First Intel Macs on track for January

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"Apple Computer is on track to introduce the first Macs with Intel processors as early as January, which should help the company avoid any potential sales slow down in the first half of 2006 and appease concerns voiced by shareholders and industry-watchers, AppleInsider has learned."Although Apple has only committed to introducing the first Intel-based Macintosh systems by mid-2006,
extremely reliable sources and a several-month-long investigation have
revealed that January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco is being primed
as the launch-pad for at least one of the Mac maker’s next-generation
Intel systems.

Surprisingly, the most reliable information indicates that the iMac and
PowerBook — two of the company’s most recently revised Mac offerings
— are targeted to be the first two Mac models to receive Intel
processors in January. The iMac and PowerBook are also believed to be
Apple’s best-selling Mac models, which explains why the company will be
upgrading them with Intel processors first and refreshing their
associated product lines for the second time in as little as four
months.

Source: AppleInsider

Free Paint.NET – the Photoshop competitor

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Just wan to share with you guys a very good FREE image or photo manipulation software. I just downloaded and tried. It’s really cool! It just looks like Photoshop, but the feature still not that much (It’s still in beta release). Hope it can make like photoshop. Then we don’t need to pay so much for the licence fee. hahaha :p

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. It is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for setup- and shell-integration related functionality.

"Paint.NET gives commercial photo editing programs some serious competition," –   DevSource

"Paint.NET looks and feels similar to premium programs like Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop." – The Kim Komando Show

Click here to get a copy of Paint.NET

Creative X-Fi Sound Card

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I’ve been mad about good sound card since long time ago. Really wish to buy one for myself but good sound card doesn’t come cheap. I’ve been looking at Creative Audigy 2 ZX for a long time before the Creative X-Fi was launched. Few months back, I came to know about X-Fi at soundblaster website. It’s really impressing!

Below are the Creative X-Fi features:-
– 24bit Xtreme Fidelity Crystalizer
– CMSS 3D Xtreme Fidelity
– Super Rip Xtreme Fidelity
– DTS – ES
– Digital Dolby
– THX Certified (This is wat i really mad about, it gives u superb sound quality)
– EAX Advance HD 5.0

But too bad, I’m now using Laptop for my work.
No more using desktop.
I think i’m going to get the Audigy 2 ZS for my notebook.

But before that, I would like to get some opinion from you all 🙂
Anyone using Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA ?
How’s the performance?

Click here to find out more about Creative X-Fi

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