March 2009

Warning - highly fashionable stuff.
Let's start of this one with a celebrity intro - a designer to be precise. Vivienne Tam, a well renowned designer from Asian part of the world has collaborated with Hewlett-Packard (HP ) and transform a powerful mini warrior into a bragging right for chicks.

Bright red, sexy and curvy; an absolute beauty, the portable.

I was talking about this :

HP Mini 1000 by Vivienne Tam (Special Edition)

If I were a girl, I will say this is an absolute beauty; but I'm not and I still don't think otherwise. This is the world's first Designer Mini PC - HP. Light, powerful and pink.
With an appearance like this, no wonder people will love to be accessorize with a lappy.
Let's begin the geek talk.

Processor : Powered by Atom 1.6Ghz
RAM : 1GB of DDR2 memory
Hard Disk : 60GB of file space
And more integrated into this 'Mini' - yeah, this small

But most of all, I really love the full-sized keyboard (92% to be exact). I own one of the 'Mini' series, the 2133 edition. I can say that I really loved it. It's really light, small and most importantly functional.

Check them out :

www.HPbyVivienneTam.com - I made this up *haha

I really hate it when they create something really small but can't find anyone small enough to operate them properly, you know? Even if you are trying to compare them technically, it really wouldn't bother.
It's an ultra-portable which aims to do tasks on the run and not meant to multitask.
They do not aim for power-hungry user but more to a friendly road warrior. If it can handle internet browsing with some audio entertainment simultaneously, it's the real portable.

Go encode movie or PhotoShop-ed 4000 image-res elsewhere. *smiles

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Ipod Shuffle Controller
You've guess it! Apple has release a new iPod (again?). The new ipod shuffle. Lot smaller compared to a normal house key form factor (and cooler, yes).

No more Apple wheel, but it talks!

The new cool features on the iPod Shuffle. It's no longer have controller on the iPod itself. Instead, it uses the 'earbud' to control.

If you see this as dumb development to the iPod family, you are wrong! It's the upgrade for iPod shuffle. There are no cool controllers on the original. Just forward/backward and voices. This is not the upgrade for the whole iPod.
I'm pretty much sure 'Shuffle' lovers will love this. But I do agree the earbud dependencies to navigate is purely marketing strategy. *hmm

Back to the new iPod Shuffle features :

Playlist can be announce via middle button
Tap on the middle button to skip or whatnot
Normal voice -/+
Smaller
Larger in size : 4GB (up to 1000songs - Apple)
Peek at the video at Apple.com - Apple will cause PC/Mac bloodbath based on the video. *smiles

This will be surely a faithful companion to oneself. Light enough for a jog, walk or workout. Honestly, who needs larger capacity? Car audio system is cheaper nowadays and laptops are getting lighter by the minute. Who needs more audio entertainment.

Unless you are wearing your iPod all the way inside a mall so you need your 60,000 songs capacity. Then don't.

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