Recent content by abrichman

Funny, I just went through this today. Freda on my laptop seems nice but pulled down Light Reader on my 950XL and it's a pretty intuitive reader, for that form factor at least. My use case includes Mobi/ePub books now. Had always enjoyed the Kindle reader prior to that need.

It's funny, I had been more and more quietly troubled by how my (since release day) dual-sim 950 XL was rebooting for no reason and more and more often. Then in some random fits of clutziness, I dropped it twice on tile floor from about ear level. Happened about 30 minutes apart. Each time I...

I am extremely interested in the XPS 13 9370 with the i7 @ 16GB with the 1920x1080 vs. the 4k display (strictly for battery savings). I only see the i5 @ 4GB/8GB as an HD offering at this time. Does anyone know if Dell normally offers more configurability over time for things like this or if I...

That is the essence of virtualization. Issue is that there are one of at least two issue as I mention above.

Not sure this moves the meter. Say they were to convince VMware to write a port to Android so they could run a Windows Mobile hypervisor, think the issue gets worse than it is today. Not only are you fighting the "no apps" argument (if your interest is to supplant the host), now you are a Type...

I am with it until my 950XL dies. I won't help it along to that end and I won't likely buy a replacement for it either. I find iOS frustrating and often irritating to use and have an iPhone 6S as a co-phone (needed for work). Given the 6S and 950XL side by side, I nearly always pick the 950...

Derylmccarty, you are a fair bit younger than her but I am not sure you should take offense. It's a generational thing. As you are far more aware than me, there weren't the amount of resources to offer reviews in the 70s and 80s (when I became aware of CR) outside of CR. And for microwaves, tvs...

I have long felt that CR was something more for my mother's age group than my own (e.g. the AARP and up crowd more than the Gen-X and younger). When researching my last three laptop/2-in-1 purchases (dating back to 2010), I never once even thought to look at CR results because they seem so...

I am intrigued. I had resigned myself to replace my SP2 by EoY with whatever me SP came out. Then the x360 Spectre 13 came out... Then the Surface Laptop... Now this new SP... I am very conflicted. It will likely come down to real world battery testing and if two Surface products both hit their...

I was assuming that running UWP apps run much more efficiently (battery usage) than 32-bit apps. If you ran the same (store) apps on both, I'd think they'd be more or less of equal efficiency. As to the note on manufacturer claims, I think it's just the reality that you cannot say "how long...

To me, this is an ideal ultra mobile developer rig conceptually once you upgrade to Windows 10 Pro provided you don't need much in the way of virtualization. And even if you do need a hypervisor, I run a single VM guest on an SP2 (core i5/8/256) and only have to watch out for memory use...

Cute or affirmation that folks actually like this machine quite a bit despite the teeth-gnashing about USB Type C and non convertibility?

I have really enjoyed my SP2 as my throw-in-the bag device but it's aging. At this point, without the power assist from the powered keyboard (which pushes me over 3lbs), I am battery constrained to about 2.5 hours. That's ok for having a quick meeting or watching an 30 minute episode on...

I always try have two devices, a desktop or now days, larger laptop; and a smaller more portable one. I find that when I work on my primary machine (and either one could be primary for a lot of tasks), the other is plays the role of email, music, quick research checks, etc... This secondary...

OneWindows, I have basically the same question with my interest in what will be edge-bleeding in 2-3 years. If you are just running up to a single VM and nothing compute intensive, I'd think you would be absolutely fine with a 7th gen i7 CPU with 16GB RAM. I run one hypervisor/guest at a...