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Almost every “best computer for music production” list is a MacBook, a Mac mini and a gaming tower with RGB fans. None of those is a scandal — but none of them is shaped like what a DAW actually stresses. Real-time audio at a low buffer wants the fastest indiv … read more

Last September the Pentagon spent $93.4 billion on grants and contracts in a single month — more than any federal agency has ever spent in one month, in records going back to 2008 — and $50.1 billion of it landed in the final five working days. Of that Sep … read more

Open Dell's PowerEdge configurator today and three things hit at once. The starting price is far above what you budgeted last year. The memory options you wanted say “No longer available.” And the build you finally assemble is weeks out, if it is orderable at all. T … read more

You have probably seen the number: enterprise SSD prices are up 472%. It is a real figure from a real dataset — and it is also five months old, published by a storage vendor about its own product economics, and already superseded by that same vendor's later data. Most of … read more

Correction, September 27, 2026. Dell's firmware enables Windows Server 2025 on the PowerEdge R640 and R740, but Dell's support matrix and its Server 2025 RAID driver do not include them: BIOS 2.22.2 (October 1, 2024) lists “Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Operat … read more

Every "best computer for college" list published this year is a list of laptops. That is a reasonable default and a bad habit. For a student who works at a desk — and most students do most of their work at a desk — the 2026 memory shortage has made a refurbished pro … read more

"How much does a server cost?" used to have a boring answer. In 2026 it has a moving one: a global memory shortage roughly doubled server DRAM prices in a single quarter, Dell and Lenovo have each raised list prices twice since December while HPE rewrote its terms so a price ca … read more