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The backup charging device has four-in-one charging with a 2,220-watt continuous output. It's extremely quiet, too at 23 decibels. A grid recharge will get the DJI Power 1000 back up to 80% in 50 minutes and 100% in 70 minutes.
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11 hours ago
- CNET
I Tried Out ChatGPT's New Personalities, and It Mocked Me
ChatGPT got sassy with me and told me "human hope is adorable" when I asked it about my favorite college football team's prospects this season. It offered me tips for "petty human revenge" when my cat wakes me up in the middle of the night. And then, with a couple of clicks, it changed its tone to be sympathetic and earnest. It's the result of a new feature OpenAI unveiled with the chatbot's GPT-5 model, released this week. With one quick selection, you can change the entire tone of ChatGPT's answers to you. The choices -- Default, Cynic, Robot, Listener, Nerd -- allow you to dial in the kind of experience you want. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) The debut of GPT-5 has been a little rockier than OpenAI expected, with many users complaining that they couldn't access older models like GPT-4o. OpenAI quickly rolled that back, but there have been other issues, like a slow rollout of the new model to all users. I took all five for a spin with the same questions: One about Alabama football, one about Shakespeare and one about my cat's habit of getting the 3 a.m. zoomies. Below, I'll tell you what I thought about each. But first, the basics. How to change ChatGPT's personality Enlarge Image This menu allows you to change how ChatGPT talks to you. Screenshot by Jon Reed/CNET Switching personalities is easy. In the browser, you can click on your account info on the bottom left and choose "Customize ChatGPT" to pull up a range of options. You can tell it your name and job and choose certain traits you want it to have. What I played around with specifically was the question "What personality should ChatGPT have?" There, you can scroll through the five options and see a preview of what each one might sound like. On the mobile app, you can find this under Settings > Personalization > Customize ChatGPT. When you change its personality, you should start a new chat to ensure you're getting the tone you selected. Otherwise, you'll be stuck with the old one and wonder why nothing changed. Default: The tone you expect from ChatGPT ChatGPT's default voice is basic, straightforward and businesslike. When I asked how it thought Alabama's football season would go this year, it gave me a lengthy recap of the major issues and storylines in a tone you'd expect from a sportswriter. I then told it I was thinking about reading more Shakespeare and asked where I should start with the history plays, which I had never read in school. The night before, while at the bookstore, I had browsed Reddit for the answer to this question, and what I got from ChatGPT was basically the same answer I got there, with a few different options. It was a lot of text to tell me to start with Richard II. Finally, I asked what I should do about my cat waking me up every night at 3 a.m. ChatGPT provided a detailed step-by-step explanation, mostly about ensuring he gets more activity during the day and especially right before bedtime, with a big meal right before bed. The answer had some emoji spread throughout, which I've seen frequently in AI answers. ChatGPT had a little personality, but not much: A tone that sounds like a helpful Reddit thread or blog post, which makes sense considering that's what the model was trained on. Cynic: The bot gets snippy The tone shift between Default and Cynic was immediately noticeable. For the football question, ChatGPT sounded like a grouchy talk radio caller -- referring to head coach Kalen DeBoer only by his last name, saying that anything short of a playoff appearance means "DeBoer might as well start packing" and that being ranked third in the Southeastern Conference in a preseason poll is "arguably a participation trophy." (As an aside, ChatGPT bungled the schedule, saying Alabama plays Florida State, Georgia, South Carolina and Auburn all in September, when those games are actually spread across four months. If this model is like talking to someone with a doctoral degree, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has claimed, it's clear that degree didn't come from a football school.) Read more: AI Essentials: 29 Ways You Can Make Gen AI Work for You, According to Our Experts Answers to the other questions also showed more personality. ChatGPT said Shakespeare's Henry VI Parts 1-3 and Richard III are "like the Fast & Furious of medieval politics -- less about subtlety, more about chaos." It told me to stick to a routine for the cat "like a stubborn monarch." Maybe it still had Shakespeare on the brain. Content-wise, the answers were basically the same as for the Default setting. It was just the tone. If you want to feel like you're talking with a grumbly teenager, maybe go with the Cynic. I'll probably pass. Watch this: OpenAI Introduces GPT-5 at OpenAI's Summer Update Event 11:53 Robot: No flash or style, and that's the point The Robot is devoid of personality. Its answers are succinct. Its sentences are short. For the football question, its sentences sounded like reworded headlines: "Ty Simpson is Alabama's named starting quarterback for the 2025 season." The Shakespeare answer was even shorter. It just told me to start with the same series of plays (the Henriad tetralogy) that the other personalities had, with very little context. The answer to the cat question was just bullet points with one-sentence explanations. There's no flavor here, no sass. That's fine. If I wanted quick guidance and didn't want anything else, this might be my pick. Listener: I get it, you're sympathetic ChatGPT sounds here like it really cares about what I'm feeling. I sound anxious about the upcoming football season, I guess, "and that's fair, given how much is shifting quietly beneath the surface," ChatGPT assures me. It takes a generous tone toward the issues it highlights -- the opposite of the Cynic -- saying quarterback Simpson is "solid, if untested" and a "known unknown." On Shakespeare, it tells me to read in a way that helps me get a feel for the story rather than "feeling like you've been dropped in the middle of a chessboard." In retraining my cat, it says, "The hard part is holding the line while you're half-asleep and they're yowling in your face." This tone is kind and generous, but it feels almost a little too human. Especially given the very real concerns around how many people are leaning on AI tools for emotional support and validation. Even Altman has said he's worried that some people are growing too attached to the personalities of AI models. A tone that is robotic reminds you it's a robot. A tone that is too caring may give you false hope or confidence. Nerd: Maybe too much information No matter what your interest is, someone out there knows way more about it than you do or at least thinks they do. That's what talking to the Nerd feels like. When I asked about football, it started citing advanced statistics and training camp reports. It reminded me of trying to have a conversation with the sportswriters on my college newspaper staff -- a lot of things only a blogger would know. It recommended I read annotated versions of Shakespeare (including recommending the Folger and Arden editions) and watch filmed versions alongside reading. Which is helpful, but incredibly nerdy. I can see the Nerd personality being useful for going down intensive rabbit holes of information. But again, remember to check ChatGPT's (or Gemini's or Perplexity's or whichever chatbot's) citations and check its facts. Just because the chatbot sounds like it knows everything there is to know about the topic doesn't mean it's not making it all up.
Tom's Guide
12 hours ago
- Tom's Guide
This gaming PC feels like an Xbox 360 with an RTX 5090 inside - here's why
The Maingear MG-1 ($1,529) is one of the company's most affordable customizable gaming PCs, at least to start, so when Maingear offered to send us one for review I kept my expectations in check. But when the top-of-the-line MG-1 Ultimate ($5,269) that Maingear built for us finally showed up at my door, I was impressed. Before I even had a chance to plug it in and see how well it performs, I was charmed by the (fairly) portable mid-size case and the eye-catching custom panel on the front. One of the big selling points of the MG-1 are these swappable front panels, and I love how they remind me of the old Xbox 360 faceplate days. But if that was the most exciting aspect of this gaming PC I'd quickly lose interest. But after a month of testing and using the Maingear MG-1 Ultimate I'm pleased to report this is one of the best gaming PCs I've reviewed this year. Like most great gaming PCs it's pretty expensive, but if you can afford it you're getting a potent powerhouse that's easy to customize, easy to move and so quiet you'd barely know it was running, even after gaming for hours. Maingear MG-1 (starting) Maingear MG-1 (as reviewed) Price $1,529 $5,107 CPU AMD Ryzen 5 9600X AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D GPU Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 RAM 16GB 32GB Storage 1TB SSD 2TB SSD Ports (front) 4x USB 3.0 Type-A, 1x USB 3.1 Type-C, headphone/mic jack 4x USB 3.0 Type-A, 1x USB 3.1 Type-C, headphone/mic jack Ports (rear) 4x USB 2.0 Type-A, 2x USB 5Gbps Type-A, 1x USB 10Gbps Type-A, 1x USB-C 10Gbps 4x USB 2.0 Type-A, 2x USB 5Gbps Type-A, 1x USB 10Gbps Type-A, 1x USB-C 10Gbps Size 19 x 16.8 x 8.1 inches 19 x 16.8 x 8.1 inches Weight ~32 pounds ~32 pounds The custom MG-1 review unit that Maingear sent us is pretty expensive, but in return you get a compact, quiet gaming PC that can run many of the latest games at 4K with all the graphical settings cranked to max. Our testing reveals that even when you do that you can often expect to get around 60 frames per second at 4K, but it's not consistent. Some of the most demanding games, like Black Myth Wukong and Cyberpunk 2077, will push this system so hard at max settings that even the RTX 5090 and AMD Ryzen 9 CPU will struggle to keep a smooth 60 frames per second at 4K. To show you what I mean I've charted the Maingear MG-1's performance in key games below and put it up against two other pricey RTX 5090 gaming PCs we've reviewed recently, the Alienware Area 51 ($5,699 as tested) and the Corsair Vengeance i8300 ($7,399 as tested). Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Maingear MG-1 Alienware Area 51 Corsair Vengeance i8300 Assassin's Creed Shadows (Ultra High) 65 76 64 Black Myth Wukong (Cinematic) 55 59 60 Cyberpunk 2077 53.6 56.7 57.5 Red Dead Redemption 2 (Ultra) 67 84.6 64.4 As you can see, the more expensive gaming PCs outperformed our Maingear MG-1 review unit by a small degree in most games. But in a few cases (namely Assassin's Creed Shadows and Red Dead Redemption 2) the Maingear actually beat out Corsair's Vengeance i8300 by a smidge. That's a bit amazing given that the Vengeance costs over $2,000 more and is also larger and heavier, so it's more of a pain to fit into your entertainment setup. So while the Alienware Area 51 desktop comes out smelling like roses, our testing proves the Maingear MG-1 is smaller and nearly as good as the Corsair despite being far cheaper. Maingear MG-1 Alienware Area 51 Corsair Vengeance i8300 Geekbench 6 single-core 3401 3148 3303 Geekbench 6 multi-core 23071 21786 23328 SSD speed test (MBps) 2107.9 1898.2 2480.5 Video editing test (mm:ss) 1:45 1:53 1:47 A similar story played out when we put the MG-1 Ultimate through our battery of general performance tests, but this time it performed a bit better compared to the more expensive Area 51 and Vengeance i8300. As you can see from the chart of results above, our MG-1 review unit consistently outperformed either the Alienware, the Corsair or both in our Geekbench 6 CPU tests and our SSD speed test. And in our video editing test, which times how long it takes the PC to transcode a 4K video down to 1080p using Handbrake, Maingear's MG-1 Ultimate actually outperformed both the Alienware and Corsair RTX 5090 PCs. Factor in the fact that our MG-1 review unit is cheaper and smaller than either competitor, and you start to see why I love this mid-size gaming rig. Another thing I love about the MG-1 Ultimate is how quiet it is, even after hours of playing games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4K with all settings cranked to max. While I do hear the fans spin up after extended (1-2+ hours) gaming sessions or when the room gets quite toasty, I almost never notice them. And when I finally did, I had to fire up our Corsair Vengeance i8300 review unit to remind me what a really beastly full-sized gaming tower PC can sound like when things get hot and heavy. The MG-1 Ultimate doesn't get terribly toasty under load, either. When I was testing the Vengeance i8300, for example, I noticed that after a few hours of PC gaming on the couch my entire living room would feel warm. By contrast, Maingear's mid-sized rig doesn't feel noticeably warm, even after hours of gaming, unless I put my hand directly against the exhaust. I like a PC case that's neatly organized and easy to open, so I'm very happy with the MG-1 case that houses this beastly machine. Not only does the PC run quiet and have lots of room to work inside the case, the tempered glass side panel is easy to remove once you remove the screws fastening it in place. Popping it back on is just as easy, which I really appreciate. Maingear touts a few additional selling points for this case, including the fact that the MG-1 was designed in partnership with company co-owner, professional game streamer and former pro eSports player Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek. That's all fine and good, but I'm more excited about the swappable magnetic front panel. Hey, I get maybe not everyone will love the silly appeal of being able to order new swappable front panels from Maingear for $99 a pop (or $129 if you want a custom one), but I love it. There are loads of fun designs and patterns to choose from, and the whole thing reminds me of nothing so much as the swappable faceplates we used to use on the old Xbox 360. While it's a bit goofy that Maingear custom-printed us one with the TG logo on it for the purposes of this review, I have to admit I like seeing a pop of color on the PC when I sit down at my desk every morning. And since the Maingear logo in the top center of the panel glows in concert with the PC's RGB settings, whatever front panel you add will feature a fun bit of RBG flair winking out from the middle. As much as I like the 2025 Maingear MG-1 Ultimate, there is one big downside to buying one that I should make clear before wrapping up. After a month with this machine I can't find anything to complain about besides the high price, and that's par for the course when you're buying high-end gaming PCs." Look, I would have a hard time affording the MG-1 Ultimate that Maingear sent us for review on my journalist's salary. I could do it, but I'd probably spend half a year or more scrimping and saving to minimize the strain on my credit. Most people will likely face a similar quandary when considering whether to buy a boutique PC like the MG-1. Now admittedly, you can get a less powerful version for thousands of dollars less—upgrading from the base RTX 5050 to the top-of-the-line GeForce RTX 5090 GPU adds over $2,500 to the price alone, for example. And again, this high-end MG-1 Ultimate performs nearly as well or better in our testing as 2025 gaming PCs that cost hundreds or thousands more. So while it is damn expensive, if you're aiming for RTX 5090 levels of performance this might actually be a fairly canny way of maximizing what you get for your money. If it's not clear already, I'm quite fond of Maingear's 2025 MG-1 Ultimate. The machine Maingear sent us for review packs a powerful AMD + Nvidia CPU/GPU combo that punches above its weight in terms of performance, and I love how quiet it remains even after hours of use. But even when it's switched off, I like how nice the MG-1 looks on a desk (especially with a cool front panel design) and I appreciate how easy it is to move from room to room. And when it's time to upgrade or swap something out, I love that you can quickly unscrew some fasteners and pop the side panel off for easy access. After a month with this machine I can't find anything to complain about besides the high price, and that's par for the course when you're buying high-end gaming PCs. So if that's what you're after, I highly recommend Maingear's MG-1 as one of the best I've tested in 2025.
CNET
16 hours ago
- CNET
iPhone 17 Pro Will Reportedly Get Higher Price Tag, but Also More Storage
The price of an iPhone Pro has been $999 since 2019, but a new leak appears to corroborate what has been rumored before -- that the price is going up. The iPhone 17 Pro, set to launch in September, reportedly will be priced $50 more at $1,050 in the US before taxes, according to Chinese leaker Instant Digital. The model will also reportedly get a storage boost from the Pro's usual 128GB to 256GB. For context, if you were to bump up to 256GB on the iPhone 16 Pro, that would cost you $100 and bring the total price to $1,099 before taxes. According to the new report, the 128GB storage versions of the iPhone Pro will be discontinued. Apple did not immediately respond to CNET's request for comment. Apple launched the Pro six years ago with the iPhone Pro 11 for $999, but the normal course of inflation and the rising cost of everything else that goes with making things -- components, supply chain costs, labor wages -- means the sub-$1,000 iPhone Pro could be a thing of the past. It's unknown whether the iPhone 17 Pro Max will also be getting a price increase.
