Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Apple MacPad?

    Apple MacPad?

    I was reading this review of the 11″ MacBook Air on AnandTech today and came to the realization that Apple could now easily create an OS X/iOS hybrid system, call it the MacPad, and dominate the tablet/PC market for the foreseeable future. The new Intel Haswell based chips give the 11″ MacBook Air 8 –…

  • Chromecast Could Be a Home Entertainment Game Changer

    Chromecast Could Be a Home Entertainment Game Changer

    Google announced a nifty little device called Chromecast the other day and this tiny device that is no bigger than a USB flash drive could change our relationships with our computers, tablets, phones, and televisions forever. If this works as advertised, Chromecast will allow anyone, with any device that runs the Chrome browser, send audio and…

  • Surface Windows 8 Pro 128 GB: Update – One Month In

    I’ve been using the Surface Pro for about a month now and had a chance to take a short trip with it as well. I can tell you that the more I’ve used it the more frustrated I become with Windows 8 as an OS and Surface Pro as a device. The hardware annoyances are…

  • Surface Windows 8 Pro 128 GB Review Part 4 – Wrap Up

    Surface Windows 8 Pro 128 GB Review Part 4 – Wrap Up

    2 out of 3 ain’t bad. I said this in my initial post about the Surface, ” It has the power of a desktop machine, the portability of a laptop, and the convenience of a tablet.” Well Surface does not have the convenience of a tablet. It falls short in this area in a big way. Surface…

  • Surface Windows 8 Pro 128 GB Review Part 3 – Hardware

    I had so many gripes about Windows 8 that I thought it would be prudent to keep my hardware and software thoughts separate. Here are my impressions on the hardware for Surface Pro. I can boil this down to two words. It’s nice. Every blog imaginable has written about the specs and the performance and…

  • Surface Windows 8 Pro 128 GB Review Part 2 – Software

    Overall impressions: This is a device that should have come out 2 years ago. It feels like it’s behind because the tablet aspect of Windows 8 isn’t complete and it tries to trap me in the Microsoft/Windows universe. I mostly live in Google’s world now and there aren’t the necessary apps available on the tile…