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Gozney Arc XL: Two-minute review The Gozney Arc is a pizza oven for serious pizza aficionados. Slotting into the range between the approachable Roccbox and the company’s premiere Dome series, the new Arc – and its larger sibling, the Arc XL – harness the company’s most recent learnings to make an exceptional pizza at home. The Arc and Arc XL utilize the efficiency and ease of gas, hooking up to readily-available propane (LPG) bottles to mean you can have the oven fired up in minutes. Both the Arc and the Arc XL take longer than the Roccbox to heat up, requiring you to turn them on at least 30 minutes ahead of cooking, but they are bigger ovens and offer improved temperature stability, better flame control and allow you to cook bigger pizzas. So while the Roccbox can bake 12-inch pizzas to perfection, if you want to make large or family-sized pizzas, then that's where the Arc and Arc XL step in. The Gozney Arc will allow you to make 14-inch pizzas – traditionally called large i...

HP ZBook Firefly G10 A: Two Minute Review The ZBook range is HP’s answer to the need for an enterprise fleet for businesses that trade on more demanding graphical or data processing workloads and the Firefly is the entry level segment of the Z range.  This doesn’t mean all the ZBook Firefly G10 or G10 A devices are going to be suited to one kind of employee however, since even within this line-up the devices can be configured with a range of CPUs and integrated or entry-level discrete GPUs.  The most powerful ZBook Firefly G10 has slightly lower graphical performance than something running a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, so it’s really only suitable for creatives with the lightest workloads and regular office workers. If you do need that little bit more the ZBook Power, Studio and Fury are tailored to heavier kinds of creative workflows. The devices come with Windows Pro operating systems and processors that allow all the extra security and fleet management tools that business...

Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2: One-Minute Review Microsoft’s reimagined tilting screen design is one of the better laptop tech innovations we’ve seen in the last few years. A screen that functions well as a self supported laptop display but can fold into media playback or flat drawing formats is the most useful 2-in-1 format you can buy. The trouble is, Microsoft is charging a pretty hefty premium for this highly desirable tech, with the Surface Laptop Studio 2 costing hundreds, or thousands in some regions, more than similar offerings… even when on a discount.  For those that can afford this business laptop , the unique touch capabilities pair nicely with the more powerful Intel 13th Gen and Nvidia 40 series components to ensure there’s no hardware limitations to your creativity. The sweet spot for the Surface Laptop Studio 2 is the Nvidia RTX 4050 GPU offering, since it has the highest combined performance per dollar out of the range. And if you can get one of these units ...

Gozney Roccbox: Two-minute preview If you’re the kind of cook that finds a sourdough pizza recipe exciting and you’re thrilled by the pursuit of the food innovation seen on shows like Chef’s Table: Pizza or The Bear , then the Gozney Roccbox is the portable pizza oven for you. This is in part because the recipes available on Gozney’s website are more likely to lean into a mixture of traditional-style Neapolitan, white-base or experimental pizzas rather than how to whip up a ham-and-pineapple pie, but it’s also because all of the design choices are geared to making the best quality pizza on a portable device.  (Image credit: Future - Joel Burgess) At 44 pounds (20kg), the Gozney Roccbox is heavier than many of its competitors, but that extra weight is used to add insulation that works to retain heat so the oven can make a series of pizzas quickly. It’s not designed to handle larger 14-inch pizzas or make multiple pizzas at once, but it’s able to retain enough heat to c...

Breville the All in One: One-Minute Review Anyone who enjoys a bit of kitchen craft knows just how useful a food processor can be for boosting your culinary skills. However, if you don't get into the kitchen often, it’s the kind of thing that's not necessarily top of mind, something that takes up a lot of space. If that describes you, you're probably better off with a more lightweight solution like the Breville All in One stick mixer.  Sure, the motor isn’t as powerful as what you’ll get on top-shelf food processors or blenders, but this one device performs a much wider range of tasks and occupies a smaller overall footprint in your kitchen. The Breville All in One can be a food processor, a masher, an immersion blender or a whisk thanks to a quick-release motor handle that attaches to various tool heads.  Obviously any tool’s usefulness will depend on the types of food you gravitate towards when cooking, and kitchen appliances that try to do too many things can often e...

Apple Mac Studio (M2 Ultra): Two-minute review The original Mac Studio , with the first iteration of Apple processors, was an impressive development in Apple’s desktop lineup showing the true potential of Arm chips in a permanently powered system by out performing almost everything else available. In 2023 Apple updated this creative professional desktop with the M2 processor , an upgrade that the company believes can be powerful enough to drive its most powerful desktop device the Mac Pro as well as the new line up of Mac Studio devices.  The new M2 processors boast improved performance, larger memory capacities and improved memory bandwidth. There are also upgrades to the Neural Engine that translates non-native MacOS programs into RISC language and takes on the workload of AI processing tasks. The 2023 Mac Studio is a desktop PC that continues to sit above the Mac Mini , without costing as much as the $6,999 / £7,199 / AU$11,999 starting price for the Mac Pro. The M2 Max vari...