Maingear Unveils Tricked-Out Apex Force & Rush PCs For Elite Gaming In Style

Maingear Unveils Tricked-Out Apex Force & Rush PCs For Elite Gaming In Style
Maingear is rolling out a couple of no-compromise, jaw-dropping Apex desktops for gamers with healthy budgets, or who are willing to finance their dream machine. The systems include the Apex Force, a rig with a tagline that reads, “There’s no replacement for displacement,” and an upgraded Apex Rush for buyers looking to “make a statement.”
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Samsung 256TB And 512TB PCIe 6 SSDs Are On The Storage Horizon For Massive Capacity And Bandwidth

Samsung 256TB And 512TB PCIe 6 SSDs Are On The Storage Horizon For Massive Capacity And Bandwidth
At FMS 2025, Samsung has debuted its next generation of server-grade PCIe storage with the Samsung MVP PCIe 6 SSD, available in capacities of 256TB and 512TB. That’s no typo, either—we’re looking at up to 512 terabytes of storage per drive, or half an entire petabyte. While we don’t yet know the final storage speed specification of these PCIe

MSI Shows Off GeForce RTX 5070 Ti With Hidden 16-Pin Connector To Thwart Meltdowns

MSI Shows Off GeForce RTX 5070 Ti With Hidden 16-Pin Connector To Thwart Meltdowns
At Tokyo Game Show 2025 last week, MSI was proudly showcasing a new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus model with a unique feature: a rear-mounted 12V-2×6 connector that’s inverted, facing downward, to minimize cable flex caused by the side of your case. This could, in theory, prevent the poor connections that cause melted graphics cards.

If you’ve

Amazon Job Listing Confirms A Major Vega OS Change Is Headed To Fire TV Devices

Amazon Job Listing Confirms A Major Vega OS Change Is Headed To Fire TV Devices
Amazon’s Fire TV devices have been running a fork of Android since the company began offering these products in 2014, but it’s now ready to move to its own operating system, at least according to a new report from The Verge. This is a move the company has been plotting over several years and looks ready to finally debut on Fire TV devices

OnePlus Unveils Durable Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-Powered OnePlus 15 Sand Storm Edition

OnePlus Unveils Durable Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-Powered OnePlus 15 Sand Storm Edition
Earlier today, OnePlus finally announced the highly anticipated OnePlus 15, which is also debuting in a dune-colored “Sand Storm” skin made of an aerospace-grade “micro-arc oxidation ceramic coating”. This should result in the OnePlus 15 being one of, if not the most durable smartphones ever made, with a mid frame stated to be “3.4 times harder

F-Droid Warns Google’s New Rules Could Kill Sideloading Apps On Android

F-Droid Warns Google's New Rules Could Kill Sideloading Apps On Android
Google announced policy changes that place more requirements on Android developers last month, which are supposed to make the Android ecosystem a more safe and secure platform. Some say these new rules mean the company is moving its mobile OS to a more locked-down experience, closer to what Apple offers with iOS. Now, F-Droid, a repository

F-Droid Warns Google’s New Rules Could Kill Sideloading Apps On Android

F-Droid Warns Google's New Rules Could Kill Sideloading Apps On Android
Google announced policy changes that place more requirements on Android developers last month, which are supposed to make the Android ecosystem a more safe and secure platform. Some say these new rules mean the company is moving its mobile OS to a more locked-down experience, closer to what Apple offers with iOS. Now, F-Droid, a repository

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Benchmarks Paint A Powerful Picture Of AI PCs To Come

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Benchmarks Paint A Powerful Picture Of AI PCs To Come
In case you’ve been out of the know for a bit in tech, Qualcomm just announced a family of new mobile processors last week at its Snapdragon Summit event, including its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile CPUs as well as its second-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips. This new PC platform is simply known as the Snapdragon X2 Elite family, although

Key GTA 6 Story Detail Confirmed By Rockstar Co-Founder Ahead Of Launch

Key GTA 6 Story Detail Confirmed By Rockstar Co-Founder Ahead Of Launch
Speaking in an interview, Rockstar Games co-founder and former creative director/head writer Dan Houser confirmed that Grand Theft Auto VI will be the first game in the series since the original written without his direct involvement.

While this is shocking to hear in isolation, particularly considering his highly-praised writing for Grand

Gaming Keyboard Blowout Sale: Steelseries, Keychron, Redragon & More Up To 63% off

Gaming Keyboard Blowout Sale: Steelseries, Keychron, Redragon & More Up To 63% off
Woot is having a major sale on a variety of keyboard styles from several manufacturers, and a lot of the discounts we’re seeing are half off the MSRP. There are even some that blow past the 50% off mark. Sure, Amazon is getting ready to host its next Prime Big Deal Days event next month, but with the kinds of discounts Woot is offering, a

Apple M5 MacBooks Reportedly Approach Key Milestone, When To Expect A Release

Apple M5 MacBooks Reportedly Approach Key Milestone, When To Expect A Release
If the latest rumor is accurate, then Apple is getting ready to green light the mass production of its next round of upgraded MacBook models infused with its next-generation M5 silicon. This includes both the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro as well as the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models. Barring a setback, we could see at least one

GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs Spotted In Online Tool As New Launch Rumor Emerges

GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs Spotted In Online Tool As New Launch Rumor Emerges
It’s a new work week, so let’s go ahead and kicks things off with a fresh GeForce RTX 50 Super series rumor, shall we? There are actually two leaks to report. One is that Seasonic has gone and listed a couple of not-yet-released GeForce RTX 50 series models in its online power supply calculator, and the second is a new rumored time frame for

Best Buy’s Weekend Flash Sale Brings Great Deals On Tech But It Ends Today

Best Buy’s Weekend Flash Sale Brings Great Deals On Tech But It Ends Today
We still have a few weeks to go before the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale events begin in earnest, but no worries, there are plenty of deals available right now. Major retailers are getting a jump on the holiday shopping season—Walmart is hosting a GeForce sales event with big discounts on graphics cards and gaming PCs, and Best Buy is

Microsoft Warns Of XCSSET MacOS Malware That Is Now More Dangerous Than Ever

Microsoft Warns Of XCSSET MacOS Malware That Is Now More Dangerous Than Ever
Like technology and life at large, even familiar malware continues to evolve—to wit, Microsoft warns that MacOS malware XCSSET has undergone another major evolution since earlier this year, bringing key changes to its “browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and persistence mechanisms.” It now has an additional persistence mechanism through

These Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Mini PCs Look Like Wafer Thin Coasters

These Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Mini PCs Look Like Wafer Thin Coasters
At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2025 in Maui, Hawaii, we had the opportunity to check out Snapdragon’s new X2 Elite platform and see it in various form factors. Previously, we focused on the raw power of these PCs and especially how they performed in a laptop form factor. A standard Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop PC connected to a 3840×1080

Walmart Gaming PC Weekend Blowout: Deals On RTX 50 Rigs As Low As $749

Walmart Gaming PC Weekend Blowout: Deals On RTX 50 Rigs As Low As $749
There is still time to score a deal on a new gaming PC or laptop as part of Walmart’s GeForce Week sales event, which lasts one more day (at the time of this writing). We’ve already highlighted some bargains on graphics cards, including a factory-overclocked GeForce RTX 5090 priced at NVIDIA’s baseline MSRP ($1,999), and now we’re turning

ASUS Discovers Root Cause Of ROG Gaming Laptop Stuttering, Fix Inbound

ASUS Discovers Root Cause Of ROG Gaming Laptop Stuttering, Fix Inbound
Relief is coming for owners of certain models ASUS ROG laptops that have been experiencing stutters and performance issues. After investigating reports of issues that popped up on Reddit and other parts of the web, ASUS issued an update on X saying it was able to determine the culprit and is releasing firmware updates to resolve the situation.

The

MSI Titan 18 HX AI Review: Monster Power For Gamers And Creators

MSI Titan 18 HX AI Review: Monster Power For Gamers And Creators
MSI Titan 18 HX AI: MSRP $5699, Currently $5199 The beastly  MSI Titan 18 HX AI gaming laptop for 2025 is powered by the latest Intel and NVIDIA mobile hardware, includes Thunderbolt 5, and puts up some huge benchmark scores. Extraordinary Performance Fantastic Keyboard Excellent Display Tons Of IO Attractive Chassis Hefty Price Premium…

OneXPlayer OneXFly Apex Handheld Brandishes Strix Halo To Battle ROG Xbox Ally X

OneXPlayer OneXFly Apex Handheld Brandishes Strix Halo To Battle ROG Xbox Ally X
This morning on Twitter, One-Netbook announced that it would be joining the high-end AMD handheld PC market with its own AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395-powered handheld, the OneXFly Apex. This is one high-end handheld that really occupies a different class of hardware than the coming Asus ROG Xbox Ally X to launch in October. That machine will retail

Microsoft Makes Last-Minute U-Turn For Windows 10 Extended Support Policy In Europe

Microsoft Makes Last-Minute U-Turn For Windows 10 Extended Support Policy In Europe
Microsoft will be ending official support for Windows 10 in just a few weeks, and it’s something many users have been dreading, either because their aging hardware isn’t eligible to run the company’s latest operating system, or because they just flat out don’t want to move to Windows 11.

These users have been thrown a lifeline with an extra