Was 2021 a good year for PC hardware? Let's take a look through a year's worth of drama, releases, and developments. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Nearly 340 million PCs were shipped in 2021, according to Gartner. That’s a nearly ...

A new report shows that 2021 Mac shipments grew almost twice as fast as the PC market as a whole. Annual growth for Mac was 28.3%, against 14.6% for the global PC market. The impressive result was of ...

The PC market grew 14.8% in 2021, shipping the largest number of desktops, laptops, and workstations in a single year since 2012. It's a noteworthy recovery for a sector that had been written off by ...

Despite severe supply-chain constraints, worldwide shipments of PCs grew 1% year on year to 92 million units last quarter versus 91 million a year ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

US PC shipments grew 1% year over year in 2021, despite a dramatic 28% drop in sales during the year's final quarter, Canalys said. The fourth quarter edition of Canalys PC sales tracking report for ...

It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong. As it turns out, Canalys reports that PC shipments grew 15% year over ...

PCs have flown off the shelves during the pandemic as more of us kept ourselves entertained at home, even if hardware such as graphics cards have seen massive price hikes for various reasons. Building ...

“So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun”, John Lennon sings at us from superstore tannoys while we’re just trying to stock up on holiday essentials ...

While it may be difficult to find graphics card deals during the holiday season, there are plenty of other great gifts to buy for yourself or the PC gamers on your shopping list. Whether you’re ...

There used to be a pretty huge wall between PC games and consoles. They were almost like two independent sides of the same industry, with the biggest console games almost never making it to computers, ...