Archive for December, 2008
There’s never enough storage
Posted on December 27, 2008 - Filed Under Others | 7 Comments
The 320GB external hard drive I bought just this November is getting filled faster than I thought it would. Less than two months after, it’s now down to exactly 89.7GB. Blame it on torrents, as I’m addicted to documentaries - nature, art, history, and what have you. It’s all good. I’m learning. However, my storage [...]
Merry Christmas from Budget Gadgets
Posted on December 24, 2008 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
I don’t really believe in Christmas, but I do believe in celebrating with dear friends, family, and plenty of good food.
Normal posting schedule will resume after the holidays. Until then, merry christmas and a happy new year to all!
MacBook Prices (as of Dec 2008)
Posted on December 14, 2008 - Filed Under Computers | 1 Comment
In a local forum I frequent, there was a thread asking, “What gadgets would you buy if you were given 100K?” Let’s see, if that much money suddenly dropped from the sky, I wouldn’t buy any gadgets - I’d save it in a bank to add to my house fund (planning to build one in [...]
Google Philippines Zeitgeist 2008
Posted on December 13, 2008 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
This is a little late, but still interesting. Google released its Zeitgeist for the year which includes the top search worldwide and per country. For the Philippines, there’s still the perennial favorites Friendster, Multiply, and YouTube. Notably added this year are singers Charice Pempengco and Arnel Pineda, the infamous DJ Montano, and the omni-present Jonas [...]
Netbooks Under 10K: Packard Bell EasyNote XS20
Posted on December 12, 2008 - Filed Under Netbooks | Leave a Comment
This post is part of a series on low-cost laptops. Related posts can be found here.
To round out this series, we have Packard Bell’s EasyNote XS20. Until recently, this was priced at an incredibly high 30K++ at PC Corner - unreasonable given that its sibling, the Astone UMPC, was already retailing at below 10K for [...]
Ode to my Eneloop batteries
Posted on December 11, 2008 - Filed Under Others | 2 Comments
I like rechargeable batteries. Since you can use them several times, you’re saving money and helping the environment - two things I love to do. I’ve used many different kinds for different purposes, but nothing comes close in performance, reliability and longevity to Sanyo’s Eneloop batteries.
First, Eneloops have a very low discharge rate, such that [...]
On delaying gadget gratification
Posted on December 10, 2008 - Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment
In a blog post entitled The High Cost of Now, Seth Godin wrote about the incredibly high premium people are willing to pay just to be one of the firsts - first to own a gadget, first to get information, and so on - as if getting behind on the trends means the end of [...]
Netbooks Under 10K: Neo eXplore X1.1 UMPC
Posted on December 9, 2008 - Filed Under Netbooks | 1 Comment
This post is part of a series on low-cost laptops. Related posts can be found here.
Based on Intel’s Classmate PC design, the Neo eXplore X1.1 UMPC was definitely made for kids. It was one of the earliest netbooks to be out on the market, made to compete with OLPC’s XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child), which [...]
Netbooks Under 10K: Asus EEE PC 701 2G
Posted on December 8, 2008 - Filed Under Netbooks | Leave a Comment
This post is part of a series on low-cost laptops. Related posts can be found here.
With the EEE PC, ASUS was able to successfully introduce a new laptop category on its own - small, light, simple and cheap. It turns out there’s a huge market for it, and so “netbooks” came flooding the market (not [...]
Manny Pacquiao wins against Oscar De la Hoya!
Posted on December 7, 2008 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
(Photos credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
O.M.G.! I was hoping he’d win, but I didn’t know it would come in such a dominating fashion. TKO in the 8th round, after Oscar refused to come out of his corner. He gave up. He didn’t even throw a lot of significant punches. Pacquiao led every round and pretty much [...]
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