Posts tagged with Hardware
Personal Computers as a Niche
I’m typing this post from a new MacBook Pro 13”, recently upgraded from my aging behemoth of a laptop, a discontinued 17” MacBook Pro that has eschewed retina screens and portable form factors for half a decade. The new…
The Difficulty of Approaching Transportation from a Purely Technological Angle
Apple, after laying off and restructuring its secret self-driving car team, is still in the game, albeit sounding more as a partnership with existing car companies. Google spun out its own self-driving car initiative into Waymo, and is…
The Demise of Lyve
Guess I called it. I just got the email last week that Lyve is shutting down. It started as a somewhat unique proposition around owning your own storage and interface around photos, which eventually had to be sold to a…
Building a PC in 2016
So I finally got all my parts to construct my PC after receiving the monitor a couple of weeks back. I’ve built PCs for upwards of 15 years now, and every time it’s been a little easier, a…
The Majesty of an Ultra-Wide Monitor
Recently, I decided to build a new gaming PC. The one that I have is a few years old, but I’ve kept its innards up-to-date with periodic, minor hardware upgrades. Modularity has been cool for a long…
Small Screens for Reading, Large Screens for Immersion
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is happening right now in Vegas, and I spent a few minutes today looking at all the latest hardware and gadgetry developments which are supposed to define consumer technology in 2016. There look to be…
