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Time’s Up on Windows 10. Upgrade to Windows 11 With One of These Laptops

Time’s Up on Windows 10. Upgrade to Windows 11 With One of These Laptops

You’ll want to read our extensive guide on How to Choose the Right Laptop, but for the basics, you’ll want to decide what category of laptop you need. Most people should buy a 13-inch or 14-inch laptop, and spending around $750-$1,000 is a good place to start. You should expect a laptop around this price to get good battery life, …

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Your Cat Probably Isn’t Drinking Enough Water. A Fountain Can Help.

Your Cat Probably Isn’t Drinking Enough Water. A Fountain Can Help.

Compare Our Picks Others We Tested Courtesy of Petkik Petkit Eversweet Max for $90: This techy automatic fountain can be either cordless or battery-powered (lasting up to 83 days), and the drinking bowl is made of stainless steel, but the reservoir is plastic. Because of the shape of the basin with the chunky battery and reservoir bowl, it’s a little …

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Want to Start a Website? These Are the Best Website Builders

Want to Start a Website? These Are the Best Website Builders

Top Website Builders Best for Most People Squarespace Core Read More Best Cheap Website Builder Hostinger Website Builder Read More Best for Small Business Strikingly Core Read More Best Free Website Builder Strikingly Website Builder Read More Publishing a website is still more complicated than it has any right to be, but the best website builders streamline the process. Instead …

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Buying a Bad Laptop Will Haunt You for Years. I’m Here to Prevent That

Buying a Bad Laptop Will Haunt You for Years. I’m Here to Prevent That

How Much Should You Spend on a Laptop? AccordionItemContainerButton If you’re shopping for a laptop, you probably have an idea of how much you want to spend. But some context might help put things in perspective. The cheapest laptops cost around $200, but they can range up to $5,000. Meanwhile, the average amount people spend, according to the best data …

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Specialized’s New Electric Mountain Bike Is So Fun I Forgot to Go Home

Specialized’s New Electric Mountain Bike Is So Fun I Forgot to Go Home

The next ride was on singletrack from my house to Spirit Mountain, Duluth’s downhill lift-accessed park with 24 trails ranging from easy to expert. Lacking a full-face helmet and the landing skills to tackle double-black runs like the one called Calculated Risk, I instead rode Candyland. The machine-built flow trail has some nice high, snaky berms where the bike’s chunky …

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The Best Carpet Cleaners We’ve Found, Tested in Busy Households

The Best Carpet Cleaners We’ve Found, Tested in Busy Households

Compare Our Picks Others Tested Photograph: Simon Hill Hoover HF4 Hydro for £199: For UK folks in flats or small houses with a mix of carpet and hard floor, this cordless, space-saving vacuum and mop from Hoover could be a smart pick. You get a standard cordless stick vac with around half an hour of battery life, but you can …

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The Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro Is Like a Cheap Garmin That Doesn’t Work

The Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro Is Like a Cheap Garmin That Doesn’t Work

Offline routing is supposed to be one of the banner features of this watch. You should be able to just pick a point in the Maps app on the watch, then choose Straight-Line Navigation or Route Navigation. Unless you’re in a wide-open field, Straight-Line won’t help you much, but Route Navigation should parse the watch’s ability to read roads and …

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The Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Has MacBook Pro Vibes at a Much Lower Price

The Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Has MacBook Pro Vibes at a Much Lower Price

We shouldn’t expect any Windows laptop with a powerful discrete GPU to truly replicate what the MacBook Pro does. Yes, there are more powerful systems out there, but efficiency is just not what those systems are about. Even with the improvements Nvidia has made in Advanced Optimus (automatic switching between discrete GPU when needed), the battery life suffers, especially while …

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Gear News of the Week: Intel’s New Chips Arrive, and Apple May Debut iPads and MacBooks This Month

Gear News of the Week: Intel’s New Chips Arrive, and Apple May Debut iPads and MacBooks This Month

Intel’s future has never seemed so uncertain. But most of the company’s roller-coaster ride of a year has been a lead-up to its next-gen CPU launch, announced this week. The chips will be known as Intel Core Ultra Series 3, codenamed Panther Lake, and they’re being manufactured in its new Arizona-based fabrication plant. Intel claims the first configurations will ship …

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These Steelseries Earbuds Have Barely Been Out of My Head in Months—and They’re on Sale

These Steelseries Earbuds Have Barely Been Out of My Head in Months—and They’re on Sale

Looking for a great discount on a unique gaming headset? I’ve been using the SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds (9/10, WIRED Recommends) for months for both gaming and everyday use, and they’re currently marked down at Amazon to just $128, in both a black Xbox version, and a white Playstation version. Photograph: Eric Ravenscraft SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds While most gamers opt for …

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