Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Reviewer, Laptops

Antonio is a laptop reviewer at The Verge. Before starting here in 2021 as a deals writer, he worked in the photography industry — and still photographs weddings on the side from time to time. He also plays lots of video / tabletop games, collects vinyl records, buys too many mechanical keyboards, and endlessly professes his love for the great state of New Jersey.

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Sony’s $4,900 FX5 cinema camera looks stacked and is stacked.

The new Sony FX5 has a huge list of features for cinematographers. To name a few: a full-frame fully-stacked 5K sensor with open gate recording, three base ISO settings, dual gain shooting, and up to 120fps recording. And instead of just a typical add-on handle for XLR connections, you can instead slap on a $698 tiltable OLED viewfinder.

I wish every EVF-less camera had an EVF option.

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<em>The FX5 and it’s optional DVF-EL1 electronic viewfinder.</em>

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The FX5 and it’s optional DVF-EL1 electronic viewfinder.

Image: Sony

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Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM

The new entry-level Surface Laptop 13-inch is last year’s same great hardware with less memory and a higher price.

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Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 16

Sanding down the edges of your MacBook: ergonomic dream or aesthetic nightmare?

MacBooks have hard, pointy edges. But would you take a hand file or sanding block to your laptop? Software engineer Max Bretschneider did just that, and the results look pretty good. The more heavily filed MacBook Pro he cites for inspiration from designer Kent Walters? Less so. (Yikes!)

What do you think? Is this now a thing? Should Apple round the corners off more? (Yes to that last one.)

<em>Max Bretschneider sanded the edges of their sky blue M4 MacBook Air and posted some step-by-step pics of the process <a href="https://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/" target="_blank">on their blog</a>.</em>

<em>Kent Walters went a little more aggressive and YOLO’d their work-issued MacBook Pro. While I can’t say it looks amazing I respect their attitude of “<a href="https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/" target="_blank">Don’t be scared. Fuck around a bit</a>.”</em>

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Max Bretschneider sanded the edges of their sky blue M4 MacBook Air and posted some step-by-step pics of the process on their blog.

Image: Max Bretschneider

The macOS 27 public beta is worth it just for the Liquid Glass tweaks

Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 13

Sony brings back the superzoom RX10 with a stacked sensor and a high price

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Antonio G. Di BenedettoJul 8

I finally spotted someone filming a concert on their 3DS.

The trend isn’t new, but the only thing cooler than catching Nemophila’s performance last week at The Meadows in Brooklyn was seeing and capturing a shot of this person recording on their Nintendo 3DS.

The cracked screen makes it even more metal.🤘🏻