A cousin of mine, who’s currently a Computer Science freshman student has been meaning to buy a computer in the coming weeks has asked me a crucial question:
“Kuya, should I get a laptop or desktop PC?”
My answer was, “It depends on your needs.” Allow me to elaborate basing on my many years of using the [...]
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Though the Compaq c765TU is a good laptop with mid-range specs it doesn’t come with a few bonus features that extend the mobility and utility of the portable computer.
Such feature is a built-in Bluetooth capability which you can normally find in high-end laptops with higher price tags. Though Bluetooth capability is not that essential today, [...]
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Okay, so it takes a little while to get used to Firefox 3’s new “Awesome bar”, and now I’m beginning to agree with the remark of commenter minor’s wife that the new address bar in Firefox 3 could cause some added eyestrains because it spits out huge chunks of text every time you type [...]
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Though I only have used a laptop for less than three weeks, the fact that I’m the resident “geek” at the Lasallian Community Development Center has led me to being asked by one of our faculty members:
“What laptop should I buy?”
Since, I’m no expert, I based my answer upon my years of tinkering, repairing and [...]
Yesterday, was so to speak, the unveiling of my new Four-eyed Notebook to my friends and fellow student volunteers at school. I used it to take down notes during day one of our planning workshop for the SERVE Volunteers and while I was doing so, I cannot help but get some eerie and uncomfortable feeling [...]
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Troublesome and frustrating for users; embarassing, damaging and costly for manufacturers defective batteries have reminded us all that in our present times, no matter how much we have pushed the envelop of technological development, no matter how much we miniaturise, compress, and pack more features and horsepower into our techno gadgets, the mobile ones in this case, without the aging battery we still use today all of them are utterly useless. Plastic or titanium-skinned paperweights with a pricetag of well over Php30,000.
Of course this applies to those who actually have their own laptops and MacBooks, but honestly, how many Filipinos does own a MacBook or PC notebook? With the silence in the Philippine mainstream media and with a few rants and write-ups from Pinoy-tech bloggers (I mentioned tech bloggers because they represent the majority of the Pinoy MacBooks users) it’s clear the past episodes of laptop batteries being recalled is not a big deal amongst the computing Pinoys.
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I’ve often heard and read that life - some things in it - are a matter of trade-off; I may have been agonizingly unable to get online for the past 4 days thanks to the world-class (you wish!) service of the commercial power monopoly that is Meralco, I was able to catch up on my offline reading. I wasn’t only able to catch up, I was able to finish reading all the new books I bought last month. In the span of that 4 days of living life to the basics, thanks to Ambeth Ocampo and his Bones of Contention: The Bonifacio Lecture, I finally understood the origins of the term ‘Filipino‘ and why Andres Bonifacio has always referred to his fellow Katipuneros as “Tagalogs†some hundred years ago when the Philippine nation was born - right before it was sacked and perverted by Uncle Sam which is another story.
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