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Most AI benchmarks still do a mediocre job of explaining how useful models are in the kinds of agentic workflows businesses actually care about. That is not because benchmarks are useless. They are useful. But many of them are still optimized around narrow tasks, coding-heavy environments, academic-
ReadI have a habit when I review gaming hardware: I use the review as an excuse to finally play something I have been putting off. The RTX 5090 was my excuse to play Alan Wake 2, and I loved that game. The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ became my excuse to restart Marvel’s Spider-Man 2,…
ReadI’m now on day three of product reviewing, and today I’m looking at the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x with the Snapdragon X2 Elite. This is a laptop that gets almost everything right. Good products tend to be boring, and that’s exactly what makes this machine so impressive. I was watching the movie The Hitman
ReadNormally I don’t talk about specs in a review. The spec sheet is not the product. The overall experience is the product, and the overall experience on this laptop is good. Not my favorite in the world, but good. I’m breaking my rule this time because the person considering this laptop is the most sp
ReadI have had the new Dell XPS 14 for a few months now. Let’s get the big statement out of the way first: this is the first Windows laptop I’ve used in a long time that feels like they cared about the user experience. Saying a Dell feels as nice and premium as a Mac…
ReadMicrosoft Build 2026 was the week Windows stopped trying to win on the spec sheet and started trying to win on the thing that makes a computer worth using. For years the Windows answer to the Mac was some version of “we can match that.” A faster chip here, a borrowed feature there. This was…
ReadGoogle I/O 2026 turned a model launch into a platform statement. It was the clearest evidence yet that Google wants Gemini to become the operating layer for work across consumer products, developer tools, enterprise systems, and cloud-managed agents. Gemini 3.5 Flash is the center of that story. Goo
ReadGoogle’s Android Show was more important than a pre-I/O feature preview. It was the clearest evidence yet that Google’s decision to give Android its own stage is the right one. Google started carving Android out this way last year, and this year’s show made the case for continuing that separation mu
ReadApple delivered a record March quarter, with revenue of $111.2B, up 17% YoY, and diluted EPS of $2.01, up 22% YoY. The quarter was strong enough to beat consensus on both revenue and EPS, but the call’s center of gravity was not the beat. It was the shape of demand, the Mac supply bottleneck, and th
ReadOver the past year or so we’ve heard a lot about agents. Most of it hasn’t really happened, things have changed quickly, it’s hard to pinpoint and trends tend to be near impossible to predict because something you think may be successful ends up becoming irrelevant in three months. If you take a ste
ReadThe next phase of the AI PC market will be won less by raw AI specifications and more by enterprise usefulness. Intel is repositioning the commercial PC as a managed, secure, on-device AI endpoint that can execute work, observe itself, and improve user experience without sending every workflow back
ReadHere’s the conclusion up front: M5 Max is the most impressive piece of silicon I’ve used in a laptop. It’s more efficient and more performant, theoretically cheaper and more sustainable to manufacture with less waste, an AI powerhouse, and still runs in a laptop that lasts all day. I can’t think of
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