AMD R9 255 OEM

Hello guys and welcome to a new post, in this post I will tell you guys some things about my Graphics card AMD R9 255 OEM.

This is a special made card for some types of standard PC's, and is not sold separately.
The specs of this card are not the best, and not the worst. This Card has 2GB Vram and a Clockspeed of 900 MHz, so this is not the fastes GPU, but also not the slowest, I can play games like Assassins Creed Unity with Low Graphics with a average of 25 FPS.

Now my opinion about this card, I think this is not the best low-budget made card by AMD, and I think for novice gamers this is a good trial card, but for the High-end Games like GTA V, Assassins Creed Unity and Syndicate this isn't the right card.

This was my post about the AMD R9 255 OEM, I hope this was a informative post, and I hope you will read my next post too.

My blogging comeback!!

Hello guys and welcome to a new post of me.
In this post I will tell you guys I'm back, and I'm going to post more.
I was a very long time not active with te blog, but I have more time now behind school, so I can make more posts for you guys.

In my folowing posts I will not only tell you guys some things about tech stuff, but also about some happenings now and in the past. I'm also going to make reviews about some stuff.

So I hope you have enjoyed this post, and I hope you guys will read my next posts.

Mac Pro 1.1 update

Hello everybody, and welcome at an update post. I have some very exciting news, and I'm going to change some things in my setup in the near future so lets get started!

After a lot of research, and waiting I finally sort of purchased a Mac Pro 1.1. I'm going to pick it up on January 9th, and I'm so excited. The Mac Pro has two Dual Core Intel Xeon's clocked at 2.66 GHz so that's basically a quad core processor. It has 6 GB's of RAM which is enough for now, however I'm planning to order 16 GB in March so then it has a total of 22 GB of RAM which is a lot. I am upgrading the graphics card to an AMD Radeon R7 240 with 2 GB of DDR3 VRAM which I'm buying on the same day so on January 9th I have a working Mac Pro 1.1.

Later this year I am going to change some things in my setup because I want my setup to have a black and white theme. I'm thinking about purchasing at least one 23 inch aluminum Apple Cinema Display, to match the theme, and of course the Apple wireless keyboard and mouse. I do want to buy a broadcast stand for my Samson C01U Pro so I have more desk space. The Mac Pro is big computer, I really have no idea where to put it but I will figure that out.

I have owned my MacBook for over 2 years now, and that's not going to be my main computer anymore, so I will write a kind of review about the laptop, because it has been my first Intel Mac and I've used it to post in this blog to. In that review I'm going to write how it performed, if I ever had crashes and if its still worth buying.

I hope you liked this post and until the next one.

My top 3 favorite laptops

Hello guys and welcome at a new post, today I am going to talk about three of my favorite laptops, two of them are Mac’s and one is a pc, so without further a do lets get started.

Lets start of with number three of my list, and that is the Razer Blade 14 inch. I just love the design, it looks a bit like the Retina MacBook Pro, but this one just looks more bad ass. It has a black finish, and the illuminated Razer logo on the lid. I’ve never used this computer, but I’ve seen plenty of reviews and pictures of it to base my opinion on. The keyboard looks really comfortable to me, and a lot of reviewers say that the keyboard is a very high-quality keyboard. The speakers in this laptop are very good compared with other laptops, which surprised me a little, because to be fair I’ve never owned a laptop, or used a laptop with a decent pair of speakers. They all sound really tinny and very cheap.

Lets get back to the point, the Razer Blade 14 is a gaming notebook, and that’s why I love it so much. Most gaming laptops look bulky and heavy like some models of MSI or Alienware, but this laptop looks so nice. It is thin, and light but it still has a lot of power under the hood. The screen looks very nice to me, and its touchscreen so that’s something I really like about the Razer Blade. If I have to choose a gaming laptop I would choose this above an Alienware because of the very nice design and touchscreen.

Number two of my favorite laptops is my old and trusty early 2008 MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor clocked at 2.4 GHz, originally it came with a 160 GB hard drive which I upgraded to an Samsung SSD with 256 GB. I own this laptop for around two years now and it has never let me down, and it runs very nice still to this day. I really love the design of this laptop, as most Apple fans know its made from white plastic, the bad thing about this design is that the plastics cracks after a few years of use. My MacBook is in almost mint condition, and the plastic had just cracked a little bit. The keyboard is really nice even after more then 6 years of use, but it feels a little worn out compared with the new MacBooks. The screen has an LCD backlighting which means that its yellowed after al those years, if you’re using the MacBook without a second display its not really noticeable but compared with my iiyama its just looks really yellowed. My iiyama is a newer screen off course, and it has LED backlighting so you can’t really compare it. The MacBook I own has 2 gigabytes of RAM but you can 4 gigabytes in it but I’m not seeing the need to upgrade it because when I buy a Mac Pro that will become my main machine. 

My favorite laptop is the MacBook Air, because its light and thin, the Air just looks really nice overall. The MacBook Air’s aren’t really powerful compared to the Pro’s but they’re a lot cheaper then MacBook Pro’s. The keyboard on those laptops are really nice, and they type wonderful. It’s a shame that the screen isn’t retina, but it is good enough to work with. I love the 11 inch version because its really small so you can easily put them in your bag. The battery lives on the Air’s are great, the 11 inch has over 9 hours of battery life, and the 13 inch has over 12 hours of battery life, and this is just one of the reasons why this laptop is great for students. You don’t have to charge them while in class, and the portability is just great. There is not much to say about this laptop, because its just the perfect laptop eventually for people like me, who don’t need a lot of power on the go. If I have to buy a new laptop it would definitely be this one.

Dream setup updates

Hello everybody and welcome at another post,


This post is a quick update post, because I have some plans for the setup, and I've found a new way to afford it. I've got a job at Mc Donald's so I can earn some money to buy new things for my setup. Now that I've got a job I can buy more expensive things, and buy everything faster. I will still be buying a Mac Pro 1.1 but its going to see some upgrades. I'm defenitly upgrading the graphicscard allthough I'm not sure which brand and wich model. Later this year I will upgrade the two 2.66 Dual Core Xeons to two Quad core Xeons, which makes a total for eight cores.

The 1.1 is an older machine, and I'm perfectly aware of what I'm buying but if in spend some money on it, it will be a powerfull machine which wil suite my needs. My current MacBook will be upgraded to somewhere in the new future, I'm thinking of buying a MacBook Air 2011 of 2014. In my older post I mentioned something about buying a MacBook Pro, but I've grown older and wiser and I've learned that paying for things you don't need is just stupid. Sure the MacBook Pro's are nice computers, and they are very fast but I just don't need a very powerful machine so the MacBook Air will suite my needs just fine.

So this was a quick update on my setup, and next month I've saved up all the money to buy the Mac Pro so stay tuned for my review and opinion about it. If I find something interesting to write about I will defenitely do it, but if I don't my first post will be around Christmas.

Thanks for reading, and untill the next one!

My ultimate desk setup

Hello everybody and welcome at a new post.

I've bought a new desk a while ago, so a huge part of my ultimate desk setup is already completed. I will purchase some other things. After doing a lot of research I came to the decision that buying a Iiyama Prolite E2483 HS is the best way to go. Sure an Apple Cinema Display looks really nice but its a bit outdated. And the funny thing is, a 23 inch aluminum Cinema Display is almost the same price as a brand new Iiyama Prolite. My current monitor isn't for sale anymore but it is a wonderful monitor, so I'm just buying the newer one because the bezels are the same size and the panel is probably the same. Its a full HD LED screen, so it won't use a lot of electricity either.

I'm going to purchase an used Mac Pro 1.1 next month and it will see some mayor upgrades to keep it up with modern computing. I am going to upgrade the processors from 2x 2.66 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon's (Woodcrest) to two Quad Core Intel Xeon's (Costa Rica) and I am going to put a Nvidia Geforce GT 720 in it so its nice and fast again.

And to fully complete the setup I will be buying a new Apple Wireless keyboard and the Apple Magic Mouse 2. I am looking for a new MacBook, but that is the last thing I'm going to upgrade because my early 2008 MacBook is just fine for when I'm on the road. If I'm buying another laptop I will probably go for the 2012 MacBook Pro or the 2014 MacBook Air. When this is al completed my dream setup is done.

I hope you guys enjoyed this post, thanks for reading and until the next one!

Update!

Hello everybody and welcome at another update post,

My setup has changed completely last month, I bought a new desk, and my setup is completely different. I have awesome plans for the future, I'm going to buy an Iiyama Prolite E2483HS to sort to match my Iiyama Prolite E2482HS, and I'm going to mount them both. I'm getting a Mac Pro, and a new keyboard, mouse and speakers.

I'm going to make another post about my setup very soon, I'm just very busy with school, and thats the reason why I don't have much time to write a post.

But I probably will upload every update about my setup this Sunday, thanks for reading and until the next one.

Changing my setup!

Hello everybody, and welcome at another post.

I wanted a new setup for a long time now, and I've been posting about it a lot really but its finally going to happen. I'm getting a new desk, and not just a regular desk. I'm going to build the desk with my dad. The length of the desk is 2 meters, and that is the whole width of my room. So I will have a lot of space for my setup. I'm going to build it from some nice wood, and I'm going to mount in on the walls, and I'm going to put two nice gray industrial style legs in the middle. I do have some LED strips lying around so I'm definitely going to install those underneath the desk.

This isn't just a setup for me, I'm turning 16 in a few months, and using computers had become a huge part of my life, and I use computers for everything. I'm following a class called ITTL on my high school, and I need Photoshop a lot, and with a regular worn out 13 inch laptop screen it can be difficult sometimes. The screen of my MacBook isn't the worst display to look at, but when zooming in a lot, its just a bit annoying. Luckily for me, I've got an Full HD LED iiyama Prolite 2482HS which works wonderful, the colors are very nice and clear and its a matte display and I like those better then regular glossy displays. The only downfall right now is that I can't use the display because my desk is to small, so I can't use my MacBook as a desktop computer. But that's all going to change very soon.

Because this is going to be my first real nice setup, I'm going to think everything out within the littlest details. I am going to manage my cables real nicely, but I don't have a clue how to do that. The cable of my speaker is just going to be zip tied to my leg I think, and the cables of my laptop, monitor and speakers are going to be hidden behind my heater, and I'm hoping this will hide almost every cable until I came up with a more permanent solution.

I am planning of buying two second hand 20 inch Apple Cinema Displays and the new Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Mouse to improve my setup. The iiyama is a wonderful display but I actually want to use that as my television so I can just play some games on my PS3 when I'm not behind my desk, and I just love the design of the Apple Cinema Display, the aluminum of
those displays will look very nice on my new desk, my future Mac Pro, and the new keyboard and mouse I'm going to buy. I don't really know when everything is complete, the desk is build very soon, the Mac Pro will be bought in December or January, and I have no clue when I saved up the money for two new displays but I will post updates about the progress regularly.

Unfortunately I can't post pictures about the desk because I haven't build it yet. But
Thanks for reading, and until the next one!

My ultimate setup for 2016!

Hello everybody and welcome at another post,

In three months from now I will own my first Mac Pro, and my current setup is well, a bit simple. I was thinking, maybe its a good plan to give my setup an upgrade as well with the most important thing being the desk. The desk I'm currently using is just a simple white table, with no drawers or anything. I seriously want a new desk, but my room isn't the biggest, so after some serious thinking I decided that a corner desk is the way to go.

My computer screen doesn't necessarily need an upgrade, its a full HD Iiyama Prolite, 24 inch with one VGA port, one DVI port and one HDMI port, so the screen isn't my biggest concern, but it would be nice to own an Apple Cinema Display 23 or 24 inch, and an Apple keyboard and mouse so I have a complete Apple setup. I will buy a Cinema Display somewhere in 2016, because I love the design of those monitors and a Cinema Display will look very nice because the desk I'm buying is going to be white.

Cable management is something I really want to improve when I have a Mac Pro, because its a desktop, and it requires a lot more cables than a laptop. I only have around 5 cables plugged in to my laptop now, so there's not a lot to manage there, but a desktop computer requires a lot more cables. Luckily most Ikea desks have cable managements trays underneath the desk, and if they don't I'm just going to buy the Ikea Signum. The Ikea Signum is a bracket, where you just throw all of your cables in, and they're out of sight. There will be some minor changes as well, I'm going to get a broadcasting stand for my microphone so it isn't taking space on my desk all the time, and I'm probably going to get a new speaker system, nothing crazy, probably just a 2.1 set.

Unfortunately I didn't had any important to tell, but I did want to post something. I do hope to have this setup done in September next year. Of course I'm posting updates about the Mac Pro, and the change for my setup.

Thanks for reading, and until the next one! 

Apple Mac Pro talk

Hello everybody and welcome at a new post,

Today I'm going to rant a bit more about the Mac Pro, the reasons for me buying such a big desktop, and my Apple history because I thought that would be fun to include as well, so you guys can see which Mac's I owned in the past.

In a previous post I mentioned ditching the Mac Pro 1.1 idea, and getting a 2008 Mac Pro. Guess what, I'm ditching the 2008 Mac Pro just because I don't have a real job yet. When I turn 16 I can get a good paying job and save up money for a newer and better Mac Pro. I'm going to another school in about 2 years, and in that period I need a lot of horsepower, and in two years I definitely have the money to buy another Mac Pro. For now a 1.1 will do the job. I need more horsepower then my MacBook can deliver, don't get me wrong its a wonderful machine and it keeps up fairly well with the machines of these days but its just not strong enough to do the tasks I ask it. I've got some new classes now and for one I need to use Photoshop and Final Cut Pro and thats why I need another computer. I always wanted a Mac Pro, but my MacBook was doing everything I asked from it, but now I need to do a lot of thing with it, and of course my MacBook just doesn't have enough power. The MacBook is still a wonderful machine, and I will be keeping it for when I travel but after 2 years I just felt it was time for something more powerful. I'm just hoping to get 3 years out of the Mac Pro so I can save up enough money to order a brand new one from Apple, but we'll see. Once I get the Mac there will be a lot of upgrading done so that should be interesting.

A Mac Pro 1.1 is fairly outdated by todays standards, and some of you may be questioning yourselves, why would he spend his money on a computer thats outdated. Well to start with, I don't have a lot of money because I'm to young to work a proper job, and I'm just not feeling spending an extra 300 euro's on a computer when I can get a new desk, an Apple wired keyboard, a Magic Mouse and a secondhand Cinema Display for the same price. The 1.1 will do all that I ask it to do, and the support is not terrible I guess. Yeah its outdated and it can only run 10.7 Lion but I'm using Lion for almost 2 years now and it never crashed on me. If I ever want to upgrade to 10.10 Yosemite or 10.11 El Capitan thats possible and its fairly easy. I just need to buy some more RAM for the machine, depending on how much is installed when I purchase it, and I need to upgrade the graphics card, then I have to change some files and boom. Its ready to run Yosemite, and at that time maybe even El Capitan. So as said before, the support is not terrible it can technically run the newest operating system with some tweaking here and there.

So as I am getting new Mac soon, I thought it would be fun to include my Mac history, so lets get to it. I started with a Mac Mini G4 which I still own because its a very special machine to me It was my first Mac, and that machine changed my life basically, because that computer made me got interested in computer and all sorts of different tech. After the G4, I've upgraded to a PowerMac G5. It was a 2005 PowerMac G5, and I don't remember the specs, I just know that it was the top of the line model. Back then this computer was way to expensive for me but luckily my dad bought a new computer so I got his PowerMac, and it felt like that thing could fly. It was so fast at the time, and especially for a child of my age, I really loved that thing to pieces, but one day it got an error. So I threw it away, and I feel so dumb for doing that because about two months later I found the solution for this error. No, it wasn't the operating system, or a broken hard drive. It was the Airport Extreme which I've never used in my life on that machine. I just had to unplug it from the motherboard and it would run perfectly again. So yeah, always do your research before throwing any broken computers out. But lets move on to the Mac I'm using now. A 2008 MacBook 4.1, the top of the line model with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo and 4 GB's of DDR 2 memory. I love this Mac to pieces and it has done everything I wanted it to do for the last 2 years now, and once again, I'm not upgrading because my MacBook is broken or to slow, because it can handle all day to day tasks, and its really fast if you stick a SSD in it, I just need some more power.

So thats is for this post, it is a long one, but as I'm not posting a lot these days, I thought lets write a long post this time. Thanks for reading and until the next one!

Building a pc

Hello everybody and welcome to another post.

As mentioned in the last post, I am building a pc for my brother, just to make clear I am keeping my promise, I haven't spend any money because my brother is paying for everything but as he doesn't know anything about computers I am building his pc.

Its an AMD build with an AMD Radeon R7 240 with 2GB DDR3 VRAM from Sapphire, an AMD FX 8350 Black Edition with 8 cores and 4 GHz, 8 GB of RAM, an Asrock 970 Pro3 R2.0, a Kingston 120 GB and a random 1TB Western Digital HDD I had spare in one of my drawers.

So the build was very fun. It was my first real build and it went almost flawlessly, I had a few problems here and there, but nothing really serious, actually configuring the hard drive correctly was the hardest part. I was lucky to have an old Pentium 4 pc, because my the case of the computer is my Antec Three Hundred gaming case with my Corsair CX600 power supply and he is also using my RAM and well we missed some screws and that sort of stuff. The graphics card wouldn't fit correctly at first, but after some fiddling around I got it to fit nice and tight.

Everything went flawlessly and with everything installed the computer works and it hasn't crashed once. It plays GTA V and the Elder Scrolls Online on Ultra, so that's very nice. I am going to do a benchmarks challenge with this pc against my future Mac Pro 2008 8 core. We all know the outcome already but I think it would be fun for a post.

So thats it for today, thanks for reading and until the next one!

Mac Pro and setup

Hello everybody and welcome to a new post!

As I mentioned in the previous post, I am going to buy a Mac Pro 1.1in December or January, but its not going to be a 2006 Mac Pro. I've got my eye on a 2008 Mac Pro 8 Core because this model of Mac Pro is still supported by Apple and can run OS X Yosemite without any modding. That's one of the reasons why I'm going to buy this Mac Pro, but I also want and need a lot of power because the end of my high school days are coming to an end, and that means that I'm going to start my next study which has everything to do with graphics design. One of the reasons that I choose this school above all the others is that they're using Mac. They even say on their website that its recommended to buy a Mac instead of a pc, but you can still buy a pc if you want to because those are generally cheaper.

I have a lot of plans for this Mac Pro, like upgrading the RAM to 16 GB and upgrading the graphics card, so it has enough power to edit video's and using Photoshop without to much of a hassle. Newer than a 2008 Mac Pro is probably to expensive still, but we'll see, maybe I'll find a nice deal on eBay or something.

My setup is going to change drastically when I purchased the Mac Pro because I'm also going to get a new desk and a 24 inch Apple LED Cinema Display, wired Apple keyboard and the Apple Magic Mouse. Because when I turn 16 I can work a lot, and that way I can earn money. I'm 15 right now and I'm already applying for jobs to fund my needs, and that's also the reason why I am able to have more money to spend on my computer and thinking back it was actually really stupid to even think to buy a 2006 Mac Pro. Yes they're still generally powerful, yes they're really reliable but one of the biggest reasons of me buying a Mac Pro is the capability of using the newest operating system to use the latest applications. And buying a 2006 Mac Pro doesn't make sense. Yes its more powerful than my MacBook, but it also isn't supported like my MacBook so yeah.. Mac Pro 2008 8 core it is.

I'm am building a pc by the way, not for myself but for my brother, so I won't lose any money but I think its fun to write about the specs and my first real pc build in another post. But apart from that I'm really look forward to owning a Mac Pro and I'm not going to spend any money on tech until the Mac Pro. So with this all said I think its time to end this post, so thanks for reading and until the next one.

New computers, plans for the future.

Hello everybody and welcome at a new post. I know that it has been a very long time, and I'm sorry for that, but a new year at high school has started, and I need to really concentrate on school. But with that out of the way, lets start with what is in my eyes a very exciting post!

So my birthday is coming up, and I'm turning 16 which means that in the Netherlands at least, I am allowed to work. Not full-time off course because its illegal to quit school until your 18. But as I am going to get a job soon, it also means that I'm going to earn some money to buy some new equipment, including a Mac Pro 1.1.

I know the 1.1 is a bit outdated by todays standards but I'm trying to make it work. I'm turning 16 in 4 months so I have a lot of time to do my research, but as I am already filling up in information since May this year I'm pretty sure that the Mac Pro is worth it for me at least. I will be getting the base model with  2x Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz Dual Core, which make it a Quad Core combined, and I will be upgrading the RAM to 10 GB as soon as I purchased the Mac. I am going to upgrade to graphics card eventually to run Yosemite, and maybe even El Capitan depending if developers had created something which makes this possible. The reason for me buying a 2006 Mac Pro is because they are dirt cheap and I think it will serve me well for at least two years, and this is the only thing I will be asking of this machine. Because when I turned 18 I'm done with high school, and I finished my MBO 4. (MBO 4 is some kind of college, but it takes 3 years to complete) and after that I can work full time as a graphics designer, so I can save up money for a brand new iMac, but thats for another story.

As I said, the Mac Pro's 1.1 are dirt cheap and me being on a tight budget and needing something more powerful then my MacBook this seems like a good temporary choice, I don't need a very powerful machine at all. The only considerable heavy tasks I'm going to throw at it are Photoshop, and Final Cut Pro once in a while. My MacBook handles this fairly well, but I also want a desktop computer. I all ready have a Apple wireless keyboard, a Mighty Mouse and a 24 inch full HD LED display but I can't use those with my MacBook because my desk is to small and I don't like to cram everything on a tiny desk. With the Mac Pro on the other hand, everything fits perfectly, and thats why I want one so badly.

So until that time I will post some post about regular things, like upgrading my pc, with some things I have already have so I won't lose any money on it, and every bit of money I earn is going straight in to the Mac Pro piggybank.

So thanks for reading everybody and until the next one.

Dakine Foundation Backpack

Hello everybody, and welcome at a new post.

Today I've got something very exciting at least in my opinion. I've ordered a new backpack yesterday, and in came in the mail today. Its a Dakine Foundation, and its huge, actually a little to big. I'm not very tall I'm 1.75m (5 feet) and it fills my whole back. The backpack has 4 compartments. One little small compartment for things like keys or your wallet. The second compartment is an accessory compartment it has little pockets for your pens and pencils as well as 2 padded pockets for your phone and glasses. The main compartment is huge compared with my old Eastpak Padded Pack'r, it about a arm length deep so it you can safely store a lot of things. What I really like about this design is the laptop compartments because its at the back of the backpack so your laptop can't be stolen when your wearing it on your back. If a thief try's to slice open your back he still wouldn't be able to retrieve your laptop because it sort of hovers in the bag. Its a very strong backpack, and it comes with a limited lifetime warranty, and this being my first Dakine backpack is very cool.

The bag is available in different colors, with the most ordered being black and grey. I recommend this for any tech-head because the padded, and even has meshed ventilation on the back so you won't get a sweaty back. Its fits up to most 15 inch laptops, and as said before has room for all your stuff that you need to carry on like a plane flight or a city tour.

Thanks for reading guys, and until the next one!

My youtube channel

Hello and welcome back to a brand new post, and in this post I will tell you guys something about my youtube channel. It calls firstgamekanaal, and I mostly upload videos about minecraft with dutch commentaries.
I hope you will look on my channel and if you like it subscribe to it and tell about it to your friends.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you will read our next posts.

Mobile theme update

Hello everybody, I just want to announce that the theme for the mobile version of this site is different then the theme for the original web page. This will be changed soon, it changed because the other theme was displaying weird black bars, and a few lines of text faded away because of this.

This will be repaired very soon!

Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 challenge (part 2)

Day 4: 18 July 2015

I didn’t used my computer to much today, because I was outside most of the time. I used some Photoshop, and it works flawlessly. I wrote some posts, and browsed the web, update my social media and so on.The Toughbook does everything what I want it to do, but I miss my MacBook though. The Toughbook is just not as fast as my MacBook.

Day 5: 19 July 2015:

I’ve started a project today on Photoshop, so that’s what I’ve been doing today. It handles Photoshop really well, and I was able to complete all the tasks that I’ve needed to do. My wrists are starting to hurt though, the keyboard types really nice but the height of the machine is just so awkward, especially if your used to typing on a thinner machine, but I still have 2 days to go so I think this isn’t going to be the biggest problem.

Day 6: 20 July 2015:

I’ve wrote a whole lot of posts, and I’ve wrote down some idea’s for the future. I want to expand this blog in the future, and I wrote some ideas for that on the Toughbook. I continued my Photoshop project and it ran without a hiccup. I still can’t figure out the sound problem though, but that doesn’t matter so much because I doubt that it will run YouTube video’s at HD resolution. For so far the computer is doing its tasks, and I didn’t have a problem at all.

Day 7: 21 July 2015:

I finished my Photoshop project today, and did some added some idea’s to the list for the blog, and after this I shut off the Toughbook, closed the lid and put it away in my closet. I was really excited using my MacBook again. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Toughbook and it did everything I asked for but it was a bit slow compared with my MacBook. It was just so nice using OS X again, I’m not saying Windows XP is terrible or anything but when you’ve worked with an operating system constantly for over 2 years and you have to use something different for just one week its just so nice getting back to your old and trusted OS. It was a fun challenge to do, and I will so something like this in the future. I was thinking about working with OS X Leopard, or Tiger for a week, or using Windows 7 for a week.

Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 challenge (part 1)

Day 1: 15 July 2015:

The first day working with the Toughbook wasn’t to bad actually. I thought that I needed to download a lot of different applications to have everything working properly but it seems that everything is still supported for Windows XP and considering that Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP in April 2014 it really surprised me that I could download all my needed applications any trouble. I still need to download Photoshop CS3 and I’m wondering how this is going to run. It still runs fine on my Mac Mini G4 so I think I don’t have a lot of trouble with Photoshop. Browsing the web is a bit slow at sometimes, but it could be worse. As said earlier, a lot of applications still support Windows XP, and downloading and installing Mozilla Firefox wasn’t any problem at all. All of the pages seemed to load without a problem, and there weren’t any problems at all. Even Twitter and Facebook worked fine. I’m am really positive about the performance of this computer for now.

Day 2: 16 July 2015

I did some serious work today, I wrote out some possible future plans for the blog and I wrote some posts, and it worked fine, starting Word takes a bit time, but I can live with that. Doing some research online works perfect. I have 2 internet access points one having 5G capability and I was very surprised seeing that my old Toughbook could connect to that 5G network. Its so much faster then my regular network. So when I connected to my 5G network internetbrowsing worked really smooth, even faster as before. When I had to travel to the other part of the city I tried to put it in my bag in to fit, I even had some space for boxed juice and some snacks. My bag was a bit heavy compared when I’m traveling with my MacBook but that’s not a big deal because I’m already used to carrying 20 pounds of textbooks around every schoolday. The Toughbook worked the whole day without charging. I’ve got around 7 hours of batterylife out of it which is great in my opinion because now I know I can safely work all day without looking at the battery percentage. So actually, there weren’t any problems at all today.

Day 3: 17 July 2015

I was very busy today with writing posts, and editing some pictures. Adobe Photoshop CS3 works flawlessly, and it is not very different compared with Photoshop CS5. I don’t miss the special options because I use the standard options mainly. I still got a problem with the sound driver, and I really don’t know how to fix this, so playing some old games isn’t an option. I thought I was really going to miss my MacBook, but this isn’t the case at all. I really love my MacBook but its nice to work with something else. I really want the sound to work, so I hope I can figure it out soon but until that time, I have to use my MacBook for the tasks that require sound.