Posts Tagged ‘laptop’
December 2022
Pupdate We finally got the sizing figured out to order the boys some Equafleece Dachsie Jumpers, which have them looking smart and keeping warm: Up North When I grew up in the North East of England everybody I knew lived at the coast. But over time, friends and family have moved on, which meant my […]
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Tags: award, Beat Saber, IoTSF, laptop, lenovo, North East, pupdate, snow, solar, X13
TL;DR Anybody wanting a high spec laptop that isn’t from Apple is probably getting a low end model with small RAM and HDD and upgrading themselves to big RAM and SSD. This skews the sales data, so the OEMs see a market where nobody buys big RAM and SSD, from which they incorrectly infer that nobody […]
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Tags: apple, Chromebook, data, Intel, laptop, lenovo, MacBook, OODA, RAM, ssd
TL;DR Apple and Google have both launched laptops in the past few days that are both amazing and seriously flawed. If only somebody could make a machine that has the best of both worlds. MacBook The leaks were pretty much spot on, so in the end the new MacBook brought few surprises. I really want […]
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Tags: apple, Canonical, Chromebook, ChromeOS, google, laptop, MacBook, Pixel, Pixel2, Ubuntu, USB-C
HP 650 Business Laptop – review
Since the screen failed on my wife’s Lenovo s10e netbook (and I turned it into a TV attached media player) she’s been using my old s10e, but that’s been on its last legs for a while too. The time had come for something new, with a full sized keyboard and screen. I’ve been looking around […]
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Tags: 650, business, EFI, HP, laptop, review, ssd, Start8, UEFI, WEI
What’s going on in laptop land?
Prices are up – way up. I’d love to get some better metrics, but for now I’ll just go on a few specific data points from observations over the last couple of months. When I was deciding whether or not to get a Chromebook after Christmas I could have picked up a white AMD (E-1200) […]
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Tags: AMD, Chromebook, Intel, laptop, pricing, rises, Windows
An enterprise Ultrabook
I’ve recently had a couple of laptops on loan that have got me thinking about what the perfect enterprise laptop might feature. Business – Lenovo X220 I was loaned this to try out a super secret new security product. Regular readers here will know that I have a fondness for Lenovo laptops, and this is […]
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Tags: business, consumer, corporate, displayport, docking, dual screen, enterprise, laptop, network, smartcard, Thunderbolt, ultrabook, Wide Eye, WiDi
Three screens
I’ve had a run of bad luck with screens recently.. Laptop The first casualty was my son’s X121e. He brought it home from school one evening saying ‘the screen on my laptop is broken … I didn’t drop it’. My response was of course ‘why are you telling me you didn’t drop it’, and ‘what […]
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Tags: Blade, fixing, iPad, IPad 2, laptop, LCD, lenovo, Orange San Francisco, phone, repair, screen, smartphone, Touch, X121, x121e, ZTE
For many years I ran a desktop PC in my home office, and it was always on in order to provide various services to other machines scattered around the house. The one good thing about this arrangement was that the room was always warm in winter. After getting my NAS and Microserver I started paying […]
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Tags: always on, cool, desktop, docking, dual, energy, green, heat, laptop, Microserver, NAS, PC, quiet, quieter, screen, sleep, tablet, Thunderbolt, Ultrabase
No laptop, will travel
I’ve just returned from my third trip without a laptop – the longest so far, with a whole week in the US. Mostly this has worked out very well. Power to weight ratio Just like with fast cars/bikes, this is the key to success. I’m finding that the iPad 2 can make it through a […]
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Tags: bluetooth, Galaxy Tab, iPad, keyboard, laptop, tablet, travel
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