Windows Command Prompt is a powerful tool commonly used for system management, folder management, network configuration, troubleshooting, and more. But did you know you can also convert your media files to another format with it?

While Copilot+ comes with a ton of different AI tools, not all of them are inherently useful. You could easily use a Copilot+ PC without touching the pre-installed AI tools and still have a good time. However, using AI to understand people speaking other languages is really useful. Regardless of if you're just trying to watch a foreign movie or discuss something with a workmate from around the world, Copilot+'s live translation feature makes it easier to understand people no matter what app you're using. Now, Microsoft is working on rolling out this handy feature to Intel and AMD chips alongside its live captioning feature.

PC cases have come a long way since the late 90s, but one ATX case looks like any other ATX case. Take the Lian Li O11 Dynamic, first launched in 2018. This stunning piece of art was unlike anything else on the market; just about everyone copied it. The same goes for many other form factors. The NZXT H1 spans a few alternatives from the competition. Using similar designs isn't a negative as companies can put their spin but it becomes slightly uninspiring for those who are after unique-looking PC cases. There are many out there, but they're often too outlandish. Enter the be quiet! Light Base 600 LX.

How much storage space do you need, minimum? If you're an HDD aficionado (and there are plenty of reasons to be one in 2024), you're likely the kind of person who enjoys a lot of storage space. Well, if you're in the market for something truly massive, Seagate is finally launching its 32TB heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) HDD, which should tide over the most hungry of storage fans out there.

Have you scored yourself an Arrow Lake chip recently? If you have, you may have noticed it hasn't performed as well as Intel claimed it would. People have taken to social media, complaining that the CPU doesn't hold up when performing heavy-duty tasks like gaming. Fortunately, Intel has been working away on fixes, and it's ready to squash the majority of the issues with a brand new patch with another update coming soon.

Single-Board Computers are quite popular in the tinkering crowd thanks to their miniature designs, high versatility, and low power consumption. That said, the prices of SBCs have skyrocketed in recent times, with many high-end boards costing well above $100 – without taking any peripherals or accessories into account.

Intel has been on some real tenterhooks the past few months. Its CPU business hasn't been doing so hot, to the point where Intel had to split its business in two to allow its workers to take on third-party contracts and earn more money. However, the company had a silver bullet loaded in the chamber: if it managed to impress people with its Battlemage GPUs, it would have another lifeline to hold onto.

Multi-core optimization has allowed modern processors to brute force their way through heavier workloads with parallelization. This hasn't always been the case and still to this day there are software and games that run better on processors with higher single-core performance than multi-core behemoths. Contemporary development will continue to improve multi-core support and performance, but even now it's still recommended to strongly factor in single-core clock speeds and performance when choosing a CPU for your PC. Here are a few reasons why.

The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition. | Image: Intel Intel is having an incredibly rough year — but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth celebrating. While we haven’t managed to review it ourselves due to a fluke issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU launched to nigh-universal praise, has already sold out most everywhere, and Intel tells The Verge it’s working to ship new units every week.“Demand for Arc B580 graphics cards is high and many retailers have sold through their initial inventory. We expect weekly inventory replenishments of the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition graphics card and are working with partners to ensure a steady availability of choices in the market,” Intel spokesperson Mark Anthony Ramirez tells The Verge. To give you an idea, here are some of the headlines we’ve seen on reviews of this card:“The new $249 GPU champion has arrived” “The first worthy budget GPU of the decade”“The fastest mainstream GPU”“A New Mainstream King”“Intel Fixed Its Problems”Mind you, in some ways the B580 is a glass of ice water in GPU hell, as its primary competition — the RTX 4060 and AMD RX 7600 — utterly failed to impress last year, following years of GPU prices that were more inflated than inflation itself. (Linus Tech Tips called the $300 4060 a “wet fart of a GPU” but considers the B580 “great and affordable” now.) While reviewers have showed the B580 doesn’t beat the 4060 and 7600 in every game, especially for gamers who still play at 1080p resolution, it does seem to pull ahead on average, the drivers seem more mature than Intel’s earlier attempts, and the lower price and generous 12GB of video RAM make it relatively easy to recommend. If you can find one at $250, that is — which you probably can’t, because they’ve sold out so quickly. For what it’s worth, Hardware Unboxed’s Steve Walton doesn’t think this is a so-called “paper launch” where a manufacturer ships a token number of components for bragging rights instead of mass-producing a product; he said that manufacturers, retailers and distributors told him that supply of the card was “quite substantial.” That said, AMD and Nvidia’s next GPUs are apparently right around the corner.Newegg may restock the $250 “Limited Edition” model early next month, according to its listing, and it’s still “coming soon” at B&H. A $279 Acer model is listed as coming to Newegg in as soon as a few days. Some models started at far higher prices: you can still purchase several Gunnir variants from China at around the $400 mark.

As long as I can remember, Microsoft Office has been a behemoth in the world of productivity tools. These days, many people do use things like Google Docs, but it's really not the same, and I'll always see Microsoft Office as the more mature and more capable option.

Hey, remember that one time Apple announced its hardware subscription service? If not, you're totally forgiven; the last time we heard about it was back in March 2022. The idea was simple; instead of selling brand-new hardware, Apple would offer a plan that gave them a new device every so often. If this sounds like a great idea to you, I have some bad news; the feature has reportedly been scrapped before it could even see the light of day.

One of the biggest annoyances when it comes to laptops is how hot they can get, and when they get hot, they can thermally throttle and really diminish your experience. Plus, they can get really, really noisy. Arm-based laptops are significantly better when it comes to this thanks to their lower power draw, but what if there was a best of both worlds, where a laptop could be quiet and efficiently cooled? That's what Ventiva's new cooling tech, dubbed ICE9, promises to deliver.