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X Elite Laptop REACTIONS!
The new Snapdragon chip is FINALLY coming to new computers! I’m looking up the new systems, and reacting to configurations and prices! Here’s what you need to know if you’re shopping a Windows on ARM notebook PC!
Geekom A5 Review!
This is a beast of a mini PC! Using a great little AMD chip, it’s sweet overkill for daily computing tasks. It’s exciting to see this performance in a computer this small, but the price tag is even nicer! Continue reading “Geekom A5 Mini PC Review: BIG POWER! Small Price! Better than a Mac Mini?”
Tablet vs Laptop!
The OnePlus Pad is a solid buy for a high performance tablet, but can it unseat a PROPER computer? The Surface Laptop GO 2 is a beautiful student-grade laptop. Let’s test some of the performance and the battery life! Will you get a better performance per dollar with the laptop? Continue reading “OnePlus Pad vs a Low Cost Laptop! Can it beat a Surface Laptop Go 2?”
Surface Laptop Go 2 First Look!
Always a GREAT time geeking out on new tech with good friends. Microsoft drove through Los Angeles hosting a hands on for the new Surface Laptop. TK and I share some thoughts on that first look!
There’s a LOT of potential here for a REALLY nice student machine… Continue reading “Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 Test Drive and First Impressions!”
Azulle Byte4 Review!
It’s a fanless, small form factor PC, and you can put it just about anywhere you might need a PC. It makes a LOT of sense for business use, but what about home computing? Let’s take a look! Continue reading “Azulle Byte4: Tiny PCs are so much fun!”
I honestly don’t have the words to describe the TOUGHBOOK 33. This is obviously not a consumer focused device. Spending some time with this slate PC, there’s a LOT here I wish we could get on more mainstream laptops and tablets.
Industrial practicality still has a place in the consumer conversation.
Let’s chat ToughBook! Continue reading “Panasonic Toughbook 33: A Brutal Windows Tablet PC!”
Getting “work” done means different things to different professionals.
For content creators, there are certain features that really help improve your production quality. It’s not just one CPU benchmark or the best battery life, a mobile workstation is a different product than a consumer focused machine.
Does the Creator 15 live up to its name? Let’s take this PC for a spin! Continue reading “MSI Creator 15 Review: THE laptop for content creators?”
I’ve been blasting it all over social media. While I’m trying to keep my expectations in check, I’m really looking forward to Microsoft’s announcements tomorrow, where the company is expected to take the wraps off of a new Surface Pro, and where we fans of Windows powered phones will finally get some new flagship devices.
Specs have already leaked for the forthcoming Lumia 950 and 950XL, and from a hardware perspective they look like they’ll be competitive handsets with some novel new tech features.
Most interesting to me, will be how this Lumia team has refined the camera experience. It was the old Nokia devices group that ushered in an era of crazy high quality optics and larger sensors on our phones. Nokia was years ahead of the curve there, but manufacturers like LG and Samsung have largely caught up to older devices like the Lumia 1520 and 930 (which I’ve brought along to help cover this event).
For my money, the camera battle between the Lumia 950 and the LG V10 is shaping up to be the most brutal as LG is working on improving their audio, and providing manual controls for shooting video, both areas where older Windows Phones still compete really well.
I’m also very curious to see how Microsoft will address mobile security. More Android devices are following behind the iPhone in offering up a smooth fingerprint scanning solution for unlocking phones and initiating mobile payments. The rumors on the 950 don’t show a fingerprint scanner on board, but instead the Lumia will be offering up an iris scanner. While other phones have flirted with using the front camera to unlock a device based on your face, we haven’t yet heard of anything as sophisticated as examining the iris of your eye. Whether this will be used solely for unlocking the device, or if we’ll see it utilized for some form of mobile payments will be closely examined.
And of course, I’m always going to be interested in seeing what Microsoft does with the Surface. As this division has become a billion dollar brand all by itself, the Pro 3 was a very well received product. Will the Pro 4 be a spec bump and minor refinement, or does Microsoft have something craftier up their sleeves?
I’ve only been on the ground here in NYC for about an hour, and we’ll be getting the official answer to all of those questions tomorrow morning! Now I’ve got to hunt down a good slice of pizza!