Hardware and AI
Hardware and AI
GPUs, PCs, parts for AI
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Hardware and AI
GPUs, PCs, parts for AI
Printer with the cheapest ink 2026: ink tank, cartridges or laser for home, and what every page really costs in the UKSeven home printers chosen after counting the catalogue and reading the yield each maker declares for every cartridge, bottle and toner, with a cost per page calculator in pounds, HP Instant Ink's UK plans worked out per page, and the figure no listing shows: how many pages the ink in the box prints.Updated 28 September 2026›
How much does it cost to make an iPhone in 2026? The teardown estimates, the memory surge and the UK price splitWhat each iPhone Apple sells today costs to make, by the firms that publish it: the only open total, the 2026 memory surge that pushed the parts bill up, what a teardown leaves out, and how the parts compare with the UK price once VAT is out.Updated 28 September 2026›Why are iPhones so expensive? The UK answer, with Apple's own margins, 20% VAT and the £100 rise of 2026The UK answer, with Apple's own filings: why the iPhone 17 went from £799 to £899 in September 2026, what 20% VAT does to the price, how much more the UK pays than the US before tax, and where Apple's margin sits.Updated 28 September 2026›
UV printer UK 2026: which one to buy for phone cases, tumblers and UV DTF stickers, and what each print costs in inkWhat a single UV print costs in the UK, worked out with prices read on 23 September 2026: eufyMake's own cartridge and cost table, three bulk ink sets, AB film for UV DTF, prep pads and Ofgem's electricity cap. With a calculator for your piece and three printers that take bulk ink.Updated 23 September 2026›
Best DTF printer UK 2026: what each shirt costs in ink, film and powder, and when buying transfers by the metre winsThe three UK suppliers at the top of this search sell printers and consumables, and none of them says what a shirt costs. This guide does the sum with UK prices read on 22 September 2026: Ink Experts' film and powder, a litre of ink with VAT, Procolored's consumption per print, Ofgem's electricity cap and three by-the-metre services.Updated 22 September 2026›
Best 3D printers in the UK for 2026: which one to buy to start at home, and what every print costs to runTen 3D printers chosen after counting 45 listings across the family, with the calculator that puts a figure on every print in filament and electricity at British prices, and the three numbers the makers publish outside the listing: the speed it actually prints at, the watts the machine draws and the grams thrown away at every colour change.Updated 21 September 2026›
Best budget tablets in 2026: which to buy for study, kids and streaming, with the RAM and hertz traps decodedTen tablets compared with the spec sheet in front of us: the value pick with 8 GB and 256 GB, the study tablet with a pen in the box, the iPad that lasts years, and the two traps of the cheap tier, expanded RAM and the hertz nobody writes down.Updated 21 September 2026›
Best value graphics card 2026: seven compared on memory, bus width and the power supply each one needsSeven graphics cards read spec sheet by spec sheet in the year memory became the scarce component: how much memory, what type, and how wide the bus carrying it is. With the check that tells you whether your power supply copes, what the Consumer Rights Act gives you on a second-hand card, and the one-minute test for whether an old card is still worth buying.Updated 1 September 2026›
Best value SSD in 2026: nine NVMe, SATA and portable drives compared on endurance, speed and what a PS5 will acceptNine drives read against the specifications their makers actually publish: the terabytes-written figure that ends the warranty before the years do, the sequential speed that only describes the first few tens of gigabytes, and Sony's own PS5 requirement including the 11.25 mm ceiling that catches out anyone buying a drive with a tall heatsink. With the nine ranked for storage per unit of outlay, without quoting a price.Updated 1 September 2026›
Cheap laptop buying guide for 2026: the two checks on a listing that decide the purchase, and six machines worth a lookTwo checks on a listing decide whether a cheap laptop is a bargain or a mistake, and neither of them is the headline price: what year the processor was actually designed, because the name no longer tells you, and whether an operating system is included at all. Six machines compared on those terms, plus the UK security-update law that specifically leaves laptops out of it.Updated 1 September 2026›
Best value RAM in 2026: eight DDR4 and DDR5 kits compared, and the generation that inverted during the shortageEight memory kits read against the specifications their makers publish, in the year the oldest rule in the category stopped being true: DDR4 is no longer the cheap generation. With the shortage told in dated percentages from TrendForce by way of The Register, the detector that tells you which generation your machine physically accepts, and the audit showing that the kit advertising the biggest discount is not the cheapest reference in its own product line.Updated 1 September 2026›
Best laptop for programming in 2026: eight compared on RAM, storage and the keyboard question you must askEight laptops read spec sheet by spec sheet for people who write code, starting with the one component you cannot swap afterwards: the keyboard, and the ten-second check that tells you which layout a listing is really selling. With the spec traps rewritten for a UK buyer, and the reason nobody has to publish how long your laptop will receive security updates.Updated 1 September 2026›
Best CPU for local AI in 2026: five processors compared on the memory bandwidth that caps CPU inferenceFive processors read against the specification that actually decides how fast a language model runs on a CPU: memory bandwidth, which is channels times rated speed and is published by Intel and AMD. It puts the Core i5 and the Core i9 on the same ceiling, puts a very large cache on the wrong side of the argument, and leaves exactly one part on this page that changes the arithmetic rather than working inside it.Updated 1 September 2026›
Best GPU for local AI in 2026: seven graphics cards ranked by the VRAM that decides what you can runSeven graphics cards for local AI compared on the one specification that decides what you can run at all: video memory. Includes the arithmetic that turns any model's parameter count into gigabytes, a headroom chart built from declared numbers, and the kilowatt hours each card costs over a year.Updated 31 August 2026›