Apple has refreshed it’s Macbook Pro notebook lineup and surprise us with the new price tag. There are significant price cut at all models but you’ll be glad that it has now more powerful specification. The lowest spec model of Macbook Pro 13 inch is now more affordable with the price starts from RM3899 compared to RM4499 before. That’s RM600 price different and only RM300 more expensive than Macbook White which priced at RM3599.
All Macbook Pro also now comes with 4GB RAM compared to 2GB before. Battery life has been given extra performance as well, where it is now can last up to 10 hours from 7 hours before.
Here is the price list of the new and old Macbook Pro to tease you. Isn’t it now better time to switch to Mac?
New Price
MacBook Pro 13.3-inch: 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 : RM 3,899.00
MacBook Pro 13.3-inch: 2.66GHz Intel Core i5 : RM 4,899.00
MacBook Pro 15.4-inch: 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 : RM 5,899.00
MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.53Ghz Intel Core i5 : RM 6,499.00
MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.66Ghz Intel Core i7 : RM 7,199.00
MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.53Ghz Intel Core i5 : RM 7,499.00
Old Price
MacBook Pro 13.3-inch 2.26Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo : RM 4,499
MacBook Pro 13.3-inch 2.53Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo : RM 5,599
MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.53Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo : RM 6,399
MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.66Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo : RM 7,499
MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo : RM 8,499
MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo : RM 9,299
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One of the products launched during ‘Buy Malaysian Product’ opening campaign is a mobile phone, called Ad-Deen Q292, a product of Ad-Deen Technology Sdn Bhd. Ad-Deen Q292 is Islamic themed mobile phone with Islamic related features such as Qibla, Prayer times and etc. Comes with 3 colours, the phone is retailed at RM399.
According to Ad-Deen’s Exceutive Director Megat Radzman Megat Khairuddin, the company targets to sell 40,000 units phone this year in Malaysia market alone. They have also received booking amounting 200,000 units each from Indonesia and Dubai. That’s quite an achievement for new mobile phone players like Ad-Deen Technology.
Very little is known about the mobile phone itself, neither Ad-Deen Technology nor the mobile phone has its own website. But I can guarantee you that no Snapdragon or AMOLED capacitive touch screen exist on this model.
One interesting fact is, one of Ad-Deen Technology directors sit in CSL Care management board, which tells us that both companies have some sort of relation to one another. CSL Care is the largest mobile phone OEM manufacturer in Malaysia, so there is a possibility that this phone is co-developed by both companies with CSL taking care of the manufacturing and retails while Ad-Deen is more towards its contents development.
Update 22-March-2010 : It appears that Ad-Deen Technology is the subsidiary of CSL Care, and it’s official webpage is here.
Beginning 2009, we have seen a lot of applications offering geo location features, among other Twitter and Flickr. If you use iPhone or Android smartphone, some of app will asking if you would like to let them know your location the first time you use it.
Now, you must be wondering if your Windows 7 machine can be turned to location aware devices as well. But unlike smart phone, majority notebooks and PC are not equipped with built in GPS chips. Well good news is, we don’t need any additional hardware for that purpose. Folks from istartedsomething and withinwindows has developed Geosense, application that allow Windows 7 machine to be able to detect it’s current location.
Without having to go through the installation and testing process, which is well covered in this post, you may find the Geosense is not working immediately after you install it. For instance, I live in Selangor, but somehow Geosense detect my location somewhere in Johor Bharu.
But leave it a while, Geosense will shows your accurate.
Even EOS100D equipped only with 10 megapixel resolution, but the new lines of PowerShot camera series released by Canon last week has incredibly 12 megapixel resolution. Beforet that, go to Image Stabilizer (IS) has seems like become standard feature on all model here.
PowerShot SD960 IS
PowerShot SD960 and Powershot 970 sports almost similar looks and specification except on the few features. 12 megapixel camera with 4x Optical/4x Digital/16x Combined Zoom with Optical IS [detail].
What differentiate it with SD970 are on the few features such as focal length, shooting mode and optical zoom. Comparison detail can be read here.
PowerShot SD970 IS
[Detail]
PowerShot A1100 IS
A series camera with 12megapixel resolution and 4x optical zoom. Come with 2.5 inch TFT color LCD [detail]
PowerShot SX200 IS
The most beautiful (at least to me) camera among others, and among the most expensive. Unlike the rest of PowetShot series here, it has powerful 12x zoom with optical IS. Support HD shooting at 1280 x 720 pixels with HDMI output [detail]
PowerShot SD780 IS
The thinnest camera in PowerShot series . Come with 12 megapixel resolutiogn and 4x optical zoom. [detail]
Powershot D10
D100 is rugged version of camera. Waterproof, freezeproof and shockproof are among its special feature. Resolution with 12 megapixels with 3x Optical/4x Digital/12x Combined Zoom with Optical IS( Image Stabilizer) System. [detail]
all images credit to canon US
