Changes...
This is now the fourth year of listing my favourite personal tech. A few changes, a few things have stayed the same. Looking back, overall it s been a good tech year for me. 1) Steam Deck OLED (2023) Once again, the Steam Deck takes top spot for my favourite tech of the year. SteamOS continues
My only personal Apple purchase in 2025 was an iPad Mini 7 that I bought in May. It is the only “computer” I took with me on our European trip. It was small, but it did everything I asked of it with ease. I loved the 6th-gen iPad Mini. The 7th gen is identical, and
Building on my iPad rethink, I’d like to come back to the 11” iPad Pro that I bought last year. A year into owning it, I am using and enjoying it even more than I did when it was new. This is not often the case with technology, which often diminishes over time. (Feels slower,
Last year I relinquished my home Mac in favour of an 11” iPad Pro. I use macOS all day at work, our main home server is an M2 MacBook Pro, but since Apple Silicon I’ve also kept a MacBook Air for doing personal things such as researching new vehicles, dealing with government forms, banking, etc.
Back in June I bought a now-ancient 2017 12” MacBook. This is the thinnest and lightest full-size laptop that I am aware of. It has the infamously bad butterfly keyboard, it has one whole USB-C port, it was slow when it was new, but hold on: I still love it and use it regularly in
Last year I found that Apple’s AirPods line of products were giving me vertigo. I tried many alternatives before settling on a workable set. It’s coming up on a year and there have been a few refinements along the way, so here is where things sit at the end of the summer of 2025. House
In deciding to give up on my Apple Watch 6 I ended up on a deep dive into Garmin s offerings. The dust is finally settled, and it has settled on two. The Instinct 2, which I use as a backup watch or for when I know I will be doing something that may damage it,
I think if you do something three years in a row, it s a tradition. So, here it is, my third annual wrap-up of what tech has delighted me the most over the past year. This isn t necessarily just what is new, rather, what I have liked using the most over the past year. I didn’t
Armed with the knowledge of what I like and don t like in a smart watch, I took a look at what is out there on the market. To recap, my top priorities were: a smartwatch that looked OK, had the best battery life possible for the least amount of money from a brand that I
These 2018 earbuds opened at $325USD when they were new. I have purchased two pairs from Amazon with Prime in November 2024 for about $90CDN. This context is important, as these are not some new hot thing, and much has changed in the intervening 6 years since these were originally released. I am going to