Jason brings a decade of tech and gaming journalism experience to his role as a Managing Editor of Computing at Tom's Guide. He has previously written for Laptop Mag, Tom's Hardware, Kotaku, Stuff and BBC Science Focus. In his spare time, you'll find Jason looking for good dogs to pet or thinking about eating pizza if he isn't already.
Latest articles by Jason England

The best external SSDs in 2026 — tested by experts
By Darragh Murphy Last updated
Running out of space on your laptop or phone? These are the best external SSDs, based on our extensive testing.

I tested the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 5 250K Plus against AMD’s best gaming CPUs — this should be a mismatch, but the results shocked me
By Jason England Published
Editor's ChoiceTeam Blue’s getting its desktop swagger back

I tested the iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07, and it’s the sweet spot pre-built for PC gaming enthusiasts
By Jason England Published
Editor's ChoiceA RAMageddon-busting pre-built

I've tested every MacBook Neo alternative — the Asus Zenbook A14 leads 3 rivals that should worry Apple
By Jason England Last updated
The MacBook Neo is widely considered to be one of the best budget laptops, but I've tested three rivals that give Apple a run for its money!

What is Nvidia DLSS? Explaining the AI tech transforming PC gaming — and why it’s getting controversial
By Jason England Published
What is Nvidia DLSS? Learn how to master Super Resolution and Frame Generation to boost your PC's performance, and discover why the new DLSS 5 is sparking controversy in the gaming community.

Windows fans mocked MacBook Neo’s 8GB RAM — my testing shows why that’s wrong
By Jason England Last updated
Windows 11 just got caught being *way* too greedy

I pixel-peeped DLSS 5 — and now I can’t tell if Nvidia just changed gaming or broke it with AI
By Jason England Last updated
The response to DLSS 5 has been mixed

Nvidia GTC 2026 LIVE — Jensen Huang reveals DLSS 5, OpenClaw partnership, and an Olaf robot
By Jason England Last updated
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's GTC Keynote in Washington D.C. just finished, and we got a glimpse of how Team Green tech is going to bring AI to a whole lot of US companies.

Nvidia says PC gaming will ‘look like a film’ — GTC 2026 could herald 1 million times better path tracing for GPUs
By Jason England Last updated
Nvidia looks set to reveal the "future of real-time rendering" at GTC 2026. We break down the shift to neural rendering and the hunt for film-quality gaming graphics.

The era of cheap PCs may be over — RAM prices are about to jump 15% with no relief until 2028
By Jason England Last updated
The ‘era of bargain PCs’ is over

I tested the Xreal 1S — here’s why they are the essential AR Glasses for Nintendo Switch 2 gamers and power users alike
By Jason England Last updated
Editor's ChoiceThe best way to play Nintendo Switch 2 on-the-go, but also an immersive 3D cinema

Xreal axes its Nintendo Switch glasses adapter ‘indefinitely’ — so I've tested the best alternative you should use instead
By Jason England Published
Xreal has just put the Neo Nintendo Switch 2 dock on hold "indefinitely," so I tested the best alternative for AR glasses gaming. Spoiler alert: it's from the last company you'd expect.

MacBook Neo may win the budget laptop war before it even starts — cheap Windows laptop prices could jump by 'hundreds of dollars'
By Jason England Last updated
Major PC makers are struggling to survive the RAM crisis and may move away from cheap laptops just as Apple drops the MacBook Neo.

I’ve traveled 50,000 miles with the world’s most powerful travel adaptor — it’s the only one I trust to charge all my tech
By Jason England Published
I travel a lot, and the Tessan Voyager 205 is the savior for techies like me — packing 205 watts of raw power to charge literally everything at once.

Nvidia is bringing a killer app to the Apple Vision Pro — and it's good news for sim racers
By Jason England Published
I’m a VR sim racer, and Nvidia is making the Apple Vision Pro more tempting to buy with this one huge feature — here’s why

I went eyes-on with Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation launching March 31 — and it’s a game-changer
By Jason England Published
Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation is launching on March 31st, and I got to go eyes-on before its grand debut. Here are my thoughts!

You asked us live about the MacBook Neo, MacBook Air M5 and the MacBook Pro M5 Pro – read all the questions and answers here
By Tony Polanco, Mark Spoonauer Published
We just reviewed Apple's new MacBook Neo, MacBook Air M5 and MacBook Pro with M5 Pro. Any questions to help you decide which one to buy? We can answer them!

Apple solved budget laptops with MacBook Neo — now a touchscreen MacBook Ultra could be next
By Jason England Published
Apple’s going ultra-premium

2026 is the year smart glasses will finally stop being cringe, but has their moment come too late?
By Jason England Published
Are AI earbuds about to steal the spotlight?

I’m using pizza to explain Apple’s M5 Pro and M5 Max — and now I’m convinced laptops are about to change
By Jason England Published
The leaked benchmarks look delicious

I wore Razer’s Project Motoko AI gaming headset — and I’m not sure real life is supposed to have cheat codes like this
By Jason England Published
When Ray-Ban Meta meets a gaming headset

I am a laptop reviewer veteran, and these are my 5 top laptops of MWC 2026
By Jason England Published
MWC 2026 may be about phones, but there were a lot of laptops too! Here are my 5 favorite notebook announcements.

Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU prices can leave you crying — here's 9 graphics card deals to beat the RAM price crisis
By Jason England Published
Grab an excellent discount on Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards with savings of up to 20% and a free copy of Resident Evil Requiem. I've picked my 9 favourite offers to beat the RAM price crisis.

Apple’s low-cost MacBook Neo bets on phone chips to cut costs — Qualcomm says it’s ‘in a very good position’ to compete
By Jason England Last updated
As Apple eyes the A18 Pro for a cheaper MacBook entry, Qualcomm’s Kedar Kondap and Alex Katouzian explain why Snapdragon is better positioned to lead the shift away from x86.

I just went hands-on with Nothing Phone (4a) — this could beat iPhone 17e to be the budget phone of 2026
By Jason England Published
I went hands-on with the Nothing Phone (4a), and it feels like it could very well beat Apple's iPhone 17e to be the best budget phone you can buy this year.
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