Details are still emerging about OQO’s Model 2+ UMPC, and one of its most interesting aspects: the OLED touchscreen. Aside from brighter colors and improved contrast, OLED is said to offer much-reduced power consumption over LCD; that bodes well for a mobile device like the Model 2+. In the field, though, things aren’t looking quite so positive, with Steve Paine reporting 10.5w drain with the backlight on high – that works out to potentially under 2hrs use from the standard 17wh battery.


It’ll come as no great surprise when Apple update their largest MacBook Pro, the 17-inch version, with a new unibody design similar to last year’s 
There aren’t many wildlife photographers practicing fill flash with supertele-lens, it requires powerful flash unit capable of continued powering multiple-frame per second workloads. As a Canon user, I prefer the CPE3/CPE4 compact battery pack to power the flash unit; it utilizes the commonly used AA batteries instead of a much cumbersome Quantum nickel-hydride powered Turbo battery. On the field, I frequent two set of 12 x AA batteries for the battery pack and flash unit, all rechargeable units, of course and replace them once a year due to the low battery cycle life and charging capacity that continue to decline in time. That’s quite load to carry and put a dent on my wallet, may be I should try one of these lighter, smaller and more powerful PowerGenix rechargeable Nickel-Zinc battery.




