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LAMETRIC GOOGLE WIFI MICROSOFT
TIME
Got rubbish Wi-Fi? SURFA CE LAPT OP
Customising your clock Welcome to the club.
used to mean choosing But it doesn’t have to
whether to display the be like this. Google Wifi
time in 12- or 24-hour is a team of web pucks
format, but LaMetric’s that send the internet Guy Cocker storage. Some people will be put off
Wi-Fi-powered Time into all corners of your Global Brand Director by Windows 10 S, which restricts you
takes thing to another home (rather than just to downloading apps from Microsoft’s
level, allowing you to repeating an already What kind of carpet Windows Store, but what are you
install apps from IFTTT, weak connection), with do you have on your going to do with it beyond watching
Philips Hue, Belkin’s some nifty tricks that laptop? You don’t? Not even a patch Netflix and trawling Giphy.com?
WeMo and loads more. make sure you connect of retrofitted shagpile to rest your If you absolutely must have full-fat
By the time you’ve to the fastest one each wrists on? Me neither – so I’ve loved Windows you can upgrade it, but the
got to grips with time. You’ll never be running my fingers across the Surface Laptop’s speed and battery life will
everything this clock stuck on the loo without Laptop, which is covered in a fuzzy take a hit as a result. Still, you can
does, it’ll be time to social media again. material called Alcantara. always use it as a pillow when the
go to bed. from £129 / You can spec it with Kaby Lake battery’s dead.
£159 / amazon.co.uk google.com processors and up to 512GB of SSD from £979 / microsoft.com

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