Too many hobbies, not enough focus
I've had my M1 MacBook Air for over four months now and so far my experience has been pretty good. I spend a good deal of my time surfing the web and the Air is perfectly awesome in that regard. When I'm not surfing the web I'm using Lightroom Classic to process and edit my …
New Hampshire opened Covid vaccinations to people over 30 on Wednesday March 31st. Sally and I stayed up until midnight to make sure we got an appointment as early as we could. Vaccines had opened to people 40+ two days earlier and slots were filling quickly. We successfully booked appointments at our local C&J bus …
Has hit the Taylor household. It all started a few weeks ago when Zach decided to spend some of the iTunes gift card he got for Christmas. He generally plays free-to-play games but we thought it would be nice if he had some cash to purchase a real game. Turns out "real games" are hard …
During my Retro Gaming Handheld review I mentioned that Nintendo emulation has been around for a long time and even worked on my Classic Macs. By "Classic" I meant Macs that could run Mac OS Classic, such as my Tangerine iBook from 1999. I wanted to verify my statement so I pulled out the Tangerine, …
My museum is mostly focused on Apple-related items, but it's ultimately about nostalgia. I do have a few non-Apple pieces like my collection of Intel and AMD CPUs, my large array of Palm Pilots, and even a few Windows PCs and peripherals. After a busy season acquiring phones and other items, I shifted to a …
The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh was released in June 1997 and was a radical departure from anything Apple had released before. My 24" iMac was released in September 2006 and includes much of the design direction introduced by the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. I compare the two in this video and discuss the lineage of these two …
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My MacBook Air M1 has arrived and these are my observations in the first few days. I'll publish some additional details later after I've spent more time with it. While the form factor is identical to the Intel model, it's new to me, so I'll be covering its size and feature set in addition to …
Apple released its first Macs based on its own processors only a few weeks ago. Reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, citing supreme performance and battery life as compared with Intel Macs. Performance and compatibility of non-native apps like Slack, Photoshop, Office, and others has been better than expected, running at similar speeds to apps on …
Apple announced plans to transition from Intel CPUs to its own series of CPUs, dubbed Apple Silicon, in June. The transition will occur over the next two years, and Apple announced the first machines today - the MacBook Air, Mac mini, and 13" MacBook Pro. This transition has been a long time coming as Apple's …
I've had my iPhone 12 Pro for a few weeks now so it's time to share my experience. I have a 12 Pro in Pacific Blue with 256 GB storage, which is the middle tier. I'm upgrading from a 256 GB iPhone X. As there are plenty of awesome reviews out there if you want …
