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sony is hax… or not

February 15th, 2006

most of you will know i’m looking at buying a new notebook pc. i currently have my eyes on sony’s new core duo SZ series lineup. even though i’m not that concerned with the cost of the machine, using their simulator results in a price tag of..

which works out to roughly AU$4800.

OK, so thats a bit excessive. I realise sony will pile on the costs for higher specs, and for the interchangable parts it is probably cheaper to buy them separately.. so i looked around for about 10 minutes for some prices on ram and hdd drives.

so we’re paying 70,000yen for 2 x 1gb sticks of sony chosen ddr ram.

SODIMM DDR2 1GB PC4200 CL4 ¥10,400

that seems a lot more reasonable. 20,800yen for 2gb. 49,200yen saved. gg sony.

this time the 60gb to 120gb change adds on around 30,000yen.
Seagate ST9120821AS (120G 9.5mm) ¥29,900

i guess this is a lot closer than the ram. if i buy the hdd separately i will end up with a 60gb drive for free though ^^;

287,800+20,800+29,900=338500yen

just under AU$4000. a bit more reasonable :)

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oops…

February 14th, 2006

i think i pushed internode too far ^^;;;

i didn’t realise they changed their plans to shape both down AND up traffic so things are going to suck for the next 10 days :/.  i’ve learnt my lesson.

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stuff arrived!

February 11th, 2006

over the last week or so, but there’s work in between all of this :p

creative x-fi platinum.  i can finally say goodbye to my ancient sblive and actually play games using eax (lol).  the 24-bit crystallizer thing works nicely on music and general sound, and the software including isnt too bad.  except the program to manage the included remote control wont install… format time is coming up methinks.

i have the card connected to my yamaha system via both optical and 6 channel analog input.  any non-dolby already compressed dvd content that is processed by EAX or such is only output as 2ch audio over optical, so for gaming and stuff i just hit a button to swap to analog input.  luckily the x-fi outputs on both digital and analog simultaneously.

and a g7 to boot.  this mouse is quite a piece of work.  compared to the bluetooth predecessor, there’s almost no lag in movement, and the tracking is awesome.  not to mention its battery is about 10x lighter than the 2 AAs in the bluetooth version.

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hoho

February 7th, 2006

jdrama is good. except when you have no time to watch it because you’re working all day… i managed to exceed my internode 20gb quota for the first time ever, but am yet to be shaped.  maybe i’ll finish getting sekachuu (世界中心で愛を叫ぶ) before i get shaped?  such a cool series, if only because the three main male characters are ALL FROM H2. lolllllllllllllllllllll

but knowing that one of the two main chars died from ep1 makes it a really depressing series to watch :/… still, the direction of the story is really quite unique and told from two perspectives – one in first person 17 years ago, with cuts to present time,  reminiscing the sadder events that occured..

moo!