Marvin’s Place

We have an old AMD Duron 800mhz (overclocked to 1ghz) computer at home. It has 512 mb memory and a staggering 32mb legacy NVIDIA AGP video card.

The AMD processor only has 64kb of L2 cache, and this makes the computer crawl (as in really crawling). The video cards power is too low to properly run Adobe Photoshop (or any photo editing software). And the monitor we’re using (an old Giant Optics CRT monitor) is already busted (dimmed, and red laser is not working anymore).

I am planning to do some home business (photo editing/scanning/convertion, layout for greeting cards/invitation, typing jobs, etc.). But this computer hinders me to do things properly.

Problem is, as much as I would like to purchase a new system, I still don’t have the budget. Sometimes I did wish that someone would send me a new desktop a laptop (which is impossible).

Anyway, just thinking out loud.

Soli Deo Gloria.

I’m starting to recover now. Though the problem isn’t solved yet, at least I am getting back on my feet…

I got a new phone. It is a Samsung SGH E250.

It is a low priced mobile phone that have almost everything I need. A mobile phone with GPRS/EDGE (don’t need 3G/HSDPA yet), FM radio, MP3 Player, VGA camera (yeah, VGA, I am planning to buy a digicam soon), video recording, voice recording/memo, expandable memory (up to 2gb).

Actually, I am not planning to buy a phone. I have (or had) a Nokia 1112i phone. My father in law also have the same phone. But he lost his phone when he went to Bagio City for a seminar. He is hesitant in buying a new phone since he don’t want to “study” the new phone. So, my wife sold my phone to him. And I have to buy a new phone.

I was looking at three phones, this one, a Nokia and a Sony Erickson. which has (almost) the same specifications. I chose (actually, my wife did) this one because of expandable memory and MP3 Player.

There are things that I don’t like (but it is not a problem though) with this phone is, you can’t set the extended memory (microSD) as the default memory for the phone to save captured photos or videos. So, you have to copy those pictures to the memory card. It is a bit of a hassle. But I’m not using the phone as a digital camera. Well this is not specific to this phone because all Samsung phones can’t use extended memory as default memory. Another thins is, the user manual is not elaborate enough for a not that easy to understand menus and submenus.

Overall, I like the phone. I only had it for a day, and I hope I won’t experience something that would make me call their customer service and rant about it… hehe…

This phone was released last year (but it is not yet “phased out”, but due to my limited budget, I bought it.