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Price: Review unit $2,699 (around £1,980) Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio feels like a glimpse of the future. Microsoft’s new pull-forward design arguably improves upon the Surface Book 3, its spiritual predecessor, offering you a light menu of gam

Microsoft’s original Surface Duo folding phone designed in some serious flaws. The Surface Duo 2, to its credit, appears to have at least addressed them. When Microsoft launched the Surface Duo folding phone a year ago, Microsoft executives preceded

Price: Free upgrade from Windows 10 Windows 11 doesn’t convincingly answer the question every PC user should ask: why do I need this upgrade? The new operating system repurposes some of Microsoft’s cancelled Windows 10X code, but lacks the unified vi

Windows 11 has finally been released to the public, and you can download it right away. Here’s how. Downloading the official final version of Windows 11 is very much like downloading the original Windows 11 beta, but there’s an additional tool that M

Those stringent hardware requirements for Windows 11? Forget about it. At least that’s what Microsoft seems to saying by releasing an official bypass for its new operating system. Microsoft recommends only installing Windows 11 after its PC Health Ch

Windows 11 is here, and while we recommend most people stick to Windows 10 for now, the allure of hot new Windows 11 features like AutoHDR in games and enhanced Snap functionality might be too tempting to pass up. If you want to upgrade your PC to Wi

Windows 11 introduces a new, centred Taskbar, complete with icons that are grouped in the centre of your screen, rather than the familiar left-hand corner – a key complaint in our Windows 11 review. That includes the Start menu button. If this feels

If you’re wondering how to increase the performance of your Windows 11 PC, you may already know one way: Use the Windows 10 power-performance slider. But in Windows 11, Microsoft has hidden it in a new location. We’ll show you where. Microsoft offers

Price: £949 from fave.co/3040j5x Let’s get this out of the way: the Galaxy Z Flip3 is not a perfect phone (because there’s no such thing). But it’s a phone that absolutely nails what it sets out to: provide a premium-feeling folding phone that looks

Price: £399 from fave.co/3FCToAA Since Sony revamped and simplified its smartphone line-up two years ago, the company has prioritized quality over quantity. Indeed, we’ve only seen three new Sony phones in 2021, excluding the Japan-exclusive Xperia 1

If you’ve read anything about technology in the past few years, you may have seen the term ‘encryption’ floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated. If you need a quick 101 on what encryption is and

Price: £999 from fave.co/3awqGDd Microsoft’s Surface Pro 8 tablet arrives as Windows 11 goes out the door. Microsoft has already shipped one tablet this year, the Surface Pro 7+, which rose to the top of our round-up of the best Windows tablets of 20