I want to buy a laptop and Dell XPS M1330 seems to be a model which has almost everything I’m looking for.
Core2 Duo 1.66 GHz
160 GB Hard Disk
2GB 667 MHz RAM
8X DVD Writer
13 inch screen
3-4 hours of battery life – up to 6hours on a 9 cell battery
Price is about 55000 rupees, purchasing it on EMI might help.
Worth Buying?
And the weight of this laptop is about 2kilos or less, so should be really easy to carry around.
2007 just flew past, at least for me. Hardly get time to update this blog these days.
Wish you all a very Happy New Year ! Hope to post more often here in 2008.
Somethings I wish I could do in 2008
Travel and read a lot more.
Spend lesser time in front of the computer (most difficult).
Watch more movies.
The drop in hardware prices is something really strange but welcome. Today I picked up a 2GB pen drive for 600 rupees which is almost 30 paise per MB.
No wonder no one uses CDs these days.
I recollect that the last time I bought a pen drive was in end of 2006 and the price I paid for a 1GB drive was about 1100 rupees.
Now I got double the space for half the price. The funniest part is whether the folks selling such stuff are making any profit?
I never withdraw cash in non-ICICI ATMs. But the other day when I had to buy some medicines , the shopkeeper did not accept a debit card. So I went to the nearby SBI ATM. I withdrew 400 rupees but my ICICI bank ac has 467 rupees missing.
ICICI tells me that they charge a small fee to withdraw cash from other ATM.
67 bucks for 400 bucks is day light robbery. what do u think ?
Last night when I had to return from my office by the public transport , I was shocked to see the bus conductor pull out a thermal printer out of his bag.
He asked for my destination and gave me a printed ticket see poor quality picture below
Android is the latest mobile development platform from Google
I have been trying to get my hands on the SDK since the launch
I managed to do a simple Hello World inside the SDK
There is a lot to learn and explore. But whos got the time ?
The Android Platform looks impressive. For a person who is a novice in the Java side of things – Android was really fast to setup and use.
Links
You also need the Eclipse IDE
Bala tried this as soon as the SDK was released
Let’s take a look at the Indian mobile internet scene.
GPRS charges are high but still cheap compared to other markets.
Admob who just completed serving 10 billion ads has released a report which shows really big numbers from India.
Also Russell Beattie told me that Mowser gets major traffic from India.
check the large translated image at blogscoped
The page is not replacing the google.cn homepage but is at http://www.google.cn/hp?sp=china
Prototyping ?
Quoting Rajeev Motwani who was a mentor to the Larry, Sergey duo @ Stanford
Meanwhile the World Wide Web was coming around at that time and I just got sucked into that. Sergey Brin and Larry Page were running a searchengine out of Stanford. These 21-year-olds would come in and make demands on me – we need more disk space because we are crawling the Web and its getting bigger, we need to buy more disk… I’d give them more money and they’d go buy more disks.
At some point these guys said, we want to go do a company. Everybody said you must be out of your minds.There are like 37 search engines out there and what are you guys going to do? And how are you going to raise money, how will you build a company, and these two guys said, we’ll just do it and they went off and did it.And there are some big names who supported the company in its early stages. And then they took over the world. And right now, you know,other search engines do not even compare. It is just amazing.
Just felt like sharing something I just read
Derek Silvers writes in this post that he quit Rails and switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails.
I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.
So my question is does Rails give any wisdom ?
I threw away 2 years of Rails code, and opened a new empty Subversion repository.
What ? Are you kidding ?
I know CakePHP is inspired by Ruby but I have not had the time to try out Ruby. Should I try out Ruby to get the Wisdom?
Now here’s the article
