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.
  • Should You Buy an Intel Mac or Wait?

    Should You Buy an Intel Mac or Wait?

    Apple launched what very well may be the last Intel iMac this week, and while we haven’t had nearly enough time with it for a full review yet, early benchmark results reveal an absolute beast of a machine (even if our review unit is loaded with enough stuff to bring the price up to a…


  • Forget the iPad Pro, the Surface Go 2 Is a Perfect Secondary PC

    Forget the iPad Pro, the Surface Go 2 Is a Perfect Secondary PC

    Microsoft does not do tablets. The company might have largely created the 2-in-1 trend and made some interesting attempts at a tablet, but Microsoft doesn’t actually do tablets ” it does Windows machines that fold up real pretty but function best with a trackpad and keyboard rather than your finger. The Surface Go 2 is…


  • Documents Leak Teasing a Cheaper Xbox Series X

    Documents Leak Teasing a Cheaper Xbox Series X

    Xbox Series X development docs, distributed courtesy of a leaker on Twitter, tease a long-rumoured second Xbox Series X. As the Verge’s Tom Warren notes, the second console, code-named Lockhart, has been rumoured for some time. This is just more fuel for the “Lockhart is real” fire. If it is indeed in development it will…


  • OK, But How Big Is the PS5, Really?

    OK, But How Big Is the PS5, Really?

    First came the memes about the PlayStation 5’s swooped design, and now people are wondering just how big Sony’s next-generation console is going to be. From everything we’ve seen so far, the PS5 certainly looks like it will be a behemoth — it may even put your old DVD player and the original Xbox to…