Kill A Watt electricity usage monitor. $20 – $30 If you’re like me you’re probably interested in saving money on your electric bill. Of course saving energy is better for the environment. But I’m going to be honest and say that saving money is my main motivation. And it’s also nice to know exactly how
Not the best Pizza on the planet… but the best for $6.
Fujitsu U810. $999. Intel A110 800MHz (Santa Rosa) / 1GB DDR2 / 40GB Hard Drive / 5.6-in Touchscreen LCD / 802.11a/b/g wireless / Vista Home Premium. Ok, I saw this and just had to have one. It’s “the” geek toy of the moment. They are kinda hard to find in the retail channel right now,
Fujitsu T4220 $1899 Intel Centrino Core2 Duo Dual-core T7300(Santa Rosa) Processor, 80 Gig HD, Windows XP Tablet Edition. HP TX1320US $1199 AMD Athlon 64 Processor TL-60, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium. Well I originally wanted to pick up a Fujitsu U810 and ended up getting these 2 larger Tablet PC’s. I
Logitech VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse $69 So I decided to try out the Logitech VX Nano. I was looking for a nice small travel mouse that was high resolution. The fact that this particular mouse came with the worlds smallest receiver was not really why I got it but the receiver is cool none
Toshiba X205-SLi1 17″ Dual Drives, Dual Graphics, Intel Santa Rosa Core 2, nice finish, Speakers, built in subwoofer, HD DVD, $1999 Ok I decided to just walk into a store and buy a Gaming laptop vs Custom ordering a Dell XPS, Sager or Clevo. I came to the conclusion that I don’t need a quad
Cree P4 MXDL Style 1xAA LED Flashlight $10 dealextreme (china direct). It’s a nice bright LED for a cheap price. Construction is pretty good and run time is about an hour on one AA battery though you could throw in a 2000ma NIMH battery and get about 3 hours from it.
Rock River 1 watt Luxeon LED Flashlight 42 Lumens, 1AA battery. $29 Target. Not the brightest light in the world, but good run time at just more than 2 hours on the regulated circuit with a common AA. Its aluminum (2.8 oz with battery) and comes with a clip attached. Reverse clicky at the rear
Apple 17″ highres, 7200rpm hd, etc.. $3650 w/apple care. Logic Studio 8 full version $499. Since I’m upgrading a few things in the mini writing studio for audio only… First one being a Macbook Pro 17″ latest specs 2.4ghz, santa rosa, 7200RPM drive and most important the 1920×1200 resolution option to handle many onscreen tracks..
I’m completely re-doing my mini writing studio. New equipment, computers, etc.. For starters, I decided to pop in a skylight in the rear studio since it’s always dark in there. The new skylight makes a huge difference with the light and it flows well. The skylight was a 4 footer and came across one beam