The Drive

A weekly column by XDA's Lead PC Hardware Editor, Rich Edmonds

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The Drive Console PC

Video game consoles became nothing but compact desktop PCs

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Valve changed gaming forever with a single app

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Quantum computing could help us build a brighter (and greener) future

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Network-attached storage (NAS) is becoming a central part of the home

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The rise of the greatest video streaming service

YouTube is here, there, and everywhere

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The Drive PC Case
How the PC case evolved into a fashionable furniture piece

The PC case has gone from boring beige to a contrasting color show

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IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer broke the 1 petaflop barrier during the 2008 financial crisis

MEEP! MEEP!

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The Drive: Bricopacks
Remember Bricopacks? They could transform Windows XP into something special

CrystalXP was at the forefront of custom UI development.

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How the Apple II became one of the most innovative PCs (not Macs)
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Apple had roaring success in the 1980s with the Apple II ... a PC.

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The marvel of the microprocessor that gave rise to the PC as we know it today
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Looking back at 20 years of Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distro
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Take a quick look at the history of Ubuntu.

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Peeking inside the Framework 13 AMD 2024
The Drive: The Return of Modularity
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Looking at some incredible things in the technology world.

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