Traditionally, computer bazaars have the best deals for the last day, when retailers clear their stock at low, low prices. This is when the crowds rush in.
When I went down today to Comex at noon, and the crowd was already building up. Some good buys/price drops include:
1. D-Link DIR-655 Wireless N router - S$169
No need [...]

Fujitsu S6520

I had written just last week that some retailers were keeping their new Centrino 2 laptops for the Comex show, even though the faster, energy-saving portables were already ready to be sold.
Well, sure enough, the likes of Toshiba and Fujitsu went out in force with their new lappys at the tech bazaar at Suntec [...]

Anyways, here the deals/gadgets that caught my eye at the show.
(1) The Ultimate HP Student Offer (but they were willing to sell to this 39-year-old as well) at Booth 8428 level 4
It’s the new HP Pavilion dv5-1034TX running on Centrino 2 with a 512MB GeForce 9600M GT graphics card, Vista Home Premium, 15.4 inch WXGA [...]

Visiting the big IT fairs today is very different from the experience 2-3 years ago. The last few tech shows (we have four every year, one every quarter, in Singapore which coincides with the school holidays) has become a lot more complicated and a lot more competitive.
Brands generally don’t set up their own booth and instead [...]

The jam started from as far back as SCGS along Bukit Timah Road and by the time I hit Nicoll Highway at 2pm yesterday, loads of cars were queuing up to turn left into Suntec and Marina area.
I decided to make a U-turn and head for Shaw Centre, my “secret” car park with plenty of [...]

History Channel HD - Dogfights

Good news for content-starved high-def TV (HDTV) fans. History Channel is going to be shown on HD for StarHub cable TV viewers from September 1, bringing with it programmes like Dogfights and Cities of the Underworld, whose computer graphics will really get a boost with the better clarity on HD.
The new [...]

MSI P45-8D \"Memory Lover\"

Yeah, you read that right. MSI has come up with a mobo that has twice as many slots for memory modules than the average mobo out there.
Four slots on the P45-8D, dubbed “Memory Lover”, supports cheap DDR2 modules and the other four slots support newer DDR3 modules.
Okay, that means you only still [...]

Nokia today launched a couple of new N series multimedia phones, including the candy-bar N79 (above right), which the company is holding up as the smallest N series model so far. The Finnish phone maker also launched the N85 (above left), an update of sorts to the popular N82 multimedia phone.
As with other N series [...]

It’s been more than a month since Intel launched its Centrino 2 platform, which includes CPUs that are faster yet use up less battery. Yet, you’ll probably be surprised that there aren’t that many models out there in stores in Sim Lim Square and Funan the DigitaLife Mall.
The reason, as Techgoondu found out during Sim [...]

Apple is hit with a lawsuit in the United States, from a woman who is alleging that the iPhone 3G’s performance and reliability has been subpar. (source: Ars Technica)
According the widely reported story, Alabama resident Jessica Smith bought her phone after being bombarded with iPhone ads on TV, radio and print, and is less than happy with Apple’s [...]