Every geek has a setup. Whether they're Apple fans, Microsoft fans, Google fans, or a combination thereof, every geek has one. Not too many setups are the same, but each fits the needs and requirements of the user.
In this (second) edition of P2TD, I am going to share with you the specs and uses of my tech!
In this (second) edition of P2TD, I am going to share with you the specs and uses of my tech!
Okay, so in efforts to maintain some kind of logical order, I'll go from smallest to largest.
First comes my iPhone 5S (which you can't see because I had to have something to shoot the picture with, right?). It is the 16 GB Space Grey model, and was unlocked for T-Mobile. My iPhone gets a lot of use, specifically in the realm of listening to music, the occasional podcast (Chris Pirillo's CPU, to be exact), and casual social media. On a personal level, I have an Instagram, Twitter, and a Facebook that I never use. All of those accounts are separate from P2T Tech, and mostly live on my iPhone. I seem to favor music streaming, as it is much easier, doesn't take up space, its a free way to discover new music, and thanks to T-Mobile, it doesn't gobble up all my data! I do lean towards Pandora, but I do use Spotify sometimes. Above all, one of the biggest uses for my iPhone is the camera. I do love to take pictures, and find myself doing it quite a bit!
Next up is my iPad Air. It too is a 16 GB Space Grey, but is limited to Wi-Fi. Since I am a sophomore in high school, school eats up a lot of my time. To help cut back on that, I take my iPad too and from school every day, and it gets quite a bit of use! I mainly use it to stay productive with apps like Notability, the iWork suite, and iBooks. Since I started running P2T Tech, I found myself putting all of its social media accounts on my iPad, since it does somewhat serve as my "professional" or "productive" device. It helps me keep my personal and tech worlds separate, and be productive at both!
Next up is my MacBook Pro. Its the mid 2012 model, and I bought it back in August. Its got a 500 GB 5400 RPM spinning hard disk, 8 GB RAM (which I upgraded almost first thing after I got it), and an Intel i5 dual-core chip clocked at 2.5 GHz with a 3.0 GHz TurboBoost, accompanied by a Intel HD Graphics 4000 chip with a little over a GB of VRAM. It runs OS X Yosemite, and has since Beta 1! I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to be a part of the Beta program, and really only ran OS X Mavericks for about a week after buying it! (Coming Soon: My Review of OS X Yosemite) My MacBook is really my workhorse, as I get most if not all of my work done on it. I do seldom take to school, and only on occasions in which I absolutely need it ($1300 at stake!). As far as specs go, it may not be a head turner, but for what I need it to do, its a beast of a machine! It is far better than its predecessor, a HP Pavilion dv6 in performance, but not on paper. But at the end of the day, performance is what really matters.
Finally, we have my Acer monitor. It's got a 1366 x 768 resolution off of a VGA input, which shoots onto a 18.5 inch matte screen. It is DEFINITELY not the best, but it serves me well. I mainly use it for the personal side of me, where as the laptop screen serves the productive side. (Coming Soon: The perks and drawbacks of a dual monitor setup).
First comes my iPhone 5S (which you can't see because I had to have something to shoot the picture with, right?). It is the 16 GB Space Grey model, and was unlocked for T-Mobile. My iPhone gets a lot of use, specifically in the realm of listening to music, the occasional podcast (Chris Pirillo's CPU, to be exact), and casual social media. On a personal level, I have an Instagram, Twitter, and a Facebook that I never use. All of those accounts are separate from P2T Tech, and mostly live on my iPhone. I seem to favor music streaming, as it is much easier, doesn't take up space, its a free way to discover new music, and thanks to T-Mobile, it doesn't gobble up all my data! I do lean towards Pandora, but I do use Spotify sometimes. Above all, one of the biggest uses for my iPhone is the camera. I do love to take pictures, and find myself doing it quite a bit!
Next up is my iPad Air. It too is a 16 GB Space Grey, but is limited to Wi-Fi. Since I am a sophomore in high school, school eats up a lot of my time. To help cut back on that, I take my iPad too and from school every day, and it gets quite a bit of use! I mainly use it to stay productive with apps like Notability, the iWork suite, and iBooks. Since I started running P2T Tech, I found myself putting all of its social media accounts on my iPad, since it does somewhat serve as my "professional" or "productive" device. It helps me keep my personal and tech worlds separate, and be productive at both!
Next up is my MacBook Pro. Its the mid 2012 model, and I bought it back in August. Its got a 500 GB 5400 RPM spinning hard disk, 8 GB RAM (which I upgraded almost first thing after I got it), and an Intel i5 dual-core chip clocked at 2.5 GHz with a 3.0 GHz TurboBoost, accompanied by a Intel HD Graphics 4000 chip with a little over a GB of VRAM. It runs OS X Yosemite, and has since Beta 1! I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to be a part of the Beta program, and really only ran OS X Mavericks for about a week after buying it! (Coming Soon: My Review of OS X Yosemite) My MacBook is really my workhorse, as I get most if not all of my work done on it. I do seldom take to school, and only on occasions in which I absolutely need it ($1300 at stake!). As far as specs go, it may not be a head turner, but for what I need it to do, its a beast of a machine! It is far better than its predecessor, a HP Pavilion dv6 in performance, but not on paper. But at the end of the day, performance is what really matters.
Finally, we have my Acer monitor. It's got a 1366 x 768 resolution off of a VGA input, which shoots onto a 18.5 inch matte screen. It is DEFINITELY not the best, but it serves me well. I mainly use it for the personal side of me, where as the laptop screen serves the productive side. (Coming Soon: The perks and drawbacks of a dual monitor setup).