If the Galaxy S20 phones are too expensive for you, blame the Samsung Tax
If you’d told me two years ago that Samsung would be selling a phone that starts at $1,400, I wouldn’t have believed you. At the time, you could get a Galaxy S9 […]
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The OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro aren’t overpriced, but they’re way too expensive
The OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro smartphones are out now, and normally we’d be intrigued. Over the years, OnePlus has played a game of priorities, offering the newest processor and latest display […]
Graphics cards are about to get a lot more expensive, Asus warns
Ever since Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30-series and AMD’s Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards launched last fall, the overwhelming demand and tight supply, exacerbated by a cryptocurrency boom, has caused prices for all graphics cards […]
Are USB-C cables all the same? Let’s compare cheap and expensive models
Are all USB-C cables the same? That’s what we wondered when we found two different Amazon Basics models, one priced at about $9, and the other at $19. Is the cheaper USB-C […]
Intel unveils expensive 12th-gen Core ‘Alder Lake’ processors
Intel opened its Intel Innovation conference Tuesday by finally unveiling what everyone has been waiting for: how fast its new 12th-gen “Alder Lake” desktop Core chips will be, and how much they’ll […]
Cheap PC vs. expensive PC: What trade-offs do I really have to make?
If you are thinking about buying a new PC, you are usually faced with the crucial question of “all in” or “low budget”? Especially if you don’t earn your money with your […]
Oof, when did streaming movies, games, and music get so expensive?
Cable used to be the only game in town for wide entertainment. Sure, if you wanted to subscribe to a game like EverQuest or World of Warcraft, you could (and well, guess […]
Graphics cards are about to get more expensive — and that’s not all
“This graphics card is just entirely too inexpensive for my taste,” said no one, ever. While we’re past the incredibly inflated prices of the pandemic and crypto crunch, high-end graphics cards are […]
Why are gaming laptops so expensive? We break it down
You don’t need a PhD to see that gaming rigs are significantly more expensive than their non-gaming counterparts. But what’s interesting is that gaming laptops tend to be more expensive than gaming […]
Asus made a gold RTX 5090, as if it weren’t expensive enough already
Look, I know rich people aren’t uniformly stupid, but there definitely seems to be a subset of luxury goods that assume such. (Luxury fashion made to look like thrift store goods comes […]
