I’ve been using the StarTech USB-C to Dual DisplayPort MST Hub since I received it, and I loathe to admit it’s slipped through my coverage cracks because it’s run flawlessly, hooked up to my OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock, running two 27″ monitors for months now. It’s nice to report back on a piece of tech […]
Archive for the ‘PC’ Category
StarTech USB-C To Dual DisplayPort MST Hub
Thursday, January 18th, 2018LG 38UC99-W UltraWide Curved Display Review
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017The concept of curved displays is not new. They made their debut in Cinema way back in the 1950s where they were touted as countering problems with distortion at the extreme edges of wide cinema video formats. They’ve since arrived in the consumer television market where, frankly, they’re just another non-feature to shift an endless […]
Intel Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK Review
Monday, June 26th, 2017I’ve left this review in limbo for over a month, unsure about whether it truly does the Skull Canyon NUC the justice it deserves. The platform is excellent, but can be so many things it’s difficult to give it the depth and breadth of testing I’d like during a short loan period. That said, it […]
Dell S2418H – 24″ HDMI/VGA “InfinityEdge” Monitor Review
Tuesday, June 20th, 2017With so many 4k, retina and ultra-high-resolution displays on the market, it’s easy to forget that there’s still a healthy demand for the humble 24″, 1080p monitor, which sits upon what I consider to be the intersection of price and quality and lends itself well to building multi-display setups on a budget. Prices for 24″ […]
Plugable USB Type-C DisplayLink Triple Display Dock
Saturday, June 10th, 2017My quest for docking nirvana has lead me to Plugable, specifically their USB Type-C Triple Display Dock with DisplayLink. Plugable are an approachable team of engineers who, in their own words, focus on better products, better information and better support. My interactions with them seem to confirm this. I’ve been watching and interacting with them […]
SteelSeries Siberia 350 Video Review
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017I took a look at the SteelSeries Siberia 350 headphones some 7 months ago. It seems almost unbelievable that so much time has passed since then, and I’m genuinely a little surprised. I was previously avoiding drawing too much attention to the video because my skin was in a terrible state at the time I […]
Syndrome: Scary Space Survival on Steam
Thursday, November 24th, 2016From space babes to scary space survival, to chairs quaking with fear. Syndrome is another hat tossed into the “horrifying stuff happens in space” bucket. And not altogether a bad one at that. I may not be quite the gamer I once was. But when I’m not making things, photographing things or trying to make […]
Alienware Alpha – The PC-based Games Console
Saturday, March 21st, 2015If you read my gush about PC gaming you’ll know I find it an exciting landscape with so much more to offer than the locked-down and tightly controlled world of console games. So why, you might ask, would I give a monkeys about a PC trying to masquerade as a games console? Easy. I counter. […]
A look at PC gaming – inspired by the Alienware Alpha
Saturday, January 31st, 2015For the benefit of console gamers, I feel I should pre-empt my Alienware Alpha review with an introspective on PC gaming itself, and just why it’s not necessarily a better experience than console gaming, but a richer, fuller and more varied experience to complement console games and challenge the more involved and advanced gamer. The […]
Alien Isolation: Terrifyingly Brilliant
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014Occasionally I pick up and play a game that’s simply so engrossing, and so perfect that I can’t help but to pop up and use my crusty, neglected blog to shout about it. If the title of this post didn’t tip you off, it’s Alien Isolation that’s got me this time. Alien Isolation is the […]
