Entries from October 2008 ↓
October 11th, 2008 — Hands On
Awhile back during the weekend Singapore was hosting the first ever F1 night race, I had the opportunity to chill out at the F1 Paddock Club courtesy of the dudes at Dell Singapore. Dell happens to be a sponsor for the BMW-Sauber team, and had a couple of invites for members of the media. While waiting at the Dell Singapore offices for our ride to the Paddock Club, I had the opportunity to get some hands-on time with a production unit of the new Dell Inspiron Mini 9 laptop.
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - in perspective
First impressions: the laptop is seriously small, ss you can see in the picture above, with my Nokia N82 placed next to it for some perspective. Then again, netbooks are meant to be small and compact; the Inspiron Mini 9 is no larger than most other netbooks i’ve had the opportunity to check out in recent months.
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October 10th, 2008 — Events
So, everybody and their dog have started receiving invites to an upcoming Apple event; October 14th, San Francisco. No prizes for guessing what it’s about. As usual, the launches in this part of the world will be a couple of days later, meaning everyone everywhere else will already have had a go at Apple’s latest way before we do.
Bah, humbug.
October 9th, 2008 — Soapbox
Copper; this stuff ain't cheap.
There are many points of comparison between Singapore and Malaysia, one of which is the state of broadband infrastructure (or rather the lack thereof, in Malaysia, at least). Since moving to Singapore to work, i’ve been enjoying the fast, unfettered and unthrottled broadband access afforded to me by signing up with a 10Mbps package from SingNet. I chose to sign up for the Mio service, which offered a combination of ADSL broadband, mobile phone line, as well as VOIP for fixed line calls. The benefits are obvious; with one being that the ‘land’ line number stays constant, no matter where you move on the island. Furthermore, i’m not tied down by the quarterly fees charged for the rental of a proper physical land line. Of course, this means that for and ‘land’ line calls to be made or received, the modem/router provided by SingNet would have to be on at all times. In the event of a power outage, i’d be screwed, but that’s a discussion for another day. Continue reading →
