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To start things off, this camera buying guide isn’t for everyone. People have different wants and needs, in photography. This buying guide is for people with similar usage to my own, which I will explain. If you are a person who has different wants and needs; please send an email to exclusiveview@gmail.com and tell me about your wants and needs. I am always willing to write a customized ReView.

Alright, what are my wants and usages for a camera. Well I want something small, the smaller the better. I do not like carrying around a big camera. If I still had a big camera it would sit at home like the ones I have had. I am much more inclined to use a small camera that I can just throw in my pocket.

Isn’t it true the smaller cameras don’t have as good of picture quality? Well that used to be the case. With all of our wonderful technology advancements, you can have ultracompact cameras that give an amazing picture. The biggest down side to the ultracompact cameras is that most have only 3x or 4x optical zoom.

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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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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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