Month: May 2006

Apple has made good on their promise to deliver new ads focused on the benefits of Macs over PCs. Specifically OSX and the bundled iLife suite. There are 6 ads in the campaign, and I like just about all of them. They’re clean, easy to understand, cute, and funny. Link

The new Get A Mac blitz also features 14 reasons why you should do so, and debunks 6 old reasons people used to give about Switching. All very neat. I can tell you how it’s all true and I’ve had hardly a bad moment on this computer in the last 2 years, but you’d just call me biased. I love my Mac. So much so that even as great new models come out, and I get closer and closer to affording one, I’m actually happy to keep on working and living with this old model as long as it lasts. That’s something that never happened in my 18 years of buying, building, and upgrading PC desktops.

DS Lite collage
Originally uploaded by sangsara.

I bought a DS Lite over the weekend (thanks to the Progress Package arrangement). It is freakin’ sweet and I can’t go back to the old DS now. It’s with Kimberly anyway, and she seems to really like playing Tetris and Brain Age. So that’s great.

It’s not official out here yet, so this was a Japanese import, and I’ve got to use a 220v-110v stepdown converter to charge it, which is a bit of a pain and an eyesore. It’s also selling out everywhere fast, with the White model being quite impossible to find.

Rumors on the street are that the local distributor is about to release them officially, with the proper charger, but no word yet on how much they’ll cost. I had the feeling that they’d be around $350 or more, and so decided to get one early. Actually I could have waited a couple of weeks… and then I would have been able to get a white one, but goddamnit if I didn’t have to just get one then!! It was irresistable.

No regrets! The brighter and sharper screens could make any turd of a game look good.

Space Blaster… plus Monster!
Originally uploaded by sangsara.

Truly value for money.

Found at Sim Lim Square.

Dilated Peoples’ excellent, pretty much essential, album Expansion Team is going for SGD$7.95 brand new at the Heeren HMV in Singapore. Also, Athlete’s last album Tourist. I looked through the other stuff but nothing else really stood out apart from an Ed Harcourt album.