2010-04-18: PC Fair 1

The annual fest is here again for the 1st tranche in the Klang Valley.

So today is the LAST DAY of this IT Fiesta in our capital

Here are some highlights.

27" Full HD LCD @ RM 1,100

32" Philips Full HD LCD (with USB support for RMVB!!!) @ RM 1,500

56" Philips super duper LCD with 21:9 aspect ratio (only one in the world) @ under RM 20k!

Memory prices not moving much. 8/16Gb thumb drives & SD cards in the RM 50/100 arena. U can imagine the MemStick Pros & CF prices!

HD prices still a bit sticky at about RM 300 for 1 Tb and RM 538 for 2 Tb. Looks like 1.5 Tb is best bang for da buck at RM 365.

800VA UPS for under RM 200
Buffalo 2 bay NAS below RM 300

Dlink has a nice Wifi-n router with 4 port GIGABIT for half da price of Airport Extreme! Woo hoo! Great for connection DROBOs or NAS with GIGABIT! No need eSATA / USB 2 or 3 / FW 800!

Projector prices down to RM 1,500 with free 6*6 manual screens. I know I'm eyeing the Viewsonic with 3D support (Superb! Who need's the baby sized 55" Samsung 3D TV @ over RM 15k?)

The usual suspects were all there:

A to Z PC / Camera brands (Nikon D90 with 18-105 kit plunges to below RM 3,500!)

Lots of DSLR trigger happy dudes snapping all the "booth babes" with the Chinese RPG online gaming ones sporting the best costumes.

Small techie shops, with Thundermatch stealing the limelight this year

All the telcos mashed into the last quadrant at Hall 5, just as u r about to exit.

Don't bother asking about HSBB @ Telekom stall. No difference in deployment. Just wait for 2010Q4 for further progress (Yawn!)

Photos here at PICASA

20090131: New ATEN 4 port KVM Switch

Just got my new ATEN 4 port USB KVM from the poor shrunken FCC (now LENOVO) store in Midvalley today.

Now have to hook up the Tablet PC dock, Powermac G4 Cube, Mac Mini G4 and the MacBook to my Dell 24" HD LCD!

Still hunting for a 2 port DVI switch though!

UPDATE: Returned back to FCC in a week, due to green sync problem. Thankfully Ms GOH, the Manager had a standby 2 port USM KVM on loan (which she used for her server unit!)

FOLEO

Palm is still alive

iLoad

Since more and more people listen to music as compared to watching movies, it makes sense to have this invented. Full review here .


I think the Malaysian crowd will love it! I'm sure the DVD version is in the works, to rip movies into the iPod Videos!

IT Announcements - Mid of May

What a great day. 2 major announcements!

Announcement 1
UPDATED MacBooks! Now Standard with 1 Gb of DDR2-667 RAM and 802.11n Wifi!
Also, Speeds bumped a notch up to 2 and 2.16 Ghz respectively and hard disk capacities have been upgraded to 80, 120 and 160 Gb respectively!
Price is still at US1099 (With our strong Ringgit at 3.4, this should be only RM 3740!)
I guess this should be my replacement for my recent burglary case!

Announcement 2
Fujitsu has finally released the
Notebook version of the 250 Gb HD also.