The personal computer from Compaq Presario

As most people are going for notebooks and netbooks, personal computers like the desktop is not a popular gadget for a lot of people. Even recently or I would say last month, when the PC Fair was on, as I was walking on all the floors and look around at the PC Fair in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, most of the computer booths were full of notebooks and only a handful of desktops.

Most people want to have the notebooks as they are either always mobile or they want to bring their personal computers along wherever they go. Me...as much as I use a notebook most of the time in my work, and been using notebooks for many years and using 2 notebooks at the same time for about 2 years, it still didn't cross my mind about getting a desktop computer.

One day when one of my notebooks going into its old age and started dying and repairs that it had gone through a couple of times before, that I was thinking it was time for the notebook to "retire". With another notebook to rely on, I had this thinking of going back to having a desktop instead of getting another notebook. So, after some months....there it goes...my mind kept thinking about getting a desktop for use in the house and not my notebook.

Looking and searching and comparing around from Acer to Dell to HP and all the features that they offer...it still took me months to think it over. I felt that desktop is a little more "stable" for many years as compared to notebooks that I have used. Not to mention that I can see larger screens with now all are using LCD monitors, and CPUs that are getting more compact and lighter too!

Considering hard for Dell and all its combination that we can think of wanting, looking at the Acer attraction of their new ranges, it didn't occur to me that I actually ended up getting a HP Compaq Presario.

It started on with the offer came from my PlusOne member card of SenQ. telling about their promotions on HP computers and notebooks. Hmm...and that made me went to SenQ few times to take a look at the HP products and considering their offers. With RM1500 you can get a really good package of personal desktop. Hmm..that is really really really a good price to grab! Then come another thing after price... What are the features and items given with that range of price?Surprisingly enough that with just about Rm1500, you actually can get a monitor, keyboard and mouse along with the CPU. At SenQ, you can't buy the desktop PCs just the CPUs...you must buy the whole "combo pack"!

In spite of that, great features were offered... I was looking at one model..very basic one. Vista Home Basic was included, the Compaq Presario Desktop PC has Intel Pentioum Dual Core Processor E5400, with 1024MB DDR2, 250GB 3G Hard Drive, Intel GMA 3100 Graphics and super multidrive that comes with it. Now seems that a lot of CPUs have multicard reader already and that is also the same for the Compaq Presario that I was looking at.

Like the Compaq Presario CQ3030D...it has also the High Definition Audio with 5.1 surround sound ready..which is cool too.. though they put in the Vista Home Basic..of course you can do many things later on especially for gamers who play games on PC since the PC at that offer is rather basic for heavy gamers. For others, it is already very good, enough to do just about everything with it. Not to mention when it includes the monitor, it is the HP w185 model. Mmm....cool. Don't expect a CPU that is so compact like those Acer range and Dell's. As you know HP product range always look so conservative...but wat is more important??... performance and what you can do with your computer.

Well.. there are few models that you can browse through at SenQ but I was so tempted with the Compaq Presario CQ3030D Desktop PC because of what it has to offer with such a very reasonable price! Really cool.... and I know my computer desk will no longer be empty for years to come :)

Hitachi Ultra Thin LCD TV

The many months this year I was always talking about the LCD tv with my big baby. The one that he bought for playing his playstation 3 and the Wii, the lcd tv that we think would be good to buy but I suppose as he may not be interested with Hitachi, I didn't realise that I overlook the Ultra Thin LCD TV to consider checking on.

With a thought of the Apple iMac at the back of my head, caught my attention to the Ultra Thin LCD tv. I suppose it is already in the market for so long now, but seems that it wasn't really being talked about as everybody has been saying about Sony Bravia. After the S series, then the V series, W series until comes to the X series.

What made me look at the Hitachi was when I passed by the TV shop in town, when the price of it suddenly caught my eye. I went to look and hey, this is cool. It's the Ultra Thin LCD tv.

It is about 39mm and 35mm being the thinness portion. So my buddies, if you are talking about the LCD TV, then you should be thinking about this Ultra Thin LCD tv as well especially if you are not thinking about the PS3 and Wii like my big baby does. hahaha

Being claimed as having environment friendly feature like minimizing the impact by having the energy saving and CO2 reduction, maybe you should consider checking it out. Resolution of the tv to me appear to be good. Check it out if you haven't however, I heard that price of LCD TV will further reduce next year so if you have no urgency of getting a tv, you can still have to time to survey around and consider looking at this tv as well.

Hmm...I'm going to go around again to see what else is new and interesting before getting one to replace my old faithful in my tv room :)

Experia X1 and the coming X1a

Interesting to know that it is only 2 days of the launch of Experia X1 and now..I'm getting to know that the X1a will come out after this!!

It is really similar to the existing X1 with only minor differences and that will be the additional of the radio RDS in the X1a while the X1 doesn't have a radio. I wonder if the vibrating alert in both phones are slightly different with each other? I have not tested that yet and curious to know though.

Anyway, the second difference is that the X1a is having two colours while X1 only comes in one colour. So that is to say the later generation of the X1 model is what we call as X1a! Not to say completely right but I just believe that it is because basically everything else feature wise...they are both the same except for the radio and also the colour of the phones themselves.

Hmm...well, just wait for the X1a to be tried out! :) Let me know what you think as well??

Talking again about the phone...X1 coming!

Ok, so one more day for the launching of Sony Ericsson Experia X1 and I am so excited about it. However, the launching is at 1Utama tomorrow and it is at a time that I dreaded to get out of the house. Traffic jam!!!!

Well, all I can say is that I will just patiently wait for a time that I can feel it and try it out. Wondering if it will be something I might put in my wish list.

Experia X1 is claimed to be having fast access for internet, fast 3G web, fast gaming ( you want to play games in the phone like you play a PSP?? why??), fast camera, fast calling and everything seems to be fast. Well, after trying then I will know if it is really fast or not? :) Interestingly for messaging, that this Experia X1 actually doesn't have text input and also you can't do MMS as in Multimedia messaging if you are a person who likes it, you can do the MMS as in picture messaging only. I suppose this is not a bother ya?? :) however, it has different features like Exchange Active Sync and if you like radio in your phone (is there really people who listens to the radio on the phone?) Experia doesn't have the radio. teehee......... and no track ID in the music section. Whatever it is, those things are not a a bother. This mobile is really cool for doing work. A nice phone to own actually. Mmm.... will check it out

I suppose it might also be useful where my work is concern since it has the Windows Mobile inside it. Still....I will have to take a closer look at it, and try it out more to say if it is really an ultimate mobile of my mobile phone listing! :)

So the long awaited model is now in the market.... well, you can go check it out yourself, and see what you think of it?? ;)

Sony Year End Sale

As I was walking through to the Sony Center and went in to Harvey Norman, was just looking around at those LCD TVs, PS3, Blu Ray players and all that, I saw something that was pasted on the wall.

It was about the Full HD TV and something that I am really curious about which I didn't get to ask further or find out further yet. There was this notice on the wall saying that there will be the Full HD channel that will be first in South East Asia that will be launch here in Malaysia. Now what could that possibly be??

Anyway, there is also this thing some birdy news came on, and that is the Sony Year End Festive Promotion. Apparently it suppose to be started around 15th November 2008 and will be right through to the new year till 31st January 2009.

How interesting can that be? I am curious to know and wonder if I can find out more about this. I am looking around for the LCD TV that I am considering for my bedroom, although a TV in my bedroom is not something I like to have, especially not the one that directly facing my bed. Call it feng shui but I just don't like the idea. hahaha... but I do think about getting the new tv. mmm.......

Well....I suppose I will just wait and see if that Year End sale will be happening soon?

Remote security monitoring system

This has been going on for quite awhile...and a friend of mine brought this topic up again recently. So I decided to blabber away here about it :)

Interesting there is this one website of a company, promoting their product and that is for the remote security monitoring system.

You just need these to get it running! :)
1) A computer to run a webcam or a camera
2) A webcam or a CCD camera or a dome camera
3) Broadband internet connection
4) mobile phone that enables GPRS, EDGE/3G/HSPDA and so it works with all mobile service providers.

This monitoring system has features like motion detection, can record and playback, able to have multiple cameras, and also have time scheduler. Things can be expensive but this one apparently is relatively cheap. Some time ago, they actually doing the promotion and I think the price is fix at Rm10 per month only!

if you are interested go check the website..they have the website at www.meye.com.my
So if you are interested, go check it out.

Ultra-Slim Metal Mouse and an emergency charger

I was browsing the inflight shopping catalogue last week, and I found this interesting gadgets from Switzerland. There are a number of things that are actually interesting but I will start with this little tiny thing that we always use everyday... the mouse.

This Ultra-slim metal mouse is really a 5mm edition that is meant for ease portability especially for people who travels a lot. It is really just a card size and foldable. The mouse panel can be adjusted according to the size of hands so that it won't be too small or too large for the varians of people's hands.

It has like the usual retractable cable for connection and it is an optical mouse. It is a plug and play mouse just like almost every mouse you get from anywhere except the live mouse! :)

There are two colours for this mouse which are silver and gold. Interesting to know that the gold version is because of the rat year!

Another thing that might be useful for travellers is the emergency charger. What got my attention was the LED indication. It reminds me of Alien Vs Predator!! :) The LED indicator is to show the power level of the charger.

This emergency charger actually is very compact and light. It should be since it is for travelling! It uses Samsung battery and this is the world's smallest charger with high-capacity portable power charger. More interesting is that it can be used to charge not just one item at one time. It can charge your laptop and your mobile phone both at the same time, so it does saves a lot of hassle in that sense. I think that was what I read before. Correct me if I'm wrong.

For an emergency charger, it does help a lot since it gives a Blackberry PDA enough time with being on stand-by for 16 days! iPhone can have the talk-time at 13 hours, and standby time of 400 hours and 40 hours for audio playback. So you know that other models will surely have longer duration in spite of being an emergency charge. Enough time for you to do what you need. The Nokia phone or Samsung like the F258 can get 16 hours talk time and 1000 hours od standby. What I can say is that Lifetrons (that's the brand by the way) does have interesting travelling gadgets to look at and have them. Very handy when travelling. Check out their website for their range of products in Lifetrons Switzerland.

Well, these products did get my attention and I did feel some might find it very handy! Hey, check out their Ultra-Slim Metallic Internet Phone..interesting too, especially for those of you who uses Skype or any other VoIP ;)