Rotel RAS-5000 Review: A Killer Network Amp That Needs a Better App

Rotel RAS-5000 Review: A Killer Network Amp That Needs a Better App

Network amplifiers are springing up everywhere these days, and why shouldn’t they be? A single device that facilitates everything from your favorite streaming services to TV content over HDMI ARC is fantastically convenient and shouldn’t be reserved for A/V receivers or powered speakers. For listeners after a versatile, high-quality stereo experience, it can make a … Read more

Acer Nitro 17 (2024, AMD) Review: Great Power Yet Affordable

Acer Nitro 17 (2024, AMD) Review: Great Power Yet Affordable

With all the chatter about the artificial intelligence features of Intel’s new Core Ultra CPUs, it’s easy to forget that AMD has been busy doing AI too. AMD has outfitted many of its Ryzen processors with neural processing units (NPUs) since mid-2023, and it’s continued to expand its AI offerings ever since. Acer’s latest Nitro … Read more

Kobo Clara Colour review: finally, an affordable color ereader

Kobo Clara Colour review: finally, an affordable color ereader

Kobo Clara Colour: One-minute review Kobo might play second fiddle to the popularity of Amazon’s Kindles, but the Japanese-Canadian brand has beaten the tech giant in being the first to deliver mainstream color ereaders that are also relatively affordable. Two were announced side by side, with the Kobo Clara Colour being the cheaper option. It’s … Read more

Razer Blade 14 (2024) review: premium performance on the go

Razer Blade 14 (2024) review: premium performance on the go

Razer Blade 14 (2024): Two minute review The Razer Blade 14 (2024) continues to impress as a gaming powerhouse in a remarkably compact form.  It remains largely unchanged in design from its predecessor, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, considering it has long been my top pick for the best gaming laptop going, and this … Read more

Glestain Gyuto Chef’s Knife Review: The Dimples Do Work

Glestain Gyuto Chef’s Knife Review: The Dimples Do Work

Several years ago, a blurb in a food magazine caught my eye. In it, a chef recommended a unique-looking Japanese chef’s knife with giant dimples on only one side of the blade, designed to keep food from sticking to it. Knives with little dimples are common, but these were enormous, and it made me wonder … Read more

LG Gram SuperSlim review: solid productivity and style, but falls short on a number of fronts

LG Gram SuperSlim review: solid productivity and style, but falls short on a number of fronts

LG Gram SuperSlim: Two-minute review LG launched a separate laptop in its Gram lineup called the LG Gram SuperSlim, which borrows heavily from the adjacent 2023 LG Gram Style model in terms of its looks. However, the latter was a disappointment in terms of performance, despite my loving the extremely thin and light chassis and … Read more

FlumeIO 5901 U.2 SSD review: as good a PCIe 5.0 enterprise drive as you’re going to find

FlumeIO 5901 U.2 SSD review: as good a PCIe 5.0 enterprise drive as you’re going to find

FlumeIO 5901 U.2 SSD: Two-minute review Mainstream customers looking for fast storage have had a pick of dozens of M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSDs on the market over the last year and a half, but enterprise customers, creative industry professionals, or those who have been looking to upgrade their cloud server storage from older SATA or … Read more

BodyBilt G7 review: a luxurious and comfortable experience

BodyBilt G7 review: a luxurious and comfortable experience

BodyBilt G7 Chair: Two-minute review The BodyBilt G7 Chair is a gaming chair that’s solely built for comfort. Every feature is devoted to delivering an incredibly high level of comfort to the buyer, and in this goal, it succeeds tremendously. Aesthetically it’s simple yet pleasing, with mostly black and brown highlights on the seat that … Read more

AndaSeat Kaiser 3 XL review: bursting at the seams with features – and value

AndaSeat Kaiser 3 XL review: bursting at the seams with features – and value

Andaseat Kaiser 3 XL: Two-minute review If you’re looking for a great value, do-it-all chair, with all the bells and whistles of some of the bigger brand options (most notably Secretlab) then the AndaSeat Kaiser 3 XL is absolutely the chair for you. At $500 / £500, the XL gets you an incredibly comfortable, plush, … Read more