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Samsung P9 portable SSD is a US$339.99 bet that your work involves moving enough data to notice a 4,000 MB/s ceiling. Samsung says the new USB4 drive can read at up to 4,000 MB/s and write at up to 3,800 MB/s. Those are very impressive claims. They are not independent test results, and most people … Read more
Mac mini vs Mac Studio for local AI is a CA$1,249 question that can turn into a CA$7,799 mistake. The base M6 Mac mini is the sensible entry point for smaller models and a light always-on agent. The M5 Pro Mac mini is my value pick because its 64GB memory ceiling is twice the M6 … Read more
Lenovo does not currently list a Legion 7i Gen 11 in Canada. Model 83KY008AUS, the 2026 Intel configuration with a 12GB RTX 5070, is officially named Legion 7i Gen 10 on Lenovo’s own page. The actual Gen 11 option in this comparison is the AMD Legion 7a Gen 11 with a Ryzen AI 9 HX … Read more
G75SJ is not a sensible office monitor with extra gaming speed. It is Samsung’s 42-inch curved 4K OLED answer to the person who looked at a television on a desk and decided it needed a tighter curve and a 165 Hz refresh rate. The gaming case is easy to see. The workday case needs much … Read more
Canadian RAM prices 2026 are splitting by generation. Across the comparable July 24 to August 29 window, the lowest qualifying DDR4-3600 prices were flat or down, while all four DDR5-6000 capacities rose. The 32GB DDR5 premium widened from 66.7% to 94.7%. At 128GB, the lowest observed kit price jumped by CA$1,100 in one day. Those … Read more
RTX Spark gaming has crossed the line from a stage promise to games running on real laptops, but it has not crossed the line into independently benchmarked hardware. NVIDIA now names five supported titles and one important anti-cheat port. PC Gamer played several demonstrations at Gamescom. Nobody outside NVIDIA has published controlled frame rates, thermals, … Read more
RX 9070 XT Hellhound Resonance Edition is a standard PowerColor Hellhound in expensive-looking game art, not a faster graphics card. PowerColor gives it the same 3,010 MHz maximum boost clock, 16GB of GDDR6 memory, cooler dimensions, and power requirements as the regular model. The box adds a copy of Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy and … Read more
Minisforum M2 Pro puts 32GB of soldered memory inside a US$1,439 mini PC built around local AI. That mismatch is the entire buying decision: office work, development, media, and lighter local models should fit, but a premium AI workstation has nowhere to grow. Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H and Arc B390 graphics share that fixed … Read more
25G590B is a US$999.99 answer to a question almost nobody with a day job needs to ask: how much should I pay to cut a 280 Hz screen’s refresh interval by another 2.57 milliseconds? LG’s 24.5-inch UltraGear runs at a native 1,000 Hz at 1920 x 1080, with an advertised 1,100 Hz overclock. That is … Read more
KB5121003 game crashes are real, but deleting a Windows driver should not be your first move. Microsoft says the August 11, 2026 security update can leave certain games frozen, closed without warning, showing an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION error, or restarting the PC. Its investigation points to RGB hardware components that install drivers with names similar to inpoutx64. … Read more
