One of the most innovative accessories to have spawned with the iPad is the nifty wireless keyboard that instantly turns your tablet into a lean, mean e-mail machine. Instead of poking at your screen to fire away an angry e-mail, or waiting until you got to a PC, the keyboard lets you bang away furiously – and accurately – on the go.

That’s what the Wedge Mobile keyboard from Microsoft lets me do with my Google Nexus 10 now. I haven’t been convinced of these small keyboards until now, because most of them involve typing on really small keys that are so shallow your fingers might as well have been hammering away at the metal underneath.

The Wedge Mobile Keyboard, however, stands apart from most other Bluetooth keyboards. Not only is it easy to connect, it is a joy to type on.  …

It’s a sign of the crazy level of competition in PC graphics cards these days that I can buy a top-end card over the weekend with S$539, instead of the usual S$700 to S$900 asking price.

The Powercolor HD7970, using AMD’s top-end graphics chip and with 3GB of RAM, is not a bargain basement reference card, but one with the manufacturer’s own quiet dual fans, which usually add to the cost.

Yet, it is costing what a mid-range card might usually command, thanks to the latest round of price and performance one-upmanship between AMD and Nvidia.

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If you had asked just six months ago if you should buy a solid state drive (SSD) for your PC, I’d have said “only if you are using it for a laptop.”

Besides the pure speed of an SSD, the low power consumption, light weight and durability mean that SSDs are a perfect fit in portable machine. So much of our data is stored on the cloud now, be it e-mail or music, that we don’t need all that space onboard after all. There’s always an external hard disk you can call on if you need storage.

So, what about desktops then? Well, I used to think they can do with a hard disk.

But having used SSDs in all the laptops at home now, I have to say, once you get used to the speed of SSDs, it’s hard to go back to hard disks. And that’s what I did this past weekend – I finally relented and bought a Corsair Force GT for my desktop PC.

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