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Students Rejoice! Dell entering Tablet PC market with new Latitude Laptop

Ever always wanted to own a Tablet PC for ease of notes and penning down handwritten notes in lectures, but always don't seem to be able to afford one? Well look no further, the word is out, Dell will be releasing their first Tablet PC late this year in their Latitude Laptop range. Dell usually waits for a particular product...

World’s 10 Most Common Passwords

Ahha, I've got all your password! If you wanna trying accessing someone else's mail or bank account, why not try those below here. If you recognize yours down there, it's just like handing over your wallet or purse to the first person you see on the street. password 123456 qwerty abc123 letmein monkey myspace1 password1 link182 (your first name) Source:...

Windows Vista – Slow! Bill Gates: No No No!

With all the hype and publicity on Windows Vista going on in Singapore, I guess I can only commend on the efforts MS Singapore is putting into promoting the OS. However in that limelight, definitely the main selling point and MS broke in sales will tell you that it's "safer", "more secure", "looks fabulous" and has "excellent media PC...

What goes around comes around – Comp down again

The week started with my computer conking out on me again, exactly one year since I last changed the motherboard, it seemed that it went out again, this time with a blank system after it failed trying to recover the bios. Maybe I was too caught up with force booting the past month just to get work and projects...

Finally, Nice and Tidy! New HP L2335

Mum got about purchasing 2 HP L2335 23" WSXGA Monitors after getting a good deal from HP warehouse through a fellow colleague. These babies would easily go for $2k each in stores but got it at about less than half the price ($699/ea) with a three year warranty each. With this beast, it's bye bye to the 24" Dell...

Samsung Q35 Notebook Review

Samsung Q35 Review Introduction Touted as the "world's smallest Core Duo laptop", the Samsung is indeed a really small beast, in fact it's feels even lighter than it looks. You have to feel it for yourself to believe after lugging around and using sub 3kg notebooks previously. This laptop is brought primarily for my Mum who needed a notebook for her...

Dell Laptop Use Banned From Qantas Flights

New Qantas regulations make it clear that no Dell laptops, not even those unaffected by the battery recall, are allowed to contain batteries while on the plane. That means nada usage while your fellow flightmate beside you happily go tippy-tappy on their Vaio with the same defective battery. Apparently as we all know, the Dell batteries that were recalled were...

Firefox Missing Bookmark, Profile and Extensions Restore

😯 The last few upgrades for firefox had been rather cool for me, till the latest 1.5.0.6 which completely wiped out my bookmarks... My years of bookmarking all GONE! Duh... only to rejectively close the program, take a timeout only to slowly recreate their bookmarks while chanting swear words - hehe thats what most users will do after being...

Technology – Above & Beyond

10 years ago, when we are all still thinkering cheap $20 mini arcade toys or with pagers & alphanumeric morse codes in school I never thought of the day where everyone my family would own a handphone each. Gone are the days of kids playing with plastic "make believe toy handphones" on the streets, now I've even seen primary...

PC Show 2006, 3rd Laptop in 2 Months

Dropped by the PC show today as usual, its super crowded & more cramped than the IT Show early this year, maybe due to a smaller hall size. Nevertheless, had the crosshair's set on a new notebook for Mum, who was there with Dad today as well. Been sometime since I went for an IT show with my parents...

End of War, Dell XPS M1210

The term exams are over, 3 exams, 2 presentations & one project done. Now alls left is to finish up one portfolio project & 2 practicals when school reopens, not to mention the stinking E-learning next week. The Pro-E test went very well today, interestingly, only with me finishing the test on time in class, neato! Mum came up to...

BulletProof HP StorageWorks XP12000

HP has a tendency to use gun metaphors when talking about their storage solutions, and the newest one is 'bulletproof'. Instead of the wussy technical term for it, they went out and shot a hole clean through a half-million dollar Storageworks XP12000 server while it was running. The bullet went right through it, but only half way through the fishtank on...

Computer Arrived! Day Driver

Got a call from 8 flags Computers around 5.30pm on thursday afternoon which I missed (was in the gym during that time after school). Recapping, dad loaned me the car for today just in case I needed to drive to the store to collect it (so as after he found out the "interesting-ness" of bus commuting to work)....

Ordered my T4020

Dad left the car with me again today! Why? cus I will be dropping my NTU to purchase my T4020, so transport is essential today, if you wonder what a T4020 is, just read my previous blog posts on it. Anyway, drove down to NTU from home with mum after breakfast to meet Shup Ping (aka Shuppedo) at the...

Not CoreDuo after all

With CoreDuo laptops slowly making it's way into the market, apparently some tech-savy consumers like me is fad up in waiting for such new computers to hit mainstream, whether its a new laptop for my sis or a new tablet for me. It just takes too long for any new processor release to come out, especially when you urgently need...

Memory Prices drop

Yup, on my last visit to Simlim, here are the latest prices of the Memory cards I am intending to get when the price is right late this month: Transcend 4GB SD Card - $200 SGD (As of 25th March 06, from $499 in June 05) Kingston 2GB CF Card - $97 SGD (As of 25th March 06, from...

Urgent & Important?

Important but Urgent? or Important but not Urgent? These are the things which came to mind after a short chat with mum over lunch today at BM central, when considering the purchase of my laptop before school reopens. Maybe it wasn't the calories in the popular Hainanese Chicken rice we were having which sparked my mind going on the matter. Few months ago,...

Re-capping the PSU failure

Mmm didn't really get much of blogging lately. Anyway here are some worthy highlights of the last week worth noting. I did mentioned that I got myself an Antec True Power-II 480W Power supply unit (PSU) on my birthday to replace my old Antec 430W supply. The PSU's fans suddenly burnt out & stopped spinning. I only discovered about the...

Laptop Dilemma

Been surfing around a lot lately to check out good laptop buys, hoping to get one before school reopens. But there are just no good Tablet PCs around at the moment. I was once fascinated with laptops in secondary school, where I got my first personal notebook in secondary two. It lasted with my till Junior college days, an old...

Dell buys over Alienware

You might know the Alienware brand as an enthusiast gaming laptop manufacturer. They are largely and independent producer, who core line of business involve rebranding OEM gaming laptops tailored for extreme desktop and portable gaming. After some weeks of hiding in an out of the box, its official this time, Dell had acquired long time gaming rig OEM Alienware...

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