Out With The Old, In With The New

Alright, it’s a brand new day and I’m all psyched to build my new rig, but I’m in need of some space to set it all up.

However, at the time being, my space (read: roommates bed) is currently unavailable. So for the time being, I’ve decided to go through everything the DHL package had.

First Up; The brains of our Outfit… The AMD X4 Phenom 9950 125W @ 2.6 GHZ BLACK EDITION.

A month ago, this was the flagship product of AMD processors, till their latest release of the Phenom II 940’s. However, it was a rather sad state of affair that the flagship AMD Quad core could not beat or even challenge the Entry-Level Intel Core 2 Quad, the Q6600. Recently, with the release of Intel’s Core i7, the 9950 was further pushed into the shroud.

Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition. The Black Edition indicates that this processor comes with it’s multiplier unlocked, which is very useful for overclockers.

The Phenom X4 9950 in all her glory.

One of the reasons I go AMD…Made at Home!

So, the 9950 came with the stock heatsink. Compared to my previous Opteron 170, one would notice the addition of heatpipes. While welcome, the stock cpu heatsink of the 9950 isn’t exactly known for being excellent. It’s good, but not great.

Heatpipes, a great addition. Heatpipes have liquid flowing in them, that help transfer heat from the hot core of the processor closer to the heat sink fan to help disperse it. It’s mechanism of action is interesting, with capillary action and all that shit, if you’re interested, go hit up wikipedia.

Here’s the problem with these stock heatsinks, you can see it in build quality. Notice the chipped paint job on the heatsink.

The stock heatsink and it’s fan goes back into the box in which it came from.

The replacement? The Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme Black, or TRUE Black. As you’ll come to see, this thing is humongous. Contrary to popular belief, this item, is indeed larger than my left nut.

Simple packaging, you’ve no idea what you buy.

Installation Instructions…Thrown away.

The TRUE and some silly box with QC passed stamped on it.

The QC stamped package contains the assembly package with all sorts of shiny stuff.

Closer look at the mounting tools.

The TRUE Black in all her glory.

A rough idea of how big she really is.

Holy Batman! The Sandman agrees.

The Motheboard Packaging. DFI LP UT 790FX-M2R

Inside, the transpiper, manual, and the motherboard. The manual was eaten by Anu in due time.

The motherboard is an amazing work of art. UV reactive PCI-E slots, Sata Slot, Ram slots, you name it. Too bad there aren’t any UV CCFLs left here. Maybe a friend who is back at home now would consider bringing back a couple of sticks.

Ok, here we have the backplate of the PCB. Take a look at that cheap plastic retention bracket. Many Tier1 motherboard manufacturers have gone down to this level to save on costs as AMD processors have been sucking big time in the market. However, in my case, this silly plastic retention bracket won’t be able to hold the humongous TRUE BLACK.

The solution is found in this card board packaging.

The TRUE 120 Retention Brackets for AM2+

A proper retention backplate made out of steel.

Another shot at the retention brackets.

Ok, so the TRUE Black will be placed on the retention bracket and theoretically heat from the processor will travel through the 12 heatpipes and spread it over the aluminium fins. All these heat needs to be dispersed, but right now, all that happens is the aluminium fins heating up, and they start radiating the heat to the components nearby. For this reason, the TRUE Black can be fitted with 2 120mm fans, which would enable you to make up a push-pull config.

A false perception on fans is that the more expensive they are the better, however this is wrong. You’ll notice fancier looking fans with LED lighting, UV Reactive Coats and of the sort have ridiculously low CFM and produce an attrociously loud noise. In this case, I opted to buy a pair of 4 dollar fans by Yate Loon High Speed Fans.

Yate Loon’s in bubble wrap.

Nothing Fancy, a simple 12cm ball bearing fan.

The fan comes with a controller pin, allowing you to control the speed of the fan.

And for that reason, I bought this 5 25′ drive bay fan controller. When gaming, or benching, It would allow me to ramp up the RPM’s of up to 4 fans which in turn allows better cooling and ventillation, albeit at a cost of increased noise from the fans.

The Phenom features a memory controller compatible to DDR2. Unfortunately, my previous rig was of DDR1, so the rams can’t be carried forward, and I had to get some new RAM. Overclockers fail to understand one simple thing. You can crank up your FSB as high as you’d like, but if your memory can’t keep up with feeding your processor information, baby you ain’t gonna boot. Rams are as important to an overclocker, as how talking is to Anu or Drifting is to VK.

For this rig, I have decided to go with the OCZ DDR 2 PC6400 4GB Kit.

One of the wonders of OCZ is their Lifetime Warranty tag. Warranty is very important, and nobody knows this more than me!

Those of you who have followed my blog previously know what these are.

Artic Clean is a 2 part solution that helps clean and prepare your hardware for thermal grease application. It clears the surface from outside products, such as dust, dirt, etc and ensures the thermal grease contacts the heatsink and processor with very minimal distruption.

I was initially going to wait for my supply of Artic Silver 5 (thermal grease) to arrive, but I figured I can’t wait any longer! However, I am unable to build at the time being as my roommate is sleeping on what appears to be my work bench. Alas, the life of an artist.

The Calm Before The Storm

Well, exams are over, and, as expected, I barely scrapped through as always, but despite my inner kiasu, I’m content for the fact that the marks are proportional (or even slightly inflated) for the effort I put in, so there’s no complaining there.

I was saving a few things to do after my exam, and now I’ve the time to do them. These include, but aren’t limited to;
- Watching Muthi
- Watching Baasha
- Set Up New Rig
- Spend days tweaking and overclocking New Rig
- Fry New Chip

Yesterday, MOST of my new hardware has arrived. DHL and I were fighting a constant battle of F5(refresh) of the browser with the Russian customs continuously delaying my shipment due to a backlog of parcels in their office thanks to the recent long holiday we had (orthordox christmas, new year, etc etc).

Before I get all excited and move on towards building my new rig, I figured it was only right if I gave my previous rig her proper tribute, before I move on to my younger, much slender baby.

My Baby’s Coffin

Rotting Corpse, Collecting Dust

Salvaged 250GB Hard Disk

Salvaged 500 GB Hard Disk

Salvaged BFG 9800 GTX+

The Opteron 170 with remnants of  Thermal Grease

Socket 939, AMD’s Prime Days

Sentimental Reasons Why I buy AMD; Assembled in Malaysia

DFI LP UT NF4 SLI-DR-Expert – Best Socket 939 Motherboard Made

Back Shot of the PCB

4GB of Corsair DDR Ram

Good bye baby, you will be sorely missed!

Hopefully my Artic Silver 5(Thermal Grease) will arrive in the next few days, I’m awaiting for the stupid parcel slip from the post office so that I may go collect it. Alas, God knows how long it may actually take.

Tomorrow, I plan to put up everything that arrived with DHL yesterday, so stay tuned.

Enermax Uber Chakra or Crazy Taiwanese Hyped-up Nomenclature

Hello my-fellow non-existent readers,

Let me begin this post by first saying “There is no such thing as a budget conscious enthusiast!”

That being said, I request you please refrain from posting in the comment section with hurtful words like “How could you spend that much on this shit man?” or “What the fuck is wrong with you, I could feed myself for 6 weeks with cash like that”. Instead I plead that you try to understand what it is like to be an enthusiast, especially when it comes to computer hardware.  Hardware, unlike software, cannot be downloaded off of torrent sites!

Well anyways, two days ago we saw the launch of the latest addition of AMD’s latest processor, the AMD Phenom II (or DRAGON ala Fusion), and these are all exciting news, especially with the 940 BE under 300 dollars. I’ll admit AMD has had it’s glory days but the TLB erra….. no I’m sorry, we’re not here to talk about the new Phenom II’s that I cannot afford right now (although I am glad that they are socket AM2+ (which means you don’t need a new mothe….) ok ok I’m done for real, but honestly these are just exciting news, but I’ll leave that for another day.

Ok back to business. For all intents and purposes, I had my mind set on buying an iCute casing. Yes, I know, when I came up with that idea, I had my balls tied and was surfing the net reading reviews and of the such of various ATX casing. Whilst the name sounds really gay,  some of their products aren’t as bad. Had money not been an issue, easily I would have checked out the offerings of Lian-Li or heaven forfend Silverstone. Full aluminium chassis, light, strong, and imba. Instead, with what I have, the only thing aluminium I could afford was brushed aluminium bars at the front of the chasis (which is only for aesthetics).

So off I went to the far reaches of Bagrad to seek a casing in what would appear to be the Lowyat of Moscow (minus the prices). They boast over 3000 computer shops, but honestly, there’s only like 20 or 30 you’d really care to visit, which is more than enough by anyone’s standards. Prior to the visit, I had made my mind up to purchase an iCute, but they don’t carry that in moscow, so instead, I figured I’d get the Thermaltake V9, but when I saw it, the Thermaltake Armor+ was just amazing. It didn’t sweep me off my feet or any of that shit, just that the Thermaltake Armor + LCS had a built in Liquid Cooling System.

Some pictures, cause those are mandatory…

Thermaltake V9

Thermaltake Armor Plus

As you can see, the Armor+ looks so much better than the V9. Honestly, when you’re up at the store, regardless of how much it says under the price tag, when you compare those two, It would be like comparing buying a Viva or a Myvi. Essentially, they’re the same thing, with a couple of exterior changes, but otherwise, you get the same thing.

The bar up front is brushed aluminium, and there is ample space, nice LED fan up front pretty decent, by any account, and I almost went for it….that was until I heard the voice from the corner of the shop whilst I was talking to the shopkeeper about specifications and such, and bargaining the price…

“Are you done yet? Can we go? My feet hurts, my legs hurt, my ass hurts, my face hurts, lets go back home. I’m hungry, I’m this, I’m that, just buy anything and lets go.”

That was just the second shop we had been to and women, being women, have started bitching. So, I told them to sit down at the nearest coffee shop and went on a solo mission hunting casings. During this hunt, I was introduced to the Gigabyte Aurora 3D 570 and my oh my was it tantalizing.

Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570

The above picture does not do this casing justice. It looks so much better in real life, and there are tonnes of pictures online that look so much better but honestly, I do not want to do that for this case cause it’s not as good as the one I wish to present next (or the fact that it was way beyond the realm of what I could afford or that I do not own it).

So anyways, when I got home, I started looking and reading reviews of casings available in the market. As painful as it was, I had to avoid reviews of Silverstone, Lian-Li, and the such. So the next day, I went, after getting rid of the women, to go get myself a brand new casing. I finally get to the shop and decided, hey I’m hungry, lets do lunch. I figured, I’ll go in, buy the case and get back home under the hour, but what’s that they say about the best laid plans?

After lunch, I head to the shop to look for my Thermaltake Armor+, first bad news of the day, they only have 1, which is the display unit, and that looks shitty with scratches and all. To make matters worst, the front aluminium bar, is actually wedged off the bottom socket and it’s loose. I know the bars are removable, before any of you point it out, but the socket that it attaches to is loose, and doesn’t hold it strongly anymore. Imagine a vagina that has been repeatedly shoved in with a really large phallic-shaped vegetable.” The next time your tiny penis goes in, she ain’t gonna feel a thing (c) Shorty @ Demonhunter51 @ Vk@Area51.  “

*At this point, im trying hard not to start every paragraph with the word “so”

So, at this point, I’m pissed off, I mean I knew what I wanted, and you’re telling me I can’t have it? Well Fuck you sir. I was about to leave, and the salesman suggests to me, Why not get a Kandalf? Ohh Kandalf huh, yeah, they’re pretty good, infact they’re absolutely amazing. They’re well built, large, and light. Good choice, that’ll be 15,000 rubbles. SAY WHAT!? 15,000 RUBBLES? For that money, I should be able to have you shave my balls as well. Not being the one that has even an ounce of the need to cover macho, I told him I do not have space in my hostel room to place such a huge beast, and he seemed to have understood the point and started suggesting casings that have less than 5 figures.

If you’ve seen any tamil love movie, you’ll definitely see a scene in which perhaps the hero/heroin (sic) will be talking to someone and suddenly, the hero/heroine’s future partner walks on the other side of the room and they now show you a shot of the hero/heroine staring at the future partner, and the background sound would be played by a watered down voice of the hero/heroine’s friend continuing his/her pointless conversation which the hero/heroine would not be listening to. This is exactly what happened, the salesman was talking about other casings and I caught the glimpse of another huge casing, and I was not taking in anything the salesman had to say (or maybe I didn’t understand what he was on about in the first place).

On a rack, it was visible, Next to the Coolermaster Stacker Nvidia, a casing, from a maker, of till now I only thought made power supplies, Enermax. It was called the Enermax Uber Chakra. I know what you’re thinking, it’s something from Naruto or some shit, but rest assured, Chakra has a deeper meaning than that which you can read at wikipedia at your own damned leisure.

Let me show you what im talking about;  Click here to check it all out!

So (Christ, why do I keep starting sentences with so?) , I asked the salesman if I can use the computer nearby to check the casings specifications and the such. He agreed and allowed me to use google! Well, all I knew about this case that it was a Full Tower ATX and had 2 USB slots, eSATA, and Firewire ports, and five 5 1/4 bezzles. Also I could see a 25 cm fan on the side that could work as an intake or exhaust, and the front fan, but I needed more information. I found all the details that I needed and it had everything I needed.

So I tried barganing a bit more, got a final price and felt it was decent (by Moscow standards). I closed one eye and went for it….

And that concludes todays post. Tomorrow, if I feel like it, I might continue more about this case, hell, I might even make a post on building my new rig (well not exactly new, just recycled parts and some new stuff).

Cheers,

-HypoG

When it Rains, It pours.

I would like to request a moment of silence as a show of respect to the recent passing of my Overly-Imba PC that has left us way before her time. All hope is not lost, as most of the components are under warranty and I may try to get something working.

For the time being, I’ve plugged my monitor unto my brothers laptop and am using it as if it’s my own damn pc infringing on his precious anime and manga time. Alternatively, I play with the mouse when he is drunk and is trying to click something, more often than not, closing the browser.

Let me be the first to tell you, living without a working PC is a very sad state of affair and I would not wish this even upon my sworn nemesis. On the other hand it gives me ample time to study for the upcoming exams which I am not exactly using correctly. Instead, I’ve been using the extra hours to bitch and moan about the lack of a PC.

This shall all stop by next week, I swear! In the meantime, I can assure you that I will try to update this blog in a bit-bit.

ARAHGHARAGHAGAHA

Alright, an update.

I purchased an awesome little BFG 9800 GTX+ OC from ebay, and it finally arrived the other day. Considering I had classes, and knowing that had I rolled up my sleeves and got to work on the card, I would probably spend the next few days tweaking and not go for class.

So, I patiently waited for the weekend (which is a long one, considering that there is holiday till Wednesday) to get to work. Right, so saturday arrived and I got to work. I told myself, I’ll start around 3 p.m. (time when I got back from class) and would be done in 30 minutes or so, tweak the card for a bit, and then head out for the futsal league at the sportzal…but I forgot to take into account Murphy’s law, and as they say, about the best laid plans… disaster ensued.

I’ll get back to that in a bit, let me first introduce you to my new baby. To the more attentive of you lot, you would realize that way back, I had posted here about my birthday wishes. Suffice to say, none of it came true, and almost 2 years later, I decided to take matters into my own hands. For those of you wondering “I find it hard to believe this cheap cunt actually bought something for himself with his own money” rest assured I had no choice. My previous graphic card was dying, or should I say, taking it’s last few breath. It would reboot my pc, glitch video’s, flicker the screen, etc. So I had no choice but to get a new card. 

That being said, I logged onto Ebay, searched out for a decent affordable card when I accidently spotted the BFG. Whilst it was beyond the realm of decent nor affordable,, and more into overkill, and pure pwnage, I just had to get my hands on it. Buy it I did, and waited for 4 days for DHL to deliver. 

 

So first thing I did was unscrew the window panel and open it up. Then, I removed my older cards from my rig. Note the ridiculous (deadly)  amount of dust. To make things worst, I’m allergic to dust…

 

Unscrew the Window Panel

 

Pull!

 

Open

Identify The GC

 

 

Dusty Wonders

 

So there are 2 cards, since I’ve them SLI-ed (Scalable Link Interface). Therein ends the easy part. The removal of the GC took all of 1 minute, but the next few steps took 2 bloody days. So let me show you the beast…

 

Big Fuckin' Gun

 

Beauty, isn’t she? Best part of BFG — Lifetime Warranty!

So yeah, after I unpacked the card, I did the next thing that is expected of any decent man. I threw away this:

Fuckin' Manual Inserted for Noobs

 

This card is HUGE! No really, it is… the card alone by itself weighs around 3kgs. That’s around the weight of my left nut. Let me show you what I mean…

 

9800 GTX+ OC vs 7300 GT

 

9800 GTX+ OC vs PSP Slim 2006

 

Yeah, it’s fuckin’ huge. No cookies for guessing why it’s called a BFG. My worst fears materialised when I tried to plug in the GC unto my Motherboard….

 

ARAHGHARAGHAGAHA

It didn’t fuckin’ FIT! Try as I might, it refused to budge. There was nothing more to be done… I could only do one thing! Remove everything and run the whole PC externally…

 

So I removed everything one by one, out of the casing meticulously. There was so much dust, I was coughing like a lil’ bitch the entire time. Slowly, but surely, I got everything out. I plugged everything back in, and was hoping for shit to work….but nooooooooooo. The mobo could not boot. To diagnose the problem, I tried shorting the psu, but it did not power up. I realized that the PSU has bailed on me too. I shed a tear, and went to sleep knowing there was nothing I could do at 3 a.m.

Dead PSU

 

The next day, I woke up early, wanked off to some anime, and made my way to Novie Cheriyomushki. So I went scouting for a decent PSU. After almost 2 hours of walking around, scouting, and eventually bargaining, I managed to get this PSU..

 

Floston 700w

 

So I got back, plugged everything up, found a decent casing (the DHL courier box) and got the whole thing running under an hour. Here is how my awesome rig runs…

 

New Rig

 

Was it worth it? You bet your fuckin ass it was. I am already considering SLI-ing this beast!

 

 

GPU-Z

*DROOL*

 

Beer Mug > DHL

 

 

 

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I’m drooling so friggin much I’m afraid to open it!

Carrier has arrived

Finally after almost 3 weeks of waiting, the Carrier has arrived!

 

 

And damn it’s complicated to install!

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Going Dutch

Everybody seems to be familiar with the term Going Dutch. To put it simply, in the event a few people (2 or more) decide to perhaps go together for dinner, going dutch would indicate each person would shell out the cost for his or her meal alone. Needless to say, I am not a very big fan of this method; I’ll get back to it later. 

 

Most of the people around me, have such distinct characteristics, that you could probably define general situations by using their names. I will try to enumerate a couple of them, for the purpose of educating, and also, perhaps in allowing you to use these terms when the need for it arises in the future.

 

Whilst in no way is this a complete list, I have decided not to arrange it in any particular order as I’m neither bothered nor capable of such an arduous task. 

 

1) Pulling a Tina : Making Promises that you cannot/will not keep.

Ex: Tina: I will clean up your room next week, month, semester.

 

2) Pulling an Anu : Cut their statements short, in turn annoying the other party.

Ex: Anu: You know what happened, he said that I’m not…HypoG, do you think I’m a…. nevermind, forget it.

 

3) Pulling a Kristof : The incessant need to argue everything, even, and especially on matters one isn’t well versed in.

Ex: CRT monitors are better than LCD’s because the refresh rates on LCD’s can’t keep up to those demanded by fast paced games!

 

4) Going Sasha : Unlike going Dutch, in this instance, one person covers the cost of the meal for everyone.

Ex: Sasha : Hey, Lets go to Paddingtons House of Pancakes for breakfast!

Me : I’m Broke.

Sasha : No problem, we’ll just go Sasha.

 

5) Pulling a Rowena : The constant urge to drag as many of the student body to church, regardless of them being believers or otherwise

Ex: Hey Guys!!!! wnaa go churc tmrw? Pstr kvn sayz he has plned a wondrful supriz for us! 

 

6) Pulling a Shorty : Being adamant and unreasonable*

Ex: Homes, since you’re going to Kalush, can you help me buy a 300 rb reload card and some food?

Shorty : No. You’ll thank me later. *Subjective on the unreasonable.

 

7) Pulling an Abz : Bailin’ out on the very last minute.

Ex: This summer, lets go to Tioman! I’ll get my dad to book and shit!

Summer; How, Tioman?

-Sorry homes, tak jadi, you guys carry on.

Ex: Abz, so we celebrating your birthday at Shorties house this friday?

-Yeah, confirmed!

Come friday; Sorry homes, I can’t make it, you guys carry on.

Ex: Abz : Lets go Watch American Pie at 6.

- Yeah sure, sounds like a plan. We’ll meet you there.

5.30 at the mall; Abz, where the fuck are you?

- Sorry homes, something came up, and I can’t make it. You guys carry on.

 

8 ) Pulling a Priyan : Running an event under a strict budget.

Ex: I can’t believe we just pulled a Priyan. Seriously, running MASSAD with only USD 5000? Who would have thought that would be possible.

 

9) Pulling a Mike : Keeping your cool, even at the verge of getting expelled.

Ex: Mike, exam how dei? Chill La. Mike, tomorrow exam, you finish studying or not? Chill La. Mike, exam now, ready or not? Chill la.

Teacher : What is the treatment for SCM (Sternocleidomastoid Syndrome). 

Mike : Order the person to chill instead of being uptight.

Teacher : Excellent! 5.

Mike : Chill la.

 

And FINALLY….

10) Being HypoG : THe Ultimate level of Lazy. The epitome of otiosity.

Ex: Homes, on your way out, do you mind throwing out this rubbish, switching off the light, and locking my door? Otherwise I’d have to get up .

Idiot Spotted

They say a picture says a thousand words, and so I’ll just let it do the talking.

Clearly He doesn't know who Musshy is

Just as I was finally starting to think there was hope for Malaysians yet, I’m once again smacked off the hope-ladder with a swift low-blow to my prestigious nut-sack, and left for the wolves whilst the nut slowly enters a gangrenous phase which eventually smells like dog shit mixed with the smell of putrid flesh.

Right.

10 Dalil Mengapa Membeli iPhone 3G Perbuatan Orang Bodoh

iShit

Once again, it is proven that superior advertising of an inferior product will get the idiotic masses to succumb and accept mediocre products at extraordinary prices. Think about it, seems like everyone is talking about it, including the village idiot and his aunt, but c’mon, what’s the big fuckin’ deal?

People here are willing to shell out close to Rm 3400-3700 for the iPhone, something that I cannot fathom. Perhaps the lack of knowledge on what they seem to be overpaying for might be the reason? As a matter of fact, the only reason I seem to get from anyone about wanting an iPhone is that it’s apparently cool?

Trust me, Unless If You're This Guy, not even the iPhone can make you cool

It appears the days that consumers make providers compete among each other with the latest and greatest of technology at awesome prices is over and it’s a complete take-over by idiots with money and no knowledge on how to utilize it and a huge placard hanging around their neck reading “Con Me, Im Rich”.

Anyways, for the rest of you who might be considering getting an iPhone, for reasons that you think it’s “cool”, read on:

1. Unless if you’re from one of the countries where the iPhone has already been released, you’re pretty much forced to get an imported _unlocked_ version. This gives dealers a reason to hike up the price for all the eager numbskulls waiting to be rid of a load of cash. However, these _unlocked_ phones may only work for a limited time as future firmware upgrades for the phone would imply you either attempt to unlock it yourself (at risk of bricking it [ouch, bricking an iPhone that doesn't have warranty]), or spend more money to get it professionally done.

As for the officially released ones, via network providers, that doesn’t sound very smart either. The rates are pretty much horrible and you’ll end up paying much more than merely buying an iPhone. The only advantage is that in this case, your ass is covered by the official warranty.

2) Worst idea of 3G ever? It’s a 3G phone that doesn’t have a front facing camera, for Video Calls over 3G, which seems to be one of the selling points of a 3G phone? No HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access). So you can’t connect it to your laptop to act like a 3G modem that allows you to surf the net at regions without wireless access. Where’s all the 3G hype?

3) Shitty ass Camera. You’re paying out of your ass for a shitty 2mp camera, with no autofocus, no alterable settings, and no flash, and here’s the kicker, no video recording.

4) No MMS’ allowed. No Sending Pictures in your messages.  No bluetooth syncing, no transferring of documents via bluetooth, no A2DP. All In All it’s just a pretty expensive paper weight!

5) On-Screen Keyboard. Jesus H. Christ, unless if you’re a poor little african kid, suffering from starvation, with bony fingers, there is no possible way to utilize this tool. There is no alternative! There is no copy and paste! How can a so-called future phone lack all these basic functions?

6) The battery can not be removed. So if your battery dies, you can’t just go take a spare and use it. Instead, you have to send it in. The battery life is shit, so unless if you just want to use your phone for 10 minutes, (pfft a couple of hours), forget about playing music and expecting calls.

7) The GPS cannot be used in real-time. That is, your location will be superimposed on the map, however, you cannot have it give you directions and shit as any other GPS does (That annoying shit that goes, take left at the next corner).

No Fucking Flash. Websites are so media-rich and flash ladden these days that flash is an essential component. I realize they have a shitty utility that can be used to play you-tube videos, but what about those of us who would like to use redtube on the go?

9) Abilash wants it.

10) Ashwar doesn’t have it.

I think those are some pretty solid arguments to change any preconceived exaggerated notions one might have about how good the iPhone really is. However, if you would like to be a damned tool, and act like a fool, please, feel free to get yourself a shiny paper weight.

For shizzle,

HypoG