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by Nicholas Aaron Khoo, Singapore
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Gigabyte gives a sneak peak of the M1405 at the 2010 Taipei Game Show
Feb 8, 2010 09:44
Two months back, Gigabyte showcased the M1305 laptop which had an interesting concept of adding an extra GPU and graphics capabilities to your laptop.
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Singaporeans win at the 2010 Taipei Game Show and walk home with the Gigabyte M1305 gaming machines
Feb 7, 2010 11:32
Ravana and TH15 of Team 1MS have done Singapore proud by winning the Dawn of War 2 Asian Finals organized by Replay Interactive, THQ, and Gigabyte at the 2010 Taipei Game Show!

Besides US$1,500 cash, they also win for themselves a Gigabyte M1305 laptop each, complete with an additional dock that adds an Nvidia GeForce GT220 GPU with 1GB of DDR3 memory to the capabilities of the laptop, turning it into a gaming machine! More on the laptop here.
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Off to the Taipei Game Show!
Feb 5, 2010 02:00
So, this is a quick blurb from an excited geek traveling to the Taipei Game Show to cover the Dawn of War II regional finals and the Intel Extreme Masters Asian Finals.
Singapore will be represented by Dennis and Sean of team 1MS for the Dawn of War II regional finals and I must say they've a good shot at the trophy.
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Seletar to Subang in less than 60 minutes
Feb 3, 2010 02:12
This geek once heard about a friend's friend's challenge where they both set off separately from the heart of Kuala Lumpur city central. One drove and one took a commercial flight. The one who drove reached Orchard Road about 15 minutes before the one who took a plane.
Can you imagine that? If you explore all the options available today, there's no way you can make it from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur (330km) in less than 2.5 hours. And even that's a stretch. Unless, of course, you own a Cirrus aircraft:
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The whole world should be labelled
Jan 26, 2010 18:31
One of my very first geeky toys, which I have preserved pretty well to this day, was the Canon Digital Writer HW-1:
I think it's been more than 20 years since I got the HW-1 and this picture of it was taken today. See, I'm a geek and I love my labelling:
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About Nicholas Aaron Khoo
Nicknamed "Gadget Boy" by friends at age 18 because he used to scribble Grafitti on a PalmPilot faster than most would type, Nicholas Aaron Khoo is web developer turned technopreneur and Singapore tech blogger who also pretends to do strategic advisory for tech startups and 'un'Fortune 500s (when he's not pretending to be the gadget-loaded Batman). A digital nomad, his tech interests range from gadgets, games, tech trends, social media, security, and just about anything that runs on 1s and 0s. See his industry affiliations here.
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