Category: Toys & Technology

2026 was about the right time for me to replace my 6 year old gaming laptop, the Aero 15 X9 that I purchased in April 2020 during the early days of Covid. Aside from the fact that the Aero 15

It’s the final post of this 2025 year, and again an accounting of all the toys and gadgets I’ve picked up this year – the purchases that turned out fantastic, the misses, and everything else that fell in between! I

The Asus Zenbook S13 OLED has been a marvelous travel-friendly laptop that has accompanied me on several trips out of the country now. It has great build quality, the now very mandatory OLED display in all my laptops, a compact

The Asus Zenbook S13 I picked up a year ago is a well-built, extremely light ultraportable that I’ve been using largely as a travel laptop. The OLED screen is beautiful, the laptop is quick even when performing tasks, is just

All things said, finding a replacement for the Lenovo Slim 7 Pro was a much easier endeavor than replacing the wife’s HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 laptop. The HP Pavilion still works fine for the most part, except that the

I’ve had the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro for just over three years now, and the machine has served me relatively well over this period: it has a gorgeous OLED screen, a very well-built and sturdy chassis, and also a

Our last post of 2024! A check on our blog here shows that I’ve been writing these annual year-end tech summary posts for the last 15 years now since 2008, and it’s interesting to see the kind of gadgets and

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the VR gear I’ve owned for the last ten years now: and they included the Samsung Gear VR, and Oculus/Meta Quests 1 and 2. These devices weren’t comfortable to wear for long sessions, battery

The acquisition for a replacement travel laptop has been long in gestation: as in the Dell XPS 13 9380 refurbished laptop I picked up from the Dell factory outlet store four years ago have been barely keeping up in 2023

One of the long running jokes we have at home is the missus’ string of bad luck when it comes to my birthday presents. She’s gotten me a number of tech toys over these many years, including smartwatches and tablets.