I left Adobe behind and don't miss it, except for this one feature nobody can match
…It's the one thing no competitor seems to be able to match, and it's the only thing I miss, if only occasionally. Leaving Adobe isn't easy But there are…
Search
The FCC says foreign routers are a security risk, but still allows firmware updates to the ones you already own
…TP-Link's security posture more or less mirrors its competitors, and its competitors source components from the same factories in China and Taiwan. What's more, former Federal Communications Commissioner Michael…
I still regret these 4 PC building blunders that haunted my upgrade path for years
…Moving to my existing build, this one's a different story. The blunders associated with this one weren't entirely under my control. Since I had won this PC in a competition…
USB4 is quietly replacing Thunderbolt, and your next motherboard will prove it
…Sign in to your XDA account Consumers have been conditioned to see Thunderbolt as the premium, Intel-exclusive gold standard and its competitor, USB, as the messy, confusing alternative. Behind the scenes…
Over half of PC gamers are still on 1080p in 2026, and the reason isn't the monitors
…In my many years of going through the survey, a lot has changed, except one category that seems to move slower than the others. In the latest available June 2026 survey , 51…
Notion Mail has been out for a year, and the part I actually care about has nothing to do with email
…It’s a shift that moves email away from your basic conversation and makes it a functional part of your existing Notion ecosystem. Related I automatically turn my email receipts into Notion…
Intel's Panther Lake looks great, but it's not the upgrade desktop owners were hoping for
…The desktop move is explicitly on the roadmap for this same generation, and while it's not here yet, it looks spicy on paper. Nova Lake scales up to 52 cores, a…
I tested NotebookLM's three biggest updates, and one quietly changes everything
…Sign in to your XDA account NotebookLM has been the reigning champion of research-oriented AI for three years running, without a worthy competitor in sight, and it just keeps getting better…
I wanted a faster GPU, but prices and driver updates made my old one look a lot better
…Then again, it had no real competition from AMD , so Nvidia can more or less charge whatever it wants at the high end. The RTX 4090 was still the second-fastest GPU…
Nvidia's RTX Spark is a developer's dream, but AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ is what most people actually need for local AI
…Essentially, anything that can leverage all that high-speed and advanced technology within the SoC will see the RTX Spark platform utterly decimate the competition. But it feels a lot like the…