Rumors have been circulating around the Internet, blogs, twitter this few weeks about the tablet that will be announcing my Apple. Every year, at this time of the year, Apple will have an Apple event, announcing their latest stuff. Mostly, this time will be more on software and a little on hardware, probably not iPhone or iPod.

So, Apple maybe talking about

• the iPhone’s carrier.
• the iPhone OS 4.0.
• Apple Tablet! (named iPad? iSlate?)

In addition, I hope they will update the line of MacBooks with new processor. Very excited about it. The live coverage will be cover by a few tech blog tomorrow at 1am Malaysian Time (28th January 2010) or 10am Pacific Time (27th January 2010).

Sites that I follow: Macrumors, Gizmodo, Engadget.

[image by Hi.]

I just bought a new wireless desktop set for my PC. Previously I was using the Logitech S510 but I then I am using it for my HTPC in my room so I need another set of keyboard and mouse for my main PC. I already have a wired Microsoft laser mouse already and I only need a wireless keyboard but then there’s not much only-keyboard set, it’s more likely a combo of keyboard and mouse.

Until now, I only favor the Logitech desktop set. I know Microsoft do have their wireless desktop set, I bought a set before and I don’t like the performance, lag and lack of media and shortcut key.

I am a budget user so I found this Logitech Pro 2400 Cordless Desktop for RM185. I only need the keyboard though and I’ll keep the mouse for emergency use.

Comparison of S510’s receiver and the Pro 2400’s receiver.

Keyboard is a little bit huge, I still prefer the size like the Apple Aluminium Keyboard. It runs via 2.4ghz wireless interface and it’s better than RF and can transmit further. The receiver is very tiny too, it’s like a thumb drive.

Lack Next and Previous button, I programmed the Next and Back Internet key for it.

So many shortcut keys, I only use the media key, and sleep button.

It has media key that I wanted, I use it to control my iTunes and volume control mostly.

One thing is that the mouse look the same like the mouse came with the Logitech S510, only that this runs on 2.4ghz and in full black color. I keep it aside though.

Comparison of S510, Pro 2400 and Microsoft Wireless Desktop 700.

Typing on the keyboard feels good, they key very soft but not very quiet. IMO, Apple Aluminum Keyboard still have the best typing experience for me. This is a recommended buy but I still want to complain that they keyboard is a little bit big.

Walked around the exhibition hall and found something to play and try out and that is the iRiver M3 GPS system. The design is not bad, but the screen is rather small, it will be nice if it’s widescreen. Since it’s indoor, there’s I can’t navigate around with this thing, so I place search on my house address and it works. It has preloaded maps of Malaysia and it search by cities.

What’s this different from Garmin is that it is also a media player which plays music, video, text and photo. The storage is via SD card and addition features are like local yellow page listing, 3D junction view, landmark icons and toll rates calculator.

Price at RM499 for PC Fair price, I don’t like this because the touch screen is unresponsive, I always keyed in the wrong word when searching for road and navigating around is not easy.

The world thinnest laptop is not the MacBook Air or the Lenovo X300, it’s Dell’s latest Adamo XPS. It’s now out in their online store, selling for RM6999 in Malaysia.

I wonder how did they do it, making it so slim, yet powerful and have point 1 inch bigger than MacBook Air. The most interesting part is opening the latch, it’s different from any laptop out there. You swipe your finger on a capactive bar, and a blue lights will indicate the Adamo XPS is open. Pretty cool right?

Unfortunate for the US because they can get it from December 22 while we, living Asia can get it directly from the online store.

Wonder why will Apple revise and redesign their MacBook Air, will they?

I have been using Windows 7 for quite some times and I am loving it. My external hard disk drive screwed up on me recently, some folder has turned into some stupid 32kb cluster file named File, not accessible at all. Tried to recover some of it but fail. So I need a new hard disk drive to dump whatever files that are still accessible in my external into it. Then I’m gonna do a fresh format of the external HDD.

I bought my 500GB SATA HDD from Gadget Zone at Prangin Mall for RM188 (US$56) and it’s a Western Digital. What do you think about the price? Have been using Western Digital for a long time, the HDD that was in my old PC, in the laptop, my external’s, my brother’s PC are all Western Digital. I don’t really know about how other brands like Maxtor, Seagate perform, but I tend to go for Western Digital.

What you are seeing is the Ikea’s halogen table lamp. I don’t have any torch at home so I took it for my lighting to shine my way around in the chassis because I didn’t want to unplug all the cables from the CPU, so I just  installed into the chassis right where the CPU is.

Slotted it in, plugged in SATA cable and power cable and all set.

It’s now a total of 750GB internal HDD capacity my PC has.

Every fresh install of HDD will not show up straight away in the My Computer because it needed to be format before it’s usable. I’ve forgotten about it but thanks to Google, problem solved in less than 5 minutes.

1. Press Start button, and
2. search Disk Management,
3. you will see “Create and format hard disk partitions“,
4. open it and

from there, you format your new HDD and you are all done.

Last night, I went to the storeroom and looked out for the unused PC hardwares that were lying in there. I almost had another PC and it’s just that I still lack a CPU chassis to put everything in it.

I have 2 motherbaords, 1 with Intel Pentium 4 3.0 HT which is very noisy on the heatsink fan when turned on and another one has a AMD 64 3000 on it. I have a total of 3.5GB of ram, a 160GB IDE HDD, 2 DVD Drives, 1 400W PSU, 2 wireless card, and a Palit 7300GS 256MB AGP graphic card.

If I fix everything up, I will get another PC at home. I noticed that I got a problem when I took everything out, the motherboard with AMD processor doesn’t has a graphic output, neither does it has a AGP graphic card port. It only has PCI-E and the card that was on it is now on my current PC. This motherboard is a DFI LanParty something something that my brother bought a few years back, which don’t have a graphic output. That’s the problem but some geeks will say this is pro because you need a graphic card to use with it.

As for the other CPU, the P4, I don’t really want to use it because it’s noisy but somehow when I fix everything up, I still got a problem, I lost my manual and I don’t know which jumper to set to turn on the PC. LOL. It doesn’t has a switch like on the DFI LanParty motherboard.

In the end, I keep everything back in the storeroom again. Wasted my time. OMG. I actually wanted to set up another PC to put in my house’s living room for Internet TV like PPS, YouTube and some music streaming at home, but I can’t do it already with all the problems I’ve got.