Dong Ngo 
I reviewed the SURFboard mAX Pro—the very first purpose-built Wi-Fi 6 mesh Wi-Fi system—at its launch late last year and found it well-performing yet sorely lacking in features and settings. That might change today. CommScope, the parent company of ARRIS, announced just now the availability of an all-new app for …
Thanks to Intel’s just-announced details on the latest Thunderbolt 4 standard, the state of peripheral connections is about to get quite exciting. Double the bandwidth and more Naturally, this is the next step after Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 4 will inherit all the previous revisions has to offer and improvements. Intel …
At some $120 for 500GB—or $220 and $380 for 1TB and 2TB, respectively—the Samsung T7 Touch is quite a great deal. Or you can get the non-touch version, the Samsung T7, for $10 to $30 less, depending on the capacities. While the Samsung T7 and Samsung T7 Touch are not …
The latest SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD, first announced late last year, is the souped-up version of the non-PRO drive that came out a year earlier. Despite supporting the same USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) standard, it manages to be much faster. But other than that and the slightly …
Of all Wi-Fi 6 routers from Netgear I’ve tested, the Nighthawk AX6 6-Stream AX5400 Wi-Fi 6 Router (model RAX50) is the easiest recommendation. It has the right balance of performance, features, and cost. This eye candy Wi-Fi machine doesn’t include everything you can collectively find in a high-end router. That’s …
Two years after releasing the first QLC SATA solid-state drive (SSD), the 860 QVO, Samsung today announced the availability of the 2nd-generation of the same internal storage device, the Samsung SSD 870 QVO. And it’s quite a sizeable upgrade. The drive is now available in up to a whopping 8 …
The ZenWiFi AX Mini (model XD4) is ASUS’s third purpose-built AiMesh Wi-Fi system, after the XT8 and CT8, and it turned out to be the most complete one in my testing. So, the third time seems to be the charm, and that’s the good news. The bad is this mesh …
