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Office Tour Fall 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023December 22, 2023 by Michael Molenda

I think my office has come a long way in the past couple of years and I can’t resist sharing with my readers. So here goes… Work Setup includes a MSi Vigor GK20 RGB keyboard and a MSi GM20 RGB Gaming Mouse (I have the same ones a my desk in the office. I brought…

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Review: MSi GF65 10UE-213 (2021) in 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

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…

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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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Learning Series: Anatomy of a Laptop

Posted on October 16, 2022July 3, 2023 by Michael Molenda

I am going to do a few of these as best I can to teach anyone how a PC or Mac works. Today, we are going to look at the anatomy of a laptop. More specifically, a gaming laptop. It can be normal purpose, but it has the ability to play high-end games. This is…

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Gaming Benchmarks

Posted on June 24, 2022July 3, 2023 by Michael Molenda

I am doing some comparisons between my laptop and my desktop. Let’s look at the basic specs of both. Desktop: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600X GPU: AMD Radeon RX5600XT RAM: 16GB 3000Mhz Corsair LPX Vengeance Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Pro B550 Storage: 256GB NVME drive (OS/Data); 1TB WD HDD (games); 2TB Seagate HDD (games) Laptop: Model: MSi…

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My New Windows Laptop

Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 by Michael Molenda

I was able to obtain this laptop. It is a fantastic laptop. It’s not from a recent series of laptops and the CPU is only a 4-Core i5 CPU (very similar to the one found in my MacBook Pro) So,here it is… MSi … I guess for PC parts, I am an MSi fanboy for…

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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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