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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAfter a long stretch sizing up the laptop market, I finally pulled the trigger on a new machine. The last laptop I actually bought<\/em> was a 2008 MacBook Pro. Since then, I\u2019ve mostly been using hand-me-downs from work. My most “recent” one was already a decade old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At some point, I switched to a MiniPC setup for my desktop needs, which has served me well for the past two years. But I wanted something more portable and powerful to dive deeper into AI\/LLMs and photography, so I went hunting for a well-balanced machine that wouldn’t blow past my 2K budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enter the Asus ProArt P16<\/strong>, powered by the shiny new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370<\/strong>. So far, I’m loving it. A dedicated post is coming soon, full of nerdy details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m in the market for a new keyboard and mouse. I’ve been loyal to Logitech for years, but the honeymoon is officially over with the MX Keys and MX Master 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The paint on the keys is literally chipping off, and the rubber coating on the MX Master 3 is breaking down like it\u2019s been through a nuclear storm. I have to clean it weekly just to keep it from feeling like I grabbed it out of a sticky trap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not sure if the MX Keys S or Master 3S fixed these issues, but I\u2019m not eager to find out. The MX Master 4 is supposedly on the horizon, but it sounds like a mild redesign at best. I\u2019m keeping an eye on alternatives (Hi Keychron), though replacing these in my setup won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m collecting a few Manga series in Portuguese, but just to give a heads up on the upcoming release of Ghost in the Shell from Distrito Manga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book 1 is coming up on September and Book 2 in November! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark your calendar if that\u2019s your thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long time no post, I know. Balance between personal and professional life is always a time juggle and with the kids on vacation (while I’m not), it gets harder to dedicate some time to write. I’ll just drop a few rants here, some will be developed in individual posts later down the road. New Laptop, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,2,18,6,313,11,7],"tags":[489,488,494,493,486,490,469,487,492,495],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code","category-computer-stuff","category-games","category-hardware","category-movies-personal","category-personal","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-amd","tag-ghost-in-the-shell","tag-keyboard","tag-laptop","tag-llm","tag-manga","tag-minipc","tag-mouse","tag-ryzen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/p16.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Logitech Woes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Manga Watch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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