MSI Creator 15 Review: THE laptop for content creators?

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.
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Intel Ghost Canyon NUC: Building the BIG BOY NUC!

It’s a larger box than I thought it would be, but it’s also a powerful performer!

What if we took the guts of a high end workstation or gaming laptop, and crammed them into a small desktop case? Ghost Canyon looks like it’ll be a monster, but building it was a little trickier that I was expecting…

I’m gonna call him “Ghosty”!
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An Ode to My Precious FrankenBuild PC

I’ve been building my own workstations for years, and changing from one build to the next is always exciting and a little bit sad. I’m nearing the end of my current PC’s life, and it’ll be time to move on to the next new hotness soon.

Thankfully the Ninjas at Newegg helped me put together this memorial to my beloved Hera, the FrankenBuild. Schniff… The feels man… The feels…

Lenovo Announces New Multi-Mode Thinkpad Mobile Workstations: P40 Yoga and P50

The Thinkpad name has a reputation for business grade computing solutions. Tough build quality and solid tech guts. Lenovo took the wraps off of their newest mobile solutions at the Autodesk University Conference in Vegas, announcing a new Yoga and the Thinkpad P50.

Thinkpad P40 Yoga

Lenovo ThinkPad P40 Yoga_8 Onscreen

There are a couple different lines of Yoga between tablets and consumer laptops, but the Thinkpad variant looks like it’ll be a flexible beast with Milspec build ruggedness for travelers and a locking keyboard for when the Yoga is in tablet mode. Continue reading “Lenovo Announces New Multi-Mode Thinkpad Mobile Workstations: P40 Yoga and P50”

Review: Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 Tiny PC & Tiny-in-One 23 Monitor Dock

Lenovo is building out a line of small form factor PC’s under the “THINK” branding. The hardware certainly has a business-grade focus, and can be paired with an excellent monitor dock. Is the M83 a good fit for personal use too? Let’s take a look!

Shop the M83 Tiny on Amazon.
More info on the M83 Tiny.

Build Your Own PC! SomeGadgetGuy’s New Video Editing Workstation for 2015!

It was time folks. My old rig was originally designed to edit audio, and moving into UHD and 60 FPS HD video, she just couldn’t keep up anymore. Say hello to my new video editing workstation. Freshly built and ready to destroy my future reviews!

The challenge was to build a tower with an OS for less than the price of a mid-range iMac (as I will be recycling my displays, speakers, keyboard, and mouse). How’d I do? Let’s take a look!

Full parts list below:
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