Category: Tech Stuffs

I bought Cooler Master Notepal B2 at Sarawak ICT Expo 2008. It cost me RM105 for the one in titanium. If it’s silver or black, it’s RM100. In fact it’s more than RM120 if not mistaken, my sis helped me to bargain till RM100 on the first day but didn’t buy. Went there on the last day and the guy told us black and silver were out of stock, left titanium and he couldn’t give RM100 for titanium but said RM105 is the lowest, oh well… What to do? You won’t be seeing Cooler Master selling at price below RM110 for this size. I’m not sure it’s a bargain for this or not but at least it does it work well.

Here’s the box and Cooler Master Notepal B2 in titanium, it’s made from stylishly brushed high quality aluminium alloy.

I’m not sure… I just can’t recall. I was shown the black one on the first day and the material is kinda thin and pretty light though it’s the same model. As for this, it’s pretty heavy and quite thick. Hmm… Maybe I got the wrong feel, really can’t recall anything about the black one.

It’s so tough and it can really kill people if you hit people with it. I accidentally knocked the corner on our cement wall and it actually caused a small dent to the wall. I really cannot imagine if it fell on the floor and I’m sure the mosaic would crack! If it fell on my toes, my toes might even be broken! GAH!! Dare not to imagine it.

Also, I accidentally knocked my laptop underside(at the very corner near the battery area) to Cooler Master corner, it caused a very small dent to the metal area of my laptop. It’s not obvious unless you inspect it carefully. Ok… Ok… To say that I’m very clumsy isn’t wrong also hahaha…

It came with one USB cable. The fans are just the fans you can find in your computer hahaha… In fact you can make this yourselves hehehe…

Left: There’s two ports, this will ensure that you will still have one more port for use in case you need an extra port.
Right: This is how it looked like from the side.

The result, my notebook is not hot anymore but only warm. Sometimes I’m absent minded enough that I forgot to on the switch of the fan but it still didn’t heat up that much. I was suprised.

The fan is very quiet also.

In case you want to see how it fits my notebook. 😉 Here’s the photo.

Oh… One last thing, it came with one year warranty. I’m not sure how long it will die though. We’ll wait and see. I don’t on it 24/7, only when I’m using my laptop on the dining table then I use it.

I’m sure many of you heard of IP ServerOne before. If you haven’t, you are hearing it now.

We have some forums, these forums are hosted there for more than a year already ever since we got kicked out by another service provider(not the one I’m currently use for this blog) because our forums were draining their bandwidth and the downtime was horrible! Guess what?!?!? IP ServerOne web hosting is quite reliable and the forums are running smoothly with little down time unlike the previous one.

Because of the reliablity, in fact most of my blogs were moved over there since few months back, this blog will be moved over when we are freerer. Wonder how the charges are? Here you go…

This is one Malaysia web hosting that you can trust.

Hehehe… In this post, I’ll take about my new camera also 😉

Showed you this picture before, my 3 IXUS-es. My whole collection *LOL*

Left: My newest IXUS bought it from Kuching, Canon IXUS 80 IS, the biggest of all! The cheapest of all! Got it at RM999

Middle: Just retired IXUS bought it from KL, Canon IXUS i zoom, I think I’ll ask my bro to assemble it and do some soldering to the wires 😛 That should fix the problem, happened to find out about it last night in a forum hehehe… If it’s fixed, HURRAY! I have two cameras to use 😛 Lasted 2 and half years.

Right: The first generarion IXUS bought it from Singapore and the most expensive one. Lasted 1 year only -.-”

Here’s a combo photos of all the 3 IXUS-es, see the differences of the designs and sizes and of course the colours 😛

I like to take macro shoots and all these 3 served me very well! The photo qualities are always exceptional!

Let’s start with the first IXUS, got this in December 2003 in Singapore. My dad bought it and then I’m the hogger and ended up became mine *LOL* What to do? I’m the one who used it the most, the rest of my family members didn’t use it much, might as well give it to me hahaha… This one doesn’t have optical zoom, just digital zoom. However, it took fantastic macro photos. This is how I discovered the fun of macro, thanks to this camera.

Next, second IXUS, got it at RM1300+ at Low Yat, KL somewhere in January 2006. Gave me tonnes of problem and sent it in and out of Canon to fix as the problem could only be discovered by luck. The battery contact was faulty! Then I found out the macro seemed not working but in fact there’s no problem with it, you can only use the macro when you use optical zoom else it’s just normal photo, it won’t change to macro mode automatically even after you choose the macro mode. Got pretty nervous when it reached the one year mark but good thing it was OK and lasted another 1 and half year. Phew… Then E18 came…

The latest IXUS, RM999 only with tonnes of freebies but not all useful *LOL* Except the SD cards(1GB and 2 GB), neck strap, tripod, screen protector and casing. This camera is very bulky unlike the previous two. It’s quite pain in the ass to bring it around 😛 However, the photos quality is pretty good and with my shaky hands, the IS is really useful and great for taking photos in low light condition. The macro was quite good coupled with the IS. I haven’t use much of it though as there’s not much events going on and do not have any outings to shoot lots and lots of photos. I haven’t camwhored with it too! 😛

These are the freebies that I got from buying this new camera at Sarawak ICT Expo 2008. Hopefully this camera can last me for at least another 3 years. *CROSS MY FINGERS* For your record, I had taken almost 600 photos with it hahaha… All the photos in this post were taken with my sis’ Olympus.

You can see some of my selected photos taken with my cameras in irenelaw.com

That’s all for the post today. Enjoy your day! Hehehe…