Ethan Caldwell

Feeding a large family means dealing with big plates, deep casserole dishes, and reheating enough leftovers for seconds. I spent three months testing 10 of the best countertop microwaves for large families to see which ones actually handle the demands of a busy household with 4 to 6 or more people. The biggest issue I … Read more

Three years ago, I ditched my laptop for a tablet during a two-week business trip. That experiment changed how I think about work devices entirely. The best tablets for work in have closed the gap with laptops so much that many professionals now carry a tablet as their primary machine. Our team spent the last … Read more

Choosing the best tablets for college students in comes down to three things that actually matter on campus: how the device handles a full day of back-to-back lectures, whether it can replace your paper notebooks for note-taking, and if the total cost stays within a student budget. Our team spent 90 days testing eight tablets … Read more

I have read through more than 12,000 user reviews, talked to three librarians who live and breathe the Libby ecosystem, and spent 60 days rotating between 10 e-readers. The result of all that work is this guide to the best e-readers for avid readers in . If you read more than 20 books a year, … Read more

Buying the best laptops for college students means balancing three things: enough power to survive four years of essays and group projects, a battery that lasts through back-to-back classes, and a price that won’t wreck your ramen budget. Our team spent three months testing 15 different models, running them through real coursework, dorm-to-library commutes, and … Read more

Modern AAA games are storage monsters. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 alone eats 150GB, and a single installation of Baldur’s Gate 3 demands 150GB of disk space. After our team monitored our own gaming rigs over the past 90 days, we found the average gamer juggles between 8 and 14 active titles across their … Read more

I have spent the better part of three years testing garage refrigerators in climates that swing from 30 degrees in January to 105 degrees in August. The one lesson that keeps surfacing is that most kitchen fridges simply quit when you move them into an uninsulated garage. Compressors freeze up in the cold, thermostats get … Read more

If your finished basement holds a home theater, a playroom, or a home office, one power outage during a storm can undo years of work in minutes. I learned that the hard way when a storm knocked out grid power for 11 hours and my neighbor’s primary sump pump failed. His basement took on four … Read more

If your eyes feel like sandpaper after a long workday, I get it. I spent the better part of last year squinting through spreadsheets until 10 PM, wondering why my head always throbbed by Friday. The culprit wasn’t my workload. It was my monitor. After our team tested 10 models side by side over 90 … Read more

When you have a household full of thirsty kids, hungry teens, and guests who always want a cold drink, a fridge with a water dispenser stops being a luxury and starts feeling essential. I spent the last three months comparing the best refrigerators with water dispensers for families, focusing on the things that actually matter … Read more