Samsung’s line of external SSDs with up to 2TB of storage are available as of today.
The Samsung Portable SSD T3, successor to last year’s T1, offers 2TB of storage for a staggering $850 with sizes ranging down to 250GB for $130. The USB 3.0 drive offers read speeds of up to 450 megabytes per second. We’ve got a full review of this drive coming up, but for now we can report an average read speed of 422MBps and a write speed of 392.6MBps.
The T3 manages to do all this in a very small profile: it’s roughly three inches long, two and a half inches wide, and half an inch thick, and only weighs 1.8 ounces.
The device, announced at CES earlier this year, is available right now on Amazon. The full price list is as follows:
The T1’s top model last year was 1TB, and cost $600, so high as these prices are they represent a significant reduction.
Why would anyone pay this much for an external hard drive? One word: speed. Sure, mechanical external hard drives are a great deal cheaper: an external 2TB costs less than $80 in most cases. But mechanical drives, which use moving parts, are much slower than solid state drives. Mechanical drives generally offer speeds around 100MBps, compared to the top speed of 450MBps offered by the T3.
Most consumers won’t be willing to pay this much of a premium for a speed boost, but anyone who works with massive amounts of data — including videographers and photographers — might be tempted.
The T3 also comes with built-in AES 256-bit hardware encryption, making it easy for you to quickly encrypt the entirety of your drive. Which is probably a good idea, seeing as a drive this small is probably easy to misplace.
We’ve got a full review of this drive coming up soon, so stay tuned.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.