Obligatory New Year 2011 Post

It's 2011
Happy New Year
For the sick fucks out there celebrating, die, just damn die already.

2011 Forecast

-Phone
Well, we all know that I have a HTC Touch Diamond. Sorry to say, it sucks. Its beginning to make my eyes pop out of their sockets for heavens sake. It was at first, nice and dependable. Features were bountiful if you knew what you were digging into. But lastly you were digging your own sorrow pitiful grave in the 'I want a useful responsive good solid phone' category. Well, it was meant to be my first experience in the smartphone era and boy did it flopped. Battery died within 2 no usage days. Internal memory that had its own idea when it wanted to work. No fucking kidding me. It was like a mat rempit. Most of the time it'll run fine and let me use the GPS navigation and sometimes it'll let you know that how it's pissed off at you in a frenzy of clusterfuck and die beneath a lorry carrying human waste. It probably just wanted to say "Screw You" and decided that it had no internal memory and dumps all notions of the fact that I needed to use the GPS for emergency purposes.

Leaving that behind, I'll be surveying a new phone within these first few months. An android phone preferrably. Why? Because I can, thats why. Looking at phones, I've eyed the LG Optimus One. But due to how the world works, the fucking phone was nowhere to be found at Low Yat Plaza. Those sick assholes. For that moronic reason, I'll probably buy another model. But since when do I surrender that fast? I'll make sure I get that type of phone. A 3 inch screen, HSDPA, Android 2.2(minimum), MiFi capabilities, 3.2mp camera, GPS and a good CPU in it. Why the specifics? HAHA, I have an idea coming into my brain. Well, the idea is still an idea.

-Computer
As I have a great desktop setup, I couldn't care less about upgrading. So there will be no upgrading the desktop except and I say except in a big way if only there was a need to upgrade the graphicscard to a DX11 compatible card.

I have a laptop. Yes, a laptop. An old one. A long time ago, it died on me. Well the motherboard did. The thing is, it was sent for warranty and returned all good. But since day 1, I hated it like an iron fist that reigned over the third reich. I've got several scores that I have to settle with this little shit.
First, the battery time is probably around 1 to lying hours. Every damn laptop shop tells you it'll manage 3 hours. Another clueless lying bastards in the IT world. It will not last for 3 hours on a sigle charge. That laptop lasted 1.30 hour with just light surfing or 1 hour of video. And that was when it bloody brand new. It was a laptop that you had to plug in to the wall at all times.
Second, it was friggin hot. Like melting cheese hot. This ain't no laptop anymore, it was a 'burn your lap to a crisp and kill your future children in the process' unmobile computer. It was so hot, that it's what doomed the motherboard of the laptop in the first place. I had to use a pure aluminium laptop cooler just to use it anywhere just so it wouldn't burn the table or melt the glass nearby. To decrease the heat generated, I had to throttle the CPU down and that fact irked me the most, hence the third and decisive shit it had.
Third, IT WAS FUCKING SLOW. Not only it was slow before the throttling, but when I had to throttle it down, it was like swimming through concrete that was hardening. Tough as it may be, I perservered as I only had to use that laptop from hell when I was travelling and when I was at my Penang residence.
Now, the old problem of the motherboard going kaput is like dejavu, but you know when it last happened. And its happening again! It's on its deathbed, dying with Ubuntu currently running on it. I've been only using the iPod Touch to do stuff when I was travelling these days and Apple may call it a personal computer or anything. But all I can say, how all that is a fantasy of the corporate world.

I need to buy a new laptop. Also within the first months of this year. I've been eying on the AMD Fusion platform for months. Well it did take AMD 2 years to just make the platform, but I am now interested. The promise of a 6-8 hours of battery life with a low power APU(CPU+GPU) that has good enough graphics to play HD videos without killing me in the process. Gonna wait after CES to choose any laptop that would probably make my dreams come true. A 10-13 inch screen, 6-8 hours of lying battery life and a good cheap price.


I'm bitter, but it's 3.15A.M. and I need to do stuff. So I'll be typing more of my forecasts for 2011.