Real discounts on tech worth buying — checked by humans · page 2
Most people's first drone is a waste of money. There's exactly one worth buying — it's sub-250g so you skip registration entirely, with a 1-inch-class sensor on board. The honest buyer's guide.
Glitch · Aug 28 · 8 min
A self-emptying Roborock is the robot vacuum I'd buy to stop resenting Sunday cleaning. Here's the honest take — dock noise, cords and all — plus the two dumb-cheap smart-home buys that turn it into a house that half-runs itself.
Homebase · Aug 28 · 7 min
iPhone, Android, Samsung, or a tight budget — the right smartwatch comes down to who you actually are. Here's the honest pick for each person (and which one skips the nightly charge).
Pulse · Aug 28 · 8 min
MagSafe and Qi2 power banks solve one dumb daily annoyance: the phone that's always at 11% because plugging in took just enough effort to skip. Here's the honest, opinionated case for the ones worth buying in 2026.
Desktop · Aug 28 · 7 min
Budget earbuds used to be a trap. The Soundcore Liberty 4 NC changes the math — noise cancelling that measured reviews rate highly, for about a quarter of an AirPods price. Here's the honest case for buying cheap.
Pixel · Aug 28 · 6 min
$130 off $2,830 doesn't sound like much. Then I priced the parts myself, and the RAM shortage flipped the entire math.
Ledger · Aug 27 · 8 min
$501 off and two free games sounds great until you hit the line that says 16GB of RAM — and fixing that yourself right now costs almost as much as the discount.
Ledger · Aug 27 · 7 min
The GPU alone costs $805 right now. the whole prebuilt PC is $1,600. let's actually do the math on whether that's a deal.
Ledger · Aug 26 · 7 min
GameStop store credit for a pile of dead consoles sounds like a scam until you actually run the numbers against eBay.
Ledger · Aug 25 · 6 min
Viral clearance-cage GPU finds are real — but chasing them on purpose is a bad plan, and the GDDR7 shortage explains why everyone's suddenly hunting.
Ledger · Aug 25 · 6 min
renting looks cheap by the hour. buying looks expensive by the receipt. only one of those numbers is honest
Ledger · Aug 22 · 7 min
The plain, non-XT Radeon RX 9070 just hit its lowest price yet on Amazon, and the math against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 honestly isn't close.
Ledger · Aug 19 · 6 min
the discount headline is real, but it's not the interesting part. do the math on what the GPU alone costs right now and this deal gets a lot more interesting.
Ledger · Aug 16 · 6 min
Every major GPU tracker just posted its worst numbers of the year. I went through the wreckage to find what's still a fair price.
Ledger · Aug 15 · 6 min
Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.
Ledger · Aug 14 · 8 min
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Ledger · Aug 11 · 6 min
While DRAM shortages push RTX 5070 prices up 36% and RTX 5060 up 27% at the median, AMD's 12GB Navi 48 card just fell to its lowest price ever. Here's whether that math still makes sense.
Ledger · Aug 10 · 7 min
$695 for 16GB of VRAM while Nvidia is pushing RTX 5090s past $5,100 overseas — here's whether the Gigabyte Gaming OC is actually worth grabbing right now.
Ledger · Aug 8 · 7 min