IT Show 2006
Woot!~ The anuualy IT Show 2006 is here at Suntec!!!
Venue: Suntec City Exhibition Centre
Halls:
Level 3
Level 4 (Halls 401 - 404)
Level 6 (Halls 601 - 603)
Date: 9th - 12th March 2006
Time: 12nn-9pm daily
Admission: Free!
I'm heading down to Suntec later with my friends to check out the situation over there.
If you are planning to buy some IT stuff, read on
Lets start with Apple products k? (since we use Macintosh ^_^)
For those who are interested in buying Apple Macintosh systems, listen up. If you need them urgently, just buy. Since the next Apple products announcement is on 1st April (Apple 30th Anniversary), I recommend that you wait till that time before you buy. This is because Apple products hardly have discounts, even during IT shows like this. Their prices are all standardized.
The recently released Mac Mini with Intel Core Solo/Duo has been said to be a little overpriced. If you are an ordinary user who uses your computer for basic internet surfing and checking of mails, doing office work most of the time, the Mac Mini will be nice enough. If you tend to edit videos on Final Cut and do lots of multimedia work, forget about this machine. It only has intergrated graphics card.
If you are a media type of person (watching videos, listening to music, image editing etc.), iMac Intel Core Duo will be more than enough. Not the iMac G5. The difference in iMac and iMac G5 is that the latter is older version with PowerPC processor. The iMac has Intel Core Duo processor. iMac is faster in terms of performance but it is only released a few months ago (January) and it one of the first Macintosh lines to convert to Intel processors so you might want to wait a little while for them to sort out all the bugs. The MacBook Pro will be a nice pal to have if you tend to move around a lot.
If you do heavy multimedia work, either get the PowerMacs or wait till they release Intel PowerMacs (they may change the name, eg. removing the word 'Power'). Even if there is Intel PowerMacs now, it is not worth it as Pro applications like Final Cut Studio and Adobe are not Universal Binary yet (Supports both PowerPC and Intel processors). Right now these applications if run on the Intel Macs, they will be running on an emulator called Rosetta. The Universal Binary version of Final Cut Studio are expected to be ready by 1st April and Adobe applications by the end of the year.
I have something to comment on. Some people have said that since Apple is switching to Intel processors, won't Macintosh be the same as Windows?
-_-"
No. The hardware is different, but what matters is the Operating System. The Operating System!!! You cannot dual-boot Windows on Mac OSX unless you use Virtual PC. You cannot boot Mac OSX on Windows (with full functionality). So get it?
Some joker even wrote an article about Apple turning themselves into Microsoft. What a joke. He should go kick himself.
Right, back to the IT Show. Be wary of cheater bugs. Compare prices between the different vendors. My Comex 2005 experience last year teaches me that you should collect as many brochures as you can so that you can compare the prices slowly at home. The most expensive computers will be those from Fujitsu (like duh....) and the cheapest will be from Dell.
One thing I noticed about Dell computers. Notice that their systems are all very very cheap? Look at the specifications carefully. Most of those cheap cheap models have Shared RAM, Intergrated Graphics card, CD-RW/DVD drives... It appears to me that they may be trying to lure unwary customers to buy these kind of computers...
If you dunno or are outdated, the standard computer nowadays (based on my requirements) must have at least
Intergrated graphics card means that its not a seperate component by itself, so if you need to upgrade your graphics card in the future, it is impossible to upgrade it. You can disable the onboard intergrated graphics card though, if you have a seperate one plugged into PCI or PCI-Express slot. Graphics card is very important when doing image and video editing, or if you watch a lot of videos on your computer.
USB 2.0 is a MUST. DVD is used widely now. The Ram is very important! It affects how many applications you can open and use at once. For example, 512MB DDR ram allows you to surf the net and play simple games like MapleStory while scanning for viruses in the background, with your Music Player blasting songs away. Add somemore (for example, 1GB DDR) will allow you to play videos, chat on MSN, surf the net, play some games and even do heavy image editing on Photoshop at the same time.
Shared video ram means that your graphics card will be sharing memory with your main ram. For example, in Mac Mini, its graphics card will use up 80mb of its ram out of 512mb, leaving you with 400+mb DDR ram.
I like Acer as they have rather good value and specs. My desktop and lappy are both Acer. I bought my lappy for 2.2k while Fujitsu sells its lappy with same specs for 3-4k. Remember to bargain and ask for freebies. Its the golden rule when visiting these IT exhibitions.
For durable desktop systems, go HP. High quality business systems go Fujitsu or IBM.
Will try to type more when I get back later... =)
And I wonder... What is this...? *wink*
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