#computers

Western Digital’s Digital Home Tour

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Just received word that West­ern Dig­i­tal will be com­ing to San Fran­cisco on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 30th to show­case their new tech­nolo­gies, part of the “Dig­i­tal Home Tour”.

Thurs­day, Octo­ber 30, 2008
4-8pm
@ W Hotel
181 Third Street
San Fran­cisco, CA 94103

If you would like to attend the event, you may RSVP via wdc.com/wddigitalhome

Apple Releases New MacBooks

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If you don’t know already, Apple has just announced its new line of Mac­Books1 ear­lier at 10 this morn­ing in Cuper­tino. Today’s line is a com­pletely new build from the ground-up, start­ing with its “uni­body” approach.

Other than the uni­body being totally new to the line as well as the indus­try, I am lik­ing the fol­low­ing on the MacBooks:

  • 13.3-inch LED-backlit dis­play. The 12-inch ones is just to small. Hav­ing that extra 1.1-inch is truly a big step.
  • Upgraded video adapter, NVDIA GeForce 9400M2. Nice upgrade for those want­ing to do more gam­ing on these. But I think this is also nice for those doing photo edit­ing like me.
  • All-new, smooth glass Multi-Touch track­pad. No buttons—it itself is the button!

Though these are nice upgrades, the price went up to $1299 for the Mac­Books. If I was in need of a new laptop/notebook com­puter, this would be the best pick. It’s just too bad it doesn’t have an ExpressCard/34 slot like how the Mac­Book Pros have them. It would be great to have for those peo­ple who take their Mac­Books on vaca­tion or on trips and want­ing to edit/backup/upload their pho­tos from their SD-based media cards (like the one I have for my Canon Pow­er­Shot) along with a card read for the slot.3

You may get more infor­ma­tion and/or watch the video via apple.com/macbook/. If you don’t know which Mac­Book is for you, click here to com­pare them at a quick glance.

Update
If you are lean­ing towards buy­ing a Mac­Book Pro and need the quick run­down of the new bells and whis­tles, click here to read up The Apple Blog’s review about it.

  1. Mac­Book, Mac­Book Pro, and Mac­Book Air [↩]
  2. The Mac­Book Pro has both the 9400M and the 9600M GT. You may switch to either depend­ing on your need for per­for­mance as well as bat­tery life. [↩]
  3. They do have a ExpressCard/34 slot. I don’t know where I read that dif­fer­ent. [↩]

EVGA Wallpaper Design Contest

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It’s this sim­ple, cre­ate the most EVGA themed desk­top wall­pa­per in ONE of the three cat­e­gories listed below and show it off to the world! The oppor­tu­nity is here to show your love and be cre­ative all at the same time. Design a wall­pa­per about EVGA moth­er­boards, graph­ics cards, or Mods Rigs. Get out there, get involved, have fun, be cre­ative and have the oppor­tu­nity to win some seri­ous prizes, by design­ing the ulti­mate EVGA themed wallpaper!

Con­test time­line looks some­thing like the fol­low­ing (all times Pacific):

  1. Sub­mis­sion. From 2008-10-01 12:00pm to 2008-10-31 11:59pm
  2. Judg­ing. From 2008-11-03 to 2008-11-07
  3. Win­ners announced. 2008-11-11 12:00pm

The Grand Prize will be Veloc­ity Micro Edge Z15. More details and prizes avail­able by going to http://www.evga.com/wallpaper/

Good luck!

Use a Single Mouse and Keyboard Between Multiple Computers

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For those that have a lap­top and a work-station or desk­top PC/Mac, we are often faced with the ques­tion of how to fit and work on both on our tiny lit­tle desks (but that’s prob­a­bly just me). Any­ways, if you haven’t heard of Syn­ergy+:

Syn­ergy lets you eas­ily share a sin­gle mouse and key­board between mul­ti­ple com­put­ers with dif­fer­ent oper­at­ing sys­tems, each with its own dis­play, with­out spe­cial hard­ware. It’s intended for users with mul­ti­ple com­put­ers on their desk since each sys­tem uses its own monitor(s).

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