The dominating "i"Generation..

I hate Apple, seriously, I really really hate this stupid company!
Because it keeps on out with products that is so so damn irresistable. This is what I call temptation, pure lust - for gadget freaks!

Lately I've been taking a "closer look" at the iMac, checking out all it's practical features, it's getting harder not to WANT an iMac. I already got succumbed into this "darkness" by deciding to purchase as iPod Classic 160GB, and switching over to iTunes (which I'm still getting used too).

Hate to admit it but Apple is really doing a better job than everyone else in the computing world (in terms of computer hardware, overall no one could beat Google). They really take and put REAL dedicated and committed effort into all their products. From their plain, beautiful white-themed products to things like the magnetic power cord for the MacBooks. Like one of their ad said: "Everything is sorta thought out with Apple" - and I couldn't agree more.


How could you NOT want something as beautiful as an iMac??

So if you're wondering: "What got into Jeffrey? I thought he is a hardcore PC person, since he himself is dealing with PC hardware and all. Why his sudden craze for Apple stuffs??"

Let me show you the answer..


Insane iMac opening more than 15 programs consecutively..

In less than 10 second, this guy open up more than 15 programs (I counted 18) consecutively on the new iMac 24", including programs like "Garage Band", "Dashboard", iTunes, Quicktime, and etc which takes almost forever to load on a PC (for iTunes). This show how much more effective and efficient are the new iMac hardware architecture. Coupled with it's killer Mac OS X, seriously, how could you not want a computer which can perform this fast? Imagine..opening up Adobe Photoshop CS2 in less than 2 seconds, and able to drag in 100 photos and open all at the same time in Photoshop, and your computer still can do all the fancy file movement animation as though you just switched on "Notepad" or some simple program on a PC - now only a Mac is able to do that!

Best of all, you get all this computing power for less than RM10k! If you're looking for this kind of performance on a PC, you would easily need to spend RM10k on quad cores, top of the line motherboards and graphic card, loads of rams and a couple of really fast raptor hard-disc to compensate the slow slow speed of our stupid Windows! You could get a iMac 20" from as low as RM4499! Ok that's quite expensive for a computer nowadays, but hey, remember this can be considered as a performance computer!! But if you can afford it, the iMac 24" are really DE bomb! It starts from RM6699 for the 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo version and I think it's really more than sufficient...for me..hehe.


My most favourite iMac apple ad. "Windows Vista security"
"You're coming to a sad realization - Cancel or allow?!" Hahahahaha..


My SECOND most favourite iMac apple ad. "Apple Gennius"
"On a scale 1 to 10 how much do I love Mac?"
"11!"
"Oo..she's good..very good!" Hahaha..

For more FUNNY Mac ads by Apple, head on over to "Apple - Get a Mac" to watch the rest of their official TV ads.

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My first two videos I uploaded onto YouTube.

For my blog readers who don't know about the i-Transform camp blog, here are the 2 videos I posted over there. Watch it if you haven't, it's funny!


Michael Loo and Bryan's audition video for iTransform camp promo video.


Benjamin Yue's audition video.

Yes, believe it or not, this is my first time posting up videos on YouTube. And surprisingly, it was so much easier than I always thought. All I need to do was just use Windows Movie Maker to do a little editting, save it as a 320x240 WMV file and then upload it onto YouTube. Incredibly simple, nowonder YouTube grow so fast in such a short time.

Anyway this 2 videos was shot with my Nokia N95. Yes, it's from a camera phone!! Have you ever seen any other camera phone shot video this good? It could almost comparable to some dedicated point and shoot camera out there! - I know it's certainly better than my mom's Sony DSC-8500 camera. And one more thing, I actually shot these videos in low quality mode cause I was short of memory, and I also used the wrong resolution settings; AND then I actually made it worst by converting the H.264 file into MPEG1 format so I can edit it in Windows Movie Maker -- BIG mistake, made everything so grainy and dark. So imagine what it could do if I got everything right?? Nowonder Nokia organise so many amateur film-making competition, encouraging people to make a whole movie using the N95 only! Anyway they have everything they need on the phone itself, there's even an on board video editting software which is just like a smaller version of Windows Movie Maker.

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10 Random facts about everything..

1) Wohoo..now I'm officially a Nuffnang-er. They finally start a advert campaign on my humble blog!! - And I made RM1.50 from last week's ads! Now I'm RM1.50 closer to getting a iMac 24" and a new car.. "yippeee..."

2) Did you know: That even though "Carlos Slim Helú" is currently the richest person on earth at the moment with an estimate Net worth of US$67.8 billion, which just over-took Bill Gate's Net worth of US$59 billion (Bill Gates was the richest person on earth from 1995-2007), they're actually no where close to "John D. Rockefeller", who is the world's richest man and regarded as the "richest person in history". When he died in 1937, his net worth peaked at $ 1.4 billion! At that time, the total national wealth of US is only $101 billion, means John D. wealth was worth 1.386% of his country total GDP at that time, (Bill Gates and even Sam Walton family fortune is no where close) making him the richest person ever in history. His wealth would be worth USD$ 305.5 billion if it's today currency, which is about 4.5 times MORE than Carlos Slim!!

3) The estimate GDP for USA in 2006 is $13,244,550 million. Which mean Bill Gates wealth is "only" 0.4228% of his country GDP; and Carlos Slim wealth is "only" 0.5119% of USA GDP. So "poor" compare to John D. Rockefeller.

4) Google is BIG. How big? Here's an idea:
"Two years ago (that will be 2003) Google had one data center. Today (2005) they are reported to have 64. Two years from now (2007), they will have 300-plus." - Taken from Weekly Column, November 17, 2005.
So, what's the big deal of Google data center you ask??
Here is a more detail look:
- Up to 2000 PCs in a cluster
- Over 30 clusters in a data center
- 104 interface languages including Klingon and Tagalog
- One petabyte (that's one step above Terabyte. So One Petabyte is 1,000,000 Gigabyte) of data in a cluster -- so much that hard disk error rates of 10^15 begin to be a real issue
- Sustained transfer rates of 2Gbps in a cluster

5) Did you know: One of the founder (Ian Norman) of Harvey Norman was a drop out from college? He tried taking up business subjects in college but he quit a short time later simply beacause "It doesn't interest him".

6) Thinking of buying an iPhone from the US, and then bring it back here and hopefully able to find someone to unlock it for you so you can pop in your cheap Hotlink/Digi simcard? Well..hope no more. Because Apple will be updating all their new iPhones with a new 1.1.1 firmware which make unlocked iPhones..locked up! Permanently..
Those cheap smart white Apple ba$tard$!!

7) Getting married is really REALLY getting VERY INSANELY expensive. IF I don't have at least RM100k sitting in my bank account "collecting dust", it is almost impossible for me to get married. Nowadays people are buying RM250k engagement rings for their fiancée. All these stupid people really giving me alot of pressure!! Got to save save save..and save! I should start eating maggie mee everyday from now on..

8) Did you know: That MySpace has more traffic than Google?? Yes..in January 2006, MySpace has more than 15 billion page views per month! That's about 500 million page views a day, or about 20.8 million page view - per hour! And that's in 2006 with "only" 106 million user accounts. As of September 7, 2007, there are over 200 million accounts already. And according to August 2007 statistics, myspace has over 67.7 billion page views!! So for those who argues that Google is the most visitted website in the planet..think again!

9) I still don't know how to use Facebook, which is the 3rd most visitted website on the world wide web! I think I'm getting old..becoming illiterate to newer websites and programs already.

10) For those who don't know, CSI, CSI Miami, CSI NY, The Simpson and Family Guy is all back with their own, new seasons! Now the only shows missing is Lost and One Tree Hill which will only be premiering next year...sighhh.

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