At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Good brightness and clarity Surprisingly acceptable speakers Both USB-C and full-size HDMI connectivity Extremely affordable Cons Budget build quality Awkward stand Muted, dull color performance Our Verdict The InnoView Portable Monitor isn’t a looker, but it provides a crisp and good connectivity image at a spectacular price. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Best Prices Today: InnoView Portable Monitor Retailer Price $79.99 View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket The pricing for portable monitors has dipped with incredible speed over the past five years. 15.6-inch 1080p portable monitors, like the InnoView Portable Monitor, are available on Amazon for well under $100. Pricing that low might leave you skeptical. Is a display this cheap worth buying? Or will it end up as e-waste? Read on to learn more, then see our roundup of the best portable monitors for comparison. InnoView Portable Monitor (15.6-inch) specs and features The InnoView Portable Monitor has a 15.6-inch 1920×1080 panel based on IPS technology. The monitor doesn’t support Adaptive Sync, but it does claim to support HDR (more on that later). Connectivity includes an HDMI port and two USB-C ports. Display size: 15.6-inch 16:9 aspect ratio Native resolution: 1920×1080 Panel type: IPS LCD Refresh rate: 60Hz Adaptive sync: None HDR: Yes Ports: 1x HDMI, 2x USB-C, 3.5mm audio-out Audio: 2x speakers Additional features: Carrying case and stand Price: $89.99 MSRP ($60 to $80 typical retail) But the headliner is, of course, the price. The monitor’s $89.99 MSRP is low to begin with and, like many monitors listed on Amazon, it almost never retails at MSRP. The price tends to swing between $60 and $80, with an all-time low of $59.99 (as of July 2025). InnoView Portable Monitor design You might expect a portable monitor that retails for as little as $60 to look cheap. And, well, it does. The InnoView Portable Monitor looks like something other brands would use as a first-pass prototype to test a panel before they go deeper into production. It’s constructed with simple, flimsy matte-black plastics that have a generic, barely-there texture. However, InnoView compensates for that by shipping the display with a kickstand case that wraps most of the exterior. It’s not attractive, either, but the added layer of padding and scratch protection reduces my concern about long-term durability. Matthew Smith / Foundry And you’ll want to keep the case attached, because it’s also the stand, and the monitor is rather useless without it (unless you bring your own stand, of course). The stand folds to keep the display in place and has several small bumps that keep it fixed at different angles. That means the range of tilt options is limited, though, which can prove annoying. InnoView Portable Monitor connectivity While the InnoView’s design is compromised to hit a price point, the same isn’t true of the portable monitor’s connectivity. It has one full-sized HDMI port and two USB-C ports, both of which support DisplayPort for video input and USB Power Delivery to supply power to the display. Most modern portable monitors have the same inputs. In fact, the full-sized HDMI is a slight advantage over some slimmer models, which instead use the less common mini- or micro-HDMI input. InnoView doesn’t ship the portable monitor with a USB power brick, so you’ll have to supply your own or connect the monitor to a device with USB ports that supply power. The monitor ships with one HDMI and one USB-C cable, at least. InnoView Portable Monitor menus, features, and audio The InnoView Portable Monitor’s menu system, though basic, is better than I expected. Users access and control the menus with the volume and power buttons on the monitor’s right side. While this arrangement is awkward, it’s commonly used by portable monitors, and the InnoView’s buttons are responsive. If you’re looking for extra features, however, the menus don’t provide much. You’ll find support for a 4:3 aspect ratio, audio settings, and basic color image adjustments (like color temperature), but that’s it. Matthew Smith / Foundry The InnoView’s speakers left me pleasantly surprised. They’re a bit quiet even at maximum volume but provide clear, distinct sound that rarely sounds muddy. The speakers are acceptable for podcasts, video calls, YouTube, and ambient music at low volumes, which is more than can be said for other portable monitors. The InnoView’s speakers left me pleasantly surprised. They’re a bit quiet even at maximum volume but provide clear, distinct sound that rarely sounds muddy. InnoView Portable Monitor SDR image quality The InnoView Portable Monitor’s low price point sets low expectations for its image quality. And it’s not the best, to be sure. Still, the InnoView provides an acceptable experience for office productivity and web browsing. Matthew Smith / Foundry The InnoView hits a maximum sustained SDR brightness of 269 nits. That’s not bright but, as the graph shows, it’s typical for a budget portable monitor. The InnoView is plenty bright in rooms with some light control but will start to look dim when used near sunlit windows or in rooms with harsh overhead lighting. While the monitor’s brightness is modest, it’s aided by an effective matte finish. Reflections are kept to a minimum, becoming noticeable only when an overpowering point of light is placed opposite the display. Matthew Smith / Foundry The InnoView’s contrast ratio is either mediocre or good, depending on your perspective. It’s certainly not a contrast-rich display when compared to all computer monitors sold today. Alternatives with an OLED panel, like the Viewsonic VX1655-4K-OLED, will provide a richer and more immersive experience. But that Viewsonic is at least six times more expensive than the InnoView. When compared to other more expensive portable monitors, like the Arzopa Z1FC and Viewsonic TD1656-2K, the InnoView just slightly lags the pack. Matthew Smith / Foundry Color performance is where the InnoView’s extreme budget price is most noticeable. The monitor has a narrow color gamut that spans just 64 percent of sRGB and less than 50 percent of both DCI-P3 and AdobeRGB. As the graph shows, those figures are low even for a budget portable monitor. In practice, the narrow color gamut makes for a flat, dull, and lifeless experience. It’s not a problem for browsing documents or writing in Word, but movies and games will look far less alluring. Matthew Smith / Foundry It’s a similar story in color accuracy. The InnoView’s color accuracy isn’t terrible, but it’s not great. The image often has a distinctly artificial look expressed in odd depictions of blue, green, and cyan hues. The monitor’s push towards blue is also represented in its default color gamut of 7500K, which is way off our target of 6500K and indicates a cold, sterile image. However, the monitor’s gamma result hit our target of 2.2. Sharpness is a perk. The monitor’s 1080p resolution isn’t remarkable but works out to a pixel density of just over 140 pixels per inch across the 15.6-inch panel. That’s not too far behind a 27-inch 4K monitor (at 163 ppi) and far better than a 27-inch 1440p panel (at roughly 109 ppi). Text, video, and images all look crisp on the InnoView Portable Monitor. What about viewing angles? They’re great. The InnoView’s IPS panel shows little sign of color and brightness shift when viewed off-angle from the sides or above. It will eventually occur, but the angles at which it becomes noticeable are so extreme that it’s hard to imagine a scenario where you’d use the monitor in that way. The InnoView Portable Monitor’s image quality, though nothing special, feels more than adequate for a display sold well below $100. The monitor’s color performance is its biggest weakness, followed by contrast. Yet those flaws are countered by the monitor’s decent brightness, good sharpness, and wide viewing angles. InnoView Portable Monitor HDR image quality and motion performance The InnoView Portable Monitor lists HDR support and accepts an HDR signal, but that’s about it. As the monitor’s image quality results suggest, it lacks the brightness and color performance to deliver HDR. I don’t recommend using HDR on this monitor, as it will often look worse than sticking with SDR. Motion performance is spotty, as well. The monitor has a 60Hz refresh rate. Adaptive sync support isn’t advertised, but a “Free Sync” setting is found in the monitor’s menu system. Unfortunately, it didn’t appear to function in my testing. Is the InnoView Portable Monitor worth it? The InnoView Portable Monitor isn’t an amazing monitor. It’s a usable monitor, however, with passable image quality and good connectivity at a rock-bottom price. Shoppers who care about image quality, motion clarity, or HDR should give the InnoView a hard pass. Those looking to spend as little as possible on a usable portable display, however, will find the InnoView Portable Monitor does the job. Read...

When you imagine personal data stolen on the internet, like your address, phone number, internet history, or even passwords, you probably think of hackers passing it to identity thieves. Maybe you think of cops getting their hands on it in less-than-legal ways, or maybe an insurance company spying on its customers. But apparently anyone can buy this data, from a U.S. company, for as little as $50. That company is Farnsworth Intelligence, an “open-source intel” startup from 23-year-old founder Aidan Raney. And it’s not being coy about what it’s doing. The company’s primary consumer-level product is called “Infostealers,” and it’s hosted at Infostealers.info. (Yup, what a URL.) According to an exposé from 404 Media, a simple purchase starting at fifty bucks can get you access to a searchable database of personal data from people all over the United States and the world. And this isn’t just the usual stuff you could find on the various “people pages” sites, the somewhat scummy descendants of the Yellow Pages. No, this is information apparently sourced directly from data breaches, stolen from companies and services in ways that just about every country considers a crime. There’s a full suite of data available for perusing, up to and including the auto-fill addresses you stick into your browser so you don’t have to type them into every new store. Farnsaworth Intelligence’s primary public-facing info search tool is called “Infostealers.info.”Farnsworth Intelligence But it goes even deeper. Farnsworth Intelligence’s more powerful Infostealer Data Platform product will serve up private data that includes usernames and passwords. Yes, again, the actual product is called “Infostealer.” This feature isn’t available to just anyone…but it is available to anyone who can provide a compelling reason. The list of apparently legitimate use cases Farnsworth accepts includes “private investigations, intelligence, journalism, law enforcement, cyber security, compliance, IP/brand protection.” There’s no mention of a warrant necessary to access this stolen information. Farnsworth’s public-facing sight seems almost gleefully eager to declare its ability to collect information via less-than-legitimate means. “We are renown [sic] for our human intelligence capabilities, having successfully infiltrated a North Korean laptop farm through social engineering techniques and succesfully [sic] extracting intelligence that saved companies millions of dollars,” declares a promo blurb. Farnsworth says this information can be used for “corporate due diligence,” “enhanced background checks,” and “advanced asset searches.” Exactly how Farnsworth procures its trillions of data points is not disclosed. It’s easy enough to find stolen personal info, since hardly a week goes by without a database of millions of users making its way onto the dark web. And there are legitimate reasons for people to find and catalog those databases, like security companies alerting their customers when their passwords have been leaked. But brazenly selling stolen information on the open market, especially when there are so many companies, governments, and other state-level actors that can use it to do harm, seems incredibly callous. And it’s worth pointing out that evidence obtained illegally is generally inadmissible in a criminal prosecution. But that wouldn’t stop, say, an abusive ex from tracking down their victim’s most recent address. There are plenty of other ways for illegally obtained information to be used to hurt people. I’m sure I don’t have to draw you a picture of why groups of vulnerable people who are already targeted wouldn’t want it to be searchable by private investigators or government agents, with nothing more than a credit card. I’m a technology journalist. I don’t have the authority to declare behavior like this legal or illegal, and my employer’s lawyers would probably tackle me if I tried. But as a human being, I can point out that collecting private, stolen information, then selling it to anyone without a thought for what further damage it might cause, is the epitome of sociopathic greed. “It would be illegal and unethical to sell stolen cell phones even if you didn’t steal them yourself, and I don’t see how this is any different,” said Cooper Quintin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 404 Media requested comment from both Farnsworth Intelligence and its founder, and received no response. I highly recommend reading 404 Media’s original report for the full scope of the situation. Read...

Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, is planning to replace the current Windows app for a simpler web wrapper version. According to Windows Latest, the latest beta version of WhatsApp for PC users will abandon the native Windows UWP framework in favor of an app that’s built on Edge’s Chromium-based WebView2 technology. The new variant is, in effect, a stripped-down web browser that shows the web version of WhatsApp in a desktop app window. What does this mean in practical terms? A simpler user interface, a changed notification system, more basic settings, and weaker integration with Windows. However, the beta version does include support for WhatsApp Channels and enhanced Status and Communities features. Based on tests by Windows Latest, the new WhatsApp PC app “uses approximately 30% more RAM than the existing native app” and exhibits several notable differences including “slower performance.” Why the switch? Most likely to ease development efforts. With a web wrapper, Meta can focus resources on developing a single version of WhatsApp and deploy it cross-platform using web wrappers, instead of maintaining a separate Windows-native version with its own code. Read...

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The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan has set a groundbreaking record: a data transmission rate of 1.02 petabits per second (around 127,500 GB/s) over 1,802 kilometers (about 1,120 miles), reports CNET. That’s around 3.5 million times faster than the average US fixed broadband internet connection, which was around 289 Mbps according to Speedtest as of May 2025. At this new record-breaking speed, you could download the entire Netflix library in under a second. Fiber optics with 19 cores The key to the record is a new optical fiber with 19 cores, which are installed in a cable with a diameter of just 0.125 millimeters (the standard size for existing networks). Compared to conventional cables with one core, this fiber transmits 19 times more data with minimal data loss due to uniform light conduction. For transmission over the 1,120-mile distance—comparable to New York to Chicago—the signal was amplified 21 times. The new record more than doubles the previous year’s figure of 50,250 GB/s. In 2023, the NICT team achieved similar speeds but only over a third of the distance. Advances in signal amplification and reduction of data loss are what made this new range possible. Compatible with existing fiber optic cables The technology could meet the growing demand for data worldwide, as data volumes have been increasing by about 50 percent annually according to Nielsen’s Law. In general, the new technology is exciting and also interesting for countries where fiber optic expansion is stagnating, primarily because these new cables fit into existing infrastructures. The record has not yet been independently verified, but it shows how fiber optics could further shape the future of the internet. Further reading: These are the 10 most watched Netflix shows of all time Read...

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Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardcore hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the hot topics on our YouTube show or latest buzz from across the web? I’ve got you covered. Want this newsletter to come directly to your inbox? Sign up on our website! This past week, Adam published a look back at the past few decades of PC component history, through the lens of my colleague Gordon Mah Ung’s career. The memories stretch from the mid-1990s (including Gordon in a full suit and tie) to the present day of contests for the slowest benchmark results. And by the end, I could see other people latching on to “change” as the biggest theme throughout. The visual evidence is there: the move from beige boxes to bright, even obnoxiously colored chassis; shifting case configurations and attitudes toward cable management (oh, for the days when we could shove everything inside and just slap the side panel back on); even the leap to ferocious high core-count processors and screaming-fast graphics cards. Vintage Alienware.Willis Lai / Foundry But while others could argue that change has been the constant in computer hardware, I’d instead champion ATX as one of the truest mainstays—and all the evidence of its steady, reliable presence over the past 30 years is right in the video. In build after build, ATX is there. An over-the-top, ludicrously decked out Dream Machine built by the crew at Maximum PC? ATX. The machine that won the ongoing competition between Gordon and others (including our friend Dr. Ian Cuttress) for the slowest benchmark results in Cinebench R15? Also ATX. And even Gordon’s signature troll build, the “reverse sleeper build” that sported a shiny new case on the outside, and old-as-heck parts on the inside? Yeah, ATX. Gordon had his bones to pick with ATX—he complained often that ATX was holding back the PC industry. (And I mean often, not just on The Full Nerd when the cameras were rolling.) But in the very next breath, he would then rail against companies like Apple, which has zero issue with (in Gordon’s words) throwing older tech overboard. ATX’s longevity is why you can put parts that look like this in a brand-new, sparkling clean case. Willis Lai / Foundry I’ve always had a different outlook, largely along the lines of Gordon’s follow-up rant. I’m open to a newer standard that evolves the layout of motherboards, sure. But I view the jump from the AT form factor to ATX more as a practical response, as opposed to just the insatiable hunger for innovation. ATX followed AT after a decade, bringing further improvements to standardization and swappability of parts. But when BTX launched nine years later, arguably “on schedule,” it failed to take. Not enough innovation, you could argue. But I view it as a sign of what truly motivates leaps in technology, whether the advent of the printing press or desktop-sized personal computers. I also think ATX’s ongoing relevance tells us a lot about the future of the PC. Innovation is a response to a need. As the PC industry has become increasingly more personal, with a far wider spectrum of options to address specific needs, what innovation looks like may continue to become smaller and more subtle. And possibly, it may even become less constant. In this episode of The Full Nerd… Willis Lai / Foundry In this episode of The Full Nerd, Adam Patrick Murray, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Will Smith talk about Intel being on the ropes, Zen 6’s emergence in the wild, and AI in Windows. To me, I found a lot of commonalities between these topics—they made me extremely contemplative about what innovation in the PC space will look like, because things feel a little…confused. Also, we got a glimpse into the remarkable details of the decor in Will’s home office. All I can say is: That potato has a butt. Missed our live show? Subscribe now to The Full Nerd YouTube channel, and activate notifications. We also answer viewer questions in real time!  And if you need more hardware talk during the rest of the week, come join our Discord community—it’s full of cool, laid-back nerds. This week’s intriguing nerd news I’m facing a second week in recent months where I’m questioning my deal-hunting skills, but a few technology wins are keeping my spirits up. What currently has me a bit starry-eyed: insanely fast internet. So fast that I’m a little giddy at the thought, even though I may never see it in my neck of the woods. What’s old will become what’s new.Wikimedia Commons I can’t top this data hoarder’s deal-hunting skills: Estate sales can be a good way to pick up useful, interesting, or downright quirky stuff for pretty cheap. But so far, I haven’t encountered any finds on the level of 11 Western Digital 8TB external hard drives for just $360. Man. What a score. Turns out you can put a price on nostalgia: $349 bucks is the cost of reliving your best childhood memories—aka getting your hands on a remade Commodore 64, compatible with over 10,000 C64 games and modernized to support HDMI, USB, and Wi-Fi. I hope this works out better than the Analogue 3D. (Not gonna lie, I’m a little worried Analogue won’t survive the tariffs, as they’re absorbing the higher costs.) Self-destructing SSDs? Pass. Don’t get me wrong—TeamGroup’s reveal of an SSD that destroys itself with the push of a button got my attention. But look, I’m cheap. Taking a hammer to my drives seems way simpler and costs a lot less. (As does taking them over to a company that has a proper shredder.) Also, if I’m handling data sensitive enough to require instant obliteration…why is it in my home? The internet is built on duct tape and string: For systems engineers, DNS probably gives y’all a lot of headaches. I certainly would have one, knowing just how fragile the system is. Or when seeing proof that malware can be casually slipped into DNS records. Fun. Linux is winning: Just kidding, it’s still barely a fraction of users on desktop PCs. But it is gaining a little bit of headway in the U.S.—we’ve now reached a milestone of over 5 percent market share. You may need to finally upgrade your Gigabyte motherboard if it’s vulnerable to a new security exploit.Gigabyte When will 6-cores become default? Well, not just yet: Brad floated the idea during this week’s episode that Zen 6 could shift to six-core CPUs as the baseline. But we’ve also commented multiple times on the show that the budget end isn’t getting much attention. I guess those laments won out, as the hottest chip news this week is AMD’s Ryzen AI 5 330, a four-core, eight-threaded Copilot+ laptop chip. Update your Gigabyte motherboard ASAP…if you can: Running an Intel processor? Perhaps one within the range of 8th gen to 11th gen? Is it sitting in a Gigabyte motherboard? Better check pronto if an update is available for it, because a vulnerability that lets attackers bypass Secure Boot was just disclosed. But if yours is too old, you may actually have to upgrade your hardware all together to avoid this security hole. ð?? Why not just buy actual gold instead? Look, I know the RTX 4090 has largely held its value. And maybe that’ll extend to the RTX 5090, too. But when I first saw Asus’s RTX 5090 ROG Astral Real Gold Edition (aka the RTX 5090 made with 11 pounds of 24-carat gold), I thought, “Surely investing in actual 24-carat gold bars would be the better call.” I’m a product of my upbringing, which includes very immigrant grandparents. I want Japan’s fiber optic internet tech: The land of the fax machine is claiming a record-breaking transmission rate of 127,500GB/s (yes, the big B, so really fast) over a distance of roughly 1,100 miles. Sure, I’d only use such speed to load cat videos instantaneously, but I still want it. Catch you all next week, when hopefully the hot parts of the world are cooler, and the cold parts are warmer. It’s 62 degrees right now in San Francisco. Also supposed to rain next week. Yup. Alaina This newsletter is dedicated to the memory of Gordon Mah Ung, founder and host of The Full Nerd, and executive editor of hardware at PCWorld. Read...

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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50 series has been shining with cutting-edge technology since January 2025, but Nvidia is now following suit for the RTX 40 series with some upgrades. The GeForce 590.26 preview driver, which is available on Nvidia’s developer website, allows owners of Ada Lovelace graphics cards (such as the RTX 4080 and RTX 4060) to utilize Smooth Motion frame generation technology. This feature, previously reserved for RTX 50 cards, promises almost twice the frame rate in many games, reports VideoCardz. Doubled frame rates for older games Smooth Motion is Nvidia’s answer to AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames. The technology AI-generates intermediate images at the driver level, which are then inserted between two rendered frames. This makes games appear smoother without requiring developers to specifically incorporate the feature in their games. Smooth Motion is especially attractive for older games with frame rate limits and/or without DLSS support. Users on the Guru3D forums report double the frame rate in World of Warcraft, from 82 to 164 FPS. Similar leaps were achieved in Company of Heroes 3, as demonstrated by VideoCardz. In competitive and CPU-limited games, Smooth Motion unlocks noticeably smoother gameplay, even if the quality doesn’t quite match DLSS 3 Frame Generation. Only for developer accounts so far There are some restrictions on this new feature: the driver is only a preview, and it requires the Nvidia Profile Inspector from GitHub and a developer account with Nvidia to activate Smooth Motion. Without developer access, users will have to wait for the final version, which is expected to make the feature easier to access. Nevertheless, the free performance boost is a strong argument for RTX 40 owners who want more FPS without new hardware. Smooth Motion technology shows how Nvidia is extending the life of the RTX 40 series. For gamers who want to get maximum performance out of their graphics card, the preview driver is an exciting foretaste—and the final version shouldn’t be too long in coming. Read...