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I went out and bought a new PC. Dude, I got anouther Dell. I also picked up a new Hannspree HF289H flat panel display to go along with it. So far, I’ve been blown away by everything that I have thrown at this new rig. I also digg the color scheme of the black/gun metal grey PC case and piano black display.

Here’s the PC’s Specs:
Processor – Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz 8MB L3 Cache
Memory – 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz
Hard Drive – 750GB 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
Optical Drive – 16x DVD+/-RW dbl layer
Video – ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
Sound – 7.1 Channel Audio
OS – Windows Vista 64bit
Warranty – 1 Year

Here’s the Display’s Specs:
Viewable Size – 27.5″
Aspect Ratio – 16:10
Resolution – 1900 x 1200
Response Time – 3ms
Dot Pitch – 0.309mm
Inputs – 2 HDMI, 1 DB15 VGA, 1 Component Video, 3.5mm Stereo, RCA Jacks
Warranty – 3 Year

Total spent to be back in business: 1.5 Large

Today I retired my old Treo 700p. It’s been an OK phone for the 2 years I’ve used it, but for the last 6 months the reception was going downhill. The cutting in and out and dropped calls from lost signal was quite annoying and becoming steadily worse.

I got my new HTP Touch Diamond cell phone today. The Sprint plan pricing I am on is still phenomenal so I renewed. I liked it when the store guy said Oh… you’re on a SERO plan… I’m not sure with that. He was able to renew it.

It’s the only phone I use so I wanted to get a good one.

Sprint Plan – $43.00 a month including the taxes for:

500 Anytime Minutes
Nationwide Long Distance & Roaming
Unlimited Sprint & Nextel In Network Calls
Unlimited Texting
Unlimited High-Speed Internet Access
Free Nights 7:00pm to 7:00am /Free Weekends
Caller ID
Call Waiting
3-Way Calling
Voicemail
Full Replacement Warranty

$200.00 HTC Touch Diamond includes:

Processor – Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
Operating System – Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Memory ROM – 256 MB
RAM – 192 MB DDR SDRAM
Internal storage – 4 GB
Dimensions – 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.35 mm (T)
Weight – 110 g (with battery)
Display – 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen
Resolution – 640×480
Main Camera – 3.2 megapixels
2nd Camera – VGA CMOS color camera
Network – HSDPA/WCDMA:
Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds

Device Control – TouchFLO™ 3D Touch-sensitive
Navigation – GPS
Connectivity – Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR
Wi-Fi – IEEE 802.11 b/g

Audio – Built-in microphone, speaker and FM radio with RDS
Supported formats:
MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB

It’s Mini-Me!

My daughter received a cute new little netbook for Christmas. It has surprising performance for an inexpensive price. It’s the perfect size for her. Plus for those bussines trips when I’m flying, Dad gets to borrow it. Here it is sitting on my mammoth 17″ 1920×1200 honker.

The Specs:
1.6GHz Processor Intel® Atom™ N270
2GB Memory DDR2 667MHz
120GB SATA Hard Drive
10.1” 1024×600 LCD
HD Audio w/ Stereo Speakers
10/100 LAN
802.11b/g Wireless
Built-in 1.3 Megapixel Webcam
SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro Memory Card Reader
USB2.0 Port X 3
2.8 lbs. 10.2″ X 7.1″ and 0.7″ thin

Voted one of the 10 hottest tech products of 2008, these are selling like crazy. The stores sold out for Christmas.

Sure anyone these days can have a Wi-Fi hotspot in their house, I like the long hauls; the farther the better. Watching packets fly miles through the air at broadband speeds is such a rush. I also like climbing on roofs, towers, and buildings with no safety net. But I’m getting a little too old for that.

Pictures of past wireless networking projects have been published in the photo gallery.

I retired my old piece of crap. I got my new cell phone this week. The Sprint plan pricing was phenomenal. I finally made the upgrade to a taco.

$37.00 a month including the taxes for:

500 Anytime Minutes
Nationwide Long Distance
America Roaming
Unlimited Sprint & Nextel Mobile to Mobile
Free Nights 7:00pm to 7:00am
Free Weekends
Caller ID
Call Waiting
3-Way Calling
Voicemail
Unlimted High-Speed Internet Access

My $250.00 Treo 700p includes:

312 MHz PXA270 Intel XScale processor
128 MB of (NVFS) chip Internal Memory
2GB SD/MMC Memory Expansion Card
2″ x 2″ / 320 x 320 TFT Touch-Screen Display
65,000 Colors
1.3 Megapixel Digital Camera
Bluetooth Wireless v1.2
Palm OS v5.4.9

It’s a high powered PDA phone, a portable music and video entertainment device, and an email and Internet machine. It does it all with ease and style.

40″ of 1920 X 1080p resolution of the best looking monitor I have ever seen. Samsung’s sleek Piano Black 40″ LCD leads the industry and centers The Shures Network.

With its 6000:1 contrast ratio, over two million pixel resolution, Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp, S-PVA Panel, and 10-bit processor with 12.8 billion colors, the LN-S4095D delivers a picture of startling clarity.

Everything I’ve thrown at this display looks great. It’s a much needed welcome addition to my HTPC. The free broadcast HDTV in the Chicago suburbs rocks. I like my new rabbit ears.

Ever wonder what a phat pipe looks like? Here’s a snapshot of an Internet modem at work.

Ameritech’s OC-3 Dedicated Ring Service provides high-speed (155.52 Mb/s), optical fiber-based full duplex data transmission capabilities based upon the Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) standards.

I recieved my new work laptop today. It’s a Dell E1705 and I’m really digging it. It’s a real “Portable Desktop”. Weighs about 10 pounds.

17″ Widescreen Display UXGA (1920 x 1200), Intel Dual Core Processor T2500 (2GHz/667MHz FSB/2MB Cache), NVIDIA GeForce™ Go 7900 GS 256MB, 1GB Dual Channel SDRAM DDR2 533MHz, 100GB Hard Drive 7200rpm SATA, 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer.