Wow, it took over 1/2 hour to build.
Alec insisted on mimicking Jasper for the photo.
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Archive for October 10th, 2005
The home PC desktop went haywire 2 night ago. I worried and suspected the master harddisk went dead. I spent the entire afternoon yesterday just to be able to confirm the harddisk was indeed dead. It was so dead, when I change it to a slave drive with another master system drive installed, the computer would not even boot-up. I had to take the dead drive out of the computer completely. I don’t think I have anything on it that was important to me since M and Alec has been using it since I’d switched to my Powerbook about 7 months ago and I think I had all my data on a separate disk. However, M may have all her recent work lost in that drive. She said so be it, and rather enjoy a nice break from her clerical work for Alec’s school Table-Tennis Club.
Went to check out some PC systems. Market component PCs are about HKD$3500. I have also checked out Dell’s, HP’s, and IBM’s on the net. Dell seems to have the best deal. HP tries to low ball the price with lesser CPUs, and IBM just have utterly crazy and stupid pricing on extra RAM. IBM/Lenovo has got to be the biggest markup pricing of all Chinese made products. They want HKD$2,929.00 for an extra 1GB of RAM! That’s like HKD$550 more than Apple chages for their extra 1GB RAM for an iMac!
I ended up buying a new 80GB harddisk for HKD$455 and see if I could reinstall the entire system first and hopefully save at least 3 grand for now.
Wish me luck.
Anyone following iPod or Apple news would know Apple will have a conference this Wednesday for some product introductions. There have been many speculations as to whether a Video iPod will be introduced in this conference. Some argued that Jobs had rejected the idea in earlier conferences saying that there had to be enough videos programs in at least the iTunes store before a product as such could be deemed feasible.
While I don’t dare to make any speculations, I beg to differ. Just like the TV, had there been no TV units at all, who’s gonna produce any TV program, for whom to watch, and with what to watch them with? OK, so we have iTunes on our computers that can play video programs but say, for instant, with Podcasts or Vidcasts, IMO these programs are really for portable playback units. Had we the time on a computer to listen to any program, there is internet radio. Yet we download Podcasts, or Vidcasts in the future, just so we could enjoy them while we are on the go.
This morning when I went to download my Podcasts to be updated to my nano noir, there was a message saying that some programs were not updated to the iPod for the device cannot playback those programs which include the Podcast, SciQ. I went to check my SciQ subscription which I have been listening for a couple of weeks already only to find 5 of their latest programs had been changed from Podcasts to Vidcasts!
I am not sure whether the people at SciQ had any premonition, but to completely change the content format without any form of regular supported playback device is at the very least… strange.
Unless Apple could suddenly and magically come up with a software update for their color iPods allowing them to playback such video contents, I think a Video iPod is not far from its birthday.
WhaUSay?!