Madeline (She/Her) is a PC Author at XDA with 13 years of experience in tech journalism. She focuses on gaming, computer hardware, components, and software. If you've got to work from home on a laptop ...

Laptops are coming with fewer and fewer ports. Apple really started the trend quite some time ago, with launching the MacBook with a single USB-C/Thunderbolt port. Today, Apple has brought back some ...

Over the last few decades, USB devices have become increasingly popular, and one we hear about the most is the dongle. Unlike general USB devices, a dongle adds functionality to the PC, provides an ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

Adapters let you make the most of your existing hardware, but always come with compromises.

If your computer doesn't have built-in Wi-Fi or an ethernet port, or if those connections aren't working properly, you're not stuck without internet. USB ports offer multiple ways to get online, ...