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Avita Pura NS14A6

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

Due to some equipment reshuffles, I found myself needing another Windows laptop, and one thing and another led me to HSN’s special price of $350 for an unknown “Avita Pura” 14 inch machine. Obviously, given the venue and the price, this is aimed at non-technical buyers, probably as a computer for kids, but I am…

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Surface? Go!

Posted on March 8, 2020March 10, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

The Surface Pro 3 I bought in December is working well, but the specific SKU I own is limited mainly by the 4GB non-expandable RAM. As I stated in my original post, I was using it as a low-investment test of how practical this form factor is as a primary mobile computing device, and I’ve…

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Surface Pro 3 with Type Cover

The Surface Pro 3 in 2020

Posted on January 3, 2020January 4, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

My travel kit until recently has been a 13″ MacBook Pro (work computer), a ThinkPad T460S UltraBook running Ubuntu (personal computer, mainly used for email and also running Quicken inside VirtualBox), and a 5th-generation iPad (an unwise impulse purchase used primarily for watching movies inflight). Naturally, all the chargers and various other cables and so…

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10W solar array

Of Solar Charging and Range Anxiety

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Lewin Edwards

Whenever I’m traveling, particularly outside the US, I have range anxiety on my cellphone. Not only is it my communications (and my important poster-of-pictures-of-food-and-cocktails), it’s more importantly my navigation and often the way I summon transportation. In some countries, I can ask my way using schoolboy French or German, but my travels necessarily direct me…

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