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Real World Review of the Surface Laptop Studio

As somebody who had been an Apple User since the Apple IIe, I want you all to know how much weight this carries when I say this... The Surface Laptop Studio is hands down the best laptop I have ever used. Yes, part of that love comes from Windows 11, but not all of it. See my previous review of the Razer Blade 15 Advanced. But let's talk about Windows 11 briefly, because I think without it, this machine wouldn't have had a chance to succeed. What I'm about to say is going to make some people angry. I don't care about them. Fuck those people. Go be angry somewhere else. Windows 11 is the lovechild of macOS and Windows 10. It has taken all the best features of both Operating Systems and combined them into a slick, intuitive operating system that has something for everybody. I will eventually get around to writing a full review of Windows 11, but I don't want to get distracted and go plummeting down that rabbit hole. ADHD isn't a joke... I've been down rabbit h

Review of Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021

I received my Razer Blade 15 Advanced on August 13th. I've been using it ever since as a gaming machine and my daily driver for my work-from-home position. Here are my thoughts on this machine. There are far more capable people out there to evaluate the nitty-gritty game performance with test results and so forth. I'm not going to attempt to go into that level of detail These are my impressions as an average user of this tech without benchmarks. My goal is real world experience. My configuration: 11th Gen Core i7 RTX 3070 1TB SSD 32GB RAM Full HD Display (1080p) 360FPS Refresh Rate Right out of the gate, for the most part, this thing seems to fly - except when it oddly doesn't. For gaming, I've got no issues with it. The 3070 performs under load providing smooth gameplay and no dropped frames that I'm able to detect. It runs the internal display plus two external 4k displays without pitching much of a fit. The fans are loud when they run which, oddly, they seem to d