3D TV Buying Guide site

Is anyone familair with theis website and their ratings? http://3d-tvbuyingguide.com/3dtv-reviews/3d-tv-shootout.html They seem to give a vary informative review of Plasma and LCD tv's. I am wondering if they have a byass to Samsung tv's versus Panasonic because they have the Samsung clearly beating the Panasonic VT25 series and everything I have read elsewhere has been the other way. I am almost ready to pull the trigger on a 58" TV and I want to have the best information avaialble.

Also my original choice was the Samsung and after reading a bit on AVS forums my choice still stands with samsung. The Panasonic appears to have floating black levels, along with last years models losing their black levels over a short period of time makes them no better than Samsungs Plasma's. With the Samsung you get much richer colors. The major problem with Samsung is buzzing sounds. Last years 58" model was well known for it but other size's were that bad. I don't know about this years model.

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AMS Standard Edition White Paper vs buying guide

From buying guide as http://www.adobe.com/hk_zh/products/adobe-media-server-family/buying-guide-comparison.html, the AMS Standard Edition is unlimited in RTMP and HTTP.
However, from the white paper as http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/ams/pdfs/ams5-intro-wp.pdf page 5, it did not mention any connection limit?
Will it assume also unlimited?

Yes. RTMP and HTTP are unlimited in Standard. Limits are on SIP and RTMFP

A PC buying guide for NLE (mainly Intel)

For AMD setups, disregard the mentions of sockets and the like but the general recommendations still hold.
When you need a new PC for editing purposes, you basically have three choices:
1. Buy an off the shelf system from companies like HP or Dell.
2. Buy a custom built PC from a specialist company, like ADK Pro Audio| Digital Audio workstations, Pro Audio Laptops, Pro audio interfaces, Pro audio software, DAW.
3. Build it yourself.
Solution 1 can offer good prices if you stick to their standard configurations and it is easy. But remember that these companies make their profit not on the base system, but on all the options they offer. If you follow their recommendations and upgrade memory, hard disks, or choose a better video card or a faster processor, they steal you blind.
I have nothing against HP or Dell, I have bought systems from them, but usually that was because of a great offer with all the features I needed at the time and applied to notebooks, desktops and servers.
Solution 2 is usually costly, but you get what you pay for. You get the expertise of the seller/builder in selecting the right components, he builds it, installs the software and tests it before delivery. The downside is that often these specialists have their own favorite hardware, like Matrox or Canopus and try to get that into the deal, which increases the price.
Solution 3 is usually the most cost effective and the most flexible, but the largest drawback is that you need to choose all the right components, to be aware of potential incompatibilities and build it yourself. Many see that as a major stumbling block, but really it is not difficult. Another drawback is support. You have to do it yourself.
The first steps to take are twofold:
1. What material do you want to edit and how do you want to deliver the results?
To put it bluntly, if you want to edit material, recorded with a mobile phone, a digital still camera, recorded off the internet from YouTube or similar, recorded from TV, grabbed from the screen, encoded with any unsuitable codec like DivX, XVid, or the like, or ripped from DVD, and that is your major purpose, no need to read this further, just use a consumer application like Windows Movie Maker or Magix for your editing.
This guide is for people who use a VIDEO camera and want to edit that.
So for people with video cameras, what is the main format you use? DV, HDV, DVCPROHD, AVCHD, XDCAMHD, other?
Do you deliver for the web, on BR or DVD or all of those?
2. What is your budget?
Once you have answered these two basic questions for yourself can you start the selection process.
It will require you to read quite a lot about PC's. Good general sources of information are:
http://www.tomshardware.com and http://anandtech.com
As a general rule of thumb you can say that the minimum requirements in terms of CPU, despite what Adobe mentions as minimum requirements, are:
1. For DV: Core 2 Duo
2. For AVCHD: i7 with HT or dual Xeon's 55xx
3. For other HD formats: Core 2 Quad
It generally does not pay to get the fastest CPU, unless you have an unlimited budget. Their price/performance is usually not the best and you will find a step down gives you nearly the same performance at a much lower price. And there is always overclocking, but I'll come back to that later. To give an example, the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 is currently more than 4 times as expensive as the Core 2 Quad Q9550, but does not deliver any noteworthy performance improvement. And both are quad cores.
To help you narrow down your choices, it is worthwhile to have a look at these charts:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desptop-cpu-charts-q3-2008/Cinema-4D-Release-10,835.htm l
Likely a new version for Q1-2009 will come out shortly.
In deciding on your shortlist, keep in mind that for video editing FSB speed and cache size are very important. First look at FSB speed (the higher the better, so if you have the choice between 1066 or 1333 FSB, always choose the higher one if it fits your budget). Next narrow down your choices by selecting the CPU with the largest cache. 6 MB L3 cache is better than 3 MB.
Let's assume that after studying all these sites and reading a lot about CPU's, you have made a shortlist of possible candidates, that fit the minimum requirements indicated above, you have to identify what socket the CPU uses. Is it a 775 pin socket (Core2), a 1366 pin (i7 or Xeon 55xx) or a 771 Xeon 54xx or lower (old generation) socket. This will largely determine your choice of motherboard and memory type you need and as a consequence the case and cooling you need.
In general the chipset on a 775 mobo uses DDR2, dual channel memory, which is widely available and relatively cheap. On a 771 mobo the memory used is FBDIMM (fully buffered DDR2) with ECC (error correction) which is much harder to get and significantly more expensive. On a 1366 mobo the memory is triple channel DDR3 which is faster than DDR2 but also more expensive. For Xeon 55xx based boards memory used is FBDIMM's triple channel with ECC, which is hard to find and costly.
The main difference between DDR2 and DDR3 is that dual channel requires two populated memory banks for dual channel operation, whereas triple channel DDR3 requires three banks populated. That is the reason that mobo's with DDR2 usually come with 4 or 8 GB RAM and DDR3 mobo's with 6 or 12 GB RAM. DDR3 is faster (at the same specs) than DDR2. To complicate matters further, most 775 mobo's offer 4 memory slots, 1366 mobo's usually offer 6 memory slots and 1366 dual socket Xeon boards usually offer 12 memory slots.
I see you are losing interest, this is getting way too complicated. Well, I'm sorry but if you want to make an informed decision on what your next system should be, you need to understand these basics or buy a Dell or HP or even Alienware (a Dell subsidiary). And I continue to bore you with these technicalities in order to help you make a good purchasing decision.
When selecting a mobo for the CPU you have selected, read tests on TomsHardware or AnandTech to help you find the good performers that have the right set of features for your job. Good brands are ASUS, Abit, Gigabyte and MSI for single socket use, for dual socket the best one to check out is SuperMicro or possibly Tyan.
Pay attention to the features a board offers, like dual NIC's (network interface controller), dual firewire, number of SATA ports, chipset used for the SATA controller, IHCR and/or Marvell raid capability, on board sound, etcetera. Pay special attention to the board layout, where the PCI-e slots are located in relation to PCI slots. I have once built a machine where I knew I had to use a PCI firewire board and due to the location of the PCI-e slot and the size of the video card (dual slot size) the PCI slot was no longer accessible. It caused me quite some headaches to find a PCI-x firewire replacement board, because I had forgotten to have a close look at the mobo layout. Just a warning, so you don't fall into the same trap I did.
Ok, we have now decided on the CPU and the mobo. Let's have a look at memory.
General rule: Get as much as you can and don't spend it on higher clock capable versions! You will gain more from slower memory in large quantities, than from faster but less memory, even with 32 bit apps like CS4. One of the side effects of more memory is less use of a pagefile, which is far slower than RAM, so even if the application can not access more than 4 GB, your pagefile use will be much lower with more memory installed.
Memory is offered with various ratings. Often in marketing jargon these are dubbed as PC3-8500 or PC3-10600 or PC3-12800 up to 16000. This is all hype. The price tag increases significantly with higher numbers but the performance gain is negligent, in the order of 1 or 2 %. Your best bet is to get memory that is suitable for the FSB speed you have. If you have a FSB of 1333, use memory for 1333 FSB (10600), if you have a FSB of 1066, get 1066 capable memory (8500), it is a complete waste of money to get 1600 capable memory if your FSB does not support it. What is important however is to get the best timings you can find.
The lower the CAS latency, the better. Also look at tRAS (ROW-ACTIVE-TIME) results. These timing figures may give you better performance than spending money on higher clocked memory. On my system I have 6-6-6-18 timings for memory (even when overclocked by 35% and without increasing the voltage), which gives far better results than 9-9-9-27 timings. BTW, timings are usually measured in CAS, RAS-to-CAS, tRP and tRAS sequence. The lower these numbers, the better it is.
In general get at least 4 GB on a 775 or 6 GB on a 1366 mobo, but you may benefit from doubling these figures if you are multitasking, for instance having PR, AE and EN open for dynamic linking, or changing to PS for text or still manipulation.
Next: Storage. I point you to a previous guide I made which gives you the basics about disk setup:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/427772
Next cases. I suggest to only look at big towers or server towers, depending on the mobo of your choice. For dual CPU sockets a server tower is almost always a must, decause of the use of e-ATX size mobo's and the requirement for specialized cooling, often using an air duct, which is only available in server cases. SuperMicro is a prime supplier and my personal favorite in terms of build quality, expansion capabilities and reliability. Be aware however that the power supply in those cases are pretty noisy. For single CPU solutions there are many choices, often based on looks. What is much more important however is the expansion room and the airflow in those cases. You don't want to pimp your editing machine with LED illuminated fans, transparent sides and the like. It needs to be functional. Antec, CoolerMaster, Lian Li and ThermalTake are common brands and worth having a look at. Looking at smaller cases with a sexy look will often lead to disappointment in the future, since they often lack the capability to add additional disk drives or burners internally or get so full with equipment, that cooling is going to be a real problem. Do take into consideration that you may need 1 or 2 5.25" slots for burners.
Warning: COOLING is essential for reliability and longevity of your system. We'll get to that in a minute.
If you work long form projects, have a multitude of projects or other situations that may require a large number of disks in use or for backup, it is worth to have a look at cases that offer SAS backplanes and (hot-)swappable disk cages. Often on various sites you may find entries to case modding, where you can find other disk cages that allow you to use four 3.5" disks in the space for two 5.25" slots. In my case I had 6 3.5" slots as is was delivered. I have modded my case to now contain 14 3.5" disks just on the front with room for another disk. To avoid disappointment in the future and a lot of work of rebuilding your PC into a new chassis, plan ahead for the storage requirements you may have in the next years. If you start out with 4
disks now, but expect to use 8 next year, be sure that they fit in, even if it requires different disk cages. Make sure that there is adequate cooling for the disks in the disk cages, preferably with 80 or 120 mm fans in front of the disks and use a replacable dust filter.
By this stage we have found the CPU, mobo, memory, hard disks and case. Time to have a look at video cards.
General: CS4 will not significantly benefit from a high end video card. The marketing hype wants us to believe that the nVidia
Quadro CX will give enormous benefits for encoding H.264, but that is just what it is: "Hype".
For general NLE work you are better served with more CPU power, more memory and more hard disks and possibly a better raid controller with more cache than with a video card that costs you at least $ 1 K extra in comparison to very good cards. Better spend the money where you benefit from it. SLI or CrossFire is a complete waste of money and only applies to gamers. Everybody serious about video editing will NEVER install a game on his machine so forget about those things.
If you make sure that you have at least 512 MB on a decent modern video card, you will be hard pressed to see significant differences in performance. ATI Radeon 4xxx and nVidia GT 2xx series are all well up to the task for editing. If you use GPU intensive plug-ins like Colorista or Magic Bullet you may be wise to choose for the more powerful versions of these cards, since these plug-ins are very demanding when rendering.
These video cards get very hot in practice and especially under load. If your case is very full or you have another card in the next PCI-e slot, reducing airflow to the video card, you may consider exchanging the stock cooler on the video card by a special cooler like the Accelero Twin Turbo from Arctic Cooling to keep temperatures in hand.
Now go to http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp and use the PSU calculator to roughly decide what your power supply needs to deliver in terms of Wattage. I strongly suggest to get the PRO version (it is cheap!) but it saves you from fatal mistakes. A PSU (power supply unit) is one of the most overlooked and neglected components in a PC and very often the cause for all kinds of mysterious faults, hangs, BSOD's, restarts etcetera. Let me tell what nearly happened to me when building a new PC. I had checked the power supply requirements, checked reviews online and found one PSU that appealed to me, based on the reviews. It was a Zalman 1000 W. Great, looks good and in stock at an attractive price. I then got the pro version and rechecked, with the extra info on the various rails. The Zalman did not have enough power on the 5V rails that I needed. So I had to change the PSU, otherwise I would have been in for a lot of strange, unexplainable and foreall unexpected hangs, restarts and the like, apart from the reduced life expectancy of the PSU.
Now, we're finally getting somewhere. Only cooling is left, then all the hardware components have been chosen.
CPU cooling: Again check sites like AnandTech. They regularly perform extensive tests on CPU coolers. Be aware that test results differ widely from site to site, but some of the names to consider are Noctua, Scythe and Thermaltake. It is best to choose a vertical heatsink cooler with 'push-pull' configuration, meaning one fan in front to push the cooling air in to the heatsink and the other fan at the rear to pull out the air. That generally delivers the best cooling performance. These things can be quite heavy so they are not suggested for LAN parties. Install it and leave your PC where it is, otherwise the weight may damage your mobo. When installing the heatsink be very sparing in applying cooling paste (Arctic silver is a good
suggestion).
If you have followed my advise in getting a big tower you have room for additional fans in the case. There may not always be holes to attach screws for mounting, but what also works quite effectively is using heavy duty double sided tape to attach fans to a side, on the PSU (if it is mounted at the bottom of the case). Scythe has some very good fans that give a large airflow at reasonable RPM's and low sound levels.
Once you have built your system you need to decide what OS to use. 32 or 64 bit? The point seems moot now. 64 bit Vista is your best option currently. No driver problems anymore, somewhat decent stability and the use of all your installed memory. Windows 7 is only a RC currently, so I would not advise that on a production machine, but on another machine I would definitely try it. It is as stable as Vista is now, but drivers are still somewhat lacking. XP is out, despite the best stability on a clean and mean system, due to the 32 bit nature.
After installing the OS, first check your device manager. Make sure that all your devices are working and there are no warnings. Then update Windows, drivers and other system utilities. Then check your hardware, using CPU-Z and HWMonitor, check the cooling and voltages. Your disks should be below 35 C at all times. Then tune your Bios. Once you have completed these steps, proceed with installing your software. Start with essential system tools like Process Explorer, Beyond Compare, etc. and then continue with tuning Windows, removing sh*t you never use on an editing machine, like MSN or Games, setting unneeded services to manual, disabling Windows Defender and installing Symantec Endpoint protection if you have it, and only then start installing CS4 and related programs.
When all is well, you may consider to start overclocking. TomsHardware and AnandTech have published several articles on how to do that. If you do it right you will not lose stability and may get significant performance gains. It does require more attention to the temperatures in your case.
When I recently built a new system, my first PassMark (a common benchmark testing program) score was around 3600. After finetuning the system, optimizing Windows and overclocking, I got a PassMark score of 4733.8, which even after a month is still number two in the worldwide ranking.
For my system specs, look below, maybe you can derive some ideas from it for your next configuration:
http://www.millcon.nl/Harm/PCResults.jpg
I hope this has been informative and that you can profit from my remarks.
I'm sorry this was so long and taxed your patience to the extreme.
Further suggestions and enhancements are welcome.

I haven't the faintest idea. I only use DV, HDV and XDCAM-EX/HD and have never tried it with any (RED) 4K material. I assume it should be sufficient to handle that. But let's be honest, when I increased my raid array from 10 to 12 disks, I did not notice ANY performance gains. The limiting factor must be the PCI-e bus or the Areca controller, that just does not show any improvements from adding a couple of disks. Another thing to consider is that the various benchmark programs widely in use show quite different results.
As an example, here are two images from HD Tune Pro, one for my 2 disk raid0 on the Marvell chip and the other from my 12 disk raid30 array. First of all, HD Tune shows the wrong size, it is not 2199 GB but should be 10000 GB (at least that is what Areca claims as shown in the last picture), second it ONLY performs at around 745 MB/s transfer rate.
The most noteworthy item to look at is the rapid performance degradation of this raid0 when the disks get fuller. An average transfer rate of 165 MB/s is quite acceptable for a 2 disk setup, but seeing it go down to below 100 MB/s when the disks fill up is bothersome. It will not allow you to handle uncompressed HD at all.

Mac Pro for Final Cut Studio -- The Buying Guide

I am starting to think about upgrading my "old" Power Mac G5 Quad system to a Mac Pro system. As you might expect, this raises several issues.
What I do: I edit DV and HDV on FCS2. My specs are below. I am looking for the best speed (especially for rendering), stability and video quality I can afford (between $5,000 and $6,000).
Question 1: Is it true that Snow Leopard and FCP 7 are about a year away? If so, please assume for the following questions that I would be working with the full complement of FCS2 applications on the Leopard OS. (How worth waiting for do you think these are?)
Question 2: Without directing me to the various benchmark and testing sites (which I’ve already looked at), can you suggest the actual performance differences I would see (again, using the whole range of FCS2 apps) in the following:
Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors
Two 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors
Question 3: I have heard that (with the exception of Compressor) FCS can only use a maximum of 4GB of RAM, and that the 6GB that the Mac Pro ships with are already more than it can use. Is this true? Is it true that Snow Leopard would allow FCS to make greater use of more RAM? And would this show up in the programs’ performance?
Question 4: To get the best video performance with my various FCS2 applications, is there a significant quality improvement in moving up from the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB to one of the other video cards? How would I notice a difference in the quality?
Question 5: Are there any other purchasing considerations I should think about when configuring a new Mac Pro?
Thanks a lot.
Giraut

Well, well, well, you make me think more about my last upgrade of an ATI Radeon 2600 to the latest ATI Radeon HD 4870!
I was looking on the Final Cut Pro thread to find one answer and look what I found, your questions!
Since yesterday night I was seeking the Apple Support threads just for fun and I now have doubts.
I am a Mac Pro (earlier 2008) owner. I upgraded it to 4 x 1.5 Tb Seagate hard drives and 10G of RAM from OWC (Other Word Computing). First let me tell you NOT to buy from Apple Store for your hard drive and/or memory upgrade. They are totally out of price list. I got my Mac Pro first with one 500 Gb Seagate drive. Then I added 2 x 500 Gb hard drives from Apple. I payed them 199,00 $ each
Last September, I upgraded the drive bays with 4 x 1.5 Tb from OWC. I paid them 229.00 $ each!
199,00 $ for 500 Gb or 229,00 $ for 1.5 Tb (that"s 3 times 500 Gb) which one would you take? And we are talking about two models from Seagate running at 7200 RPM, with 32 Mb of buffer.
I mean... What is that?!!?
And the memory! Don't even think about it.
I got first 4GB Matched Set (2 x 2GB) for 147,99 $ in September from OWC and my second order was 4GB Matched Set (2 x 2GB) for 132,79 $ in October.
I payed a total of 280,78 $ for 8GB of RAM while the price for this upgrade on Apple Store woul have cost me 1998,00 $
*+Source Apple Store :+*
*+Apple Memory Module 4GB 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC 2x2GB $999.00+*
Multiply that by 2!
Now how much memory would you need?
I am not a Final Cut Pro user, but I use Final Cut Express a lot, with animation QuickTime movies exported from my Astronomy software Starry Night Pro Plus.
Yesterday I posted this into a thread to answer a user :
+Every morning I have my preferred applications started: Mail, Safari, iTune, Aperture and Final Cut Express. I just did a test for you. I started Mail, Safari, Aperture, Final Cut Express, Starry Night Pro Plus (OpenGL Astronomy Software), Terminal, Quicktime, TextEdit and NeoOffice.+
+With all these apps running, I still have 6.48G of Free RAM out from the 10G installed!+
+It's when I start hungry applications like VMWare Fusion running Windows XP, or Quicktime with a lot of movies opened that I could see the memory level going low!+
+Your bottle neck in video editing will probably be the video card, after the disk speed. Be sure to use 7200 RPM disk and eSATA for your video plans if possible. Firewire 800 will works fine on external drive but it could giggle. I had an ATI Radeon HD 2600 that I recently upgraded to an ATI Radeon HD 4870. the drivers aren't ready yet from Apple. We are all waiting for the next OS X release 10.5.7 for the drivers! For now, I am running on Beta drivers.+
+It's hard to say by now if I have better performance into Final Cut Express because the movie I was working on was an animation movie using plans exported from Starry Night Pro Plus via Quicktime and "animation" codec without any compression. As soon as I make a modification, I still have to render the output for smooth playing.+
Now, after some test with Starry Night Pro Plus this morning, I can safety say that Starry Night Pro Plus with Open GL does use my video card extra speed and that my experience navigating into the Universe is much better and smooth.
But honestly, even if I have to admit that I am using the Beta drivers for the HD 4870, I must say that I have very big doubt that Final Cut Express does use the extra power of the HD 4870 compare to the HD 2600!
In fact, I am searching the support thread for this answer.
Does anyone can say if Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro does make use of the extra hardware feature of the ATI Radeon HD 4870 or not?

Are there any ipod VIDEO accessories on the best buy wed site?

For the car.

The IPOD was designed and is sold to support video content available through the Apple Store. Apple never said they would support every video converting program made by anyone trying to make a buck or freeware that confuses 98 percent of its users. Getting videos on the IPOD is not hard. For a 40 dollar investment, you won't even need to search on any web site for your answer. And flash the company even has a trial to download and flash they have been in business for over 5 years and have made convertors to support over 265 different devices and lastly they have an actual support site manned by folks that designed the programs. I do understand your frustration, but when you look in the wrong places for so long you will get frustrated. The product is great! And does what it was advertised to do!

Buying Guide - enovo G50-70 Core i5 laptop

Hello,
Planning to buy Lenovo laptop and found the lower cost quote in the below website(PAYTM).
https://paytm.com/shop/p/lenovo-g50-70-core-i5-4210-4th-gen-4-gb-1-tb-15-6-inch-2-gb-graphics-dos-no...
Kindly let me know shall i proceed to buy it ? Warranty will be provided by the lenovo ? Is there any partiality between lenovo website and other websites ?
Thanks,
Janni.

Hi, bjannidaniel
I would say Yes and go ahead with your Purchase,
One Thing is the Operating System.. This only has DOS in it you'll need to purchase Windows OS and install it.
The Hardware warranty wil be covered by Lenovo, the Basic is One Year Hardware coverage, Plus you can call Lenovo Team about adding an Accidental Warraty Coverage (Optional)
regardless of the warranty provided by the reseller, Lenovo Still honor the Base 1 Year Warranty, Warranty Start's from your date of Purchase and not from the reseller's purchase date, so Make sure to keep the receipt and update it with Lenovo so They'll know when it was purchased.
Thanks
Solid Cruver
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NEED Powerbook 12" Accesories Buying Guide

apple battery and apple wireless extreme card are overpriced, my question is "is there any non-apple battery and wireless card can be used my my powerbook 12"?

There are batteries available from numerous vendors, like Otherworld Computing (eshop.macsales.com - they sell NewerTech Batteries, which seem very good - I have one for my powerbook), but also places like www.duracelldirect.com (Google will find several).
As for the wireless, you're a bit out of luck. Sonnet and a few companies make cardbus cards that will work in a 15-inch and 17-inch powerbook. But, since the 12-inch models don't have cardbus slots, that's not an option. There are USB adapters that work (OWC sells a few, but so does MacMall, CDW, and so forth), and those are about your only option. If you really want a builtin solution, you need an airport card (although, again, you can shop around on the internet for the best price).

Laptop Sleeve Buying Guide for T500

Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OZ0GAE6/
Been Amazon-ordering for many years. Seldom have I ever left a comment. This time I am.
This case, well, sleeve, really, is a STANDOUT.
By itself? It looks quite fine. Very attractive. Adds some class to my office.
BUT... put it among my collection of black sleeve-protected laptops, tablets, etc., and this sleeve clearly says "I'm an Original".
PROS:
o From a functional perspective, the material and padding are comfortably thick.
o There's quite a bit of padding to insulate against dropping - although I am NOT going to *test* that statement!
o Nice touch, this one: There is an extra padded trim around all edges, unlike some sleeves which have two pieces of material just coming together and sewn at the bottom - less than zero padding to the latter approach.
CONS:
Watch HBO's Oz if you want to see cons.
So, all in all? Five stars Period.

Hi Dave43!
What sort of products are you looking at? There's so many choices out there, it's hard to pick one. As far as your question goes:
The protective sleeve is typically designed for transportation, not for use. Most sleeves, are made of a neoprene-like material that if it covers the fan outlet will absolutely cause cooling issues. If you've got your machine situated on a desk or table, there really should be no reason to have it in the protective sleeve.
Now if you're referring to the plastic enclosures, they're designed to allow line of sight access to all the important peripheral ports. I personally haven't seen a neoprene based enclosure for the MacBook but at the same time I don't quite see the purpose.
As for the travel bags, it all depends on the manufacturer. First off, you'll want to get a bag that's designed for a portable. Secondly, you'll want to make sure that the bag is capable of supporting your 13" MacBook without a lot of wiggle room. Sometimes the "one size fits all" bags aren't the best for smaller laptops, especially if they support 12-17" portables. As for protection, you'll want to make sure you've got all four angles covered for maximum protection. My bag has insulated cushions on both sides and thick, bottom flooring as well as a fairly thick flap that comes overtop when I close the bag. I called it the "vault" and it's proven to take a beating at airports, public transportation and back seats. Never once had an issue...

Unlimited uploads to Revel within 30 days

I was influenced to purchase the Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 & Adobe Premiere Elements 12 package with the offer of unlimited uploads to Revel in the first 30 days as per the footnote on your buying guide site, see below a copy and paste of this footnote.
How do I invoke this because when I started it seems as if I am limited to 2 GB?

Hi Peter,
Thanks for the response and the complimentary Premium subscription.
Apologies for the delay in responding.
Follow the “Buying Guide” button at the following url or the *footnote on this page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-premiere-elements/features.html
Copy & Pasted for your convenience
Internet connection required. This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services (“Online Services”). Online Services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms of use and Adobe’s online privacy policy. Online Services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration, and may be discontinued or modified in whole or in part without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply. With Adobe Revel™, not all Elements file formats are supported. During the first 30 days, users are granted unlimited uploads. After that, they will be able to upload up to 50 photos or videos each month for free. Exceeding that limit requires the purchase of a paid subscription, priced at US$5.99 per month or US$59.99 per year. For local pricing, visit your local Apple iTunes app store. For more details on pricing plans, visit http://www.adoberevel.com/plans.
Kind Regards, George

Can I still buy Visual Studio 2008?

Hello,
Is it still possible to buy Visual Studio 2008? I cannot find anything but an MSDN subscription for VS2013.
Sincerely,
George

"You mentioned third party vendors... would a second-hand copy from Ebay be ok to use? "
That's a tough question to answer, because there is little control over what is offered on buy/sell sites. I suggest you do your due diligence on the transferability of the license for any used software offered for sale. Ask the seller if they will include
a written statement transferring the license.
You may be able to get further help with licensing questions here:
Since the question is a license issue, you can call
1-800-426-9400,
Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. (Pacific Time) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist, and you can get more detail information from there. Worldwide customers can use the Guide to Worldwide Microsoft Licensing Sites to find contact
information in their locations:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/

How do I subscribe to Adobe Framemaker 12? I can't find a real link on the adobe site anywhere?

Hi;
I'm trying to sign up for a subscription to Adobe Framemaker 12. There's a banner item with £29.30 per month Adobe Framemaker 12. Clicking on this takes me to Upgrade Guide | FrameMaker 12
This has in very small letters: To subscribe now, visit the Store page.
Clicking on this redirects me to http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/catalog.html
Finding Framemaker on this takes me back to the Framemaker page with buying guide and the very small letters on it!
How can I actually subscribe to Framemaker 12?!?!?!

http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker.html
Right pane.
Click [Buy]
I want to buy: [pull down Subscription]
[Add to Cart]
The Adobe web site, victim once again to gratuitous eternal re-design churn, is a triumph of style over substance, and is probably resulting in utterly needless lost revenue. You say "Shut up and take my money". They say "Sorry, we're into stealth merchandizing. Guess again. If you can figure that we offer it, and figure out how to order it, we might sell it to you, or not."
Their "All Products" catalog page, for example, is sprawled across 7 HTML pages, where a single multi-column page of simple names used to suffice.

Impossible to buy software other than cloud?

Just out of interest, I looked at the options to BUY any Adobe individual software progs (I don't need to - it's just for interest) and there are NO options to buy the software anymore ONLY cloud versions on Adobe's site.
Does this mean that CS7 - when released - will ONLY be cloud? (Something I have no interest in - I'd rather own it.)
Or, am I looking in the wrong place?

Stand alone version available fo $399 if I recall correctly.
I'll try to find you a link.
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/buying-guide.html
Click on link in first column.
This is from a Chat with Sales Rep on 2/13/13
Thank you for contacting Adobe Sales. My name is Vallen. How may I help you today?
Vallen: Hi, may I have your first name please?
you: Ken
Vallen: Ken. How can I help you with your purchase today?
you: What is cost of DW standalone (perpetual license ?) USD Now on MX2004 so I assume it's not an upgrade
Vallen: Dreamweaver CS6 is priced at US $399.
you: Run on XP Pro?
Vallen: It is compatible with Windows XP with Service Pack 3 .

Advice on buying CS5 and Acrobat 3D (Mac and/or PC)?

hi all.
about to try and take the plunge here and was hoping for some technical advice, purchasing advice (where is the best place to buy, best time to buy etc) etc.
i believe i need to purchase the CS5 bundle which includes Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
i also would really love to get Adobe Acrobat to edit Metadata in pdf's. i am also trying to track down an Acrobat version that will let me insert real time rotatable models.
does anyone know if there is a package that will include all of the above? is there a best time to buy the CS5 package? is there a best place to buy the package or can i just go to my local Apple Store? etc.
THANKS for any help
- Jon

I can't advise you on 3D, but you should really have done some basic browsing at Adobe's web site and come to this page: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/buying-guide.html?promoid=JOVXI (or one of its many variants).
Is there a best time to buy? Well, if you can still find someone selling CS5, it's probably a decent time to buy it since Adobe has announced it will be eligible for upgrade pricing to CS6. Though CS5.5 is the current version and much much easier to find. Typically Amazon has reasonable prices on the packages, slightly less than the Adobe store--just be wary of 3rd party sellers.
I suppose there will likely be a limited window after CS6 gets announced where may be entiteld to a free upgrade if you purchased CS5.5 during that window -- at least that has been the case in the past. But trying to predict it may be difficult, and CS6 isn't expected until April/May at the earliest, if one guesses based on CS5 and CS5.5 release dates.

How to buy PP + AE CS5

Hello,
This might be the wrong place for this question, but I didn't know where to put it.
I own Adobe Design Premium CS5 and would like to buy Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Now PP and AE bought single are 799+999=1800$, so it would be cheaper to get Production Premium which is 1700$. But with that I get lots of Programs I already have. Is there a way to update my Design Premium CS5 with just PP and AE?
Comparison chart: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/buying-guide.html
On an other topic, I log in like every 3 months or so, and every time it takes me a life time to figure out how to post something here. Why do I have to log in twice? It says "Welcome, ME" on the top right, but then I still have to click "login/register" under forums to post. But that it does without asking for password. odd.
thank you
Philipp

Try this [email protected]
>studying in Canada
I am in the US (work at a University) so I do NOT know about Canada
Adobe Education
http://www.adobe.com/education/students/studentteacherlicensing/school_listing.html
http://www.adobe.com/education/students/studentteacheredition/eligibility.html
http://www.adobe.com/education/students/studentteacherlicensing/
Both sites below require proof of Education status, per Adobe licensing
Buy at http://www.studica.com/ or https://www.academicsuperstore.com/

Menus Not Showing Under Site Manager?

Here's a heads up to users of BC...
Even some well known BC gurus didn't know this, so I thought I'd share it.
After going slightly nuts trying to figure out why I couldn't see this "menu" button, I contacted support, and figured out why.
For the record - I'm not using MUSE for this. And - This is my first BC site, so I'm learning a few tricks as I go on.
All I wanted to do was customise a template a bit, and change the menu to reflect the pages in that template that I wanted to show...
- nothing unusual in that right?
Wrong.
Here's why:
If you have set up a trial site on the lowest webBasics plan (using a template) and want to EDIT the menus, it's not going to happen. Because you won't see the menu function (as in the following diagram)
On the adobe sales page for BC hosting:
http://www.adobe.com/products/business-catalyst/buying-guide-subscriptions.html
It says that there is a dynamic menu builder under WebBasics+ or above.
SO, what I suggest you do is this:
BEFORE YOU CREATE A TRIAL SITE:
If you want to edit the menus, you NEED to have more than a simple "WebBasics" hosting plan, otherwise the "menus" function won't show on the left hand side...
...And if you inadvertently do this, there is no way you can upgrade it from your BC partner admin.
If you want to edit dynamic menus that come with a template, you must have Web Basics+ as the hosting option FIRST, and then you can manually request support to "downgrade" the hosting plan to WebBasics... after you've edited the menus...
Unbelievable, but true!!
I was gobsmacked that I couldn't do such a simple thing as alter a menu on the lowest hosting plan.
Anyway - That's taken HOURS of my time, I could have built this whole site from scratch multiple times over not using BC...
..But I'm commited to learning how this beast works!! :-)
Cheers
Dave

Yes, this kinda really shocks me that menus are not avaiable? Even the lowest of low plans likely need some sort of menu to get from page to page.
I hope that was just an oversight and menus will be added to the lower plans. Any plan or site that has pages needs a menu.

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