Ron Kirk

Modern TVs get thinner every year, and that sleek design comes with a serious trade-off: tinny, weak built-in speakers. After testing more than 30 soundbars over the past 90 days, our team found that the best TV speakers transform everything from late-night dramas to action blockbusters, delivering clear dialogue, room-filling sound, and bass you can … Read more

If you are building a new PC or upgrading an aging system, choosing the best current Intel CPU is the single most important decision you will make. The processor you pick determines how fast your games run, how quickly videos render, and how many browser tabs you can keep open before things slow down. I … Read more

When our team set out to find the best smart refrigerators for , we knew the category had changed a lot. The connected fridge is no longer a novelty panel bolted onto a cooling box. Today’s smart refrigerator integrates Wi-Fi connectivity, internal cameras, touchscreens, voice control, and AI image recognition to actually simplify daily life. … Read more

I’ve been testing gaming accessories for over six years now, and PS5 cooling stands are probably the most debated category I’ve ever covered. The Reddit threads are full of passionate warnings: “Do NOT buy a cooling station. They are more harmful to your console than any good they do.” I’ve seen that exact quote echoed … Read more

Cable clutter is one of those problems that quietly grows until one day you look behind your desk and see a tangled mess of power bricks, USB hubs, and mystery cords. I have been there more times than I want to admit, which is why I spent the last 60 days testing and ranking the … Read more

I spent the last 90 days testing the best TVs with Google TV across every price bracket, from budget 65-inch QLEDs under $600 to premium Mini-LED models that push $2,000. After measuring brightness with a colorimeter, running gaming benchmarks, and living with each interface in my living room, I can tell you which ones actually … Read more

I have spent the last three months testing gaming laptops the way I actually use them, not just opening boxes and running a single benchmark. Our team ran 28 games, 6 productivity workloads, and 4 battery-drain tests on each machine. We measured real-world frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing on, recorded sustained temperatures … Read more

USB-C has killed the USB-A era, and your next external drive needs to keep up. After 90 days of testing 10 of the best USB-C external drives on the market, copying 4.3TB of data across our three test benches, I can tell you which ones are worth your money and which ones fall short of … Read more

If you have spent any time on the water in the last few years, you have probably seen anglers staring at glowing screens, watching fish react to their lures in real time. That is forward-facing sonar (FFS), and it has changed how people fish. I have spent the last three months testing the best forward-facing … Read more

I built my first AM4 system back in 2017 with a Ryzen 5 1600, and I have been recommending budget AM4 builds ever since. After spending the last three months benchmarking 12 different processors across Cyberpunk 2077, Counter-Strike 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3, I can tell you with confidence: the best budget AM4 CPU in … Read more