Windows 11 Incoming

So! Windows 11 is coming whether people like it, need it or not — and there’s still much we do not know about Microsoft’s operating system that will be taking the mantle from Windows 10, the world’s most popular computer OS right now. After taking a few questions about it from friends and colleagues I did a quick search and found out that there’s not a single FAQ in all of Medium.com about Windows 11, so I decided to publish one.

Here it is. The whole point of it is being concise, so one can quickly find the answer to…

The State of TV 2021

With 8K still not quite ready for mainstream adoption and out of reach for many consumers, Sony keeps its focus on 4K mid-range and hi-end models — rightly so, in fact, as it seems that there’s still room for improvement over what’s on offer by the Japanese company and others up until now. What’s more, in the LED/LCD category Sony chose not to try its hand at MiniLED this year, relying on tried and true local dimming or traditional backlighting tech for all of the new non-OLED Bravias instead. …

Better Late Than Even Later

It’s no secret that the PlayStation5 lacked a few key features when it launched worldwide last November, but it was one in particular that gamers have been complaining about the most: the option to expand its storage space. Sure, PS4 games can always be played directly off an external HDD or SSD, but PS5 games can only be installed in the system’s internal SSD which offers “just” around 650 GB. It was OK at first — there were not too many PS5 games that required a lot of storage space — but as months went by it became clear that…

Rules of Engagement

Now, this is a kind of piece I never thought I’d write, but it’s just too hilarious a situation not to share and too good an opportunity to not make the most of, so here we are. I’ve been testing iPadOS 15 on an iPad Pro 2020 and comparing notes with a former colleague working as a QA manager now and an acquaintance of his that is a coder. Both are irredeemable Apple fanboys that rarely ever admit that the Cupertino giant can make mistakes or questionable choices, but we can usually agree to disagree in a civilized manner.

Well…

The Future Is Here… Sort Of

Seemingly out of nowhere — rumors about a “cloud version of Windows” were all over the Web last summer but hadn’t resurfaced since — Microsoft unveiled a different future direction for modern computing. As all things “futuristic” in computing these days it has to do with “the cloud”, not just with data and storage though: Windows 365 is a virtualized but complete operating system, a networked version of Windows 10 that will be available to use starting August 2. …

But Can It Run Crysis For An Hour?

There are people who believe in coincidences and people who don’t but… come on: mere days after Nintendo unveiled the rather underwhelming OLED Switch, which is nice but definitely not a game-changer in any sense of the word, Valve unveils a handheld gaming system that, well, is. The rumored “Steam Pal” is real, it’s called the Steam Deck and it’s a full, custom-designed PC that Valve put together with the help of AMD. It features a 4-core Zen2 architecture CPU running at up to 3.5 GHz, an 8-core RDNA2 architecture GPU, 16 GB of RAM and either eMMC or NVME…

Mini Upgrades, Lineup Trouble

Funny thing about Apple product rumors: if they seem to persist, then they are probably true. So… regarding the iPad Mini — Apple’s smallest but most affordable tablet — rumors that started circulating last year, resurfaced in February, then came back for another round in late May, suggest all we have to do now is wait until they prove to be true? That’s the case according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, anyway, who recently mentioned in a report that a new iPad Mini is scheduled for release before the end of the year.

Apple has not updated the iPad Mini since…

The Shape of Things to Come?

You just know when a company has something to boast about when it releases numbers for things it used not to — and that is exactly what’s happening with Disney and Black Widow: the House of Mouse reported on the opening weekend of the Marvel Studios movie as it always does but, this time, included its streaming service, Disney Plus, in the announced figures. …