12 Month Windows

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

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

While Apple frequently makes a big deal about paying attention to the small details, they miss some of the bigger ones. Last night, or technically very early this morning, I friend of mine in California was setting up a new laptop and asked for help. I simply had him open the Quick Assist App. I began a session and he joined it with the code that was produced. I was then able to help him directly on his system get things set up the way he wanted and in a way that would help streamline his use of the technology. Apple has nothing like this without having to pay for special software AND be on the same network. The more time I spend delving into Windows, the more I find how useful it really is, and how walled off Apple is, even from its own users. I sold my iPad Pro and instead bought a Surface Go 2. The machine, keyboard, and Surface Pen all cost significantly less than what I'd paid for the iPad Pro and the Magic Keyboard cover and was covered by the sale of my 2 year old iPad Pro.

I'm delving back into the world of Windows after a hiatus. This blog was started almost 9 years ago now with the intention of experiencing Windows instead of Mac for at least 1 year. It didn't pan out that way, and while I've jumped back and forth a few times between the two, I've always ended up back on a Mac. This time, I'm trying something a little different. I'm keeping my MacBook Pro and getting a high end Windows machine to do work on. The Mac will primarily focus on my personal stuff like novel writing and photography while the Windows Machine will be for my professional side of things, including my ad writing and tech roles that I do from home as well as beginning to stream on Twitch. I want to see what happens to my preferences as I'm more able to bounce back and forth between the two. Will I still gravitate toward the Mac for all my stuff, or will I move more to Windows for everything? One of the things I have always been impressed with from an App

Dear Christopher, I have spent years jumping back and forth from Apple to Windows and back again. Same with iOS to Android and back. Here's the thing that's important, however. The part where I continue to come back. The user experience really is that much better. Sure, there isn't the same kind of customization available on macOS or iOS, but at the same time, they are far more user friendly in general. I could point out about a dozen things I feel Android does better than Apple, but then there's also the privacy concerns of using any Google service right now. I think there's an article floating around out there about privacy, and the title is something like: "You pay Google with data, and Apple with Cash." Microsoft has made a major comeback in recent years, and that's good. Albeit, the OS is still clunky as hell on anything not built by Microsoft, the idea behind it is solid. If you're going to buy anything Microsoft, buy hardware that was

My favorite phone ever was the Motorola Moto X 2nd generation from 2014. It allowed a plethora of customizations for a truly unique appearance that could be tailored to the individual - not to mention the various customization options available for Android. The problem was more with how Motorola at the time, having just been sold away from Google, was suddenly being run. I had some issues, met with terrible customer service and eventually returned the phone for a full refund. But that phone was pure gold. At the time, I went back to the iPhone and stayed there until I tried the Pixel XL. I ended up sending that back not because of the feature set, but simply because it didn't feel fully baked yet. I would probably have been much happier with the Pixel 3 XL from this year, but by the time that was announced, I had made the decision to stop hopping around in mobile space and just stick with Apple. A big part of that decision came from two experience I had with the company