…I reviewed products and talked about how Microsoft Edge and Office ran well enough, but we needed better emulation. When Adobe introduced a native version of Photoshop, I dealt with how it…
…I can't expect Claude-like intelligence from my local AI setup, but it's surprisingly good for general queries, document analysis, and productivity tasks, once I have the right tweaks dialed…
…about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the personal technology landscape through features and opinion pieces. He writes for XDA-Developers, where he focuses on topics like productivity, networking, self…
…A lifelong tech enthusiast who has built three gaming and productivity powerhouse PCs since 2018, his passion for technology keeps him closely following the semiconductor industry, from NVIDIA and AMD to ARM…
…06 / 8 Products Microsoft launched its own tablet and laptop line to compete with Google's Chromebook ecosystem. What is the name of Microsoft's flagship hardware product line introduced in 2012…
…consumer tech. I care more about the impact of technology on people’s everyday lives than the superfluous features companies keep adding each year, which is central to my reviews and product…
…Yes, while it's helped me become more efficient and productive with my chores, it's also reduced a lot of pressure from having to deal with all of these tasks while…
…I didn’t have to deal with complex API keys or wait hours for indexing. It just worked. Before that, if I needed to reference a specific contact detail or a previous…
Megan Ellis Apr 3, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New…
…Sign in to your XDA account Running large language models locally on consumer hardware has always meant accepting a strict set of trade-offs. The situation was clear: if you wanted frontier…