Seriously, just take it to Best Buy or Staples. They'll take your old laptops, printers, and other tech junk off your hands for free. Some places will even give you a gift card for your trouble. It's ...

It's inevitable that, at some point, you'll have to replace old computer parts and swap them out for new ones. This might be a result of a particular component breaking or because you want to upgrade ...

The year was 1986 and Bud Ballos was an eighth-grader, a proud owner of a brand-new computer with what was to him "a weird thing" called a mouse. Remember the Apple II? It was a fixture -- in the ...

Among old CPUs, the 6809 never got as much attention as some of its cousins. The Radio Shack CoCo used it and so did a construction article in Wireless World Magazine. Now [Dave] has reconstructed ...

As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. Consider this: With Windows 10 nearing the end ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As time goes on, a cutting-edge computer will quickly lose its value as newer components are released with greater power and more features.

I was thinking, hmmm, its been since Oct 2014 that I did a full build. Maybe I should look into a new one. First thing I look at, what cpu do I have from back then. This one: Am I looking at some odd ...

Although support for Windows 10 will not end in October 2025 after all, Microsoft’s additional grace period extends its life by only one year. This means that many users will soon not only have to say ...