Alex Cranz

Senior Consumer Tech Editor. Trained her dog to do fist bumps. Once wrote for Lifetime. Tips encouraged via Secure Drop, Proton Mail, or DM for Signal.
  • Apple Might Finally Kill The MacBook Air

    Just in time for its 10th anniversary, Apple might finally be killing the MacBook Air, according to a new report from Digitimes. If this is true, it’d be the first axing of a laptop line from Apple since the iBook and Powerbook were axed back in 2006. It would also be about damn time.


  • This Might Be The Fastest Storage Drive To Ever Go In A Laptop

    Last autumn Intel released Intel Optane memory. It was a smart use of a cool new memory type – the first memory type announced in decades, and it allowed you to double the speed of the clunky old hard drive you find in cheap computers. Now Intel is announcing a new variant of Intel Optane,…


  • Reviewed: Google Pixelbook

    I had to change how I think because of Google’s new $US1000 Pixelbook. This gorgeous 2-in-1 is some of my favourite hardware for the price, but it’s loaded with Chrome OS, the worst operating system you could put on your computer. If you’ve grown up a power user of MacOS, Windows, or Linux than Chrome…


  • The New iPad Pro Is Incredible, But Not Worth The Upgrade

    The iPad has a problem that we should all wish to have: It’s too damn good. The battery life and standby battery life are superb, the screen is pretty, the apps are nice, and the thing is powerful enough it can last for years. That’s wonderful for all of us consumers, but it is not…