Black Friday monitors under $300: the spec-sheet traps (1ms, HDR400, OC refresh, HDMI 2.0) and the 27-inch picks I’d buy, with target prices.
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No Chart, No Checkout: The Ten-Minute Price Check I Run on Every Black Friday Tech Deal
Fake Black Friday discounts are everywhere. Here is the ten-minute Keepa routine, target-price rules and watchlist I use to spot real tech deals.
A 2017 Chip With an AI Sticker: What $329 Should Buy a Student This Christmas Instead
That $329 ‘AI laptop’ climbing Amazon runs a 2017 Celeron. Here are the Chromebook Plus, Windows and renewed ThinkPad picks the same money buys instead.
The Tower Ships Half Full: Pay the Builder for Memory, Fill the Second M.2 Yourself
Black Friday prebuilt PCs ship with one RAM stick and small SSDs. Pay for 32GB in two sticks, then add a 2TB TLC drive to the empty M.2 slot yourself.
Sony XM5 vs AirPods Pro 3 at $199: Same Price, Completely Different Jobs
Sony WH-1000XM5 at $198 or AirPods Pro 3 at $199? Same price, different jobs. Which to buy for travel, calls, the gym and your phone.
One Cable to the Wall: Who Should Buy the M6 iMac That Ships Tomorrow — and Who Should Build a Mini Desk Instead
M6 iMac ships Nov 6. Who should buy it for a family desk, who should keep an M4, and when a Mac mini plus monitor wins instead.
True Black, Steeper Price: Who Should Buy the OLED iPad mini, Who Should Wait, and Who Should Skip
The OLED iPad mini ships Nov 6 at $699. Buy, wait, or skip by the mini you own now, plus the config, pencil, case and charger worth pairing with it.
No Discount on the Box, Plenty in the Bag: The Switch 2 Add-Ons Worth Your Holiday Money
The Switch 2 won’t get a Black Friday price cut. Here are the add-ons worth buying instead: microSD Express storage, controllers, cases, power and more.
Four Hundred Dollars Buys the Screen, Not the Speed: Sorting Out the Three New MacBook Pros
Is the OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro worth it? The real cost of the new screen, who should buy it, who should get the M6 model, and who should wait.