Tech Advisor

Every issue of Tech Advisor is packed with the latest news, reviews and features plus comprehensive and impartial buying advice as well as easy-to-understand tutorials and workshops to help you to get the most from your PC. Whether you want to buy the best value equipment or make the most out of equipment you already own, Tech Advisor delivers expert advice you can trust.

Petition demands Windows 10 live past 2025 • Pressure is growing on Microsoft to continue providing security updates for Windows 10 after October 2025.

Why Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon is the chip we begged Intel to make • Why can’t Intel go back to the good old days of making chips go as fast as they can?

SD cards prepare to double in speed with a jump to PCIe 4.0 • The SD Association wants to increase the speed of SD cards and introduce four new memory classes.

Is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite PC chip legit? We ask the experts • Some of the industry’s experts tell us how Qualcomm can succeed – or fail.

How the Pixel 8 changes everything for Android • Think Google’s new Pixel 8 is ‘just another Android phone’? Think again.

Review: Windows 11 23H2

12 simple, secret Windows shortcuts you probably don’t know • Nearly all of these were new to me.

Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2

Google Pixel 8 Pro

Meta Quest 3

Best Chromebooks • A Chromebook might be right for you.

9 Microsoft Word tricks and hidden features • Microsoft Word is by far the most widely used word processor, but it’s not perfect.

21 Chrome tips to make browsing smoother and faster • Do you think Chrome consumes too much battery and works too slowly? Here are tips to make your browser better.