Category: Laptop
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To Upgrade Or Not to Upgrade
If you had told a fifteen-year-old me that in adulthood I would be using exclusively laptops, having eschewed the expandability of desktops for the convenience and portability of the smaller (but at the time prohibitively expensive) form factor, I would probably have laughed at you. Of course, had you told me then that I would…
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Surface Laptop 3: A new chapter
It was almost eight years ago to the day that I walked into the Microsoft Store in Toronto to purchase the very first Microsoft Surface Pro sold in the world. There was a huge midnight event planned so that on the day of the release – February 9, 2013 – anyone lined up at the…
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Why You Need a Personal Computer If You Have A Corporate Computer
Last week without paying attention I scheduled this article to publish Monday morning, not realizing that in North America we would be celebrating Labour Day. Almost none of my readers were in the office, and many (including myself) were relaxing by a beach somewhere. As I expect the article was largely overlooked in lieu of late…
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Surface Pro 3: Two weeks later
Are there problems with it? Yes. Do I absolutely love it? I love my kids and my dogs… but I suppose I do like it as much as I have ever liked a laptop or tablet… and I have had quite a few of them over the years! What are the problems? There is really only…
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Surface Pro 3 and Windows 8: Not everybody’s cup of tea
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… I do like my Surface Pro 3. With that being said, I know everyone has different tastes, and some people are not going to like it. A couple of months ago my sister, a long time Mac user (and Apple Fanboi) told me that her new…
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What’s in My … Messenger Bag?
As I have written previously I recently picked up a Microsoft Surface Pro 3, and despite a couple of minor annoyances it truly is a wonderful device. Because I have not been traveling as much as I did over the past few years, I have taken the opportunity to downsize my carry-load. My sister called…
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Battery Up: Windows 8.1 on the Surface Pro 2
I have already bragged about the Surface Pro 2, and I still love it and that has not changed. It took a lot for it to supplant my Lenovo X1 Carbon as my primary device (my original Surface Pro was always simply a companion device). The device rocks, simply put. One thing that I don’t…
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Mitch… Disconnected
So you are one of the world’s most hyper-connected individuals, known for having the Internet at your disposal 24/7. You are scheduled to work with a customer overseas on their connected system via live link, and you have dozens of other things that you usually do / plan to do / want to do during…
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Neither a Snob Nor an Elitist…
In response to a series of articles I wrote recently about my laptop bags (What IS your laptop bag) and about my luggage (The Price of Quality) I was recently called an elitist snob. “Mitch, it is fine that you want to spend hundreds of dollars on your laptop bags, but in all fairness you…
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What IS your Laptop Bag?
**NOTE: The links in this article have been fixed. -M I have been in a bit of a ‘writing rut’ of late and I am sorry for that. This week I sat down and decided to write something… anything. While I am working on a few technical issues these days none of them are very…
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How Surface changed my thinking… and helped my shoulder
I travel heavy. When going through airport security it is not uncommon for me to pull three or four laptops out of two laptop bags. In addition to that I will have external hard drives, a plethora of cables, and all sorts of other junk. It has resulted in very strong – albeit often aching…
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Office 365–Complex or Options?
Last week Microsoft officially launched its cloud-based infrastructure offering, Office 365. As a virtual insider I have been using this solution for the past six months for my IT consulting firm, and frankly had forgotten that it was a beta offering. That is because while the packaging may be new, all of the applications –…
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Mitch Visits One Police Plaza
A couple of weeks ago one attendee was a detective with the NYPD, and he offered to take me behind the scenes at One Police Plaza so that I could take a look at a few of the units that use information technology (IT) for a lot more than just paperwork and filing. I had…
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Troubleshooting MDT Scripts
I have a Windows 7 Deployment Point DVD that I created using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 for a client, and it has been a godsend during the past ten days. Because the client wants to make copies to send to their remote locations around the country, I spent a couple of hours scripting as…
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Laptops and laptops!
Many of you have pinged me in the last few days to tell me you are still waiting to read a review of my new laptop… the HP Envy 14 (Beats Edition). and let me tell you, it is one kick-arse machine! The review has been somewhat delayed due to a couple of professional obligations…
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