Computers are my lifelong obsession. I wrote my first laptop review in 2005 for NotebookReview.com, continued with a consistent PC-reviewing gig at Computer Shopper in 2014, and moved to PCMag in 2018 ...

Computers are my lifelong obsession. I wrote my first laptop review in 2005 for NotebookReview.com, continued with a consistent PC-reviewing gig at Computer Shopper in 2014, and moved to PCMag in 2018 ...

The Asus Essentio CM1730-05 ($569.99 at Best Buy) skirts the gray area between cheap desktop PCs and more mainstream multimedia-oriented computers. It's got a six-core AMD Phenom II X6 1065T processor ...