Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Reviewer, Laptops

Antonio is a laptop reviewer at The Verge. Before starting here in 2021 as a deals writer, he worked in the photography industry — and still photographs weddings on the side from time to time. He also plays lots of video / tabletop games, collects vinyl records, buys too many mechanical keyboards, and endlessly professes his love for the great state of New Jersey.

Razer’s new keyboards drop the price on powerful gaming features

Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 30

I can’t stop staring through this PC with a curved glass front.

Maingear’s new Zero series of desktop PCs use 4mm-thick curved tempered glass for an airy, panoramic aesthetic. They come in Intel and AMD versions, starting at $2,699, with GPUs ranging from the RTX 5070 to RTX 5090.

Maingear and other manufacturers have done glass setups similar to this before, but the Zero series has no visible seams and it isn’t an ultra-limited edition run like last year’s Doom PC.

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1/6Image: Maingear

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This is my new favorite laptop, but thanks to RAMageddon the price already went up by $800

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro has it all. But RAMageddon spiked its price.

Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 27

Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 24

Happy little spacebars.

There are lots of fun ways to customize a keyboard and accessorize your desk, but these Bob Ross spacebars and desk mats from Apos look like absolute charmers. The mats are fairly large (900mm x 400mm) and 4mm thick, and each spacebar comes with an escape key featuring Ross’s smiling face.

Now my desk can be a happy accident instead of just a messy one.

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1/5Image: Apos

Geekbench 7 will push your computer or phone even harder for better benchmarking

Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 23

The higher-end prebuilt Framework Laptop 13 Pro now costs $800 more.

Another byproduct of Framework’s new RAM pricing is that preorders for the Ultra X7 358H version of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro jumped from $2,099 to $2,899. Framework’s announcement didn’t specify this config, but the Wayback Machine shows it.

People who got their 32GB preorders bumped down to 16GB also have to pay more if they want to maintain 32GB from Framework, or source their LPCAMM2 RAM elsewhere.

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<em>Current pricing for prebuilt Framework Laptop 13 Pros.</em>

<em>A glimpse at the prices as of July 15th, via the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260715064339/https://frame.work/products/laptop13pro-intel-ultra-3/configuration/new" target="_blank">Wayback Machine</a>.</em>

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Current pricing for prebuilt Framework Laptop 13 Pros.

Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 22

Sony’s $4,900 FX5 cinema camera looks stacked and is stacked.

The new Sony FX5 has a huge list of features for cinematographers. To name a few: a full-frame fully-stacked 5K sensor with open gate recording, three base ISO settings, dual gain shooting, and up to 120fps recording. And instead of just a typical add-on handle for XLR connections, you can instead slap on a $698 tiltable OLED viewfinder.

I wish every EVF-less camera had an EVF option.

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<em>The FX5 and it’s optional DVF-EL1 electronic viewfinder.</em>

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The FX5 and it’s optional DVF-EL1 electronic viewfinder.

Image: Sony

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Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM

The new entry-level Surface Laptop 13-inch is last year’s same great hardware with less memory and a higher price.

Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 17

Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 16

Sanding down the edges of your MacBook: ergonomic dream or aesthetic nightmare?

MacBooks have hard, pointy edges. But would you take a hand file or sanding block to your laptop? Software engineer Max Bretschneider did just that, and the results look pretty good. The more heavily filed MacBook Pro he cites for inspiration from designer Kent Walters? Less so. (Yikes!)

What do you think? Is this now a thing? Should Apple round the corners off more? (Yes to that last one.)