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Legit Reviews is proud to announced that we are well into our third month of our Facebook Friday promotion! We have given away roughly $2000 in brand new PC hardware over the past two months on Facebook and this week we have another great sponsor and some killer hardware that you can win if you are lucky on Monday! This week the promotion is being sponsored by Mushkin Enhanced and the prize is a brand new Ventura Pro 64GB USB 3.0 Drive! It doesn’t get any better than this folks! You can join in on this here!

Introducing Ventura Pro, the professional’s choice for fast, reliable USB 3.0 USB data storage.

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As a freelance video editor, Scott Greenfield spends most of his days in a dark room editing video clips on a computer.

A warning in the new Final Cut Pro X indicating incompatibility with another software.

So he should have been rejoicing on June 21 when Apple launched a new version of its Final Cut Pro software that was aimed to make video editing much easier and faster on its latest Macintosh computers and operating system.

Instead, Greenfield and other film pros have voiced a cacophony of complaints and said they’d prefer the old version of Apple’s software, which has become an industry standard. The

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NEC has released two new PCs, the desktop Mate ME and the laptop Versa Pro VD, which are well equipped to reduce your carbon footprint and help you fight inefficiency. If that’s not enough, they also sport the latest CPUs from Intel.

The VersaPro VD notebook will come with Intel’s Core i5 or Core i7 CPUs. A Core i5 configuration will be available with a 64GB SSD, 1GB RAM, Intel’s new GMA HD graphics and Windows 7 Professional. On the green side, it comes with some handy preloaded software to help you monitor and control your energy use, which should already be low with the SSD and latest energy saving Intel hardware.

The Mate ME desktop sports the same low-energy hardware, from SSDs to Core i5/i7 CPUs to Intel’s GMA HD. Read more…

Viewsonic’s new CULV ViewBook Pro can house either an optical drive or a second battery, giving this thin 13.3″ notebook some serious battery life.

Other specs for the notebook include an Intel Core 2 SU7300 CPU, and 2GB of RAM (upgradable to 4GB). The 13.3″ portable laptop is housed in a fairly slim aluminum enclosure, and the regular battery is rated to last 8 hours. With the secondary battery housed in the optical drive slot, the battery life jumps up to 12 hours. You can choose to use neither the battery nor the optical drive to save weight.

There will be a silver model (Pro S) available with a DVD burner for $1,099 and a black model (Pro B) without an optical drive included for $999. Read more…