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Muhammad-Oli
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Would go, but I'm not in Auckland for another week yet. In fact, pretty much exactly a week. 
Anyway, how disappointing is the iPad?! Like the original iPhone, they've gimped it. Is this Apple's policy? They bring out a model that is seriously disabled, and then slowly make people pay money to get the features it originally should have had. No multi-tasking?!
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carkitter
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I think it's actually very good... for the small target market of rich American's whose luxury lifestyle this will fit into very well.
This is not going to interest hackers, serious gamers, people wanting an alternative to a netbook (as their only computer), people in developing markets, or anyone on a budget.
It will interest travelling business people, celebrities and others who are the target market for eReaders like the Amazon Kindle, along with tweens who want a cool device to watch and download iTunes and You-tube content.
It'll be interesting to see how the US publishing industry takes to this, it could be the lifeline they need in this digital age. I think universities are poised to take this on board too. At present it's kinda hard to see how this will be relevant in NZ except to local Apple fanboys.
Masseur and his kids will love it I'm sure. 
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yea g
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Hmm... a large iPod Touch, good work apple, must have taken you years to come up with that thing 
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carkitter
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The NZ Motor Cup: Feb 5-7 at Hampton Downs (next weekend)
-Toyota Racing Series
-NZV8 Utes
-Formula First
-Porsche Club
-Hauraki Muscle Cars
-Super Mini Challenge
$15 Adults, Children under 12 free.
This will be awesome. I decided not to spend $100 this weekend for my girlfriend and I to visit the 4 and Rotary Nats both days, I'll go this instead. I hope it's covered on TV at some point because the racing is sure to be exciting.
Public Open Day at Hampton Downs: Drive your own car around the track for $170. Helmet and overalls required and gloves recommended. Details
Hmm... I don't have a helmet, or a fast car. Shame 
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chunkybeats
Joined: Dec 08, 2005
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Apple Ipad = makes no sense/failure
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mrjulius
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hello people 
just visiting and say HELLO
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Muhammad-Oli
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Hi mrjulius, how's it going?
Well guys, I know I'm not on here much anymore, but I might not be on here for a good week or two now. I'm starting out on my way to Auckland tomorrow and may not have internet up there for a good few weeks. I'll catch up with you guys when I'm settled in Auckland.
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chunkybeats
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Your off to Auckland Muhammad-Oli? Is it work commitment or personal choice? I don't like Auckland, I lived there for 6 months and it drove me crazy! I prefer Wellington, good nightlife and everything is near enough walking distance. The only thing I like about Auckland is they get all the cool bands playing up there! Wellington is it bit behind on the big bands except ACDC!!! Have a good move up!! |
carkitter
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I like Wellington too; I've holidayed there 3 times and stayed in Paraparaumu for 3 months in 1992. I'm overdue for my next visit there.
I built a desktop PC tonight in my AMES A+ certificate course. It even works!
Spec is 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad 1333MHz FSB, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SATA HDD, 512MB ATI Radeon DDR2 HD graphics, Gigabyte motherboard. DVD drive to come later. XP Professional to be installed via network connection shortly.
When I purchase it later on (without XP Pro) I'll need to add a Monitor, keyboard, mouse and wifi n card. I'm also keen to add a drawing pad input device too for my kids, any advice on these items?
I already have a copy of W7 Professional to put on it.
Check it out on my Twitter page under the WWW link
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Muhammad-Oli
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On 2010-02-02 20:52:33, chunkybeats wrote:
Your off to Auckland Muhammad-Oli? Is it work commitment or personal choice? I don't like Auckland, I lived there for 6 months and it drove me crazy! I prefer Wellington, good nightlife and everything is near enough walking distance. The only thing I like about Auckland is they get all the cool bands playing up there! Wellington is it bit behind on the big bands except ACDC!!! Have a good move up!!
Moving up to go to Massey Design School. A big decision but hopefully it will pay off.
@carkitter: Nicely done! Unfortunately I don't have much knowledge of computers, especially building them, so can't help. Good luck with the project though.
EDIT: BTW, managed to get on here at a Taupo internet cafe.
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carkitter
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We installed software tonight: Windows 2000 on one partition, XP on another - yes really.
Also some driver software, MS Office 2003 and a couple of media players.
@ M-O
North Shore libraries have free wifi for your Macbook/netbook but to use their PC's you need to become a member of the library which means proving you live on the North Shore by showing some bills (or maybe a tenancy agreement) and providing some ID.
BTW, Vodafone have further extended the free 3GB + 1000 PXT to iPhone contract holders until at least 4th March 2010.
It started in July last year and was supposed to end 30th September 2009 after just 3 months.
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yea g
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I'm gonna kill my school, I want to build computers for educational purposes (much more fun than 100 word essays )
Anyway, windows 2000 is awesome for computers with less the 512mb ram, anything above that should have xp, and anything over 1gb should have 7. On drawing pads: you can get resistive touch panels that fit ontop of your lcd monitor (you have to remove the bezel to put it in) from ebay. I don't know how well they work, but it looks pretty cool. standard usb connection on them
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carkitter
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Spent the day down at Hampton Downs today, watching motor racing and doing some internet speed tests.
I have been unable to get a satisfactory performance from the Vodafone Network when using the iPhone down there. A little investigation found that that there is only 900MHz 3.5G and regular 2.5G available there, no 2100MHz 3G at all. The nearest 2100MHz transmitter is 21kms away at Pukekohe Park Raceway.
So I bought an XT prepay SIM with a $12 120MB Data allowance and did some comparison tests:
- Vaio + Vodem + 900MHz 3.5G + Vodafone website speedtester = 2Mbps download
- iPhone + XT SIM + Cisco Speedtest App = 1.5Mbps download
- iPhone + Vodafone SIM + Cisco Speedtest App = 60kbps download
These are not absolutely reliable figures nor directly comparable because they are done on different devices using different apps and most speedtest apps don't do a great job of testing 3G higher than 1Mbps because the file used is too small BUT...
it does demonstrate what I suspected. If you have a iPhone, you need an XT SIM to get any decent performance at Hampton Downs until Vodafone get their act together with some 2100Mhz 3G for the venue.
BTW, in West Auckland where I live currently, I get 2Mbps from the Vodem, about 1.2Mbps from the IPhone on Vodafone and 2Mbps from the iPhone on XT. Vodafone's upgrade to 21Mbps can't come fast enough.
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carkitter
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Thoughts on swapping SIMs and XT:
This is a real pain in the a--
You can hot swap the SIMs to XT without switching off the iphone but this is not the end of the matter.
This only allows the iPhone to make calls and txts on the XT network, not data and MMS. Tethering a laptop on XT is out completely (restricted by Apple). To enable Data and MMS, Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network and fill in the XT APN which is www.telecom.co.nz for Data and I don't know what for MMS but it should be easy to find out from Telecom. THEN Data works on the iPhone. This info will be lost when a Vodafone SIM is inserted and have to be re-entered every time a XT SIM is put in.
To switch back to Vodafone, first go Settings > Carrier (wait a long time) select vodafone NZ then switch off the iPhone while still on the Carrier screen. Change SIMs and switch back on. Everything should be ready to go with all APN's preset.
The iPhone is about the only phone where SIMs are hot swappable. This is fine for changing Vodafone SIM for Vodafone SIM but when changing XT SIM back to Vodafone SIM it causes problems. Because Vodafone SIMs disable the Carrier network selection, hot swapping will retain the Telecom XT symbol on the iPhone when connected to Vodafone. Because Vodafone and Telecom don't have a roaming agreement it's not possible to be connected to XT and billed on your Vodafone account. But it maybe possible with overseas SIMs from networks Vodafone do have roaming agreements with, so watch out.
Overall, it's not a great idea to go swapping SIMs regularly and it's also clear that XT has quite a sizeable advantage over Vodafone when it comes to reception on the iPhone due to the iPhone being a 850/2100MHz WCDMA device. I found 2Mbps data every where I did a speedtest on XT. If Telecom would just stop being such evil a------s about how they run their business and plan their networks in NZ maybe they would be a viable On Account option for iPhone owners.
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yea g
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Pfffft @ apples restrictions, I'm pretty sure it would be able to be hot swapped if you jailbroke. Anyway, I have heard that the iPhone has a problem in that 850MHz HSDPA is alot faster than 2100MHz HSDPA, so if you want faster data until apple fixes the problem, you need to go on xt. I don't actually have an iPhone yet, but I will probably get one when apple releases the next version
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Posted: 2010-01-28 00:55
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