When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Laptop prices are climbing due to rising memory costs. Here's what actually matters when choosing a screen, processor, RAM, and storage. This isn't the best time to be thinking about buying a computer. High memory prices have driven up the cost of almost everything.

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Groundbreaking monitor refresh rates, cutting-edge laptop cooling, and a free app that harnesses all of your home's PCs for faster AI inferencing are just some of the products we're excited about. Like CES in Las Vegas, the IFA technology tradeshow that takes place every year in Berlin gives technology vendors and taste makers an opportunity to show off their latest and greatest wares, and consumers a chance to start planning their next purchases and saving their shekels. From a PC user's perspective, the category that got the most love this year was monitors, and we're here for it as innovations include esports-caliber OLED and truly affordable Mini LED. There are also some tasty laptops coming down the pike, some intriguing developments for consumer AI, and a few very promising hardware concepts that we're praying will make it to market.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Lenovo and its IdeaPad Vibe laptops walk a fine line between consumer-focused colorways and an optional Qira AI tool. Lenovo's IdeaPad Vibe is here to answer the question: What am I going to buy as a cheap, productive PC this holiday? If you can spare $699.99, Lenovo has the answer: Either 14-inch or 15-inch Vibe laptops, with attractive colorways, available initially with either first-gen Snapdragon X processors or the new AMD Ryzen AI 400 series processors.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. All five Fire TV models are on sale right now at Amazon. Grab them before the latest hikes drive their prices up to new highs. Amazon recently hiked prices on many of its products, including Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices--you know, the stuff with memory and storage, which is currently experiencing a global shortage thanks to AI data centers gobbling up supply. But even though MSRPs have been bumped up, Amazon is softening the blow with sales on Fire TV devices.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The Geekom IT13 Max is an unusually powerful workstation in a mini format. Although the Core Ultra 9 185H is no longer part of the current processor generation, it still delivers plenty of computing power. In 2026, mini-PCs no longer need to be limited to office work and streaming. Models featuring Ryzen AI or Core Ultra now offer enough performance for many tasks that were previously reserved for high-performance desktop PCs. The Geekom IT13 Max relies less on a new generation of processors and more on high-performance hardware centered on Intel's Core Ultra 9 185H. Nevertheless, the computer remains compact on the desk.

Apple just launched the new M5 Ultra for the latest Mac Studio and as you'd expect, it's the fastest consumer processor the company has ever built. But how much speedier is it than its predecessor, the M3 Ultra? Let's dive in and see how Apple's latest super silicon measures up. If you've followed Apple's Ultra chip family so far, you've probably noticed that it has skipped the M2, M4 and M6 generations and only come out as M1 Ultra, M3 Ultra and now M5 Ultra versions. The reason for that (and the delay compared to Apple's other chips) is because of the complexity -- they're effectively two processors mated together using Apple's "Ultrafusion" bridge technology.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This laptop combines the latest processor with a great screen and battery life, for about the same price you'd pay a year ago. I don't drink liquor when I look for deals in the morning. But for most of the last year, I've wanted to do so. It's getting really, really hard to find decent prices for what used to be considered mid-range laptops. This touchscreen OLED laptop from Lenovo would have been $800 about a year ago and today it's $800 at Best Buy, allegedly $500 off.

Acemagic is offering nearly half off the price of its Matrix Mini M5 with a 16-core i7 processor, 32GB of memory, and 1TB of storage. The state of PC prices right now sucks. But if you hunt around, you can still find decent prices, at least in the context of the worst market I've ever seen. Case in point: Acemagic is offering a mini PC with a Core i7 processor, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage for just $549 with a coupon -- use code at checkout! This Matrix Mini M5 is pretty typical of mini PC designs, with a 128mm (5-inch) square body that can be mounted to the back of a monitor, and it's using laptop parts.

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