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So, Should You Buy the UE Hyperboom or JBL Xtreme 3?
These speakers both deliver fabulous sound and their own respective perks, but which is better for you? A couple of weeks back, Gizmodo reviewed the JBL Xtreme 3 ($350) and found it to be a surprisingly powerful Bluetooth solution for folks on the go. But several Gizmodo readers asked at the time how it compared … Continued
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This Is the SSD I’d Put in My Next PC
A PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD is the newer and faster sibling to the gum stick-sized SSD you probably have in your computer right now, and with new options from AMD, Intel, and Sony, we now have more reasons to upgrade. PCIe 4.0 is roughly twice as fast as PCI 3.0. Many PCIe 3.0 SSDs top … Continued
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Best Budget 4K TV for Most People
There’s an argument to be made that shopping for a new TV near or around the beginning of the year, when companies are gearing up to tease the next year’s worth of displays at CES, is foolish. Sure, if you want the latest and greatest, you should probably hold out for whatever’s coming down the … Continued
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The Best Gaming Keyboard for Wannabe Esports Athletes
There are plenty of (very justifiable) tropes when discussing video games, but the one that I can’t let go of when I’m thinking of PC gaming is the keyboard being mightier than the sword. It can make or break your gaming experience. And there are so many mechanical gaming keyboards available that choosing the right … Continued
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The Best External Hard Drive for the Digital Hoarder
Data hoarding is somewhat of a lost art these days, thanks in large part to streaming services, cloud storage, faster internet access, and uh, digital rights management. But that old itch is back, and I’m running out of storage space on my solid state drives. The remaining space on my desktop PC is mostly in … Continued
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The Best Gaming Router Still Looks Like a Robot
We get it. Picking a router is hard! Do you even need a gaming router? Won’t your ISP-supplied, non-branded modem/router combo obelisk suffice? Probably not! Do you need to blow $700 on one that looks like Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle? I mean, it’s pretty sweet, but no. So, we went ahead and got together 6 … Continued
By Wes Davis