Duncan Pike

5 days ago | stuff.co.za | Duncan Pike

How much are you willing to pay for good, or even great, home audio? We’d probably have as many different answers as people who answered. And what about near-perfect home audio? Danish audio stalwart Bang & Olufsen celebrates its centenary this year, so it’s kind of fitting that its local distributors picked now to officially launch the flagship Beolab 90 floor-standing speakers in the country. The Beolab 90 isn’t new, it was first launched in 2015 and named for the company’s 90th anniversary.

1 week ago | stuff.co.za | Duncan Pike

8.3 Still a creative workhorse This ProArt P16, much like the last one, is firmly aimed at creative folks. It's got the same great 4K OLED display and AMD CPU, but has received a GPU upgrade and now sports the RTX 5070.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.za | Duncan Pike

Want tech but don’t want to pay full price? This weekend, Checkers Sixty60 is holding its Xtra Xtra Weekend sale, the retailer’s most ambitious online-only promotion to date, with up to 60% off online-listed goods in the Checkers Hyper delivery areas. There are over 250 deals listed in the Sixty60 app and on the retailer’s website, which now allows you to complete your whole shopping trip right in your browser.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.za | Duncan Pike

It might be the first official day of Computex 2025, but that hasn’t stopped the big brands from releasing their plethora of new tech already. Acer is one such big brand and, along with the usual new devices, unveiled a few unique things too. The Acer FreeSense Ring and AI TransBuds from Acer Gadget apparently “reflect the company’s growing expansion into AI-powered wearables and real-time communication tools.” One guess as to what each one does.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.za | Duncan Pike

After a three-year wait, Sony has finally unveiled its latest flagship active noise-cancelling wireless headphone, the WH-1000XM6. They bring external and internal changes and upgrades to the range, but not for free. Where the WH-1000XM5 launched at R9,000, these will carry a suggested retail price of R11,000 when they eventually come to South Africa in August. One of the headline upgrades in the XM6 isn’t really an upgrade, but we’re excited to see it nonetheless.