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Well, while Photos may look good, it surely is sad to lose iPhoto for a couple of reasons: Storage. If you don’t use Photos to store you library, then it creates a resources file that is unlinked which can double your disk usage. This makes Photos essentially useless for those…

Well I haven’t had time to analyze things, but late breaking facts: Intel SSD 750 vs Samsung. The new Samsung M.2 will be x4 PCI Express with NVMe, they give a real run for the money for the Intel PCIe Express slot cards. I love the idea of a 2400MBps…

Well the portal may be dead, but they do have this Amerideal thing. You have to opt in but some incredible deals are: 10% off of Starbucks purchases which is incremental to the points you earn. 15% off of Sears and combining that with a click through Alaska Airlines of…

Last year was just an also year for getting more point. We got over 50K incremental points just by using the BoA portal. He deals were amazing. 15 points for beats at one point.  The top purchase sites were overstock, Rakuten, best buy and staples. As well as Walmart and…

Well, I got the SLI actually running, but it looks like you get some pretty strange artifacts when you run nvidia-xconfig –sli=auto, so you are warned. I’m not sure what the right approach is here, but the code looks like. Also if you have two monitors connected, then if you…

OK, I’m probably the only person who has ever had this happen, but it is confusing. We have two monitors setup going to two computers. One has DVI connected to both and the other has HDMI connected to both. This allows each computer to drive two monitors or when both…

We need a real NVidia card for testing and it’s hard to find a low profile low height with Techreport doing a great analysis. The short thing is that the Antec is very low profile and also single slot with less than 20mm thick.  The analysis is interesting and shows…

Well there are definitely some tips and tricks here to get Windows 8.1 to live on one SSD and Ubuntu to live a different SSD and then finally to have a data SSD that both can use. Here’s how to do it: 1. Install Windows 8.1 first because Windows doesn’t…

Well what is fast? That’s the hardest to say, but here are some results for the two machines which are: ASRock Z97m OC with Intel Core i7-4790K (Haswell) at 4.5GHz overclock with DDR3-2400 (no overclock ram) and a pair of SLIed Asus Strix GTX 970. The overclock is +200MHz on…

I’m going to be trying this bad boy out in a little bit. Thanks to lensrentals.com for making it easy. It was good to see what lenses to use as at 36MP, you really need good quality glass. I found the same last year with the Sony A7, you end…