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The Macflation crisis is here, and I just dodged it by a hair
I bought an M5 MacBook Air in India for roughly $1,078, eleven days before Apple raised prices by over $300 in the same market. This is my story.
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Nvidia’s RTX Spark made me hate content creation a little less
After seeing NVIDIA RTX Spark in action at Computex 2026, I'm convinced its AI-powered editing tools could save creators hours by eliminating video editing's most repetitive tasks.
I tried Acer’s new 5K MiniLED Gaming monitor, and OLED kept popping into my head
Hands-on with the Acer Nitro XV345CKR P reveals a bold take on MiniLED gaming monitors, balancing 5K clarity, HDR brilliance, and versatility against OLED's undeniable appeal.
What makes a laptop good for both work and entertainment?
This post is brought to you in paid partnership with HP. The HP OmniBook X Flip is designed as an all‑day AI PC that adapts seamlessly from productivity to entertainment without switching devices. Devices like the HP OmniBook X Flip reflect this shift toward a single system that carries users through an entire day. From early […]
Your Windows 11 PC can now natively run AI workloads, even if it lacks the Copilot+ badge
Microsoft's latest AI decision could make millions of existing Windows PCs far more relevant than anyone expected.
I thought budget Windows laptops were dead, but Computex gave me new hope
Computex 2026 made the budget Windows laptop space feel exciting again, with Dell and Acer showing premium-feeling machines that directly challenge Apple’s MacBook Neo.
Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2026: iOS 27, next-gen Siri, AI upgrades, and more
Apple announced iOS 27, Siri AI, macOS Golden Gate, and five more OS updates at WWDC 2026 on June 8.
I went to BenQ’s lighting lab, and now my desk setup feels wrong
After seeing how BenQ thinks about monitor lighting, glare, and desk comfort, my normal desk setup suddenly looked like the lazy solution I had accepted for years.
Apple announces iOS 27 with speedy app launches, Siri AI, and Liquid Glass refinements for your iPhone
Apple announced iOS 27 at WWDC 2026, bringing 30% faster app launches, a rebuilt search index, Liquid Glass refinements, and revamped Siri.
The coolest things we saw at Computex 2026: From space-ready motherboards to fan-cooled mice
Computex 2026 had plenty of powerful laptops and gaming rigs, but the products that stayed with us were the oddballs, including a palm-cooled mouse, a spider-like Wi-Fi 8 router, and a gaming motherboard that's built to function in space.
Right to repair isn’t a hobbyist crusade. It’s a fight over ownership
Right to repair is usually framed as an e-waste issue, but the sharper problem is ownership. A dying battery shouldn’t turn a device you paid for into company property again.
The hidden labor of modern tech support is turning us all into unpaid employees
Modern tech support keeps selling self-service as convenience, but every chatbot loop and repeated explanation adds up to unpaid labor.
AI fitness coach senses the muscle mechanics as you exercise and prevents rookie injuries
BioCoach is an AI and computer vision prototype that analyzes exercise videos in real time, identifies joint mechanics, and provides specific form corrections.
Apple reportedly slashes its Vision roadmap for smart glasses, and Meta’s lead matters more than ever
Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus signed off on cutting Apple's Vision product roadmap from seven devices to two.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite finally lands in a mini PC, and it looks like Windows’ answer to the Mac mini
Qualcomm's most powerful PC chip has finally found a home outside laptops. ASUS' new mini PC could be the device that puts Windows on Arm in direct competition with Apple's compact desktops.
Photoshop is being eaten by the prompt box
AI image editors are making creative work feel less like using software and more like giving instructions, but the prompt box brings its own kind of friction.
Acer’s Swift Air 14 is a peppy MacBook Neo rival with some cool upgrades and a $699 ask
Acer's latest Swift laptop packs some surprisingly premium upgrades, and its biggest challenge may be a budget MacBook.
5 Menu Bar apps that have earned a permanent spot on my Mac in 2026
My Mac's menu bar is prime real estate, and not every app gets to live there. These five apps made the cut in 2026 and have genuinely improved how I work every day.
Copilot gets a redesign and it now wants to do more without being an eyesore
Microsoft is reshaping Copilot to feel like a workspace that adapts to you. The redesign focuses on cleaner design, smarter context, and fewer interruptions while you work.
iOS 26.6 alerts you upon running out of blocked contacts limit, and that’s a problem
iOS 26.6 introduces a "Blocked Contacts Limit Reached" alert for iPhones, surfacing a previously undocumented cap that some users have hit at 8,000 blocked numbers.
The Barnes & Noble CEO thinks AI books are fine. He’s wrong.
Barnes & Noble CEO says he has no problem selling AI-written books. It sounds reasonable on the surface. It isn't, and here's why it's bad news for every author alive.
I built an offline Grammarly alternative and turned it into a Mac app without any coding
I used Claude to build myself a fully offline, and locally processed alternative to Grammarly. The first build took me less than 30 seconds and I didn't even have to see or write a line of code.
In a market where Mac has been aspirational, it’s somehow a better deal than windows machines now
MacBooks have long been treated as the expensive, aspirational laptop choice, but rising Windows laptop prices and Apple’s cheaper MacBook strategy are flipping this script.
Corsair is putting Chinese RAM in mainstream market. It won’t quite end the crisis though
Chinese memory makers are pushing cheaper RAM and storage chips into the market, and major PC brands are starting to notice. The shift could eventually change hardware pricing in a big way — but not without complications first.
Apple Preview is the most underrated Mac app. Here are 7 things you didn’t know you could do with it.
Apple Preview has quietly grown into one of the most powerful apps on your Mac. From editing PDFs to removing image backgrounds, here are 7 things it can do that might surprise you.
Mini PCs are the most boring exciting computers you can buy
Mini PCs are not glamorous, but that’s why they feel refreshing in a market full of expensive laptops, overbuilt towers, and computers trying too hard.
I miss when tech looked cheap, plastic, and honest
Old plastic gadgets were chunky, strange, and sometimes ugly, but they had a tactile clarity modern tech keeps sanding away.
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