No more Beta to Windows7

Windows 7 beta 1 will be the only one beta version for the Windows 7 , and the next step in the journey of Windows 7's development will directly come out a release candidate(RC) build,Steven Sinofsky said.

The senior vice president in charge of the Windows engineering group,Steven Sinofsky had confirmed this news in a long entry to a company blog early firday(30 January 2009).Otherwise,he also claim that after the release of RC,the company will not provide the RC2 build too,just take a unsual path of windows development, jump to RTM version directly.However,he still declined to spell out a timetable for the rest of the Windows 7's development,it apparently no final date has been made regarding the launch of Windows7.

It seem like Windows 7 will be final announced soon?

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Meanwhile,Microsoft had released their last public test version for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8-RC1 build.There had already available to everyone to download this latest IE8 version at Microsoft's offical website now.The company claim that IE8 RC1 was a "Completely Platform",it was clearly meant that IE8 will not be has a big change between RC1 and final release edition.

Partial Solar Eclipse - First Day of CNY

26 January 2009,the first day of the Chinese New Year!Everyone just busy in moving around the hometown and giving their relatives and friends a courtesy call on this day as a tradition.

But,this year is different.The Partial Solar Eclipse can be visible to us on my hometown,Kluang's sky.Hence,I had held a Solar Eclipse Observe Event with Robin who is the great graduate of Chong Hwa High School and one of my life leader too.As aim to attract and share this amazing astronomical phenomena to great majority hometown's people,we had chosen the Kluang Mall where is the biggest supermarket in Kluang as our event's location.

4.30pm,after got the admission from Kluang Mall,we were starting made up our equipment.Oops!How terrible!We found out that we had late a bit,the Partial Solar Eclipse already started!

4.50pm,there were became many and many curious peoples joined to our event."Wow!Wow!"this was the sound that can be heard most on this time.All of them was expressing fully excited on it.

5.50pm,here was the time of the Partial Solar Eclipse been "eat" most.We can felt the light of the sun became weaker than another time.

6.10pm,shit~the sun was masked by the cloud,seem like it meant that we only can end up our event.

There were about 500 peoples joined in this event.I was pleased and enjoyed to share this gorgeous phenomena to all the peoples.Wish everyone got a memorable Chinese New Year!

This is me!hehe


Mr.Robin!

Kingston reveal a Chinese New Year Special Edition Pendrive!

To harmony with Chinese New Year,Kingston,the most famous memory drive manufacturer,had revealed a special edition pendrive.Refer to the photo below,it is a 4GB memory drive and it is totally different with the ordinary one.It is appear a red cattle on it and paint with two color,red and gold which are the most suitable color for expressing the Chinese New Year.Who interesting on it,can just simply give me a mail^^

Ah?NASA using XP system?

Here are some photo of the NASA's new Moon transporter,it got twelve wheel and power by two motor which can drive up to top speed at 20km/h.But,from this photo,we can easily found that NASA's new Moon transporter using the Windows XP system to work?!Quite interesting,why don't Microsoft just introduce the Windows Vista to NASA?Haha^^

A Bless to 2009 Year

2008,a tough year that I never face in my life before.A majority of incident was happened in this year.Eight level earthquake at Sichuan,China on 21 May 2008,over 20000 victims in this natural disaster.An accident of Melamine added in milk powder found out at China,it caused a lot of baby became victims without sake.USA's Wall Street repeat the horror stock meltdown such like it done on nineteen century thirty year.Then,United State of America,oh no,it was whole of world went into a tough economic environment.Every people became fear to the market,cut their cost.Every company went into a hard situation,no one buy their product,no income,just only force to be close and close their companies doors.

However,there were also some successful incident which occured in 2008.Such as,China,Bejing 2008 Olympiad,the greatest sport game ever.Otherwise,China finally succeed in spacewalk without any country help too.Of couse,there were still had many many more incident that been occured in 2008..

What can be expect in 2009?the sign of "Change"?or "Yes,We can!"?
Obama,the new master of the United State of America,is he surely can "change”?How long will the tough economic environment been continue?The new PC OS,Microsoft Windows 7 will be fully release in 2009(No beta again)?How the health of Steve Jobs in 2009?What can be expected in the International Year of Astronomy?Well,let us looking torward on it and wishing 2009 will be a totally successful year with full of peace and happiness!

In 2009 year,it will be my last year of secondary school.After that,I will finally become a freshmen for begin attend to the future study such like university.Hence,2009 will be the year of hardship,I need to face the UEC exam,SAT test which can be determine how far that my study road can be extend and what a future life that I will have.
Last,wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year!GONG XI FA CHAI! :)

Apple quietly updates white Macbook

Just some few days ago(I think about two or three days),I had so surprised at the tech spec. of the white Macbook when I browsing at the Apple.com.

According to the Apple.com , the white Macbook is selling at 999USD now and its spec. had updated to:

Intel Core2Duo Processor 2.0Ghz 1066Mhz FSB (I guess it is an Intel Core2Duo P7350 processor,before update it is only a T8100 processor with 2.1Ghz and 800Mhz FSB)
2GB DDR2 667Mhz Ram
120GB Harddrive Nvidia GeForce 9400M GPU(Omg~what a superior update,before just only an Intel X3100 Graphic)
Another spec. like I/O port,screen,and case all are still same with before.

So,it is clearly meaning that Apple is trying improve their white macbook sales also(Just want to clear out their old unsale macbook stock,haha).After this update,mostly that graphic,white Macbook already become a strong performance notebook that can be stand with the new unibody Macbook as well.Otherwise,after this update of white Macbook,it seem like it will getting ready for the Snow Leopard's OpenCL GPU support too.

999USD with high spec. white Macbook.What a extremely good news for the people who willing get a notebook!Just go through on it~

P/S:Damn..I just got a white Macbook on March 2008 at around 1200USD,but now only 999USD can get a so valuable spec. T_T

Say Goodbye to Seagate's 5years warranty

Seagate,the world's biggest memory storage manufacturer,just announced that the company will be making some important changes to its limited warranty terms for selected drives. The warranty period for consumer electronics (Seagate Barracuda 7200 included),notebook (Momentus 7200 and Momentus 5400 included) and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorized Distributors will be changed from 5 years to 3 years that will starting effect after 3 January 2009.

"We have identified the opportunity to offer our customers warranty terms that we believe are in line with industry standard warranty offerings, and that better align to the requirements of our partners and customers."the company says.

Seagate believes that the new warranty period and terms will better reflect current industry standards. Meanwhile,Seagate also claim that it isn't a step backward in terms of demonstrating their confidence in the quality of Seagate products.

However,Seagate enterprise class drives and Seagate and Maxtor external retail products that have 5-year warranty periods will not be affected by this change.Please take a look at the Seagate Warranty Matrix for more information.

In my opinion,actually this changes of the Seagate mabye mostly due to the tough economic environment nowadays.Cutting their product's warranty period from 3 years to 5 years will be take a big save for company.In addition,it is quite strange to the Seagate harddisk on selling market now.Originally,the most difference of Seagate and Maxtor(One of the hard drive manufacturer that under Seagate company) harddisk is their warranty period,Seagate had given a 5 years and Maxtor is 3years.But after change,there are totally same between Seagate and Maxtor hard drive.How do Seagate attract customer pays more for buying a same function and same warranty drive if compare with Maxtor?

Review:Dell XPS 420

As unexpected(feel lucky too~haha),I got a chance touch with one of Dell's High End Desktop PC - Dell XPS 420 which belongs to my friend.As usual,Dell XPS series PC can always name with a high cost,high performance pc.
Hence,it is no wonder about this pc got a high spec. too:
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 Processor
Intel Q33 Mainboard Nvidia Geforce 8600GTS 512MB Video Memory Seagate 320GB SATA2 Harddisk
Original Windows Vista Home Premium Support e-sata,IEEE 1394,Windows Vista Silde Show and come with 8 USB 2.0 port.

1)Take a look to XPS 420:

Front:

Back: It is quite strange,I can't find any PS/2 port on it?That's mean high end PC not need PS/2 port any more?

Side:with a XPS logo and a big hole which use to spread out the hot air which produce by processor.

XPS - Stand for High Performance PC.

Support to Intel VIIV technology too.

Dell Original Keyboard and come with a lot of driver CD


2)Inside of it:
It's look like hard to open?That's wrong~XPS 420 got a very personality design.We are only want to grab out its back silde plug(like the picture below)

Then the silde panel will "automatic" open~

We can simply change hardware or do a clean on XPS 420 by open it with this way.

Oops~Dell's technician don't know how to do a cable management?All wire and cable inside of XPS 420 are in disorder.

I believe all IT enthusiast already conscious of its mainboard design is totally different a lot with usual.ATX?BTX?I think both are wrong too,it is a special design for a better cooling system.It put the processor unit on the center with a huge fan,and this fan has become the main device for spread out the whole hot air which contain inside the pc to the front hole.(Processing like the arrow of picture below)


3)Extra function of XPS 420
XPS 420 support to the Windows Silde Show function.It got a small LCD screen on the top of its front silde which call XPS Mini View.

We can simply using this mini screen play our music which saved in computer or playing some small games without open the windows.Hmm,actually I think it just a useless extra function,haha~



4)Performance
I think it is needn't do a lot of benchmark,according its spec. ,it is surely not problem at all for doing any work or gaming. Actually I also lazy to do that too,haha :)

We need Steve Jobs!-IT market

14 January 2009 , Apple Corp. CEO - Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence until June 2009 due to health reason.During his absentation,all his original work and decision will be take over by Tim Cook-Apple's Chief Operating Officer.However,as a Apple's CEO,Steve Jobs will still have to participate in some Apple's major strategic decisions.

Here is the full letter of Steve Jobs about his leave:

Team,

I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.

In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple's day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.

I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.

Steve

Look like the health of Steve Jobs already getting become worst and worst.T_T
Let's we bless Steve Jobs will turn back into healthy as soon as possible.

There are some photo that capture from 2000 to 2008,it can be easily seen what a big revolution to the Steve Jobs's body:

In addition,Apple had release a big news about their App Store-500million apps already sold out and been downloaded by every iPhone users!

Solar Gazing Event～CHHS Astronomy Club

12 January 2009,as a Chong Hwa High School Astronomy Club member(or also can name with vice-chairman ,^_^) , I held a sun gazing event for enrolling new member purpose.

1.00pm , luckily,the sky was so clear that we could completely observe the Sun by using our "DIY Sun Glasses" and the Orion XT-8 Telescope with Solar Filter that belongs to Astronomy Club new chairman,Wong Kok Ann.

It was a short event,ended at 2.10pm as students were already backed to their classrooms for the afternoon class.However,it is only the first event that held by Astronomy Club on 2009,I think that will become more successful and more attractive to everyone on our upcoming events.

I missed out the most attractive picture which crowd of student gazing the sun though our astronomy devices.

Shot by using my Sony Cyber-Shot Camera with "DIY Sun Glasses".What a nice Sun!:)

Ya,right,this is our "DIY Sun Glasses" :) Guess how to do it?Winner will get a free "DIY Sun Glasses" Haha^^

A student gazing at the sun.

A student was observing the sun by using our telescope.

Hehe,a funny picture~(I am not inside of it -_-)

Good Bye to Vista～Windows Se7en Come!

Finally,after the "world's worst OS",Windows Vista,take a lot of trouble to IT user.On 9 January, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, surely said that their first Windows Se7en Public Beta 1 had been releases when he was giving a speech on CES 2009.

Definitely,Steve Ballmer claimed that the Windows Se7en will become more suitable and more greater performance operating system than ever.However, he only said that Windows Seven has still under well with "Entirely according to plan" and never claim any news about the date of the Windows Seven release.

Anyone want to download and get more detail of Windows Seven,can refer to here.

"Fastest Desktop Chip Ever"-AMD Phenom II

"Intel Core i7 can up to 5.0Ghz" "Intel Core i7 is the world fastest chip" "Intel Core i7..."

I think either AMD fans or AMD itself already crazy for there words that they can be easily seen at majority of IT review website or newspaper.But now,Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday launched what it called its "highest-performing CPUs" to date,AMD fans can finally stand up and says “We also have the fastest chip at all!"
Two new quad-core Phenom II processors, with 45nm technology(Finally up to date if compare with Intel already launches this technology in its processor at last year), were announced by AMD at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.It is:

AMD's Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition processor, which runs at 3.0GHz, is priced at US$275, while the Phenom II X4 920 processor, which runs at 2.8GHz, is sold for $235.
They will still continually using AM2+ socket and will be change into AM3 socket later.


Beside that, Phenom II is one part of the AMD new "Dragon" platform for the desktop PC.AMD new "Dragon" includes the Phenom II X4 Processor,ATI Radeon HD 4800 Graphic and AMD 7Series Mainboard Chipset.AMD is targeting that "Dragon" platform will provide a gaming and media-intensive desktops for the gamers and enthusiasts with the chips, which are also affordable enough for mainstream users looking for a good gaming system.

Need know about how "highest peforming"that Phenom II have?Just refer to here.
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In addition,AMD also launches its netbook platform-Yukon,which prepared for a battle to Intel's Atom.In CES 2009,AMD finally release that their first final Yukon product.Yukon platform will includes two type of processor,which is Sempron and Athlon Neo.Both of them are using 65nanometer process,solo core,low profile design and fixed its size at 27*27mm with only 2.5mm height,which design will become more suitable as to build a more protable computer.

AMD Athlon Neo have support AMD PowerNow! power management technology,which can change the running speed and voltage of the processor according the system usage rate.Otherwise,it is still support AMD Digital Media XPress and includes SSE,SSE2,SSE3,MMX.

About chipset,AMD Yukon platform has using the M690E chipset.It is combine with RS690E north bridge and SB600 south bridge,which include Radeon Xpress X1250 comes with support ATI Avivo and Windows Vista Premium experience.