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“The Lost Room” Review

Very rarely comes a TV series that is so innovative, intelligent and fresh as The Lost Room, that changes your expectations from what TV should be like.

The Lost Room is a brilliant and intelligent Sci-Fi channel mini-series, with a fantastic and original plot. I don’t want to give even a hint as to what this is about (not to ruin even a minute of it), but this supernatural mystery thriller will hook you from the first minute till the very last.

Complementing the top-notch effects and good acting, the series music was exceptionally touching. This mini-series has a mesmerizing, eerie and melodic score, that made me want to hear more.

We saw it almost straight through, and stopped only to get some sleep. I prefer to think of it as a superb 6-hour movie - it does not have the slowness and fillers of regular TV series (Lost, to mention the obvious, has very little story development per hour, with its 80% flashback fillers). The Lost Room is simply impossible to stop watching, and is one of the best Sci-Fi/Fantasy movies I have ever seen.

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Building my Hackintosh - Part 1: CPU Analysis

This is a first article in the Building My Hackintosh series. This article discusses the choice of CPU in a new PC system, with price-performance analysis and recommendations.

AMD or Intel?

When approaching a new machine build, one of the obvious decisions is the CPU manufactory - AMD or Intel. The brand will affect the motherboard directly, as motherboards are designed for a particular CPU brand and socket type.

Usually, this choice is rather simple, and would be most influenced by taste and cost optimization concerns. In my case, building an OSX86 setup introduces more constraints. Initially, only Intel CPUs were supported by OS-X - but as time passed, unofficial AMD support started to appear.

From a superficial browsing of the hardware compatibility page at the osx 86 project, although the page actually shows support for both AMD and Intel, I decided to reduce the risk and go with Intel - based on the assumption that an Intel-based Hachintosh might have less snags and will be more robust then AMD.

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