What’s a geek to do before Christmas? Buy a Techgoondu-approved gift to make others - and ourselves - happy of course. Granted, this year-end is shaping up to be more austere than the past few with the financial downturn already upon us. But austerity driving shouldn’t mean no giving for Christmas, right? So here’s a list of [...]

Do you want an Asus Eee PC or an HP mini?
That seems to be the choice that Sitex shoppers are being asked to make by SingTel and StarHub, as the two broadband operators slug it out in an increasingly saturated broadband market.
Counting personal broadband services like 3.5G offerings, Singapore has a residential broadband penetration of [...]

Besides the usual TVs and laptops, there are other little bargains to be had at Sitex.
We seem to have forgotten that printers were once the thing to buy at these shows. Visiting the HP booth brought to my attention this nice little gem of a colour laser printer.
The Color LaserJet CP1515n costs a nice S$479 [...]

Okay, on to the other Sitex show bargains on the first day.
One tempting deal comes from Samsung, which is selling its new 14.7-megapixel NV100HD camera for S$599, with loads of freebies thrown in. 3 x 4GB SD card, card reader, 5-in-1 cleaning kit, extra lithium battery, tripod, etc and etc, anyone?
This nifty little number (see [...]

Core i7-965

It’s been said that recessions come and go but life goes on at Sim Lim Square, that six-storey techie haunt in Singapore, for those unfamilar.
The best evidence comes from the way PC buffs snapped up Intel’s new Core i7s, as they hit the stores late last week.
So popular are these Core i7s that the [...]

Asus Eee Top ET16

Not sure why Asus called it the world’s first touch-screen PC, but its new Eee Top ET16 series of desktop PCs do come with a nice touch-screen and neat “all-in-oneness” that reminds one of the Apple iMac.
The 15.6-inch screen is a tad-bit small compared to HP’s previous touch-screen wonder, but this nifty [...]

In the first part of the roundup, we tallied the entries on the Techgoondu LG TV contest, and Apple iPhone emerged as the favourite gadget of 2008.
In this article, we’ll be looking at some of the other gadgets that our readers picked, and why they picked these devices.

Dell S2409W

Just spotted a pretty nice deal over at the Dell website, while I was researching for an article.
Its S2409W 24-inch monitor is going for a nice S$489, making it an attractive deal compared to most other makes out in the market (typically going for S$500 or more).
Note though that, unlike most 24-inchers out there [...]

Yeah, I just blew that massive amount at Sim Lim this past two days. First was an impulse buy - I finally got my ATI HD4870×2, the fastest graphics card on Earth now.

The MSI 4870×2 package

Got myself the MSI version, which comes with an overclocked chip and the Rainbox Six: Vegas game for S$792. Also, [...]

The official word’s out - the next big leap in Intel CPUs will come next month, when the chipmaker launches its much-awaited Core i7 chips, also known as the “Nehalem”.
An Intel blog written by its PR folks confirm that the new chip will be out in November, just as supporting motherboards featuring the new X58 [...]