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
A monitor with built-in webcam sounds like one less thing to buy: no clip-on camera clamped to your bezel, no spare USB cable crossing the desk, no cheap plastic eye staring back at you all day. Dell just turned that pitch into a real product with the Pro P34, a 34-inch ultrawide with a pop-up … 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
GPU prices in 2026 have quietly detached from the numbers on the launch slides, and the GeForce RTX 5080 is the cleanest example. It shipped at CA$1,400 (US$999). In July 2026 you will pay somewhere between CA$1,822 (US$1,300) and CA$2,032 (US$1,450) for the same card, in the same box, with the same silicon. Nothing about … Read more
Should you trade a working Uplift V2 for the new Uplift V3? For most people who already own a V2, the honest answer is no. If you’re buying your first electric standing desk in 2026, though, the Uplift V3 is the one I’d steer you toward, and the case comes down to about five real … 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
