A working reference for tech buying. Articles and buyer's guides on hardware, peripherals, and local AI, plus twelve complete PC builds for twelve kinds of buyer. Every part links to its current Amazon listing.

Apple HomeView puts your lights, FaceTime calls, music and calendar on a 7-inch screen that recognizes who is standing in front of it. It needs an iPhone in the house. Echo Show works with any phone and costs less. HomeView ships November 13.





SSD prices doubled in the first half of 2026, paused over the summer and are climbing again. Five drives worth buying at today's prices, and the upgrades to skip while NAND is expensive.

Run a chatbot, a coding assistant or an image generator on your own desk, with no subscription and nothing leaving your house. A machine's memory sets which models it can load, and these five cover models from 8B to 70B.

Project DualPlay Mini flips an 8-inch Windows handheld into a tiny laptop with a backlit keyboard. Acer showed it at IFA 2026 as a concept, and a brand this size backing the idea could pull it out of its niche.

Nine desks, nine answers. Color work, multitasking, a second screen for the laptop, gaming, and the 5K Mac display that costs a thousand dollars less than Apple's.

DDR5-6000 CL30, 32 GB, two sticks. The spec has not changed since launch. The price has, and so has the brand you should pay it to.

The memory shortage reached graphics cards. Five picks across the lineup, and one tier we are telling you to skip.

Bluetooth trackers all look like the same little disc. They differ in one thing that counts, the finding network behind each one, and in a few extras worth paying for: an e-ink screen, a rechargeable wallet card, a 700-day battery.