Gadget Flow

The best laptop for writers who travel frequently isn’t the same as finding the best laptop, full stop. I’ve drafted chapters in a Lisbon co-working space with the air conditioning fighting a losing battle, filed copy from a ferry heading to a...

The meeting ends at 6. Your MacBook died at 4.

Picture it. You’re in the third city this week, back-to-back calls, a deck to finish before dinner, and somewhere between the airport lounge and the hotel lobby, your laptop gave up before you did. You had the faster machine. The more expensive one. The one with the chip that benchmarks reviewers drool...

It’s Monday night—bedtime—and your kids are (quite literally) bouncing off the walls. You’re tired and you know they’re tired, too—because they’re just running on adrenaline, now. You want a routine that actually works—where your kids wind down without stalling, negotiatin...

There was a time when you could still find a solid gaming laptop under $1,000. That era feels distant now. So when my head of content asked me to put together a buyer’s guide for the best gaming laptop under $500 for Fortnite, Valorant, and Roblox, I felt that familiar drop in my stomach.

Maybe you’re a student, maybe you just don’t want to drop a grand on a machin...

Comparing Apple Watch and Garmin for swim tracking usually starts with the wrong assumption that one wins. The reality is messier. Both Apple Watch models like Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Apple Watch Series 10, and Garmin devices such as fēnix 8 and Forerunner 965, handle swimming at a level that already goes beyond what most people need.

The hesitation makes sense bec...