Brian Benchoff is an embedded engineer who has graced us with unique, whimsical devices like the RGB Gaming Coaster and the Zip Drive Tower. Now he’s back with a decidedly more practical design: a ...

The best cheap Linux desktop you can buy right now might have an Apple logo on it. That sounds wrong at first, because the M1 Mac mini was designed to be a tightly integrated macOS desktop, not a ...

I recently tried to use a Raspberry Pi 5 as a regular desktop PC. The experiment wasn’t a failure—I was able to use a Pi to get most of my work done for a few days. But the device’s performance, and ...

The Acer Aspire 1 (A114-61) is a cheap laptop with a 14 inch full HD display, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 1 processor, it launched in 2021 as a budget ...

Gumstix, a company that has been selling small system boards – about the size of a “gum stick” – for years, is now offering crowdfunding for hardware that users can design themselves. (Stick with me ...

Every geek and technology lover will undoubtedly have stumbled across online adverts for tiny headless Linux-powered devices that are barely larger than the power point they plug into. What can you ...

Over the past few years handheld gaming PC maker AYA has largely been focused on the premium end of the market. But the company is positioning its next device as a “budget friendly choice.” The AYA ...

The pre-built Linux Kubuntu Focus Iridium laptop line is an unexpectedly good alternative to running any Linux operating system on converted Windows PCs. Born almost five years ago, Focus Computers ...

The Pogoplug (pic from CultofMac) is part of a service for sharing your pictures, videos and so on. Usefully, you can ignore their service and rework it to run ArchLinux from a connected USB thumb ...