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Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

I stopped keeping a spare Windows computer around for testing sketchy software once I deployed a virtual machine server. Virtual machines are the perfect disposable Windows install for testing things ...

Valve's Steam Machine is pricier than expected (thanks, RAMageddon), but there's a way to get most of the experience on your own PC. Here's how. It’s enough that it made me wonder how hard it’d be to ...

It’s been two whole weeks since the Steam Machine was revealed to the world, and we still have no idea how much it’ll cost. I still don’t know when Valve is going to announce the price, but in the ...

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