New Speaker setup

March 24, 2010 ub3rg33k

If your read my New and Improved Computer Room post, you may notice on the 2nd video that a Technics SCDV290 seems to have appeared from nowhere ? This was our orignal Hi-Fi that we used to have downstair, it was an extremely powerful system however it had 1 major drawback….no optical inputs ! When I bought my PS3 a couple of years ago, I was kinda gutted that I could only hear it in Pro-Logic, and it felt a bit of a waste, so upgraded to the Onkyo TX-SR606 so I could get TrueHD. After forking out for the … Continue reading New Speaker setup

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The New and Improved Computer Room

March 21, 2010 ub3rg33k

As you may have read, last week we got a couple of shiny new iMacs. We did however see this as an opportunity to re do the computer room. We’ve been living in this house for over 4 1/2 years now, and as with most people, the house just gets cluttered. When we first moved in, we both had a PC each, both with 17″ CRT monitors, as we’ve upgraded our main machines, we’ve then built up a “server” machine to host the media on, and to be a terminal for me to dial in to. In the last 4 1/2 years, … Continue reading The New and Improved Computer Room

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The MacBook Pro Unboxing.

January 10, 2009 ub3rg33k

Gotta love the apple packaging What’s underneath the MacBook Pro The stylishly designed document holder The multi ended power supple cable (which if you didn’t know is held onto the Mac with a magnet, so no fear of breaking off the end of the power adapter if you were to trip over the cable, Clever I know !) Well, in true geek style, I thought I’d take shots of the unboxing of the MacBook Pro. btw, forgot to mention in my previous blog “Apple Day, Hurray !” , that we went to the Apple store, because the one I had … Continue reading The MacBook Pro Unboxing.