YSL tech stuff and events

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD

I was browsing through some online retailers recently and came across a good offer for SSD. As my old Lenovo laptop Y460 is a couple of years old now, it is getting so slow in booting up. It has a faulty keyboard and a dead battery as well.

I was thinking if i can solve these small issues, my laptop still can service me for a couple of years more without getting a new one. As I seldom play games these days, it will mostly used as a spare backup to my desktop. Moreover, the ATI 5650m GPU can still be used to play non demanding games in lower resolution.

So I bought a SSD, keyboard and a new 3rd battery and cost less than 200SGD. And my laptop is energized again. With the new SSD, it is so much faster in operation and booting up. It is almost the same speed as my desktop. I am happy about it and hope it can last me few years before my laptop specs is really obsolete.

Here are the pics:

Box

Contents

Saturday, 3 October 2015

Logitech Z120 stereo speakers

Bought a budget laptop speaker for personal use with my work laptop as the inbuilt speaker sounds muffled. I was looking for something budget with reasonable sound and I came across logitech z120. From people who have already bought it, they commented it sounds good for its price.

Therefore, I decided to get one locally. It retails at around 19.90 SGD locally. It can be found in major electrical stores. It is just a set of stereo speakers, if you are looking for good bass. You will have to look elsewhere.

It is no frills speaker with just a volume button and uses a USB and 3.5mm jack. USB is for power and the jack is to plug into any standard 3.5mm port. It also has a cable management function found at the back of both speakers. Pretty useful I would say.

Here are the pics:

Box

Package

Back view

Saturday, 5 September 2015

Resort world S.E.A aquarium

It has been a long time since I went Sentosa. I was given a free ticket to S.E.A aquarium. It is the world's largest aquarium and maritime museum. My wife suggested to bring the whole family along as we only need to purchased another 2 adult tickets. The kids entry will be free due to their age.

And so here we are at the aquarium. Pretty big place and it has a huge varieties of marine life species. I recommend going in weekdays due to lesser crowd as this is one of the tourist destination locally. I believe weekend will be very crowded. Personally, I find it more comfortable than Universal Studios due to the fact that the whole place air-conditioned. I had a more comfortable walk at the area.

I had take quite a number of pictures there. Below are the pics resized.