Asus Zenbook A16 review: the $1,599 laptop uses the fast and power hungry Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme with 18 cores, but a plain design and includes bloatware (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/ultra
OK, snapdragon laptop-ish now running as my second machine rather than a ~10-15 year old Intel laptop. It's running Debian/sid and KDE; heck - it's actually a useful aarch desktop!!
(not quite stable yet, and I've pinched bits from the ubuntu x1e world)
I wouldn't used to post about such activities, because obviously it can come across a certain way - but I stumbled on these old photos of a Grace Jones gig setup - and thought maybe people would find it interesting.
The idea was to do a one-off very different sound, and we stripped down some of her classics. My "station" is in the first photo, her son played percussion, Dave Okumu guitar, and Ivor handled the bass (see Moog lol) and was also triggering other samples.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@sherold/116481485878550299
If laptop stickers say something about the owner's attitude, then I have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to say about me. I guess it doesn't matter.
MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple, and it doesn't look budget with a vibrant display and aluminum body, but the keyboard is a bit flimsy (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops
Apple's MacBook Neo poses a big threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.