Synology’s BeeStation Plus lets you stick it to the man

by · Australian Financial Review

John DavidsonColumnist
Jul 7, 2026 – 5.00am

The price of gadgets has been going through the roof.

Thanks to the AI companies hogging all the resources to power their LMDUs (Language Models of Dubious Utility), anything that needs computer memory or storage is getting more expensive to manufacture by the day. You probably saw that Apple has just been forced to add hundreds of dollars to the price of its Macs and iPads to keep up with rising costs. It’s nuts.

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John DavidsonColumnistJohn Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com

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