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The price of gaming gadgets has surged, but Alienware's AW2726DM offers an affordable upgrade option for gamers.
The Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition gaming mouse costs over one thousand dollars. $1,337, to be specific. It's not made of gold. It doesn't even have real leather on the leather-wrapped components. It's a plastic-based polyurethane leather, attached to a transparent plastic shell. For $1,337.
nubia's upcoming slim yet powerful RedMagic 11 Air will feature a 6.85-inch AMOLED display with 1.5K resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate. It will also offer a 95.1% screen-to-body ratio, an under-display selfie camera, 2,592Hz PWM dimming, and 1.25mm thin bezels. The handset features a curved rear transparent panel with an RGB logo and a triple camera setup. The phone will be offered in Aurora Silver, Stardust White, and Quantum Black.
A keyboard is more than the sum of its parts. To have a truly great typing experience, a lot has to come together-each aspect of a keyboard needs to be designed (or selected) with the rest of it in mind. But not every keyboard needs to strive for a great typing experience. Sometimes, they just need to get the job done. Take, for example, the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro.
The Corsair Galleon 100 SD didn't just come out of the ether. The new full-size mechanical keyboard with a Stream Deck fused to its side is the result of a lot of things coming together over the years. Corsair's gaming business is more refined than ever, and Stream Deck's wide ecosystem of plug-ins makes the dedicated hardware useful to just about anyone, even if they have little interest in streaming. The fusion makes sense.
If you're weighing your options, consider some Presidents Day offers on iBuyPower's pre-built desktops, including the $1,899 RDY Element 9 Pro R07 and the $2,099.99 Slate - both of which are stocked with high-end AMD processors and GPUs that can tear through most games at 1440p with fast frame rates. They also come with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and 2TB of storage, along with a mouse and keyboard.
With a cultlike following and a fairly simple construction, it can be easy to assume that these keyboards aren't worth the high price-and they aren't for most people. However, the HHKB brings something unique to the table: A design that has been refined over the years, creating an out-of-the-box experience that can't be improved. In an age of planned obsolescence and enshittification, a mechanical keyboard like this is hard to find.
The 20th Anniversary Edition of the Razer Boomslang replaces those mechanical components with a 45,000 DPI optical sensor. The original mouse's symmetrical ambidextrous design has been carried forward, but the new Boomslang is now wireless with an 8,000Hz polling rate and comes with a Razer Mouse Dock Pro wireless charging stand. You'll also find 9-zone customizable RGB lighting on the underside of the new Boomslang that can be synced to over 300 games; a feature the Razer brand has become known for.
Tech moves fast, breaks things, ships updates, iterates. The entire industry is built on the assumption that this year's product will be obsolete by next year, and that's fine because next year's version will be better anyway. Then you see someone in Fukui Prefecture spending twenty minutes hand-sanding a single wooden keyboard key, checking it by touch, and the whole paradigm feels suddenly optional.
Vertical mice promise ergonomic relief. MMO mice deliver tactical control. Pick one, because the market says you can't have both. Except SOLAKAKA apparently didn't get that memo. The E9 Pro arrives as the first vertical MMO mouse, featuring a 45 degree ergonomic grip alongside a 10 button thumb panel that would make World of Warcraft players weep with joy. It feels like the peripheral equivalent of discovering your favorite coffee shop also serves excellent ramen.