6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (588+ words) A new mini PC brand has arrived, and unusually it is European. VZMORE, a German-owned company focused on quiet, high-performance desktop computing, made its global debut at ShowStoppers during IFA 2026 with four machines — and one of them uses a Strix…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (455+ words) The 990 PRO is a standard M.2 2280 stick, 80 x 22 x 2.3mm and a maximum of 9g, so it disappears into any slot built for that format. It’s a PCIe 4.0 x4 drive running the NVMe 2.0 protocol, and Samsung sells it in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities, with the 2TB unit…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (356+ words) The Field Bracket is Peak Design’s answer to a long-standing annoyance: the traditional L-bracket is a permanent, one-shape fixture that you either tolerate or take off entirely. This one reconfigures without tools. In a few seconds you can add or…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (581+ words) Most portable SSDs still use USB 3.2 Gen 2 at 10Gbps, or Gen 2×2 at 20Gbps. USB4 doubles that ceiling again to 40Gbps, matching Thunderbolt bandwidth — and crucially, USB4 is compatible with Thunderbolt 3 and 4 ports, so it works across Mac and Windows without the historical Thunderbolt-only limitation. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (629+ words) Anyone who has tried to shoot serious video on a phone knows the problem. Modern phones have exactly one USB-C port, and you need it for everything at once: power, an external SSD, a microphone, headphones for monitoring, and an…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (681+ words) This year I’ve been shocked by the stratospheric rise in my subscription costs, and one of the largest has been the cloud storage. I pay Apple, Google and WeTransfer a sum that is higher than I charge for a day’s…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (389+ words) The feature we find genuinely useful is the colour LCD. Cycling through the ports shows real-time wattage, voltage, amperage and internal temperature for each one. That sounds like a gimmick until you have spent an evening wondering why a laptop is…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (588+ words) Samsung has overhauled its microSD range, replacing the EVO Plus, PRO Plus and PRO Ultimate names with a simpler two-tier structure: the everyday T7 and the performance-focused T9. The T9 is the one that matters for action camera users, and Samsung says as…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (450+ words) High-bitrate video has a habit of turning what looks like a generous memory card into a storage problem remarkably quickly. GoPro’s MISSION 1 PRO, for example, can record at up to 240Mbps, alongside 8K and Open Gate modes that generate the sort of…...