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Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) is the latest wireless networking standard, using 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz bands plus Multi-Link Operation for higher speed and lower latency.
TP-Link opened preorders for its Archer 8 Ultra Wi-Fi 8 router on Sept. 30 at £669.99 in the UK, before any Wi-Fi 8 phone or laptop is on sale. TechRepublic's review finds the price and limited device support hard to recommend over Wi-Fi 7 for homes and small offices.
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WiCi's WiCi One streams a desktop GPU over Wi-Fi 7 to nearby PCs, pitched at $2,600 and $10,000 as an alternative to cloud AI subscriptions. Gizmodo's hands-on covered one game and one AI prompt, leaving the multi-user sharing that would undercut per-seat cloud pricing undemonstrated.
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Tom's Hardware blames rising component costs from AI demand for the move from $599 to $899. Because the memory is soldered on package, the upgrade tiers that got pricier are the only lever a buyer has.
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Apple put the M6 in the $899 mini and the M5 Pro from this year's MacBook Pro in the $1,699 one, so the real question is which ceiling your work hits first, 32GB of memory or 64GB.
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Android 17 runs the same on both phones, so the Pro premium now buys a sharper panel plus Wi-Fi 7 and UWB, while 16GB of RAM sits behind the 512GB tier, which turns a memory decision into a storage decision.
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The 2025 configurations are gone from the store rather than fading out, which turns a refresh most shops would have taken at renewal into a purchase they have to justify on this quarter's numbers.
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The Deco 7 Pro BE13000 works out to $133 a node, but Tom's Hardware flags subscriptions for features rivals ship free, and the review never says what they cost.
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