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Microsoft skipped the cloud AI trend and went practical, giving the Surface Laptop Ultra as much local AI compute as it could. The body is big and setup is fairly involved, but the standalone performance is strong enough that professionals can rely on it. Design and display The Surface Laptop Ultra ignores the thin-and-light trend.
Big tablet, barely there 5.3mm thick. It’s the first thing you notice. The footprint is big (187.8 x 289.5mm), but side-on it looks like a sheet of glass. It goes in my backpack next to a pile of documents and takes up almost no room. The 5G version is 555g, 2g more than the Wi-Fi
Looks like last year’s band, just a bit bigger If you only glance at it, the Xiaomi Smart Band 11 doesn’t look much different from earlier Xiaomi bands. It keeps the slim oval frame, so it still looks close to an ordinary wristband. It measures 47.44 x 23.66 x 9.99mm, a little larger than the
The Mac mini M6 is fast, and with a compatibility layer it runs plenty of Windows PC games. Macs were never gaming machines. macOS is closed, sure, but the hardware is also unusual, and the big AAA studios make games for Windows first and mostly ignore everything else. Apple’s M6 generation changes that a bit.
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The Intel ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 is a good work laptop, with a better CPU and screen than last year’s. Before you spend the money, know its three flaws. It’s expensive, its CPU performance drops by about 36% on battery, and this unit has no keyboard backlight. The rest is mostly good news. The unit
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With the first-generation Idea Tab Pro, Lenovo learned the areas they needed to improve, and those changes have been incorporated in the second generation Idea Tab Pro. Several features have undergone major changes. Slim, lightweight metal construction, quality build. Lenovo managed to make this generation thinner and lighter. With a thickness of 6.2 mm (camera
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Often after first getting a watch, most people leave everything as is and begin running. This can cause issues with your workouts because manufacturer defaults, especially when it comes to your heart rate, often aren’t ideal for your body. When I first set up my Suunto Race S, it set my Zone 2 bottom range
I use a De’Longhi PrimaDonna Aromatic ECAM630.65.TSM at home, and I carry it to the office when I have to serve a bigger group. It’s a fully automatic bean-to-cup machine: it grinds, brews hot or cold coffee, makes Cold Brew, and froths milk, and you run all of it from a color touchscreen. Automatic coffee
Let me start with the screen, because that’s what ASUS wants you to look at. The refresh rate went from 240Hz to 300Hz this year, on a 16-inch 2.5K panel (2,560 x 1,600, 16:10) with a 3ms response time. Whether your eyes can tell 240 from 300 is a separate argument. What I can say
Heart rate zones (HR Zones) When you first buy a watch, most of us leave every manufacturer setting as it is and just go running. Those defaults aren’t necessarily right for your body, though, and heart rate is where that shows up most. On my Suunto Race S, the Default HR Zones put the bottom