Category Archives: Electronics

Ooooo.… Big hard drive.…

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 26, 2006
Yay! I finally ordered a new hard drive! It is a 320GB Sea­gate Bar­racuda 7200.10 SATA. I got it for $109 — $36 GC — $25 GC + $0 S/H = $48. Yeah, 500GB dri­ves are avail­able, but they cost like $200 to $300. The 320GB model has a much bet­ter price/GB ratio. I’m going to try to leave [...]
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My new keyboard arrived!

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 26, 2006
Hur­ray! A new key­board! And I almost entirely like it! It has a few quirks that I don’t entirely enjoy, but over­all it is pretty good. Again, this is the Microsoft Ergonomic Key­board 4000. Things I like: The black and sil­ver and very sharp look­ing. Even the “Do Not Remove — Safety Infor­ma­tion” tag is designed to blend in. Lots of [...]
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Verizon XV6700

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 24, 2006
Last week I got a brand spank­ing new Ver­i­zon XV6700 cell phone. Yes, it is expen­sive. I ended up pay­ing some­thing like $300 ($100 IR) for the phone, and it comes out to like $96 a month for ser­vice (that includes unlim­ited EVDO broad­band inter­net, and also slow inter­net for those in non-EVDO areas…). I opted for [...]
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