It is 2019, and now that we have landed in the smack dab middle of it, the time has come to start talking about which laptops within this one year span are the best for gaming. Just think about it – 2018 was full of some exceptional games that were very demanding on most laptops…
I have talked about Plex a few times over the years, it is a fantastic application, and I have one of the lifetime licences to make the most out of it. Like most users, I use it to manage my locally stored media, providing access from a server to all the streaming devices in the…
The Samsung Galaxy A50 was announced back in February; this was subsequently followed each month by the A70 then the A80. These mid-range smartphones have been aimed at the global market, thanks to the budget A20e and A40 models, they have sold five million units of its A series within 70 days of its March…
Wi-fi 6 is the biggest thing to happen to wireless networking in years with improvements in features across the board. In theory, it should be able to compete if not best gigabit wired connections with theoretical speeds of 10.53Gbps and reduced latency. I have covered the differences between Wi-fi 6 (802.11ax) vs Wi-Fi ( 802.11ac)…
Anker produces some of the best affordable robotic vacuums and they have just updated their models to the new Max series and for a limited time, you can get a 25% discount via their pre-order deal. For £1 you will receive a 25% discount code valid for the first 3days of the product launch. The…
Xiaomi launched the Redmi K20 earlier this week, which will launch in the UK as the Xiaomi Mi 9T and India as the Pocophone F2. The K20 Pro features a Snapdragon 855 but the standard model has the latest upper-midrange chipset from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 730. The chipset is so new that there are currenlty…
Following the launch of the Xiaomi Redmi K20, there has been growing confusion about international availability and product names. For some bizarre reason, Xiaomi doesn’t like to keep the same product name between regions and there have been rumours that the phone will launch as the Xiaomi Mi 9T in the EU and Russia while…
Following my review of the Hive Hub 360 and the outdoor camera, Hive has just announced the launch of Hive Radiator Valves as part of the home heating range. I am a huge fan of zoned heating, it used to be limited to just Genius Hub, Z-Wave and Honeywell. In recent years Tado and Netatmo…
I have been using three products from Zyxel over the past year that work in the Nebula managed system. Recently Zyxel loaned me some new devices so I can review how managing an entire network from one interface is so much more convenient than sperate web interfaces for each device. My current devices are: Zyxel…
At the start of the week, AMD announced their much anticipated Ryzen 3000 series CPUs based on the Zen 2 architecture. These chips are the first mainstream chips to be developed on the 7nm process and offer up to 12 cores/24 threads and during the keynote, they demoed how the flagship chip outperformed the equivalent…