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July 1st, 2009
There are no visible wires as all the finer details and motherboard on the far side of the body out of sight. Everything clicks neatly in and out of its slot and gives the Z series the most user-friendly interior we’ve seen in a computer system. Together with the seemingly endless expandability of components, making it so easy for you to manage them yourself is one of the series’ big selling points.
September 1st, 2007
It has a large onboard memory — 1Gb with a slot for an SD card — and you’ll have a hard time filling it up with everything you have unless you’re a rampant video clip collector or have a music collection that would stretch a late model iPod.
May 1st, 2009
Some would guess it’s the printing press. With far more individual ‘bits’ of colour in a given area, the possibility to produce finer combinations of inks allows for far more detail and a smaller order of magnitude between shades.
November 1st, 2009
There’s now a large floating Timecode window that you can move around and resize. It seems like it should have been included long ago, especially as it’s so easy to port your editing to a large (up to and including cinema-sized) screen for everyone rather than just the editor to watch as you work.
August 1st, 2009
Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2 is a good example, packed with video editing, motion graphics, audio, colour grading, encoding and DVD tools for $1,698 (tools that would have costs hundreds of thousands of dollars in the analogue era).
September 1st, 2002
Welcome to the new world of technology marketing. As corporate activist Naomi Klein says in her book No Logo, ‘Brand X is not a product, but a way of life, an attitude, a set of values, a look, an idea.’ Nowhere is this more important than to technology companies themselves.