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Hot dang, we’ve got a live one! While I’ve seen OLED monitor deals at $400 (and even a bit below) for a while now, I’ve never seen a full 4K model hit that mark. Today, an eBay seller is offering a Dell OLED with 4K resolution and a big 31.6-inch panel for $399.99. That’s less than half the retail price and the cheapest I’ve ever seen for this form factor. This Dell 32 Plus 4K (model S3225QC) is a little unusual for an OLED deal because it’s not a gaming monitor, which would fall under Dell’s Alienware sub-brand. Nope, the clean lines and integrated speaker bar scream multimedia machine. Five 5-watt drivers might even be decent, since it’s a little more powerful than the usual pack-ins. Don’t worry, though: with 3840×2160 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and 0.03ms response time, plus support for AMD FreeSync, it’s still more than capable of delivering solid gaming performance. In addition to that swanky speaker bar (which Dell calls “AI-enhanced 3D spatial audio”), the monitor has USB-C video with up to 90 watts of power delivery, so it’s a great companion to laptops. You get two other USB-C ports (with 5 Gbps data) for extras, plus the usual HDMI and DisplayPort options. For more details, you can read PCWorld’s full review of this Dell monitor where it scored 4 out of 5 stars. This is an “eBay refurbished” sale, which generally means extremely light use, and it comes with a one-year Allstate warranty. That’s a lot better than you usually get for refurbs, but Allstate doesn’t have the best reputation for after-purchase service on electronics. It’s worth noting that you can pick up a new version of this monitor for $600, which is $250 off the retail price, if you’re wary of eBay. Get a Dell 32-inch 4K OLED monitor for $400Buy now via eBay Read...

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It’s time to go out with the old and replace it with something way, way, way better. I’m talking about your power strip! Forget the conventional, cramped, 6-outlet style you’re familiar with and level up to this modern style by Anker: a 15-port monster with smart orientation of outlets to maximize pluggability and minimize crowding. Amazon is selling the Anker 15-in-1 Power Strip for $24, a hot enough discount to give this the “deal selling fast” label. Don’t miss this chance to replace your crappy power strip with one you’ll love using. This is honestly a must-have for any home office. It’s designed to handle a massive amount of electronics, complete with 12 AC outlets that are oriented in 3 rows of 4 each, with the outer outlets facing outwards so your plugs don’t collide. And then at the bottom you have two USB-A ports and a USB-C port for charging incidentals like your phone. In total, this strip can fit up to 15 devices. Those are fast-charging USB ports, by the way, with the USB-C port able to hit 20 watts of charging and the USB-A ports capping out at 12 watts. It’s a little slower when multiple USB ports are being used at once because the power gets split across them, but it’s still quite practical. The 5-foot power cable lets you position it wherever you want. And you won’t have to worry about safety because this power strip has an 8-point safety system that includes surge protection, short-circuit protection, fire resistance, overload protection, and more. I love Anker products for their performance and reliability, and I recommend this one for any home office or bedroom as the central charging hub for all kinds of devices. Get it now for $24 while it’s on sale! Again, this deal is “selling fast” on Amazon, so it may not last. With 12 AC outlets and 3 USB ports, Anker`s power strip is a monsterBuy now via Amazon Read...

If your desk feels perpetually overcrowded, then you might want to replace your laptop or desktop PC with a mini PC—one that offers plenty of power in a compact build at a great price. The Acemagician M1 is one such machine, and right now it’s on sale for $332 on Amazon. That’s a hefty discount down from its original $459 MSRP. This mini PC is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processor paired with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a 512GB SSD that offers you adequate space for your apps, photos, documents, and whatever else you need. While you can’t upgrade the soldered RAM, you can increase the storage space up to 4TB down the road. Between that CPU and RAM, it has just enough performance to handle Windows 11 Pro smoothly. This mini PC also has Radeon 680M integrated graphics, which is actually powerful enough to do some modest gaming. It’s also powerful enough to support up to triple 4K displays, which you can connect via the HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4, and USB-C video ports. It also packs six fast USB-A ports (two in front, four in back) for all your connectivity needs. The Acemagician M1 is an awesome mini PC for the price—you won’t find another that offers this much power for just over $300. Get it while it’s discounted on Amazon and save big while you can! It`s $127 off! Get the Acemagician M1 mini PC while it`s this cheapBuy now via Amazon Read...

The next major feature update for Windows 11 will bring a new taskbar, new emojis, and changes to the Settings menu, and plenty more. The new features and improvements are now available in preview form via the Build 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 test versions, which are open available to Windows Insiders on the Release Preview Channel. Taskbar speed test Microsoft is adding built-in access to the network speed test on the Windows 11 taskbar, which you can access by right-clicking on the network icon in the taskbar. The speed test opens in your default browser and measures LAN, Wi-Fi, and mobile connections. This feature helps you check your network performance and troubleshoot problems. Incidentally, Microsoft recently acknowledged that it will be making the taskbar more flexible with more placement and sizing options. That change isn’t in this update, though. We’ll have to wait for that one. More emojis When it comes to emojis, Windows 11 users can look forward to Emoji 16.0. Among other things, this update brings a fingerprint emoji, a harp emoji, and a shovel emoji to Windows computers. These new emojis are accessible via the Windows 11 emoji window. Webcam settings You can now control the pan and tilt of supported webcams in the Settings menu. The controls can be found under Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Cameras in the Basic settings section for the selected camera. Sysmon security We previously reported on Microsoft adding one of its best security tools natively to Windows 11. That tool is called Sysmon and it’s now available in this preview update, though it’ll be disabled by default. Other notable features Other new features in this preview update include backup and restore functions, Quick Machine Recovery, WebP images usable as desktop backgrounds, and a bunch of other smaller additions. Check out the official Windows Insider blog post for more details. Windows expert Zac Bowden at Windows Central expects the new features described above to be available to all Windows 11 users in the coming weeks. It’ll probably come with the optional cumulative update towards the end of February. Read...

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PC hardware prices are up, but not across the board. RAM prices were the first to skyrocket, then SSD prices followed. It’s affecting all kinds of stuff now—like Nvidia skipping new consumer GPUs this year—and the AI-driven crunch is fanning the flames of 2025’s tariff chaos. You might think PCs have now become prohibitively expensive… but it’s more nuanced than that. Decent PCs aren’t entirely out of reach just yet if you know where to look and what to avoid. If you’re going to buy a new PC this year, here’s what you need to know to make sure you get a good deal. Don’t build. Go with a prebuilt PC I’ve been building my own PCs for decades, but those days are gone. No more putting together a list of components and price-matching to get the best deals from my local PC hardware store. Our advice if you’re thinking of building a PC in 2026? Just don’t. Rather than assembling a PC from parts, look for a prebuilt desktop PC or a laptop. Stores like Costco, Best Buy, and Walmart still offer excellent deals on everything from prebuilt gaming desktop PCs to workstation laptops. Price out the components and you might be surprised. Check out this CyberPower Gaming PC CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme Gaming PC For example, one of Costco’s least expensive desktop gaming PCs is this CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme system. For $1,100, it comes with 32GB of DDR5 RAM, a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU. If you were buying parts, you’d be spending something like $360 for the RAM, $280 for the SSD, and $360 for the GPU at current prices. That’s already up to $1,000 and we haven’t even included the CPU, motherboard, case, or the other stuff. Now, if you caught a system like this on sale, it would be an even better value. But my point is, you aren’t going to save money by buying parts right now. Prebuilt systems are where the value is. PC makers want their PCs to sell Today, prebuilt PCs are generally less expensive because hardware manufacturers have stockpiled components and are prepared to move units. While some companies (like Micron) are discontinuing their consumer brands to focus on enterprise customers, consumer-focused PC manufacturers have no choice but to keep selling PCs. According to reports, PC manufacturers like Lenovo have stockpiled RAM and other components ahead of the shortage. Even though Lenovo is reportedly raising prices anyway, not all PC manufacturers are doing so across the board. It’s very different from what we’re seeing happen to RAM and SSD prices, which are largely following the market. While PC makers may raise prices, lots of existing machines on store shelves haven’t seen price increases… and probably won’t. Pexels: Anete Lusina Indeed, most PC makers haven’t raised prices on existing laptops or desktop PCs. They may have agreements with retailers preventing them from doing so. And yet, those machines still come with the same RAM and SSDs they had at launch, which makes them an amazing value—a far better value than they used to be, for sure. In the long run, it’s unclear what’ll happen to PC part prices. PC makers are already looking for new sources of RAM, but for now at least they aren’t immediately raising prices to match the market price of said components. So, now’s still a good time to buy. Shop the sales for serious value PC sales have always been an amazing source of value. Previous-generation systems often get big price cuts—or even get put on clearance—to make room for newer machines. My advice? Instead of looking for the latest and greatest hardware at full retail price, scoop up an older-gen system at a big discount. That’s where the real value is. If you’re in the market for a solid-value laptop, check out our list of the best laptop deals (updated daily). I can’t emphasize this enough: in the PC market, you can often save tons of cash by snapping up machines on sale. In fact, retail prices are often inflated to make room for said price cuts later. Don’t upgrade your PC in 2026 I’ve previously encouraged upgrading your PC. You can give an old PC a new lease on life with some new RAM, and it was once less expensive to buy a base-model laptop and upgrade its SSD and RAM than to buy a higher-spec system right off the shelf. Chris Hoffman / Foundry This advice doesn’t hold water anymore in 2026. If you’re buying a new PC, ensure it has the hardware you want when you buy it. It’ll likely be less expensive to get a machine that comes equipped with more RAM now than to buy extra RAM at market price later. Likewise, if you have an old PC that needs new hardware, think carefully before upgrading its components. For the price of a RAM and SSD upgrade, you may be able to get a whole new mini PC instead. (Check out our roundup of the best mini PC deals worth jumping on.) Embrace last-generation hardware While I’m impressed by Intel’s new Panther Lake hardware, you don’t need it for good performance. Last-gen Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs are still good. And, if you’re buying a mini PC or gaming PC, you may not even notice whether it’s a 2025 model or 2026 model. Foundry / Chris Hoffman Intel’s Lunar Lake (Core Ultra Series 2) is an interesting piece of this puzzle, though. Lunar Lake hardware comes with on-package memory—either 16GB or 32GB of RAM—which PC manufacturers get from Intel along with their CPUs. While Core Ultra Series 3 is now here, Core Ultra Series 2 hardware will still be on the shelves. And, since it’s last-generation hardware, it’ll also likely see sales and deals. An Excellent Laptop at a great price Acer Aspire 16 AI Read our review Best Prices Today: $1,096.99 at Amazon I just reviewed the Acer Aspire 16 AI laptop, which comes with 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage for $1,099—and that price hasn’t gone up even with the current hardware shortage. In fact, I bet you’ll be able to find machines like this one on sale for even less now. Plus, laptops and desktop PCs with last-gen hardware often go on clearance to make room. Even if they’re not on clearance, they’re more likely to go on deep discount. Last year’s PCs are still great and I bet most people will be more than happy with them. This is honestly one of the best ways to outsmart the current RAM crisis. Don’t give up! Social media is full of doom and gloom around PC prices. Don’t get sucked into the idea that the PC’s golden age is behind us as hardware shifts to AI data centers and enterprise computing. Yes, it’s a rough time to buy components right now, especially if you want to build your own PC. But it’s not the end of the world yet. You can still find lots of great deals and PCs at great prices if you put in a little legwork. We’re still in the golden age, and I refuse to believe otherwise. Read...

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