Sunday, June 04, 2006
WeekenderAfter a llooooong week at work, the weekend is finally here, and it's time to partyyyy!
This was taken at Raffles Shopping Centre, where they had a Lego fair, and were show casing all sorts of lego figures created entirely out of lego. Here are some life-sized lego figurines! Omg, you can make anything out of lego and must have taken those artist's weeks to do this!
Another incredible lego layout to signify the FIFA World Cup 2006, a mega stadium made out of lego and lego figurines.
Side-view of the stadium. Detail was intricate and meticulous!
Another lego fun-house with moving figurines.
The theme for the lego exhibition is very clearly pirates.
Next, really pretty colour-changing sky-lights of Clarke Quay. =)
Next day, off to Changi Air-port! Talk about Globe-Trotting!
Australia's Canberra Tulips on display at Marina Shopping Centre.
After that it's the PC Show 2006 held at Suntec City. And the crowd at the convention centre was insane! There were 2 simultaneous fair's at the same time, the World Book Fair and the PCshow 2006. And everyone was jostling about.
There were many great deals (what's the point of taking photos at a PC-fair)?
Things to note, this fair's memory prices were DIRT Cheap! a 512mb SD card was going for $25, 1GB going for $38-52, 256mb for $12.40! Thumbdrives were just as cheap, 512mb going for $18, 1Gb for $54, 2Gb for $95!
Notebooks were still on the high-side though, a decent Acer 5565cxi travelmate with Centrino Duo, 1Gb DDR, 100gb Hdd, 3-in-1 memcard reader with 1.3Megapixel camera, 14.1" Crystal-Brite screen going at $2300 on the last day, but there were cheap mentions, like the Sony FPJ-Vaio going at $1,999, NEC, Samsung and HP all had laptops at $1999.
Razer had the Copperhead, Diamondback and Krait on display though, but they were going at $130 and above. Still too steep. I’d rather get the Logitech M5 keyboard! Going at $299 with the M6 laser mouse-bundle too.
There wasn't really anything "New", except maybe for XFX’s Nvidia Geforce 7950 GX2 with 1GB GDDR3 memory, Dual dual-link DVI+HDTV-out! A Dual-core-dual card GFX. Actually it's just two 7900-series Geforce cards together. With the 7950, Nvidia has opted to go back to the original 6800-series dual-PCI slot solution that was initially for a heat sink. Just take the 7950 to be a SLi-7900. I haven't seen actual benchmarks for the two solutions yet, but I believe someone will do that soon. Radeon X1900XT VS GFX 7950 GX2 VS SLi-7900.
Scores will probably be similar, with the Radeon traditionally winning in 3Dfx rendering games (e.g Unreal engine), and the Nvidia coming out supreme in games coded with DirectX. Ok, there wasn't else very "new" worth mentioning, maybe a few iPod Nano rip-off look-alikes, a whole array of cheap Taiwanese/Chinese mp3 players, etc etc. But nothing else really spectacular except for the cheap monitors and memory cards.
A 17" 8mS LCDs from Acer/Viewsonic and Philips were going at $288, 19" going at $379. What's happening? It’s really cheap I was so tempted to get another LCD monitor!
New Kingston 1GB DDR-400 PC3200 RAM.
My XPC Slot.
Anyway, I just bought a Kingston 2.5Cls 1Gb DDR-400 memory at $134 from Best Bargain. Boosting my computer to 2Gb DDR-RAM! Yeah! Must resist the temptation!
Anyway, I've already bought all the IT-stuff that I've wanted, my PDA, handphone, camera, and a XPC. I won't be getting anything till after 2008. By then Vista will be mainsteam. Maybe with a Dual or Quad core AMD FX, Quad 1Gb DDR ram, Quad 1TB SCSI HDDs, Dual Dual-core GFXs, and even Quad LCD monitors?!?!?!
The New FX 2010 Quad-Super Computer!
See you in 2010.
9:09 PM
