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Office Tour Mid-2023

Posted on June 28, 2023July 2, 2023 by Michael Molenda

This is the ultimate tour of my office. From office electronics to sports memorabilia. So, let’s just dive right in with an overview… (Cheat Sheet to the models and specs here – What I use.). This may be a bit self-serving or seen as something negative. Personal blogs can always been seen that way, but…

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Review: MSi G281UV

Posted on April 17, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

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…

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Switching to Apple Silicon Part III: The Experience

Posted on April 16, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

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….

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Are the New Macbook Pros better than Windows PCs?

Posted on April 11, 2023April 12, 2023 by Michael Molenda

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….

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Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks (Supplemental)

Posted on April 11, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

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…

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Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks

Posted on April 8, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

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…

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Switching to Apple Silicon Part I: The Setup

Posted on April 2, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

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…

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AT&T 5G isn’t Faster on my iPhone

Posted on September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 by Michael Molenda

Apple and AT&T have tried to make a big deal of 5G connectivity. I have found that 5G isn’t any faster than LTE where I live and work. It only hurts battery life. I have collected a couple of screenshots to try and prove my point. Let’s go over some results. The overall results… The…

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My History of Computers: Part IV – The Mac

Posted on April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 by Michael Molenda

I haven’t really bought a PC since prior to 2006 when I bought my first Mac. I previously thought it was a MacBook, but it was a MacMini. Only after the transition to Intel processors from the PowerPC line of processors because Intel was more powerful per watt. Here is that 2006 Mac mini in…

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What’s Your Naming Convention…

Posted on February 25, 2021August 3, 2022 by Michael Molenda

I finally had to break with my old naming convention for my devices… I had them named like the device. My iMac was i9-iMac. Boring. Descriptive, but boring. Named like a business would… Today, I unveil new names for all of my devices that I have control over the names, but names just the same……

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