Build a XBMC Media Center with a $35 Raspberry Pi. The IPS LCD Revolution. When I wrote about TN LCD panels 5 years ago, I considered them acceptable, despite their overall mediocrity, mostly due to the massive price difference.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of LCDs on the market now are TN. You can opt to pay a little bit more for one of the few models with *VA – if there are any available in the size you want. *-IPS is widely considered the best all around LCD display technology, but it is rapidly being pushed into the vertical "pro" graphics designer market due to the big jump in price.
It's usually not an option, unless you're willing to pay more than twice as much for a monitor. But when the $499 iPad 3 delivers an amazingly high resolution IPS panel that's almost reference quality, I found myself a whole lot less satisfied with the 27" TN LCDs on my desktop. Upgrading My MacBook Pro's Hard Drive to an SSD — eddorre. I’ve been intrigued about putting a SSD in my Mac ever since I reading about the performance gains that can come from doing so.
This November, the AppleCare in my late 2008 MacBook Pro expired, so I decided to go for it. I used Fabio Akita’s article, Upgrading My MacBook Pro with an SSD, as baseline to doing my upgrade.