It’ll be Oban The Distiller’s Edition 2004. Sweet, fruity, and gentle.
Connemara 12 Y
Enjoying the Connemara 12 Y this evening.
This particular dram shatters a few perceptions.
Ireland is generally not known for peated whiskies, but it does have some surprises, such as this one.
And there’s also the (incorrect) perception that peated whiskies are generally dark in colour. Not so this one. One of the lightest whiskies I’ve come across.
Peat aside, you also get some citrus notes, plus a bit of green apple.
It’s a gentle whiskey for a quiet Sunday night. Perfect for tonight.
(For more on peated whiskies, see this article over at my other place.)
New MacBook Pros and a Mac mini
Yesterday, Apple announced the release of two new MacBook Pros and a Mac mini, all with faster processing speeds.
We’re now at the point where these increased speeds would be of benefit only to the most niche of users. The average user of a Mac is already very well served by her machine, and has no need for faster speeds. The current generation of MacBook Pros (before this latest announcement) are already super fast, thanks to Apple silicon. As such, I’m not quite sure what extra benefit these new products will bring.
YouTubers will love them, though. As always, guaranteed acres of new content for those tech channels. Watch out for a slew of videos over the coming weeks.
Foldable phones
For many years, I have carried two phones – an iPhone and a Samsung Galaxy phone.
At the moment, my main phone is an iPhone 13 Pro Max, and my second phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+.
Samsung has discontinued the Note series. However, its legacy lives on in the Samsung Galaxy Ultra lineup, for example, in the form of the S-Pen, which also works with that device.
I have never been a big user of the S-Pen, but I like the quality of the Note series. And, given that these phones have now been discontinued, I am glad that the Ultra series exists.
I am thinking of upgrading my Samsung phone sometime before the end of the year. Also, having ignored them for years, I am now interested in foldable phones.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold 4 is an impressive phone. I have seen one close up, and spent some time testing it. It is high on my list.
I also like the Samsung Galaxy Ultra 22. It is a great phone, as is the Fold 4. Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference. The Ultra has the better camera quality (although the Fold’s cameras are also very good), while the Fold is, well, foldable – if you like that sort of thing. Which I now do.
Actually, by the time I’m ready to get a new phone, both the Ultra 22 and the Fold 4 will likely have been superseded by subsequent models. The Samsung Galaxy Ultra 23 will be released in February, and we may likely see a Samsung Galaxy Fold 5 sometime in the autumn.
Fold 5 aside, there are some other foldable phones knocking about. The Oppo Find N2 looks amazing, but it is not (yet) available for sale in Europe. (It is currently on sale only in China. ) Also, there are rumours about a foldable Pixel phone. I have seen mock-ups, and those look good.
So it might be a good idea to wait a few more months. Perhaps the Oppo foldable will find its way to Europe. (This is doubtful; I don’t think its predecessor ever made it here.) Perhaps the foldable Pixel will blow every other foldable phone out of the water. Perhaps an as yet unheard-of phone will appear, and completely change the game.
I’ll wait and see. Fun times ahead.
Chess
I played two games of chess tonight, after many months of not playing at all.
I felt quite rusty during the first game; computer won.
I was more in my element in the second game; I’d shaken off the months of inaction. Pulled the game back from the brink; I won.
Decided to call it a night at that point. But I won’t let months pass before I play the next game.
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