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Corsair Makr Pro 75 review: close to being damn near perfect

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Corsair Makr Pro 75 one-minute review It's difficult to ignore just how big of an impact the custom keyboard community has had on mainstreaming gaming options in the last decade or so. Jump back in time three, four, or even five years, and the very idea of the Makr Pro 75 would've been inconceivable, certainly in Corsair's product arsenal. Eight layers of sound-dampening, gasket plates, magnetic hot-swappable hall effect switches, the spec sheet is rich and detailed, and would make 21-year-old me, with his first-ever mechanical Cherry MX Red, weep if he saw it 14 years ago. Just take a look at the switches, they're linear magnetic hall effect, MGX Hyperdrive models (a mouthful, I know). Aside from being hot-swappable, they're pre-lubed, dual-rail designs with a shine-through PBT keycap that actuate at a fully custom-calibrated actuation point of your choosing. If you want to b...

Corsair Galleon 100 SD review: Stream Deck meets K70, complete with all the bells and whistles

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Corsair Galleon 100 SD one minute review I still don't quite know what to make of Corsair's Galleon 100 SD gaming keyboard . On the one hand, the ethos of this thing, the switches, the design, the implementation are generally very well thought out, and it's solidly built too. Sound-dampening is decent, the linear MLX switches are delightful to type on, and the Stream Deck integration on the right-hand panel gives the whole thing a lot more versatility than you first might think. Whereas before your Stream Deck buttons sat beside your monitor, the Galleon 100 SD brings them within reach, taking up that numpad position instead. That makes it a more natural flow while you're gaming and streaming at the same time. That's a long-winded way of saying you can actually use all of the Stream Deck's vast utility in-game, finally, without stretching halfway across your desk to do it....

The world's greatest laptop… almost. Dell's 2026 XPS 16 lands almost every blow perfectly, with only one exception: the ports

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Dell XPS 16 (2026) Two-minute review Dell's XPS line finally returns at long last. The company may have shifted tack in its naming scheme, but the XPS has returned, and it's back with a bang. The Dell XPS 16 (2026) I have tested here is beyond impressive. With a clean, crisp aesthetic, stylised CNC black aluminum chassis, super-thin bezels, and a keyboard that genuinely makes you question what other laptop manufacturers have been doing for the last 10 years, it's otherworldly in appearance. There's no drama, no ostentatious LEDs or illuminated logos, just clean, tidy lines and materials that complement it perfectly. Even the screen (in my review spec, a 3K touch OLED 3,200 x 2,000 @ 120Hz) leaves little to be desired. (Image credit: Future) But that's not where it ends; it's how it performs that really drives home the point. Thanks to Intel's latest Panther Lake archit...

The Turtle Beach Stealth Pro 2 takes everything great about the original and almost perfects it

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Turtle Beach Stealth Pro 2: one-minute review You can always tell when a product launch means a lot to a company. There's almost an air of mystery surrounding it. The Turtle Beach Stealth Pro 2 wireless gaming headset is a textbook example of that. Tightly controlled review NDA up front. Mysterious box with "packed under CCTV surveillance" tape plastered across the side of it. PR check-ins to see how I'm doing. You get the works. And to be fair to them, I can understand why. When we reviewed the original Turtle Beach Stealth Pro back in 2023, it absolutely dominated. From its outstanding soundscape to the wild amount of connectivity it included, and that legendary build quality it managed to achieve, it ticked almost every box that you'd want a good gaming headset to tick. I'm glad to report that the Stealth Pro 2, in many ways similar to its predecessor, is purely out...