in 2020, Apple’s MacBooks entered a new era. The company announced it was moving away from the Intel chips it had been using since 2006; in their place, it rolled out the first Macs with the Apple-designed M1. Cut to 2024 and the company now offers the choice between 14 custom processors, the latest of…
To help your money-saving journey to the 200,000-mile club, our experts have mapped out what you need to do to get there. We’ve used a 2023 Toyota RAV4 as an example—the bestselling vehicle in America and popular among Consumer Reports members—but the checklist will be similar for most vehicles. Our guide focused on a used…
There are a couple of caveats, though. “With the exception of built-in models, you’re unlikely to find a 30-inch-wide fridge that’s counter-depth,” says Breann Chai, who leads testing for refrigerators at CR. “You’ll need to be okay with a fridge that sticks out from your kitchen cabinets.” Fridges that are 30 inches wide tend to…
Students, it’s the worst time of your life, you might as well save a little money. Just kidding, life only gets harder from here. Kidding. Again. Maybe. What is not a joke is this deal. Dell is giving students a 10% discount on things students need like Dell XPS laptops and Alienware gaming rigs. Don’t…
The pickup trucks below are the compact, midsized, and full-sized models that most satisfy our members, according to their responses in our latest Annual Auto Surveys. They’re ranked in order of their owner satisfaction rating, starting with the best, by category. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, and not every truck is recommended because…
There’s a caveat: You’ll have to roll up your sleeves and play amateur chemist by diluting the cleaner with the exact amount of water needed for your particular cleaning job. For most of these cleaners, you’ll either need a set of reusable spray bottles and a few labels to keep everything organized or a large…
WIRED TIRED Great to run with. Solid hand brake. Folds pretty small for a jogger. Still pretty big, especially compared to other strollers. Heavy, too. Joggers are big, but the Thule does a good job of not being too big—or at least not as big as the competition. The Thule Urban Glide 3, like its…
The diapers that didn’t make the cut for our recommendations are Pampers Swaddlers Overnights, Millie Moon Disposable Overnight Diapers, Huggies Overnights, and Sposie Overnight Diaper Booster Pads. Most did decently in our dryness tests, so if you use them, your baby’s butt is likely to stay dry once they’ve absorbed all the liquid. But many…
That’s why we put dozens of models to the test. In our lab, we expose CO detectors to low CO levels (100 parts per million) and high CO levels (400 ppm) to see how quickly and accurately they detect the colorless, odorless gas. For models that display or announce specific CO levels, we check the…
The long-lasting cars that shone in this analysis certainly would be considered used cars at this point. To help new-car shoppers, we have highlighted the ratings for the latest model year below and included our findings on this most recent version. We encourage you to click through to the linked model pages, where you will…