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I know this is a bit old, but I have never voiced my opinion against the two. Popularity states that the iPod is supreme ruler of the portable music world. Is this true? Lets find out.

For starters, the iPod has a long running history of portable music players. The sound quality is superb, the ease of use is supreme and the quality and sleekness of the device is very sexy. The Zune on the other hand is pretty much the exact opposite. It’s not sexy, sleek or visually appealing at all. Come on, BROWN?

Alright, I’ll have to admit, their advertising itself leads you to believe that the Zune is the “Michael Jackson (1980’s) of portable players”. Yet, when the advertisements suckered me into buying one, it left me thinking “This piece of junk is the 2007 version of Michael Jackson”. It left me 100% confused, and often times, left me feeling like stalking little kids.. Ha ha, just kidding.

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A friend wrote in requesting a comparison between the PS3 and Xbox 360. This is a very interesting topics as these two products are in very fierce competition. Both are fairly expensive, come in multiple versions, and are extremely powerful gaming systems.

I will start off first with information about the Playstation 3 from Sony. The playstation 3 has the most advanced hardware of any gaming system yet. It also has a Blu-ray disc drive for watching the latest Blu-ray movies. Sony went all out in the high quality components it included in this system. They actually were losing money on every system sold at release. I am not aware if this has changed yet but in the future it surely will. If they are losing money, why would they release it? The answer is; they intend on making it all back with the sales of games.

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I need to know what everyone wants to know more about. This site is about helping everyone make good purchasing decisions. If I haven’t covered it please request it. I will work on requests immediately so send an email to exclusiveview@gmail.com and let me know what you want to read about. HDTV, Computers, Blu-ray? Tell me and you will see it posted. I will do the research and give some great buying advice. Also, please link to exclusiveview.net whenever possible, we need more visitors.

- Dustin

So Vista has been released, or unleashed on the world. However you want to look at it. It has several different options. Microsoft has made 5 editions of its new operating system. They are trying to fit into every person’s needs. There are Ultimate, Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, and Enterprise available for your purchase in both 32 and 64bit versions.

What’s the difference? Well they are all the same basic thing with each having different added features depending on your application. Ultimate has every possible option while the rest have stripped out the options Microsoft thinks you will not need for your purpose. Over at Extremetech.com they wrote a good article “Which edition is right for you?“, be sure and check that out if you want to know which edition you should purchase.

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So in the past 6 months I have helped several people buy new High Definition TV’s and I purchased one myself. I ended up going with a 50 inch Samsung Plasma HP-T5054 and absolutely love it.

Prior to all of the research I did in helping others buy TV’s, I would have never bought a plasma TV. Why you ask? Screen burn, it was a huge problem and made your really expensive TV look like garbage quickly. When an image was displayed on the screen for too long, it would actually have a permanent ghosting of that image. However, I learned with new technologies screen burn isn’t so much of an issue anymore. The model I have actually has a section in the menu called “screen burn protection” and in this menu it has settings to move the picture ever so slightly periodically along with a few other things to help prevent the hideous screen burn. With that said, now I would recommend a plasma TV as a good solution to your entertainment needs.

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I just started a new job 2 months ago. When hired I was given the opportunity to pick any laptop on the company’s dollar. This was like putting a kid in a candy store. I didn’t know what to go for, I love technology and can never get enough. Apple has always interested me in several ways. After some research I chose a Macbook Pro. I have never owned an Apple product until now and can say I am very happy with my choice of this 15.4 inch Macbook Pro.

Apple has always appealed to me in several ways: their hardware has a sex appeal to it, they always have good innovations, and their operating systems have always been more efficient than their windows counter part. Knowing that I can run windows on my Mac, I felt that I couldn’t go wrong with this purchase. Even if I decided OSX wasnt for me, I could still run windows on it and not feel as if I lost.

Seeing the box this laptop comes in makes you feel like you bought jewelry or something. It is black, shiny, and just looks luxurious. When opening you will find that everything is neatly packed inside and layed out simply so anyone could put everything back in its place easily. Even the packaging for this laptop is nice and well thought out.

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Tonight the site’s layout is finally complete after hours of work. Features will be added all the time, but the site’s main layout is complete for now. I hope you all like it and find it easy to view. If you have any comments or suggestions, please leave a comment. This site’s goal is to cater to you the user/consumer, so be sure to let us know how we can better cater to you.

- Dustin

Hey everyone,

I got the Hot List started. What is the Hot List you ask? The Hot List is a list of links that will be updated often listing links to things that we think are Hot. Whether it be products, websites, or whatever, you will find it there. Anything that we give a positive review will be added in there as well.

Got a Hot Link that you would like to see listed? Send it to exclusiveview@gmail.com and we will review it. If it passes the test, it will be added.

- Dustin

I’m over in Yakima, WA for the weekend. I’m over here for my girlfriends grandparents 60th Anniversary and her grandpas 82nd birthday. Wow. Just think how much those two know about each other after such a LONG time being together. Its so odd to think that at their stage in their lives, all those petty arguments that they had over the years mean very little to them now. The love those two must share is beyond imaginable. I look back to some of the fights I’ve gotten into over the past few years with all my girlfriends and I wonder… Were they really as necessary as I thought they were back then? Probably not. I look at the way I treat my girlfriend sometimes and wonder that same thing. Why must I feel the urge to argue over something so petty. I just pray to god that I live to experience my 60th Anniversary with her..

-Barry

Hello,

I would like to welcome you all to our new site. My name is Dustin I am the other poster/founder of Exclusive view. We are working hard creating this blog, so be sure to check back often for new features. Also in the works is a forum to accompany the blog, so all of you can have your discussions in the community.

- Dustin