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From Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com: 8 luxury autos that flunk the value test

peterjang73 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:04:36 +0000

All the big names are in that list!! Including Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz AND Porsche! o.O

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These high-end rides prove that you don’t always get what you pay for.

from Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com

From Reviews Tom’s Hardware US: Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s?

peterjang73 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:55:31 +0000

Are you mulling the potential benefit of an SSD upgrade on a system without 6 Gb/s SATA connectivity? We run the benchmarks on several different solid-state storage architectures in order to determine how much performance you give up on an older machine.

from Reviews Tom’s Hardware US

From Popular Science – New Technology, Science News, The Future Now: Testing the Best Audiophile-Quality Headphones

peterjang73 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:51:10 +0000

Audiophile Headphone Battle Sam Kaplan

Our friends over at Sound + Vision rounded up six of the best-sounding over-the-ear headphones out there. Put away your packaged Apple “White Plastic Circles of Pain” earbuds–these will fill your earholes with some of the finest-quality audio on the market. The headphones include some of the best offerings from Sony, Grado, Sennheiser, and Audio-Technica–definitely worth a look if you’re serious about your music.

Asus Transformer Review

peterjang73 — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:56:21 +0000

So thanks to Chase’s cash back program, we got an Android tablet! It’s got Tegra 2 dual core processor, 1 GB memory, 10.1″ IPS screen, 16 GB storage. Yeah, it sounds like every other tablet, but this one has some unique features.

Though I haven’t got it, this tablet has an actual keyboard that you can attach to it. It then becomes a laptop. Ta da… It has transformed!! Anyhow, it also has a microSD card slot and mini HDMI. And let me just say that it’s beautiful! Text, contrast, graphics are all great.

What makes it even better is that Asus has included two awesome apps: MyCloud and MyNet. The former is a DLNA media sharing app and the latter can access Asus’ cloud AND your own computer! That was ingenious!!

I upgraded it to 3.2 soon as I got it up. It’s perfect! Battery life is awesome too!! So far so good!

Score: 9/10

Motorola Droid X: Review

peterjang73 — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:53:25 +0000

My old HTC Touch (in Verizon, it’s called XV6900) has been acting up and battery doesn’t hold charge anymore and the Internet is intermittent at best. So when I heard that the new Motorola Droid X was coming out on July 15th, I started to wait. My 2-year contract ended back in June so at midnight of the 15th, I pulled the trigger and got i on Friday!

Others seem to be not as lucky as now, it won’t ship till the 25th.

Here are the box shots and Droid X shots… The camera is an old Sony that doesn’t seem to take good shots so please do excuse me.

Now the shot out of the box…

The battery came fully charged!� And since I output all my contacts into CSV file and then imported it into Gmail account, syncing and updating my contacts was a breeze!� Not to mention that once you set up all your social networking accounts, Android 2.1 updates all the Facebook friends as well!� It was even sweeter once I learned that from the contacts list, you can see all the social networking friends’ updates!

Here are some of the generic shots…

There are 7 windows where you can swipe through for different types of “setups”.� One for weather, one for social networking widgets, one for media etc.� I like that.� I also enjoyed the screen.� 4.3″ screen is quite an ample size.� And yes, it has 512 MB of ROM memory, 8 GB internal & 16 GB SD card storage, along with 1 GHz processor!� On top of that, Verizon’s 3G network was a champ!� Android Marketplace worked just fine and all the apps installed quickly and w/o any hassle.

Default browser wasn’t very attractive.� So I installed Opera Mini from the Market and I was happier then!� � Also it did play DivX file just fine but I wanted better support so I searched for MKV in the Market and found a player called Rock Player.� Almost no hiccups at all, even in playing large MKV 720p files.� I am loving this!

The screen is beautiful.� Pictures don’t do justice.� aGPS works well and with Google Maps, it went well!� MP3 works well.� And since I have unlimited 3G, I gave Slackware a try.� Just search for it on Android Market!� � The music will download and play seamlessly.� The overall experience was great.� However, there are two things that I didn’t like…

First is the heat.� When in use, it gets hot!� Especially where you are holding it.� Dang it.� Second is the battery.� It doesn’t last very long.� Yeah, they say you can talk for very long and such… but I gave it a moderately heavy usage and after 7 hours, battery color changed from healthy green to uh-oh orange and then to flashing green top bar and it was unresponsive from there.� I will probably carry the USB cable with car adapter and charge it in the car and at work.� So I suppose it won’t be terribly bad but still…

So my final score?� 8.5 / 10

This thing delivers!� Here is the summary…

The Good: Everthing.� 3G, widgets and apps, Android Market, seamless integration, smooth multimedia playback.

The Bad: It gets hot!� And battery drains fairly fast.