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For those who wish to make their PC’s look more like a Mac, there are several cases which can fulfil that wish, the most popular yet tedious approach is to buy a G4 mac pro and totally deface the case till no tomorrow. That would be the BEST way in achieving a mac like case.
For those who arent too keen on customising their own cases (like me), there are alternatives, such as the Lian Li case and the case I’ll be reviewing now, the Akasa Zen (White) case.
Today as well as my casio watch, I also received my Akasa Zen Pc Case. I’ve been meaning to get my pc case changed due to the noise it generated. I had about 6 case fans (yup case fans, not including other fans) installed on my previous case which meant the noise was simply unbearable. Though that’s what you get when you want a cool motherboard and cpu.
A very detailed review on the case can be found through XtremeComputing though the photos are a bit grainy. I’ll try and review the case here to provide a further understanding of the case
Yummy hehe, my new watch arrived, was kind of hoping that it was going to be a white watch but it turns out amazon screwed up on that part. I think if i didnt cancel my order and reordered the other watch, I would have probably got the white watch, though the names were totally mixed up and all. Ah well
The thing has a vibrating alarm which I like, best feature I’d say. I set mine so it vibrates every hour of the day (that’s quite alot of vibrations I dare say). You can random say “its 3 o’clock” to everyone and they’d think you’re weird, but the vibrating alarm is definitely useful for timekeeping at times, just alerts you when an hour has finished.
Apart from the vibrating features, the look of the watch is amazing, very sleek and geeky haha. Though I think the white one would have been better, you never know, I might invest in one as well (wearing them on separate occasions OR even worse, wearing both haha).
I’ve gone a bit dumbfounded in terms of reading the time, I forget to check my wrist still, due to the fact that i previously relied on my n70 to do the time keeping.
Last night kev tried to persuade me into buying a mac mini, since the flagship model has 1.8ghz Duo core processor and a slightly alright harddrive, I was very tempted to get that NOW instead of waiting for some miracle to happen in order to buy a 20 inch imac. BUt unfortunately I managed to come to my senses in terms of performance you can get with an imac compared to a mac mini. With a mac mini you’d need to have it bloated up good and proper with ram upgrades etc in order to get it to function properly.
Having additional reads I’ve also found out that macs have an emulator type thing called Rosetta which allows the macs to run applications which are native to PowerPC architectures. Now if you’re wondering why I mentioned this, after reading several reviews, it seems like Rossetta is very processor consuming, it takes more energy for it to run applications that are not Universal (runs both PowerPC and Intel) so applications such as Photoshop (which still isnt converted into a Universal Binary) will be running as slow as a green snake on a sugar cane field.
So yeah, though I wont be using photoshop (already researched on using Gimp on a mac), its not a good idea to wait a bit more until most of the applications are ported AND (more importantly) I can afford it haha.
Another good thing about stalling the time you purchase something is the fact that they upgrade every so often, If i was silly enough to have purchased a mac a few months ago, I would have got an Intel Duo Core 1 processor instead of Intel Duo Core 2 (though the performance is only improved by a tiny bit). Gargh, i just wish I had some money haha. Would like to ironically work at apple store haha (though I’d be rather arsey there, plus I’d have to travel alot to get there *sigh*)
My razer mouse has arrived woo! Came through the post quite early then I had expected. Was very excited and pleased about the product, you can DEFINITELY see and feel the difference between a 1600dpi mouse and a lousy 400dpi one. First things you’ll have to tweak about is the sensitivity, as the slightest move can get your mouse half way off the screen haha. Managed to install the drivers and configure the buttons and all.
One of the bad things about the Razer mouse however is the fact that buttons 4 and 5 of the mouse are fixed to the mouse (ie you can only assign them as on the left and right hand side of the mouse, not on both on one side like my previous mouse). This meant that forwarding pages will need to take a wee bit more effort.
I’ve tried using the mouse for gaming, image making and general browsing, it definitely proves the most useful out of them all for image making, picture the amount of times you’ve spent dragging a box and trying to make sure you get the dimensions right in terms of pixels, this mouse makes it a breeze, especially if you turn the sensitivity down so that your mouse moves incredibly slow so you know whats going on.
The mouse looks pretty sweet next to my keyboard, I think I’ll take a photo of it when I get my z120 camera back haha
Today I managed to hand in my project proposal. Twas a fairly easy job and all which was good.
With loads of time to spend before my next lecture i thought I’d just piss about on the computers in some random computer room. one thing that caught my eye however was the fact that there was a load of mac computers in the room i was in, definitely had too give them fuckers a go so i logged off my computer and had a go on them, do note that they’re “emacs” haha so they’re slightly slower then the ones you see at the apple store and all, managed to take a screenshot of myself blogging atm so here it is
