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29 Aug, 2019
It's pretty damn good, but the battery should be bigger, and a standard charging port would have been a bonus.
I bought this to replace a Chuwi Hi12 which died - Chinese electronics strikes again - and it's a very good piece of kit, even considering the age. The display is the same panel as the hi12, so "Excellent" is an understatement, but the touch on the Surface is much, much better due to the panel and the digitiser being closer together.
Performance wise, there is no comparison, the Surface is so much more fluid, and the pen can draw a curve without "stuttering".
Given it was second hand - and ex-demo - I was surprised to find it hadn't been wiped and it was a pain to work out how to reset it then load a fresh Win10 onto it. But when done, it's a beautiful little piece of kit. It'll run Visual Studio 2019 fine - albeit a little slow on compilation - and Paintshop Pro 9 works fine as well, particularly with the pen.
The TypeCover is very usable - even if US layout only - and it even backs up quickly using AOMEI Backupper Standard, thanks to a genuine SSD instead of the eMMC disk in the Hi12 - which contributes a lot to the speed.
The battery though? It's a bit small. The Hi12 has 11Ah, this is 5.5Ah with a better processor, more RAM, and the same display. Even MS say that it's 9 hours of "light browsing". In practice it's 3 hours of "general use" before you need the charger again. But, it charges pretty fast, and you can use it while it charges (unlike my wife's Samsung tablet).
Executive summary: it's pretty damn good, but the battery should be bigger, and a standard charging port would have been a bonus.
01 Oct, 2010
Bomb proof
It's made of real metal, and held together with real cross head screws. It's simple: a single switch fro two/four slices, a mechanical lever to raise/lower the bread, and a clockwork timer. You can buy all the bits individually if they break, and fit them yourself if you are bright enough to unplug it first and know which end of a screwdriver to hold. The timer means you can see how long there is left to cook, which I haven't seen on a toaster for years. It looks good, in an industrial way which fits in fine in my kitchen, and it's built to last.
It's not perfect: it won't take thick crumpets, and you have to force sliced bagels in and out; the clockwork timer is very loud and makes a disconcerting "phut" noise when it switches off.
Would I buy another one? I don't think I am going to need to decide for a very long time - the company doesn't seem to have heard of "built in obsolescence" so it would look to be working for many, many years. Which is, of course, why I bought it...
06 Oct, 2010
Speed and simplicity
I recently added a 1TB Media Hub to my network, both to hold my MP3s and to back up onto, but this brought the LAN devices count to 5. With my wireless router only having 4 sockets this was a problem. So, I bought a Belkin 5 port Gigabit switch.
Since the Media Hub and both PCs have Gigabit capability all it needed was a cheap upgrade to Cat-5E cable and to plug it all in. Two PCs and the hub on the Belkin switch, that and the printer and media player plugged into teh Netgear wireless router.
At this point, I started to get a little nervous when I realised I didn't have a password or even an IP address for the Belkin. Oh well, turn it all on and see what happens.
And what do you know? It all works. The two PCs communicate with each other at Gigabit, and with the hub; everything else just works. All devices see each other, everything sees the internet, it worked straight out of the pack.
Now I have high speed, with a spare gigabit and a spare 10/100 LAN port, and I don't need to do anything to make it work.
That is what plug and play should be!