
Best external SSD for gaming 2025: Portable performance drives
But choosing an external SSD means sorting through a dizzying array of options, and making a poor choice can leave you feeling hard done by.
But choosing an external SSD means sorting through a dizzying array of options, and making a poor choice can leave you feeling hard done by.
Michael's previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he's covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live.
He's covered technology for three decades and held senior editorial positions with Ziff Davis, Jupitermedia, Disney Publishing, McGraw-Hill and Advance Digital.
But, ultimately, it’s not just the lives saved when using Emergency SOS via Satellite from a remote location that matter, it’s also the many that may never encounter problems as a direct result of taking 10,000 steps a day and closing all the Activity rings on their Apple Watch.
The Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 7 combines a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor with a speedy solid-state drive, so it’s no surprise that it provides good, snappy performance in day-to-day tasks.
It’s reasonably priced–especially when it’s on sale–and it’s loaded with features, including a 150-degree field of view (horizontal and vertical), package detection, and a 1:1 aspect ratio that shows your visitors from head to toe in 1536 x 1536-pixel resolution with high dynamic range (HDR).
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.
His charm absolutely oozes throughout the video, ranting about then-new GeForce Now gaming subscriptions (take a shot, Full Nerd faithful) and tossing off one-liners while drinking a ludicrous monstrosity and wearing a beanie covered in $100 bills.
In fact, the whole setup felt pretty laggy just navigating around the laptop and via a Web browser — not something you’d expect with a top-of-the-line Intel CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU inside.
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.
Other chiplet companies include Celestial AI for photonic fabrics, Elyian for more flexible memory controllers, Credo Semiconductor for I/O and Alphawave Semi for wired connectivity.
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.