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The RAM shortage 2027 warning did not come from a doom-posting blogger. It came from Kwak Noh-Jung, the CEO of SK hynix, in a Reuters interview on July 10, 2026: “We forecast that next year will be the worst year in the industry’s history from the supply perspective.” That is one of the two companies … Read more
Microsoft just handed Windows 10 holdouts a quiet reprieve: the free Windows 10 ESU program, once set to expire this October, now runs through October 12, 2027. ESU stands for Extended Security Updates, and it is the lifeline that keeps a Windows 10 machine getting critical patches after the operating system officially retired on October … Read more
The Samsung 990 QLC is slower than the drive it effectively replaces, ships without a DRAM cache, and still costs more than that older model did when it launched. It reached Samsung’s US store this month at CA$378 (US$270) for 1TB and CA$743 (US$530) for 2TB, and reviewers tacked “QLC” onto the name to keep … Read more
The Microsoft 365 price increase that filled inboxes and IT newsletters this month mostly isn’t yours to worry about. If you pay for Microsoft 365 out of your own pocket, as a freelancer or a household, your bill did not move on July 1. The hike lands on business subscriptions, and even there it is … Read more
The whole point of the Samsung ViewFinity S80HF is a price Samsung still hasn’t printed anywhere. That reads like a strange way to open a buying guide, and normally it would be. But the 2026 monitor lineup this panel belongs to starts at CA$1,261 (US$899.99), and for a 27-inch 5K display, that number lands in … Read more
The Beelink GTR9 Pro packs 128GB of unified memory and dual 10GbE for local AI. Here are the honest tokens-per-second numbers.
Lenovo Yoga AI Mini PC specs and price: 64GB, 180 TOPS, and an 80 billion parameter claim in a 600 gram puck. Here’s the memory math and what $2,650 buys.
The AMD Ryzen AI Halo is a CA$5,604 (US$3,999) mini PC with 128GB of unified memory, and it exists for exactly one reason: NVIDIA’s DGX Spark proved people will pay workstation money for a tiny box that runs huge language models at home. AMD looked at that, looked at the Spark’s price climbing to CA$6,585 … Read more
Auto power on after power outage sounds like the most boring setting in your BIOS, right up until your home server spends seven days pretending to be furniture. Mine did exactly that last week. The power went out on a Monday morning, the UPS did its job perfectly, the server shut down cleanly, and then … Read more
The Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10: PCIe Gen 5, RTX 5070, and upgradeable storage. Here’s what it actually delivers — and the RAM limits that matter for serious workloads.
