Gigabyte drops 2TB SSD to all-time low around $0.10 per GB — Aorus Gen5 14000 SSD now at $208.68
The 2TB Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 14000 SSD drops to just $208.68, saving you over $45 from its original MSRP.
M5 MacBook Pro Teardown Shows Apple’s $527 Battery Replacement Kit Is Bonkers
Apple continues to make strides towards making do-it-yourself (DIY) repairs less of a hassle, though there still remains plenty of room for improvement, as highlighted in iFixIt’s teardown of the newly refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro with a custom M5 chip inside. The gripe that stands above the rest is how unnecessarily expensive and convoluted
One Shots: Happy in what you do
As the old gaming adage goes, “Play what makes you happy and you’ll never grind a day in your life!” Shh, don’t question it, just...
‘Never in your life buy a 5090 Founders Edition’: repair tech slams Nvidia’s flagship card design for train wreck melting 16-pin power connector
The GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is Nvidia’s flagship GPU, but one repair technician says it comes with a hidden flaw that makes it one of the worst designs he’s seen.
Kingston Fury Renegade G5 2TB SSD Review: The Renegade is Back
The Kingston Fury Renegade G5 is efficient and performs well with no real downsides. It’s fast and hides no unpleasant surprises.
Microsoft’s decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs
Counterpoint Research data shows a massive jump in Mac sales in the same quarter that support for Microsoft Windows 10 ended.
The Daily Grind: Do you prune your friend list in MMOs?
You know the feeling. You’re doing a dungeon run with people, you’re making jokes and having a great time, and at the end of the...
8-bit PC Hercules Graphics Card from 1984 gets revisited — Hercules GPU from the IBM era shaped the modern graphics we know today
The Hercules Graphics Card, released in 1982, was revolutionary for its time because it combined two popular video modes used in IBM PCs across the corporate world. It could display both sharp text and graphics quickly, thanks to its 32KB frame buffer, offering the best of both worlds in an era when compromise led the conversation.
Cooler Master apologizes for telling users to pry apart melting-prone 16-pin connectors to fix them, instructs customer support teams to stop recommending modifications — company also discontinues problematic right-angle connector
Cooler Master has provided an update stating it is no longer producing its problematic right-angle 12V-2×6 power plug. The company also corrected its customer support staff to stop recommending power connector modifications to its customers.
Creator makes Wi-Fi sound like dial-up Internet — uses Raspberry Pi and 2-watt speaker to convert digital data into analog signals
This Raspberry Pi project captures Wi-Fi data and then blasts it out as sound to make it feel like you’re connecting via a dial-up modem.