Senior editor at PCWorld. Formerly: PCMag, ExtremeTech, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK. Dad, sci-fi nut, Domer, A's fan. On the Sky app and 🧵, too. (Same name.)
Usually in the Bay Area
Joined April 2009
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I have to maintain a presence on social platforms for work, but I'm revolted by Musk's Nazi salute at the inauguration. The vast majority of my interactions and content will be on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/markhachman…
Damn. Totally forgot to call into the @MarcHochman show and talk trash about the Convicts. Irish by a million.
There's a fine line between "AI slop" and using AI to benefit your own productivity. Vibe-coding your own utility apps splits that difference, but it still requires an investment in time and focus. New Smart Mode: pcworld.com/article/3276168/…
Microsoft continues to optimize Windows for the new reality of 8GB of RAM. But is anyone else following suit? pcworld.com/article/3275945/…
Just in time for Halloween, I look at how to tell which apps are sucking up power on your PC. This week's Smart Mode newsletter, below: pcworld.com/article/3270864/…
Prices keep going up and up and up in the computer market, and for what? #apple
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I know I'm going to take some flak from Lenovo next time I see them. pcworld.com/article/3266532/…
Apple's new MacBook Pro with ProLED XDR touchscreen maxes out at $14,500. That's the world we live in now.
I was wondering about this and just discovered that my coworkers have tested the RTX Spark for gaming at different memory configurations.
via @MichaelCrider
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Miss the days of cheap storage? Try your local university. This was in the bargain bin there. Here's my story in this week's Smart Mode newsletter.
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is a laptop, an AI workstation, and a decent gaming laptop all in one.
I divided up my long review comparing it to Arm laptops (and the Mac) and asked, do we need this if gaming laptops exist?
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If you'd like my tests of the new Nvidia RTX Spark platform, from gaming to productivity to AI, I left it for the Surface Laptop Ultra review. I think it makes sense to look at the cohesive whole.
Weirdly, the Start menu doesn't seem to be the way you'll interact with AI in Windows. It's...Search?
pcworld.com/article/3255309/…
Hope you all were able to cash in during the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. And if not then, the holidays.
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The one key feature that Microsoft isn't divulging about its new AI laptop, the Surface Book Ultra, is battery life. And if people are going to be churning through AI tokens locally, in "airplane mode," on airplanes!...that matters. pcworld.com/article/3255200/…
