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Shane Symonds

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Capture

Cameras1

  • “From someone who was just using an iPhone 13 Pro, I can definitely notice the performance improvements on these newer generation processors.”
    View source at 11:15from October 2026

Sound

Headphones1

  • Apple EarPods

    positive about it

    “I will share some first impressions after a couple hours of use and compare them to my Apple EarPods.”
    View sourcefrom October 2026

Editing and post

Productivity software3

  • Microsoft Excel

    cited in 3 videos

    “Have all my stuff open that I use, which is about 10 Chrome tabs, writing down some notes, doing some work in a couple Excel sheets, and also doing some gaming.”
  • Samsung DeX

    speaks highly of it

    “So, overall, really happy with the software experience on this, the amount of versatility with the regular tablet mode, having the built-in Dex mode.”
    View source at 5:44from June 2026
  • “This was about an hour and a half of watching content, couple hours of work and productivity, planning for an upcoming trip for about an hour, and doing about an hour of gaming as well, 30 minutes writing some Samsung notes, little bit of web browsing, and some camera usage, but overall doing a lot of different things on this device enjoyably and still getting 8 hours of screen on time.”
    View source at 6:15from June 2026

Desk

Computers9

  • “And to everybody complaining about not wanting fingerprints on their display, here's my M4 MacBook Pro. This one does not have a touchcreen.”
    View source at 2:10from November 2026
  • MacBook Neo

    $689.00positive about it

    “And to put this into perspective, if I get out my MacBook Neo now, this is a $500 computer with just a five-core GPU, much less than any of Apple's other current offerings, you can see I'm getting a smooth 120 frames per second right out the bat here.”
    View source at 4:44from June 2026
  • MacBook

    mixed views on it

    “I am always using some sort of dongle to go with my MacBooks since that just has Type-C ports.”
    View source at 3:14from May 2026
  • “I have the base model here with the M5 Pro chip, 24 gigs of memory, one TB SSD, and of course, that OLED display.”
    View source at 0:03from November 2026

Peripherals1

  • Clicks Power Keyboard

    mixed views on it

    “In this video, we're going to be checking out the Clicks Power Keyboard. I pre-ordered this myself a couple months ago. It just arrived.”
    View source at 0:00from September 2026

Everything else

Other4

  • Samsung Galaxy Trifold

    positive about it

    “And I think the portrait orientation is going to be also a gamecher on this Fold 8 for me personally because my current other favorite phone right now, the Galaxy Trifold, I am actually using this device a lot more in the portrait orientation.”
    View source at 2:15from July 2026
  • “I have the navy blue color here with 512 gigs of storage.”
    View source at 0:04from October 2026
  • iPhone 18 Pro

    positive about it

    “So, for example, on my iPhone 18 Pro, if I want to check the price of something, I have access to all my different charts here that I want to look at quickly right here on the main screen.”
    View source at 6:35from October 2026
  • “So, I went to the Apple Store and got the official case lineup. We'll check these out in a separate video because these are really expensive and don't offer full protection.”
    View source at 8:46from October 2026

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