In the past month, I have been so busy with work that I have lost touch with my blog. This is the first time I could sneak some time to put down my emotion of things of late. I have been so busy with work and life that I have a bee line of items to blog, but starved of the time to do so. This is why I felt that I am loosing touch with my blog. Also, I have just discovered that my google page rank have been smack to 0, and I wonder what triggered that. Lets leave it alone for a while and see what happens. Speaking of loosing touch and leaving things alone, looks like the government are loosing touch with the public and keep digging their grave deeper and deeper. The opposition just need to sit tight, the government will deliver the country to them on a silver platter. The recent Raja Petra case, the indelible ink no substance fiasco, and the erection of a barricade over Mahkota Cheras. The government have lost touch of why they are there in the first place. All I have seen is that the government have been on the wrong side of issues, instead on the right side, serving the people, they have been on the wrong side creating sufferings for people. The recent election results have not been enough to wake them up. It is just normal. For people who have been in a comfort zone for so long, and have been in a slumber sleep for so long, it is very hard to wake them up. I just can’t wait for Pakatan Rakyat to take over the government. We need a fresh change, else, rakyat will suffer.
I was visiting the Penang Picom PC Fair during lunch today and was delighted to see an apple booth. In the past years, they did not make their presence felt, and this year they made an effort with the Switch campaign. I took the effort to do some price comparison for the Macbook range and found some price traps. I will explain what are those in detail later. In summary, my recommendation is to purchase your machine from Singapore or US, and then purchase your Apple Care in Malaysia. I have found that the Apple Care package have been priced rather competitive where it is cheaper in Malaysia by RM218 and RM156 comparing against US and Singapore.
The machines are best to buy in the US where you can have savings from RM382 to RM502. These savings can contribute significantly to your Apple Care package. Purchasing in Singapore will bring you savings from RM167 to RM241, almost half of what you can save from buying in the US. Again, these savings are rather significant.
The price trap I mention is by purchasing the machine and the apple care package on the respective countries. For example, if you purchase the basic machine and apple care from the US, you are only saving RM164 comparing to purchasing the machine in the US and then purchase the apple care package in Malaysia. Worst is purchasing both machine and apple care package in Singapore, where it gives you a mere RM11 savings.
So, if you are looking to purchase a macbook in Malaysia, I would recommend to get it from the US, if possible, and then purchase the apple care here in Malaysia. If not, you can try to get it from Singapore, and in all cases, purchase the apple care in Malaysia, its the cheapest among the 3 countries.
Note: All prices above are converted from USD and Singapore Dollar to Ringgit Malaysia based on Google Conversion rate on Apr 18, 2008.
Windows trash can that is. For a coffee lover, it couldn’t trill me more to have a trash can with the starbucks brand trash can, a constant reminder to get my java to fuel my day…Speaking of starbucks, I was required to travel next week to audit one of the newly setup factory in China. Considering which hotel to stay at, the first thing I did was went to google map, and search for the city’s name. Next I type in ‘Starbucks’, to search for business at the city. To my dismay, the city was not listed in Google map, to have this service, too small, so I stayed in Shangri la ShenZhen without any starbucks near by. Fear not, there are 13 starbucks stores in ShenZhen, a quick cap will do my fix.
Did I hear it right? Or it was some kind of April Fool Joke or something…. I heard someone from behind shouting “Get Out! Get Out!” and then followed by “Fuck You!”, maybe it was “Hug You!” don’t know.. oh, and I regret buying a stripe red shirt similar to the guy that grab Sasnizam by the neck and drag him out. Man, got to stop going to the Factory Outlet Store….
With a clumsy swing my colleague knocks over my starbuck tumbler and down goes a few ounces of my newly brewed cafe mocha onto my laptop. The entire laptop was still running and we got the keyboards dried. I shut it down and continue to clean it up. The keys were so tight that the under part were shining with coffee and I could not reach it. I took the laptop down to the tech support and got it opened up. There were still seepage of coffee on the DVD Rom and some of the internal parts. I was expecting a total water proof, but it seams that there are opportunity for the liquids to seep through. We tissued the entire machine up and put it back together. Works like a charm, well, for a few hours at least till the keyboards become sticky, and every keystrokes were a dreaded moment. And now, the backspace key has decided to pack up and stop functioning. I had to rely on the Del button to correct errors, something that bugs the hell out of me. Have to see the tech dude first thing tomorrow morning. Morale of the story, no matter how advance laptops have become, liquid is something that must be kept far away, and boy, I have come to realize that I have been using the backspace button so often, especially on correcting typing errors. There hardly any sentence that goes by without the use of it. Sign of rooms of improvements on the typing efficiency.
