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How the XP-on-Mac prize was won
Darius Chang | Mar 28, 2006
Admit it. When you heard that Macs would be based on the Intel chipset, the first thought was: "Can I put my Windows XP in my Mac?" Well, your wish has come true, all thanks to two guys, known only by their handles as "narf" and "blanka", who won nearly US$14,000 (S$22,685.60) by doing just that.
Colin Nederkoorn, a Mac enthusiast who works in the shipping industry, started the ball rolling by offering US$100 (S$162.04) for a replicable way of putting Microsoft's OS into an Intel-based Mac. The winning pair from California found a way to override safeguards in Apple computers to create a custom Windows installation CD which works on the Mac platform.
Available for download off the Internet, a 777kb zip file contains the applications and instructions needed to create your very own Microsoft/Apple hybrid. Meanwhile, we have contacted Apple for comments on whether installing Windows XP on Macs will affect warranty and support issues. We will update this article once we have more information.
Vunex WiFiWalker FA-1200G
Juniper Foo | Mar 23, 2006
Dude, ready to surf the great Eastern Australian Current? It's no Finding Nemo, but Taiwan-based Vunex makes it fairly easy to ride the hotspot signals with its FA-1200G. What makes this unique is that it's both a Wi-Fi Finder and a USB-based wireless adapter. This means you can not only sniff out a signal, you just have to plug this 2-in-1 gizmo into your (older) laptop and, voila, you're connected immediately to the 802.11g network. An LCM display conveniently displays detailed information from a list of hotspots detected, while a rechargeable Lithium-polymer battery juices up everytime you plug into any USB port, eliminating the need for a battery. Righteous!
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Price: US$60-$80
Availability: Japan at Rakuten and Taiwan at PC Home
Device: Wi-Fi finder
Basic specs: Standard: IEEE 802.11g/b, LCM size 96 x 32 with EL backlight, 4.2V rechargeable Li-polymer battery, USB 2.0, frequency band 2.4000~2.4835GHz, 64/128/256-bit WEP data encryption, WPA (IEEE 802.1x with TKIP) and AES, internal antenna, Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/2003 Server, transmit power of 16dBm, 14 x 28.5 x 91mm, 30g
Gold-plated USB thumbdrive
Juniper Foo | Mar 15, 2006
Gadget Buzz went to Hannover. Unfortunately, we never got to see White Lake's glitzed-up USB affair at CeBIT, a thumbdrive supposedly sugarcoated in either 14- or 18-carat gold. Diamonds optional. Just for numbers sake, a 1GB thumbdrive that's studded with five diamonds in a 14-carat gold shade will set you back a healthy 2,950 euros or about US$3,529. There's a cheaper version, at a mere 2,400 euros, without the diamonds of course. Just the thing to go with your blinged-out LG's DIOS diamond fridge. Is anyone's birthday coming up?
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Price: Depends on gold coating and diamonds
Availability: White Lake
Device: USB thumbdrive
Basic specs: Up to 2GB, designed by Dutch goldsmith Erwin de Vroome
CeBIT 2006: Cars, curves and Cup fever
Darius Chang | Mar 11, 2006
As always, Hannover-based tech expo CeBIT is a showcase of the bold and the beautiful. And it isn't just the hardware models we're talking about here.
Read moreIntel showcases future tech at IDF
Darius Chang | Mar 11, 2006
The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) has traditionally been a platform for chipmaker to share some of its tech initiatives with journalists and analysts from all over the world. This year's Spring event in San Francisco was no different. The chipmaker touched on several key topics including its Tera-Scale Computing Research Program, mobile and desktop platform strategies as well as new standards such as wireless USB and Unified Display Interface (UDI).
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