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Sony VAIO N220EB Refurbished Laptop Computer Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2060 1.60GHz 802.11b/g Wireless 1GB DDR2 80GB HDD DL DVDRW 15.4″ WXGA WinVista Home Premium

$599.97 at Tigerdirect

Dell Inspiron 6400 Dual Core Notebook Computer. Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5600 (2MB Cache/1.83GHz/667MHz FSB). 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 DIMM, 160GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive. 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 HyperMemory. 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability. Integrated Audio. Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem.
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Forget about the traditional silver or black laptops, choose a color that matches your personality. The Sony Vaio color laptops comes in red, pink, blue and white.

Pentium M Centrino / CPU Speed: 1.86GHz / 1GB DDR2 Ram / 100GB Hard Drive / DVD+RW DL Drive / 14.1″ TFT Screen Size

Sony Vaio Red Laptop VAIO

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500 / CPU Speed: 1.66GHz / FSB Speed: 667MHz / 2GB Ram / 160 GB Hard Drive / 13.3″ Screen Size / Resolution: 1280 x 800

Sony Vaio Pink Laptop

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500 / 2 GB RAM / 160 GB Hard Drive / DVD±RW Drive 13.3″ Screen Size

Sony Vaio Green Laptop

Intel Core Duo Processor T2450 / 1 GB RAM / 160 GB Hard Drive / DVD±RW Drive / 15.4″ Screen Size

The P1i is finally here. I managed to borrow the phone from my colleague and take some some pictures beside the P990i smartphone.

By comparing the phones in the pictures, needless to say the new Sony Ericsson P1i looks far more superior than the P990i.

However there are 3 concerns over the P1i.

1. The screen size is smaller compared to the P990i.
2. Keypad not avialable for convenient text messaging.
3. The P1i uses the Memory Stick Micro instead of the Memory Stick PRO Duo. Cost will be higher if more capacity is needed in future.

If you are looking for a smartphone, get the P1i. Is light and comes with many features and applications you can explore and work with.

Do you own more than two different brands of portable computer? Well I do. Sometimes I wish laptop can be built in a way that comes with a standard universal power and voltage power adaptor. At least one power adapter for different brand of laptops.

I finally got the Fujifilm F31fd. During my search for the camera, I narrowed my options to Sony T100, Lumix TZ3 and Samsung L77. What I like about these models are their high optical zoom capability. The Sony T100 and Samsung L77 provide optical zoom during video mode. But they lack in the following:

Sony T100 - no manual functions
Lumix TZ3 - no manual functions
Samung L77 - no manual functions

The F31fd provide great manual functions and compact in size compared to some of the Canon Powershot series.

If you are using the F31fd, what’s your opinon?

I just got news from a friend on the release of a new Fujifilm Finepix F47fd this week. Interestingly the F47fd is a predecessor of the FinePix F40fd. It comes with a 9 Megapixel resolution, 3x optical zoom, hard-wired Face Detection technology that was incorporated in FinePix S6500fd, F31fd and Z5fd models. You can find out more details from www.fujifilm.co.uk

I was rather excited when I heard about the new F47fd. However it does not meet my requirements of at least x5 optical zoom. Is a no no for me.

I did not want to include any Sony digital camera for my choice of digital camera and the reasons being the price and Memory Stick PRO Duo.

Sony cameras are usually at the higher price range if you compare other camera with similar or close features. If you compare the price between Memory Stick Pro Duo with SD card, the memory stick pricing will always beat the rest. A quick glance at Amazon.com, SanDisk 2 GB SD Memory Card - $21.99, Sony 2 GB Memory Stick PRO Duo - $39.99, SD card is 45% cheaper than the Memory Stick!

However despite the cost for the Sony DSC T100, the reviews from forum.digitalcamerareview.com and www.imaging-resource.com for this digital camera have been good. Is a bit disappointing that www.dpreview.com does not have a full review on this camera. However the comments made other users have been very positive.

No doubt the DSC T100 has only a x5 optical zoom compared with the Lumix TZ3 x10, Samsung L77 x7 and Ricoh Caplio R6 x7.1, but the features of the camera is worth considering. The optical zoom can be operated during video mode. I can take about 30 fps at 640 x 480 during the movie recording mode.

The battery life is reasonably good. You can take about 340 shots with its lithium-ion rechargeable battery.

As for the image size, the camera is capable of taking 8 mega-pixels type of pictures. That will be a bonus for me as I am just looking for something a 6 mega-pixel camera.

The Super SteadyShot optical image stabiliser should be a great help for my hand movements.

The other features will be the high sensitivity mode, scene selections, quick processing speed and built in camera editing. The reviews have mentioned much about this digital camera and I will not go into unless I owned one. I will come to a decision soon on which camera to buy. At the mean time is still researching on the other user comments, reviews and comparisons.

If I would to use the P990I phone camera, it would be the normal point and shoot type of picture taking. Macro mode will be the next feature if I need to take close up objects. I have not really explore the Sony Ericsson P990I camera picture effects until recently. Here’s some of the pictures taken using the phone camera effects.

Black & White

Sepia

Solarize

Negative

Normal

I was sourcing for some laptop for my company and I noticed DELL released 8 different set of colored Inspiron laptops. From this Direct2Dell snapshot (I hope would not mind me taking a snapshot of them) you can see laptops that comes in red, blue, green, blue, black and white. You will find the models built with widescreen displays, integrated Wi-Fi and mobile broadband options, and optional 2.0 megapixel integrated webcams with microphones.

The Inspirion Color models do no restrict to single brand processor, you can have options either the Intel or AMD processor. Check out more @ Direct2Dell.