HP Pavilion 15 p257TX
The wife was musing that she never gets her own new laptop at home. Oh, her workplace provides her a Fujitsu laptop, but it’s a pretty clunky machine that she doesn’t seem to like bringing to and fro work and
Tag: Laptops
A Week (or so) Later: SP3 vs XPS13
My follow-up post to the SP3 and XPS13 after having put both through two and one weeks of respective use. My initial intentions for both devices were to leave the SP3 at home and for the XPS13 to be the
Dell XPS 13 (2015)
The Dell XPS 13 (2015) finally arrived yesterday afternoon – 2 days after the initial projected delivery date. I’m not absolutely certain of the reason for the delay in assembly, but from what I’m reading on online forums about others
Accessorizing the Notebooks
It seems that my new Dell XPS 13 (2015) will take longer to get delivered now. Several days ago, the online status of the unit inexplicably changed backwards from “Work in Progress” to “Order Received” – the latter state of
Microsoft Surface Pro 3
The Microsoft Surface Pro 3 arrived at our door-step WEDS yesterday evening. Pretty quick. The Microsoft point of distribution was in Shenzhen China. The order was placed on Sunday evening, processed the following afternoon by DHL, picked-up by the courier
First Gadgets of 2015 – Part 2
It wasn’t easy deciding on my MacBook Pro Retina replacement, on account that no matter what I might think of the general reliability of their MBPs, they do produce lovely machines (externally at least), decent specifications, and as an educator,
First Gadgets of 2015 – Part 1
As (bad) luck would have it, barely two days after writing my year-end notes of 2014, the MacBook Pro Retina – my daily-use computer at work – started failing spectacularly. The machine is just a shade under 2.5 years old,
MacBook Pro Retina
The MacBook Pro Retina (rMBP) arrived on Tuesday afternoon, about 8 days after placing an order for it. The notebook configuration I chose wasn’t the base configuration. Given that the new series of rMBPs can’t be user-upgraded later after it
Fruit Parcels
One thing that Apple prides itself is in its product packaging, so much so that the iconic boxes that are used to pack its iPhone even features in the current lawsuit they’ve piled on Samsung. One change that has issued
Will I Believe…? Part 3
Well, I’ve already posted about niggling annoyances with my new MacBook. So, to balance things up a bit, here’s part 3 of my series of posts on whether I’m falling in with the crowd of Apple Faithful – or not
Will I Believe…? Part 2
Day 2 of using the MacBook. I spent all of last night installing my productivity software and also Vista Ultimate on a Boot Camp partition. And the little irritating nuances are already showing. The first couple of applications I installed
Will I Believe…? Part 1
The MacBook arrived by DHL Express late yesterday afternoon. I’d placed the order on late Thurs night, and the unit had taken a day to bounce from Apple’s warehouse to DHL’s one, and then finally arriving at the latter’s delivery
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