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The Samsung A53 is coming. On paper it looks good, especially the longer OS and security update period. The camera group is all in one section, so they should be easy to defeat with a single foil sticker. It sucks not to have the headphone/microphone port, but that seems to be the cost...

I was hoping NAS would get better, but the realty is that Synology has screwed over the consumers by making us buy only the "Synology" branded Toshiba drives at stupidly high prices, e.g., over $600 for 16TB. :( Meanwhile QNAP has gone overboard with all the extra (and useless) 2.5" bays, so a...

What happened to the AMD? They seemed to be hot stuff prior to the pandemic, but have nothing really new and better in a long time. Meanwhile Apples have the smoking fast ARm's and Intel has 12th gen bi-core CPUs.

FW 1.5.2 is out for the R5 and R6. Firmware Version 1.5.2 incorporates the following enhancement: 1. Enhances the stability of Eye Detection. 2. Enhances AutoFocus tracking when shooting moving subjects. Firmware Version 1.5.2 is for cameras with firmware up to Version 1.5.1. If the camera's...

That is not to mention the load on a UPS.

Maybe they have a blowhole. LOL Imagine if you live in country with little to no A/C.

Photography is rapidly gravitating to the new MACs. Nobody wants a bulky and power hogging PC except IT and gamers. 600W videocard draw is ridiculous.

You can get the M1 Ultra (20 CPU cores, 48 video cores) with 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD for $4000, 2TB SSD for $4400, or 4TB SSD for $5000. I think most people will find that adequate for several years. There are 6x Thunderbowls in the Ultra version. I don't know what can be done about the SSD(s)...

I suppose but somehow that won't help with current SSDs and might stunt the growth of future chipsets. Over 10 years ago I had 44 lanes IIRC.

Whatever happened to the Dudering guy? I recall he had some scheme to strike it rich before the pandemonium.

The speakrs were so tinny that I never heard any booming from 1990s computers. :D

Well, they changed it later to get more body counts. LOL The boom ended about 1958 when the economy tanked and people reduced the reporduction.

I thought a boomer was somebody born between the end of the 2nd world war and the end of the 1950s.

I'm leaving the 2x 4TB in the laptop and hope to use that in the summertime. I was hoping to also use it in the desktop when in the states, but the slower write speeds compared to the original 2x 2TB 970EVO+ is not worthwile. Computing its becoming very unpleasant and upsetting with the Win 11...

My understanding is that MACs are like modern cars or cellphones and you cannot do many upgrades with them except crush or trade in the product for a new model. Additionally that influences the consumer to buy the most heavily optioned (highest profit) models for fear that long term performance...

That's a big part of the problem with the mainstream boards that only have 16-24 lanes. Unfortunately the higher boards use the stupidly expensive CPUs with excessive cores that don't help most mainstream programs that need decent single-thread performance.

The RED SSDs are a bit strange. For no good reason the write performance is reduced in the x570 setup, but normal in the laptop.

Yeah, that MAC Studio looks nice for anything involving image processing, but $8K and not serviceable makes me pause. It does allow a personal monitors, which would solve some issues.

I don't think an adapter will fit in my current system due to the clearance. I'd like to see six of those ports like we have SATA.

Now you can get 64 cored 5000 series Threadripper Pro 5995WX with 64 cores and 280W.

Pretty much everything I want to do is becoming a thing of the past. I'd be fine with U.3, but don't expect to ever see it in a normal computer. M.2 is stupidly small for power/heat production. All the TLC 2280 SSDs >2TB have chipotle on the underside, which is even worse.

What are people using as USB-C enclosures for 2.5" SATA SSDs? My older USB 3.0 enclosures are dicsonnecting with the 4TB drives. I think it is a power issue because there are no errors when writing/reading the whole 4TB on a natural SATA port. :(

Might it be meningitis? At least get an x-ray.

They are using a bunch of Seagate SATA SSDs and a sprinkling of others? I don't think that data has much value.

No, I was always a civilian. There is nothing wrong with any physical activity such as moving if you enjoy it.

The older you get the less you want to do anything yourself. Ideally you will have money to pay people to do all that stuff. I never self moved, but in the late 80s and 90s when I was stationed all over the place I could only take about 70kg or risk leaving it behind.

Even with modern low-res cameras like the R6, a 70-200/2.8 would be a better choice for most concerts than a slow, giant zoom. I'm assuming you have some credentials to shoot at the event?

DXO PL5 is good for some things, like the NR, but other corrections are not nearly as good as the Canon DPP DLO module. I'lll probably use it more with the Nikon bodies. It's also disappointing that so many lenses are missing DXO profiles.

What are you using now; do you have the R5, R3 or just DLSRs?

Now we have Acapulco of ridiculous new lenses that Canon is producing instaed of updating the 500/4 to RF or making a 600 DO RF to replace the bag-busting RF version. The 100-500 is really nice, even compared to the 100-400 II.

Most of the issue is using current software that will not be supported on 10 after a while. Soon 10 won't support new hardware either, just as MS dicated use of 10 after Q1 2017 new hardware. I can use current hardware for legacy programs that don't need high performance.

So what does this mean for people like me who have no domainers and don't really know what MS is doing? I can use 10 for 3 more years IIRC, then have to use the Apple eventually?

I also have the latest suite on Topaz, but am not so thrilled with it. Most of the tools have limited controls. For example the Gigapixel produces weird artifcats and oversharpens and Denoise is inferior to the DXO PL5, which does use the GPU. The Topaz tools use some GPU and some CPU, but...

FW 1.51 is out, which supposedly fixes some of the screw-ups in 1.5. There will also be a 1.6 to address some general improvements.

So that is needed everytime you reboot? One activated is there no way to bypass the log-in each time or have it automated?

Does an MS account have to contain PII? What are the mainstream alternatives other than Apple, or will they do the same?

Great. :( I don't like to order products with vague delivery dates as packages occasionally don't arrive or disappear when I'm gone. By the time they are in stock who knows.

They are out of stock and the pric increased so I'm not sure.

I turned down earliest retirement plan during Pandemic. I'm too old to go Canadian now. I plan to keep wokring until shortly befor ethe dead BODY. Or maybe 60 somethings.

Most people eventually regret not taking care of their teeth as well as they could have. :(

I prefer Diet Coke over Coke Zero over Diet Pepsi. I haven't had a Tab in like 45 years. 😆 In some countries you take what you can get, generically Coke Light, which is lately more of a Coke Zero. The Coke is still seen in the reusable glass bottles, but the no-sugar varieties are in usually...

I would be using it multiple times/places over 2-3 year lifetime, e.g., in a laptop part time, otherwise externally enclosed, and maybe even in a desktop for data. I'm wondering how that SN700 can be so cheap, yet still be TLC and have the DRAM. Mostly I want to know what the sustained write...

What are you all using for the 4TB NVMe in T&L laptops? I am considering the WD RED SN700 which is rather cheap. The TBW is very high for a TLC SSD. It's designated for NAS so maybe the FW is whack and no good for general uses?

It looks like they are 11th gen Intel. I thought there would be Alder Lakes by the Summertime.

I'm probably not configured correctly. Anyways, it's unlikely that we'll ever need one again. After using the last experince with the NUC, I'd just get another one like that. I'm hoping Intel can reduce the powers in the next generation.

I'm only seeing one model here M75n. Maybe there were others in the past.

I found that at a different site in 2019. https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=1593

The mini Dell Optoplex lasted less a little over 2 years. It developed an intermittent issue with not outputting any videos from boot. :mad: For a while it was left on 24/7, but Windows 10 updates create automatic reboots and then both videos (DP and HDMI) again die 80+% of the time. I would...

Wow! Iphones are too expensive for the work phone. The only ones under $500 are either two versions old (2019 model 11) or a tiny model (SE), so that's not a viable option. :(

No, I mean over about 300mm though it depends on other factors as well. At least you can zoom out with the 100-500 for orientation and acquisition.