Nighttime Adventures with the iPhone 14 Pro Fall fun in the Windy City In this adventure: Still trying to keep it different Great. A Broken Down Coach… Cathay Pacific Lounge, Heathrow Terminal 3 AA99 London Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare (Main Cabin Extra) Avid Hotel, Chicago O’Hare Hyatt Regency O’Hare Airplane Art from the Hyatt Regency O’Hare … [Read more...]
Travel Technology – Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 – Evolution of a classic?
Time for some more Travel Technology that has fallen in my lap - this time, the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4. I have been daily driving a Surface Laptop for just under two years, so to say I have got more than a healthy interest in how the line has progressed - and is it still one of the best PC experiences going? Surface Laptop? The Surface laptop is a mid to high-level … [Read more...]
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Skullcandy Dime Wireless Earbuds – Does More Equal Better?
Time for some more Travel Technology - this time focusing on the SkullCandy Dime Wireless Earbuds. And we’ll ask an important question - does spending £5 extra on branded earbuds make a big difference? So, splashing out the cash then. What can I say? Airport pricing at work again when it comes to buying stuff in a pinch. But it does show little you have to pay for … [Read more...]
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Apple MacBook Pro 14 Review – Power, at a Price
Time for a Travel Technology review I was hoping to put off for a long time, but alas, a laptop going out of service has forced my hand. Welcome to my review of the Apple MacBook Pro 14 (2021), based on Apple’s M1 Pro Processor. This has been a bit more of a long-term review, as I have had this unit for six months and reflects a lot more of living with the device, … [Read more...]
(Awful) TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY – Vido Sound Wireless Headphones
Time for some (Awful) Travel Technology - featuring the Vido Sound Wireless Headphones with a microphone. Wait. You've pre-judged the review saying they're awful... That's because they are. I've listed to cheaper headphones that make these sound like mud in an echo chamber, with a storm constantly raining through it. Just don't buy these - no matter how rushed or … [Read more...]
Moving to Apple Silicon – The Apple M1 Pro – Migrating off to a new world
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...]
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: The Dell 5420 – Cheapness over Mediocrity?
Welcome back to Travel Technology, this time focusing on Dell’s Business Laptop - the Latitude 5420. We’ll dive straight into a comment from a friend that may have shaped this review. What was that comment? “Wow. That feels so cheap”. Compared to Dell 5410 and 5400, are they far from the truth, or has Dell cheaped out on their “performance” line of laptops or have … [Read more...]
Travel Technology – Dell Precision 7760 – Big Workstation Power, but the right choice for everyone?
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...]
Google sticks it to legacy G-Suite/Google Workspace “Free” users – Pay up or get out
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...]
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5i Chromebook – What are the compromises moving to ChromeOS?
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...]
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