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Seven Days With a Nexus 7
In February of last year, I purchased a Motorola Xoom Android tablet from Verizon the day they went on sale. Intended to serve as a travel machine for shorter trips – same days to Boston or New York,...
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Treadmill Desk Review: LifeSpan 1200DT / DT-5
(Yes, I have a giant mural of Fenway Park next to my desk) Tl;dr: I like the unit and recommend it, with the caveat that long form writing may be difficult. According to my Google Docs spreadsheet...
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Seven Days With a Chromebook Pixel
Tl;dr: I liked the Pixel, but don’t recommend it at the price. If I’m being honest, my first reaction to the news at Google I/O that we were getting a Pixel was apathy. Having been part of the...
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Thirty Days With a Fitbit Flex
tl;dr: I like the Fitbit Flex and recommend it. My order for the Fitbit Flex was originally placed in early March, a few days after I’d reviewed the Lifespan treadmill desk I’d gotten for the office....
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A Linux guy tries a Surface Pro 3. You won’t believe what happens next.
I’ve been a Linux guy for close to 15 years now. I started using it because the simulation software I needed only ran on Linux, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Even though the “year of the Linux...
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Why I’m Buying a Macbook: The Q&A
If you visited the Apple Store in Portland on Friday, you would have been greeted first by a uniformed security guard and then by twice as many Apple staffers as you might expect. Or they needed,...
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Seven Days With a Macbook
What follows is my review of the new 12″ Macbook after a week of use. The fact that I’ve had seven days with the 12″ Macbook is to Apple’s credit. Originally, Apple promised delivery between May 6 and...
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An Android User Goes Back to the iPhone
For the first time in almost six years, I’m a regular iPhone user again. As someone who’s used Android as a primary platform for both handsets and tablets for over five years, the obvious question is...
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Goodbye iOS, Hello Android
Apart from a battery that tends to die randomly and unpredictably once it’s south of a 38% charge, there’s nothing wrong with my iPhone 6S. While I’m hoping the Apple store will be able to do...
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A Week With an iPad Pro
There’s no good time for a laptop to die, but the night before a week’s worth of travel wouldn’t have been my first choice. But that was the scene last Sunday evening, when my 2015 MacBook crashed...
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