What we know so far: AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs were once notorious for self-destructing on AM5 motherboards with older BIOS versions, but Team Red rolled out a firmware update to fix the problem in 2023. While there's no indication that the issue has returned, a Redditor is now reporting that their friend's Ryzen 7 780
I found KitGuru’s review interesting because they discovered that the GEEKOM M16’s factory thermal paste was poor enough that simply replacing it improved CPU performance by almost 30%. What’s more, the same issue also affected the company’s smaller laptop launched a few months earlier.
The laptop uses a Core Ultra 9 185H configured with a 45W power limit. At stock settings, the M16 scored around 6
Earlier this year, I replaced my battery-powered push mower with an iPhone-controlled robot lawn mower. That machine creates a virtual map by letting you manually steer it around the perimeter of your yard. Once everything is configured, it takes over mowing duties on a schedule.
More recently, I’ve been testing another system called the TerraMow V1000. It takes a substantially different approach to navigation, and after several weeks of testing, I think it may be the more user-friendly option
