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Product reviews for technology junkies; a selection of the best new electronics, gadgets and apps for your home, office or just for fun.

Xiaomi 18 Pro Should Sell a Version Without the Privacy Screen
A comment under Lei Jun’s post got a lot of likes: “Can you make a version without the privacy display?” Below it: “+1” repeated.
By Jin10 days ago in 01
I Put a Mac mini in My TV Cabinet and Let It Run My House
A Mac mini in the TV Cabinet: One Machine, Four Jobs When I took the M5 Pro Mac mini out of the box, it was smaller than the photos suggested. I could hold it in one hand. Under a monitor stand, it nearly disappears. I put it on the second shelf of my TV cabinet with a router and an optical modem. That shelf was already full. Adding the Mac mini still left room.
By Jin12 days ago in 01
One Sentence, Nine Loops, Two Thousand Dollars: How Claude Passed the Human Record in Physics
If you read only the task, it sounds ordinary: “Calculate the six-particle nine-loop amplitude in planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.”
By Jin12 days ago in 01
I Spent $120 on AI Agents and Got 0 Users. Here's the Trap Nobody Warns You About.
I Spent $120 on AI Agents and Got 0 Users. Here's the Trap Nobody Warns You About. At 11 p.m., you close the 17th page an agent generated.
By Jin12 days ago in 01
I Used iPadOS 27 for a Week. It Quietly Makes the iPad Feel Like a Mac.
iPadOS 27 Review: A Quieter Redesign and a Faster iPad Apple released iPadOS 27 on September 15. If you own an iPad, you have likely seen the update notification. The question is whether to install it. This review covers what changed and what those changes feel like after a few days of use. Back up your iPad before you update. You can reinstall software. You cannot always recover lost data.
By Jin12 days ago in 01
I Restored a 25-Year-Old Sony Laptop. It Weighed 1.26kg and Glowed Blue.
Nostalgia Notes: How Did a 25-Year-Old Laptop Balance Lightness, Style, and Performance? In 2001, IBM released the ThinkPad X22. It had a 12.1-inch TFT LCD, 1024x768 resolution, and an Intel Pentium III-M at 733MHz or 800MHz. The X series was a portable office laptop. It weighed 1.6 to 1.7kg.
By Jin12 days ago in 01
I Used macOS 27 Golden Gate for a Week. The Best Part Isn’t a New Feature.
macOS 27 Golden Gate: Apple's Quiet Cleanup Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate in the early hours of September 15. The update does not pile on features. It cleans up the system: performance, Liquid Glass, cross-device continuity, and the end of Intel support.
By Jin12 days ago in 01
I read the leaked system prompt behind GPT-6 Sol’s Codex Desktop
I read the leaked system prompt behind GPT-6 Sol’s Codex Desktop In July 2026, security researcher @elder_plinius extracted a system prompt of more than 42,000 words from GPT-6 Sol’s Codex Desktop. The model did not output illegal content. It did not bypass safety filters. It read out its own operating manual.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
Understanding AI Image Generators From Text Prompts
AI image generators from text prompts have changed how digital images can be created. Instead of manually drawing an image or searching through existing image libraries, users can describe a visual idea in natural language and let an artificial intelligence system generate an image based on that description.
By Solution Boxes15 days ago in 01
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash vs Wan 3.0: Two Different Visions for AI Video Generation
AI video generation is moving quickly beyond simple text-to-video clips. The latest models can now work with images, video references, audio, keyframes, and natural-language editing, giving creators far more control over how a scene develops.
By Solution Boxes15 days ago in 01
What Xiaomi’s Cheapest AI Couldn’t Fix
The Queue at 2 A.M. A story based on Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 release. I remember the exact time because the alert hit my phone at 2:14 a.m. A logistics client in Shah Alam couldn’t scan inbound pallets. Their terminal logs were a mess. Our old model, MiMo V2.5, was supposed to inspect those logs. It had scored 65.2 on Terminal Bench 2.1, which sounded fine in a slide. In practice, it missed the one line that mattered: a certificate expiry buried under three hundred retry errors.
By Jin15 days ago in 01
I Ran Qwen-Image-2.1 on a 4070 Ti. It Deleted Half My Workflow in 1.8 Seconds.
1.8 Seconds, 7B, and a 4070 Ti On September 20, someone who builds e-commerce product pages loaded Qwen-Image-2.1 into ComfyUI. He had used FLUX.1 [dev]. At 1024×1024 and thirty steps, the progress bar took 3.6 seconds and VRAM usage hit 24 GB. This time he clicked generate, left to pour a glass of water, and came back to an image on screen. The timer read 1.8 seconds. VRAM read 14.2 GB. He deleted half of his old workflow: text-to-image, cutout, composite, local repaint.
By Jin16 days ago in 01