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Expensive is not the correct word....

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First Review New Nikon 70-200mm f2.8G ED VRII

It seems that Cliff Mautner is one of the (very, very) few lucky photographers who received his new Nikon 70-200mm f2.8G ED VRII a month early. His findings can be found on his blog, and I must say..... Those images are awesome (from a image quality point of view). Especially the VRII seems to rock.

/me is looking at his savings.... and cries silently

Anyway, the new 70-200 is a long overdue improvement for the 'old' 70-200mm f2.8G VR lens, since the old one performed not as wel on the FX cameras (D700, D3-range) as some would have liked.

Windows 8 & 9 in 128bit mode

Yes, you're reading it correct. Microsoft intends to deliver a 128bit kernel in the next Windows versions. A bit ambitious if you ask me. The 'current' 32bit operating systems run fine, because the drivers for those operating systems are widely available.
Have you ever tried to get your hands on 64bit drivers for hardware not older than two years? I tried, but failed eventually, since there's still one unknown device in my Vista x64 install.

I'm sure that Microsoft will use some layered model with the 128bit OS. That way you can use 128, 64, 32, and maybe even 16 and 8 bit drivers and applications. This way everythin will run, but don't expect stability.

What's wrong with going full 64bit first? No 32bit (hardware) drivers, the only 32bit that's allowed are 32bit applictions (which run in a special 32bit mode). From there forward you you start with 128bit OS (with 128bit drivers only) and minimum 64 bit applications. You need 32bit? -> VMWare (or MS own HyperVisor thinghy).

 I still run into incompatibility issues with my <2 year old Fujitsu laptop running Vista Business x64. They should fix that first, and move on after that.

New MacBook Memory

After having some trouble [1] with my first replacement RAM, I ordered a new set of SoDIMM's for my unibody MacBook. These seem to do the trick. No crashes, freezes so far.

The new RAM is from Kingston and carries the following partnumber: KTA-MB1066K2/4G

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Which is almost for free with the current USD -> EURO exchange rate (and the appropriate coupon codes).

Thanks to Mevio for supplying a 12% off-for-life coupon code.

Nikon 100-500mm Rumor?

Nikon AF-S 100-500mm f/4-5.6 IF-ED VR

That would be nice... Really nice.

Unibody MacBook Crashes Solved

At least with a 99.9% certainty.

It seemed that the memory upgrade I bought when I bought the MacBook is having trouble. Weird, because under Leopard it worked just fine. Snow Leopard crashes (system freeze), and sometimes even with weird flashing lines on the screen.

I guess that Snow Leopard is a bit more sensitive about the memory that's installed.

Ordered a set of Kingston KTA-MB1066K2/4G @ Informatique. Let's see if that's more stable.

The old RAM I had was OCZ So-Dimm DDR3 PC3-8500, 1066MHz (P/N: OCZ3M10664GK). Let's see if I can put it in another laptop. A less picky one.