Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max Review: The First Truly Agentic Phone
On-device Siri finally does more than answer questions - it books, files and edits on your behalf. Two weeks of daily use shows a phone that is genuinely useful and occasionally unnerving.
The best phone Apple has shipped, if you trust it with your calendar.
Dell Pro Max 16 Review: A Workstation That Fine-Tunes Models Offline
96GB of unified memory and a Blackwell Ultra mobile GPU make local fine-tuning practical for the first time. The trade-offs are weight, fan noise, and a price that only makes sense as a business expense.
A real deskside training rig - and it sounds like one under load.
Sony WH-2000XM7 Review: Noise Cancelling Meets On-Device AI
Adaptive cancelling now reads the room rather than a preset, and live translation works well enough to hold a conversation. Battery life takes the hit you would expect.
Still the class leader, now with translation that you will actually use.
Ubuntu 28.04 LTS Review: The AI-Native Desktop Arrives
Kernel-level inference scheduling, a local model runtime in the base image, and snap finally getting out of the way. Five years of support makes this the safest Linux upgrade in a while.
The most confident LTS release since 22.04 - upgrade without drama.
1Password Enterprise Review: Passkeys Done Right, Rollout Done Slowly
Passkey provisioning and recovery are the best we have tested, and the admin audit trail is genuinely useful. Getting 5,000 employees onto it is still a quarter of change management.
Excellent product, unglamorous migration - budget for the second one.
Notion Agents Review: Useful, Until It Guesses
Workspace-wide agents summarise, file and follow up without prompting, which is exactly the problem when the source doc is out of date. Strong for teams with clean data, risky without it.
Great when your workspace is tidy, confidently wrong when it is not.
How we score: every product is bought or borrowed at our own cost and used for at least two weeks. Scores weigh everyday performance, build, software support and price - never access.