12 Month Windows

Over the past several months I've been making the switch away from Apple and taking up with the likes of Windows and Android instead of MacOS and iOS. Don't get me wrong, the strides Apple has made in the hardware industry are outstanding and there is certainly a use case for Apple hardware in professional settings of all kinds. I'm not here to trash Apple, but to instead point out that often when we look upon something as "The Enemy" we are doing a disservice to ourselves. For decades I was a staunch Apple supporter, always looking for the next best product from Apple, constantly upgrading my hardware when Apple would release something new, trying to keep up with the best they had to offer because I felt it was THE BEST. In many cases, objectively, Apple simply is the best. But after all that time and money spent in Apple-land I could never find that spark that spoke to me the way my PowerBook 145B did way back in 1993. I've owned PowerBooks, G3 Towers, iBook...

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...