Choosing time
I have a splitting headache right now, and I might just be on the verge on falling sick. Let’s hope a good night’s sleep would work its wonders. Hasn’t had that since…..uh, since….. some time ago. Guess I’ll have to pass on watching some of the World Cup matches.
Anyhow, I’m still in the middle of considering various specs for my future laptop. At the moment, I only have Dell and Sony in my list of checklist (flexibility and quality on the other). I so want to get a 17" laptop but unfortunately budgetary constrains gave me that classic rap on the knuckles. So now I’m forced to look one notch lower at the 15" range. Once you’ve seen the higher range of prices, everything else looks so much cheaper now (and more attractive). Although there’s no complete satisfaction for the technophile in me, I suppose it’ll have to do for now. While digging around for news, this nice tidbit caught my attention. I don’t have the link since I was in the middle of Googling and won’t bother looking for the link since I Google about a dozen times daily and it’ll just be like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. I do wonder sometimes how my profile is shaping up on their end. Must be one hell of a challenge for their algorithms to anticipate my diverse interests, but their search failure rates are still relatively low, IMHO. Impressive.
Oh, the news. Apparently Intel is preparing for war. A price war! Goody! This is where wars are good! Screw those who says that all war’s hell. I might pity AMD, but when the thought of cheaper Intel chips comes to mind its AMD out the window. So, all you Wintel (Windows-Intel) minions out there, rejoice? Sadly, like all good news there’s always a catch. The news is only just a rumor flying around among the computer industry insiders. If true, it would mean that you’ll have to wait till July 23rd for the price cuts. They’ll reportedly slash the prices by up to 40%! But, the steepest cuts are reserved for the older line of chips (but drops for the Core Duo chips are also expected). Good for me right? Just wait until late July, and then I get to reap from the price war. Not quite. The cuts are reserved for desktop platforms! Ouch!
I guess I’m just not lucky again. As usual, I suppose.
