 50 percent off and the lowest price we’ve seen it going for by far. With this discount, it’s going for under a third of its launch price, which is absolutely wild. Читать дальше...

8BitDo made a name for itself by selling controllers that are shockingly cheap while being just about as good as first-party versions, burying the legacy of companies like MadCatz in the past. Their first mechanical keyboard follows that pattern, as the Retro is a solid, customizable wireless board, a good deal, and stylish as hell with its NES looks. Today Woot has it for $30 off retail.

If you revise a document several times and save it again and again as a separate file, it is often difficult to see exactly which changes you have made and where.

You don’t have to spend a lot of money for online security tools. In fact, you don’t have to spend a single cent to stay secure. There are a lot of great security tools that we recommend — features built into Windows, trustworthy free downloads, and protection practices that won’t cost you anything at all.

At a glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

• Great specs for the price
• Serviceable hardware all around
• Comes with lots of RAM and storage space

Cons

• Display could be better and brighter
• Not the nicest keyboard, touchpad, webcam, or speakers
• No IR camera for Windows Hello

Our Verdict

The Gigabyte G6X delivers a great GPU and CPU at a good price — and it comes with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, too! Everything else is fine... Читать дальше...

While Microsoft Excel is the leading tool for crunching numbers and creating charts, Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional for Windows is an often underappreciated tool for a different kind of data visualization. When you need to make visualizations with data other than numbers, that’s where Visio comes in. And right now, you can get it for just $19.97 (reg. $249) for a limited time.