The key difference between a desktop computer and a laptop computer is compactness; where a desktop has room for expandable cards and new hardware features, a laptop's hardware must fit into an ...

A hobbyist programmer named Piotr "maniek86" Grzesik recently unveiled his latest project. The M8SBC-486 motherboard is designed to power a homebrew 486-style computer, though it does ...

A motherboard is a quintessential part of any electronic equipment. Be it a smartphone, laptops, computer, or even as small as an electrical toothbrush. The size of the motherboard varies from device ...

Your computer's motherboard is an engineering marvel, stuffed with interfaces, ports, sensors, and headers to connect many peripherals. The more money you spend, the more features you get, but you'll ...

The CPU may be the brain of a computer, but by itself it has no way to interact with the PC's other components—it needs a nervous system. That would be the motherboard. In many ways, it's little more ...

There's nobody quite like Mom and when it comes to performance desktop computers or business class workhorse machines, motherboards are always what bring the computing family together. Motherboards ...

Though this ATX-form-factor board has "Art" in its name, its appearance is far from florid. Asus targets its ProArt motherboards as products for businesses and content-creation experts, and for those ...

Lenovo showed me its new ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and this year's upgrades caught me off guard ...

Not a bad way for beginners to get started ...