Moving to Apple Silicon - The Apple M1 Pro  In this series Migrating off to M1 Land The Economy Class and Beyond M1 Macbook Pro 14 Review Day to day life with the M1 A new, if a familiar world Welcome to a new adventure - where I start to get used to life with Apple Silicon. This is a bit more rambling than definitive - but it’s my personal experience from … [Read more...]

This is a quick review, as it came into the labs, and headed straight out to someone. Today we have what I understand to be an “absolute unit” - the Dell Precision 7760. But who needs this sort of power? Or is this sort of power right for you? Into the specifications First up is the specifications list Intel® Core™ i7-11850H “Tiger Lake” 8 core, 16 thread, … [Read more...]

For those who are very small users of G-Suite who signed up for a "free" platform before 2012 - there's some very bad news coming, with Google planning to discontinue the product. Of course, at the time of writing, no Google Workspace administrator has been informed of this, rather it's slipped out via a support document. The free G-Suite allowed for free "Google … [Read more...]

Most of my IT interactions so far have been with either Microsoft Windows, Apple’s macOS or some sort of Linux distribution (most recently Manjaro, but sometimes Ubuntu).  But a few discussions I’ve had with people have made me cast my eye away at Google Chrome and their Chromebook range. It’s been some years since the first Chromebook came out - and with the product line at … [Read more...]

We know there’s an electronics shortage out there. But there are some electronic bits and bobs that are out there and could be fun to put in a stocking. Or in a wrapped present. Or wherever you want to put them (but ensure you get consent first). Could one of these be under your tree? Most of these gifts are under $/£50 and at most $/£100. I’ll try and give a couple of … [Read more...]

Time for some travel technology you can use on the move, as I look at Shells.com and ponder the uses of a Desktop-As-A-Service product. Desktop-As-A-What? Desktop-As-A-Service has been around for years. Some of you might know them better as virtualised desktops. The idea is that all the processing is done in the datacentre, as opposed to your host device. This has some … [Read more...]

Travel Technology - Apple HomePod Mini Time for some more Travel Technology - this week, looking at Apple's minuture speaker - The HomePod Mini. Is it worth the asking price just to play music and ask it to find where your phone is, or is there a lot more to this speaker? What is it?  Apple’s HomePod Mini is a miniaturized version of their HomePod. It was released in … [Read more...]