PC or notebook?
PC or notebook?
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With Intel’s announcement of new faster and cooler(literally) chips for the PC known as the Core 2, you can expect the prices of older PC to fall.
I’m still using a Pentium 3 PC and dreaming of a low end Celeron notebook. For mobility I already have my PDA which has WiFi. The PDA is fantastic when it comes to posting to my blog (as I’m doing now) as well as answering emails on the go.
Only recently I felt the need for a notebook as the Merdeka Festival draws nearer. I remember how tedius it was to run from the tournament hall to cyber café to update the daily result. A notebook with WiFi would have been fantastic. Alas, I will not have the budget to buy a notebook for probably another 3 months so I have to train myself really well to using the PC and PDA+Wifi to post results this year. Posting text results will be pretty easy. However, a bigger problem will be the posting of pictures and possibly audio interviews of GMs from the event. That will involve bigger files and the PDA is simply not good at handling those.
Anyway for the long term, I’m keeping my eyes on prices on both the PC and notebook market to see if there is any big changes. I’ll definitely be better equipped to handle next year’s Malaysia Chess Festival.
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