IEBA

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How would you change Apple's HDMI-equipped Mac mini? (Engadget)

Aug 14th 2010 2:36PM I meant - amidst the USB cables. It's not under.

How would you change Apple's HDMI-equipped Mac mini? (Engadget)

Aug 14th 2010 2:35PM There's the boneheaded move of putting the SD card slot on the back, under the USB cables (might as well have put it inside the unit, so you have to turn it over and unscrew the bottom).

SD card slot in the front.
Blu-ray as an option.
ExpressCard 2.0 slot out the back. Then we can add nearly whatever capability we need.

DMC's 5-inch Copia color e-reader landing this fall for $99, others to follow (Engadget)

Jul 30th 2010 10:15AM I dunno, 5" is awfully small. Might as well buy that Dell phone/computer. I even thing the small Kindle i too small. I like being able to read a bit without having to page turn or monkey around with buttons every few seconds.

http://ieba.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/pc-makers-bring-the-shizzle-apple-yawns/

iMac's latest 27-inch iteration requires special parts for your own SSD in second drive bay (Engadget)

Jul 30th 2010 10:12AM The iMac (aside form the very first one) is not meant to be user friendly aside from adding RAM. Unfortunately for Mac users, the only alternative for customization is the way to friggin huge and expensive Mac Pro.

http://ieba.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/openlet/

If Apple really wanted to throw Mac users a bone, they'd make a Mac Mini Pro, with a full size (and replacable) optical drive, a startup drive and room for one removable optical drive. And then either have room for a PCI sot, or have an ExpressCard 2.0 slot on the back, or two of them. Let users augment their computers without all this "missing cable" nonsense.

EVO 4G's Android 2.2 update starts trickling out tomorrow, loads of new features and fixes in store? (update: official for August 3rd!) (Engadget)

Jul 30th 2010 10:09AM The problem with making the handsets even more powerful is that you put more of your life (like banking, online presence) into a tiny little handset with near zero security.

http://ieba.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/cell-phone-security-is-not/

Till there's some hardened biometric security measure in these hand held (and easily losable, stealable) computers, I'm relegated to using them for browsing.

ATI overtakes NVIDIA in discrete GPU shipments (Engadget)

Jul 30th 2010 10:06AM Well, nVidia may be playing the "Apple" game of going for the higher end market, from their massively powerful Gpu's to tying in with specific industries that will ensure certain markets choose nVidia, like Adobe tying their Mercury Engine acceleration to nVidia cards.

For professionals dealing with AVCHD, or other complex codecs, and needing to mix together complex, layered visuals, Premiere's Mercury Engine blows away Final Cut Pro and other non-accelerated hardware in terms of seeing your product while editing.

http://ieba.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/fcsvcs5/

Then , when you need to render out, the GPU again puts everything in the timeline together and hands that off to your multicore CPU to compress to your output codec. If that's H.264, there are external hardware accelerators for that too. So the need for a kick arse CPU (like Apple's huge, expensive, 12-core machine) are diminishing while the need for the most powerful GPU is increasing. And nVidia is no slouch there.

Best Portable Outdoor Speakers for Pool Parties, Beach Bums and More (Switched)

Jul 16th 2010 10:34PM I'd love to see a speaker system that the iPhone/iPod slipped inside that was barely larger, but provided volume to enjoy the music. Not looking for bass or fidelity, just volume. Roll it all off at 300 Hz.

Second system I'd love to see a review of is PA systems that are iPod/iPhone ready. Alesis makes one, but it's not very good IMHO. Somethign that A) take a mic input or two (built-in wireless would be even better) and secondly, allows wireless control of the iPod (play/pause/forward/back) as well as volume.

Sony NEX-VG10 HD camcorder preview (Engadget)

Jul 15th 2010 11:49PM There's a lot to love and a lot to scratch your head about this camcorder. But I think the key here is that Sony is touting this as a consumer camcorder. Put me in the column waiting for a prosumer version with multiple framerates, higher bitrate, scopes, XLR, heck, maybe they'll even throw in a zoom rocker on the camera body to let you use the included 11x optical zoom lens.

Sony issues NEX-VG10: first interchangeable lens HD Handycam camcorder (Engadget)

Jul 15th 2010 1:00AM I have to say that Sony really surprised me on this one. I went through the release pretty closely and, aside from the same limited AVCHD data rate as every other camcorder out there (that has been demonstrated to not show the video to its potential) that this looks like a smoking camcorder that will hammer the vDSLR sales because it will provide so many of the necessary functionality the vDSLR setups get only by stringing a bunch of stuff off of the camera.

I am very glad I didn't blow thousands on line skipping vDSLR's and lenses and external HDMI adapters, and all that wonkiness for the sake of shallow Depth of Field.

My hope is that there's a "pro" vairant of this camera coming with XLR, waveform, and hopefully a higher data rate- not out of the question for Sony since they already have several 35 Mbps camcorders.