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Sony A900

September 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Woohoo. The reat thing is that Nikon, Canon and now Sony are all shipping 20MP plus cameras and the low end pro cameras are now 15MP running at ISO 1600. This is amazing!
AnandTech: Sony A900 Full-Frame: Hands-On Preview
The culmination of the Sony push into the Digital SLR market was unveiled on September 8, after 18 [...]

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iPhone poor 3G performance isn’t in the hardware

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, there is nothing like real world testing. It looks like all these complaints about the iPhone are because this is wireless, so you can have deadspots close together and because networks are being overwhelmed and in the US the network is spotty.
AppleInsider | Repeat tests show iPhone 3G doesn’t suffer from faulty hardware
Wieselgren reported [...]

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Time Capsule running hot

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’ve noticed that Time Capsules can really run hot. I haven’t figured it out, but it looks like something keeps accessing them. Speculation is that if you have the Time Capsule drives mounted on a Mac, then the hard disk stays spinning.
I’ve had mine stacked and that seems to be bad too. You want them [...]

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