Month: August 2026
Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?
Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That’s what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn’t touch it. Even though it’s gone…
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How to choose your first mechanical keyboard — and why it’s simpler than the internet wants you to think
Go onto any forum or mechanical keyboard subreddit these days, and it can be a minefield as to what people recommend. It’s an essential wall of noise with regards to size, shape, switch type and even more that can be daunting if you’re a first-timer or you’re someone getting back…
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The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today
My favorite budget laptop, the HP OmniBook 5, has an OLED screen and gets great battery life, despite being just $750 right now. Source
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Big Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out
We're looking forward to Big Walk, ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs, Pigeon: A Love Story and several others this week. Source
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After 2 weeks with the Garmin Cirqa, I’ve fallen back in love with ‘vibe running’ and ditched my regular watch — and the Strava obsession it enables
The Garmin Cirqa is making waves in the fitness community. I put the new screenless tracker through its paces over 10 days of intensive testing, and awarded it 4.5 stars in my Garmin Cirqa review. As part of the testing process, I wore it for all of my workouts over…
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Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited
Xteink’s new X4 Pro e-reader is its best yet, but the lack of an ebook store can be limiting. Source
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