The Beanster Blog

So I have finally made the switch to OSX (sort of). Santa was very nice and gave me a 15inch Retina MacBook Pro It's a sweet machine with a beautiful display and really well built. It's superfast because of SSD. The downside is it's 256Gb can be a bit cramp for someone like me who has a huge iTunes library and dual boot to consider. I have been loosing sleep because of 4 major issues though. 1) BootCamp - I finally got this to work after about 3 attempts. I had mistakenly selected a partition size that would not fit Windows 8 (in the future). There is no official support for Windows 8 yet so I have sticked with Windows 7 Home Premium for now. I did purchase the $40 upgrade to Windows 8 Pro (valid only until 31-Jan-2013) but I will hold off installing that until BootCamp support becomes available. For now I am quite happy with the performance of Windows 7 on this machine. Instead of buying or pirating Office for Mac I have decided to install Office 2010 which I own on...

Wow smart is really beating the poop out of globe.  SMART Globe VBC Sent from my fruit phone 🍎

Mandaluyong City  SMART Globe VBC Sent from my fruit phone 🍎

Tested at Shangri-la Mall SMART Globe VBC Sent from my fruit phone 🍎

Globe  SMART VBC Sent from my fruit phone 🍎

Both networks really suck. Sheesh 😕 VBC Sent from my fruit phone 🍎

I've been using the iPhone 5 for a little over a week and here are my thoughts on AAPL's newest phone.  I won't bore you with specs, if you need it here is a link to the specs http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html Got these images off Apple's website so they own the images blah blah blah. It comes in Black & Slate or White & Silver. I like to alternate colors on my iPhone so this time I got Black & Slate, I got a 32Gb model from Singapore (thanks Rad) because when I had an iPhone 4S 64Gb I could not fill it up. Decided to get a smaller capacity device and save some moohlah.  First impressions. When I took the device out of the box the first thing I did was slap a screen protector on it and then put a GelaSkin on it. After I applied the skins I noticed that the device already had a scratch near the screws (bottom) I suspect this small scratch came out of the box. So yes the finish is gorgeous, yes the finish is very nice to the touch BUT it is s...