I was eagerly anticipating this trip to Mexico City for a lot of reasons, but one is to test my more mobile computing setup. And so far, it’s worked out nicely. You can see most of my current home setup in More Mobile: The New Setup (Premium), from late November. I wouldn’t bring this full…

We drove through the desert in a car with no name. We rode in a hot air balloon. We sailed down some canals. Yep. We’re in Mexico, and instead of our usual home swap, we’re spending two weeks checking out San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, and Mexico City. Here’s what we did, and what we…

As J.R.R. Tolkien observed of writing The Lord of the Rings, “this tale grew in the telling.” And so it went with this rundown of some of our many problems in Mexico. Originally, I had intended to discuss these topics in a section in a “What I Use: Mexico 2021” article that I’ll still post…

I’ve been evaluating laptops and other electronics for over 20 years, and it shouldn’t be surprising that I’ve continually updated my approach to writing reviews. I want them to be informative, of course, but also useful to potential buyers, and I take the responsibility of recommending---or not recommending---an expensive product like this very seriously. But…

Happy Friday! If you’re interested in kicking off the weekend a bit early, here’s a notably long episode of Ask Paul to pass the time. Windows in the cloud crunchyfrog asks: My main company laptop has been acting up so I resorted to using a personal device to get by and I tried something that…

At the end of every year, tech blogs lazily pump out “best of” lists culled from back-end site queries. And, yeah, we’ll get to that here soon enough. But in keeping with my description of the Xbox One S as “the perfect thing” four years ago, I’m wondering if we can advance the state of…

The HP Envy x360 13 hits the sweet spot on quality, performance, and price. It’s the best portable PC you can buy for under $1000.

The new Spectre x360 13 arrives in the smallest-possible premium chassis, offering a perfect blend of good looks, performance, and portability.

HP’s newest Spectre x360 13 brings forward its predecessor’s iconic design but in a much smaller package.

The HP Spectre Foldable PC is an innovative step forward for the PC industry, but its high price tag will keep it out of the hands of most customers.

Happy Friday! We've survived Día de Muertos here in Mexico City, so I can take a crack at some great reader questions and kick off the weekend. Laptop keyboards Markld asks: Recently it became apparent that I cannot type well on my laptop vs my cheapie desktop keyboard. This also applies to no matter what…

Hola from Mexico City, and Happy Friday! Here's another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. Windows 12? will asks: I was curious if the next version of Windows, Windows 12 or whatever it is called, will be more of something like we see with the Windows 11 23H2…

The second trip to visit our apartment in Mexico City this year got off to a bad start, with the electric company inexplicably having just previously shut down our power despite our having paid the bill, the shutdown ruining our water heater, repeated issues getting the new water heater working properly, a second family of…

Happy Friday! Let’s get the weekend off to an early start with another blockbuster round of reader questions. Our future AI overlords wright_is asks: With the increasing use of AI to recognise NCMEC [National Center for Missing & Exploited Children] and the increasing reliance on online services, there are some serious problems that are coming…