Introduction This laptop was released in June of 2021. As of now, it’s almost 2 full years old. This is a review that if you were to find one used… is it good? The short answer is yes, but mainly for gaming. The GPU can game reasonably at 1080p at medium to high settings without…
Month: April 2023
Review: MSi G281UV
This is a 28″ monitor that I have not seen reviewed anywhere except Amazon. So, I want to give it sort of a full review. The Specs 28″ IPS Panel4K (3840 x 2160) Resolution60 Hz/4 ms GtG Response RateVESA HDR 400 Certified300 Nits (Standard)/4000 Nits (HDR)1x Display Port1x HDMI PortContrast Ratio 1000:1Dynamic Contrast Range 100000000:1Adobe…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part III: The Experience
Where to start? I guess in comparison to my iMac, it hasn’t been really any different. For the first couple of weeks, I haven’t really done anything extraordinary on the Mac mini. I have been doing menial tasks, some benchmarking, but no video editing nor photo editing. These may or may not change the experience….
Are the New Macbook Pros better than Windows PCs?
I left two comments today that I hope they address: My older, slower RTX 3060 laptop got an Open CL score of 81694 in Geekbench 6. So, I am not sure why this one is so much slower. You are showing in the capture I am looking at OpenCL vs Metal. So, that is wrong….
Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks (Supplemental)
So, I decided to benchmark my laptop as well because it has nVidia RTX mobile graphics but has a much weaker 10th Gen Core i5 CPU. I am just going to put the graphs up. I think you can see that the RTX mobile graphics has higher computational scores than my desktop AMD GPU and…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks
I came from an 27″ Intel Core i9-9900k. The 9900k in the iMac was gimped to begin with due to lack of appropriate thermal solution. However, it was a fast chip. Compared to other iMacs, at least. Compare an iMac to a PC built around a 9900k and there is a big difference. So, Apple…
Switching to Apple Silicon Part I: The Setup
Hi my dear readers. I am going to do a two part series on my move to Apple Silicon. I have resisted to this point but the falling resale values of Intel Macs has made me re-think my strategy with Apple Macs going forward. I decided to go with a Mac mini setup because I…




