Apr 6 2011

New Android phone to hold me over

I finally have a new phone. Its not the one that I want (Xpe­ria Play), but at least its bet­ter then my cur­rent phone, the iPhone. Now, that’s not to knock the iPhone, it has served me well for the last three years! But through­out its life, I have always had a jail­bro­ken phone, and when I acci­den­tally bricked it, I then pro­ceeded to acci­den­tally restore it, but to the newest ver­sion which you can’t jail­break… Ever since then, I real­ized how weak the iPhone was when you had to use it the way Apple wants you to use it. For the reg­u­lars, I’m sure its fine, but for a tech junkie like me, I craved some­thing much more cus­tomiz­able and fun to use. But it wasn’t only that — for the last 3 months, I haven’t been able to main­tain a call for longer then 5 min­utes with­out the call break­ing up, and even worse, for the last three weeks, if I ever lost recep­tion, I needed to restart the phone in order to get any recep­tion back.

I’m using my dads old Android Apollo phone to hold me over for the time being, paid $20 on Ebay to get an unlock code ($50 to unlock through Telus)…

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Mar 1 2011

My new Macbook Air

After months of wait­ing, I finally got my Mac­book Air. My trusty Mac­book Pro died, and I had been eagerly await­ing the release of the new Mac­book Pros, as I fig­ured their was no point buy­ing old hard­ware when the new stuff was just around the cor­ner. So I waited and waited… I was look­ing to get the Mac­book Pro 13″, but I was only going to get it if the screen res­o­lu­tion got a bump like the 13″ Air did. I thought it was expected, turns out it wasn’t… So my only options were the Air or 15″ Pro, and I wasn’t exactly look­ing to spend +$2000..

I ended up buy­ing a Mac­book Air used on Craigslist for $1600 for the 2.13ghz, 256GB SSD, 4GB RAM con­fig­u­ra­tion with the exter­nal Super­Drive and USB-Ethernet adapter, which is worth $2100 after stu­dent dis­count and tax. Nice sav­ings of $500, and its in per­fect con­di­tion! The guy who I bought it from actu­ally works at the Apple store in down­town Vancouver.

Light as a feather

The lap­top is great so far. SSD makes every­thing light­ning quick — you don’t real­ize how much of a bot­tle­neck your hard drive is until you use one of these things. I’m VERY satisfied.

Gam­ing is great as well, I can play Star­craft on Medium set­tings, which is good enough. If I really want to play, I can play on my desk­top on Ultra set­tings! But I don’t game much on the go any­ways, so medium is more then enough.

Amaz­ingly Thin

One of the best fea­tures of this lap­top is really how light and thin it is! I guess thats where the word “Air” comes from…Durr. So, a lot of peo­ple might think that a lap­top being light is not some­thing they need, and I used to think the exact same way. I car­ried my 15″ Mac­book Pro around Europe, whats the big deal?! But then I bor­rowed my bosses Air for two weeks, and it was great. You throw the Mac­book in and you barely feel it in your bag. Great for peo­ple who are con­stantly on the go. If your lap­top is plopped on a desk most of the time, then maybe its not such a huge ben­e­fit. I love it though, exactly what I needed.

New lap­top next to his fallen comrad

Any­ways, wasn’t plan­ning on doing too much of a review. Just came to show off =D. Mac­book Air — Highly recommended!

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