Mini reviews for things purchased last year. PC: Palit 5070Ti The 2070S was starting to show its age for gaming, but mostly this upgrade was triggered by not wanting to pay for Adobe Premiere any more. When I’d tried Resolve previously I’d had serious stability issues to the point of renders just failing which I… Read More »
I recently bought an Asus PX13 laptop to replace my Dell 9305 which died in circumstances we don’t need to get into. Let’s just say, I’m better at servicing desktops. This is, I believe, a now EOL model with a HX370 APU and 4060 GPU and 24GB. With the combination of the APU and the… Read More »
Last summer I picked up an Asus ROG Ally on sale for £450 to replace an ageing, and increasingly rattly, Switch 1. For clarity, this is the RC71L model, with the Z1E processor but not the nicer Ally-X, and not one of the newer Xbox branded models. I’ve upgraded it to a 2TB drive with… Read More »
I’ve been having another go at using Blackmagic Resolve Studio for editing my sessions, rather than Adobe Premiere Pro. I tried this a while ago with the free version, and did publish a video from the attempt, but ended up going back to Premiere which I found overall easier to use. But ended up buying… Read More »
For completely legitimate reasons other than “I was bored in Lockdown” I commited to an CPU & motherboard upgrade on my studio machine, previously an Intel i7-6700. I considered AMD, but stayed with Intel in the end. Mostly this was out of fear of PCI & USB stability issues, and slightly that I wanted to… Read More »
About eight years ago I decided to get a really nice colour accurate monitor for photography and bought a NEC Spectraview SV242W and an X-Rite i1Display Pro. It didn’t turn out to be very useful as at the time the software support was pretty poor. I never really got any sense out of the actual… Read More »