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eGPUs Do Work, But They Come With Some Notable Limitations

Just buy a basic gaming PC instead.

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If you've been looking to get more gaming power out of your laptop but don't want to pay for a replacement amid RAMpocalypse pricing, an eGPU could be your best bet. An eGPU is an external graphics processor, usually a desktop graphics card in an enclosure connected to a compatible laptop or gaming handheld through Thunderbolt or USB4. They can be pretty good at taking over rendering, meaning even thinner and weaker machines can run more demanding games with one plugged in, but there are many caveats.

A GPU run as an eGPU will typically operate slower over Thunderbolt than it would inside a desktop. The enclosure to house it costs hundreds of dollars too, and some devices, like Apple Silicon-based Macs, can't use an eGPU for gaming at all. That said, eGPU hardware is in better shape today than it has...

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South Florida's Hotel Boom Puts EV Charging Into the Parking Budget

Miami-Dade County is on track to add 1,954 hotel rooms in 2026, the fifth-highest total among U.S. markets, according to CoStar projections reported by Miami Today. Just up the coast, the 801-room Omni Fort Lauderdale Hotel opened in December near the Broward County Convention Center, adding another major

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When Your AI SRE Runs Out of Telemetry: The Missing-Evidence Problem in Production Debugging

AI SRE systems are getting much better at the first half of incident investigation. An agent can receive an alert, inspect metrics, search logs, follow distributed traces, check recent deployments, read source code, retrieve runbooks, and compare the current failure with previous incidents. With enough integrations, it can gather in

The TechBeat: Just Publish an App. How F*****g Hard Can It Be? (9/30/2026)

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Build vs Buy Is Being Distorted by AI: Here's How

The SaaSpocalypse is here, and depending on your perspective, I am either part of the problem or part of the solution. Over the past year, I have become much more of a builder and much less of a buyer of software. This does not mean that I’m now an

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