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is coming out 14 February 2008 (what a fitting release date).

and I need to beef up my Japanese, please wait for me, Teru <3

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T_T I don’t think my mac mini can handle Leopard, altho it meets minimum requirement, but so did my pc for vista, and looked what happened, (in case you didn’t know, it’s back to XP for me). My mac mini’s been struggling lately running photoshop and stuff, I used to be able to run itunes while working, now I can’t, I think update after update did that, even apple’s succumbed to Bloated Software Syndrome, plus I wouldn’t be able to take full advantage of leopard anyway since mine is still PPC… I have no reason to upgrade, probably better off buying new mac when I can.

and by the time, new version of OSX would already come out.

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Wacom’s been busy lately, they just released new model called Bamboo, which, if I’m not mistaken, is for casual user, (judging from utterly childish-looking homepage, I haven’t a patience to take a look around), and now they are releasing another new model, Cintiq 12WX, which is basically a mini Cintiq. With 12.5″ wide-screen for drawing directly on it, you probably don’t feel very good using it, kinda like trying to do cg in laptop I’d think, but hey, portability and ergonomic probably made this worth a shot. I know I’d get one if I had money.

altho, at £829.99, (1700$) The price isn’t very mini. You can buy a macbook or imac with that.

Cintiq 12WX will be released in November 2007.

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is so sexy @_@.

and I’m utterly and completely broke, nobody wanted to give me a job ;_;

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A Raiden (Metal Gear Solid) figure by Sideshow Collectibles, do want!!

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I should have written about my time in El Paso first, but there’s alot of photo to go through and a lot of stories to tell, so I guess I’ll wait till we (me and Kayay) are back at Seattle. They can wait.

iPhone can’t!

I really didn’t expect to get to try on real -working- iphone, I figure I just wanted to see how it goes at the store, and maybe seeing iphone in glass box, so I pestered Kayay to drive to nearest at&t store, one of the two here, (there’s no apple store in El Paso T^T) we arrived about 20 or 15 mins before closing time, which turn out to be a good decision, there wasn’t many people in there, and to my surprise, there’s actually two real working units of iPhone in the store (not the silly dummy models) and one of the guy playing it surrendered it to me, bahahahaha. I tried everything on it, even putting some note on to see how the keyboard works (much better than normal cellphone) the ipod function (nifty) the camera, etc. too bad the internet didn’t work, I think it was either the network was overloaded or they disabled the net connection, although I did try the UI and I must say, it’s much better than anything else in the hand held category. It works like they advertised it, I think that’s what matter most.

you know what I wanted? I want apple to release a device like iPhone but sans the phone! maybe kinda like super mac micro? with touch screen and all, something that you would wanted to keep it with you all the times without looking like a geek carrying laptop everywhere, and it runs those little widget thingy along with ipod and internet where you keep it with you to use it offline and online when there’s wifi available, no need for phone carrier or costly monthly plan, or anything, hell, and maybe let it play DS game too.

call it iPad or something XD

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play-asia has wii us version available for 499$ *tempted tempted*

a few problems for me tho:
1) I would probably get taxed the hell outta it at post office, especially if they list the real full price (I suspect they will >>)
2) if it breaks, I have nowhere to turn to, that would suck balls, a 499$ brick could kill
3) zelda is out of stock
4) no money

ok, 4 is actually the real reason, hahaha, everything else is just excuse to make me feel better

*sobs*

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if you don’t know what Cintiq is, I could tell you that it’s probably a wet dream for every digital artist, It’s a “interactive pen display” or put it more simply, it’s a LCD screen that is also a tablet. with price tag of 3,000$, it remains in the dream (wet or not) for many amateur artists.

I have heard about it years ago, but I never personally seen or tried real thing until today, I was fortunate enough to arrive early and the shop was not busy, the salesperson was very sweet and friendly, and we chat alot and she encourage me and my friend to try it out for as long as we like and come back for more, I told her the shop should make it available for rental, hahaha

Cintiq itself works as good as a 3000$ gadget should. It felt very different, not really like drawing on paper but not like working on normal tablet either, for one thing, it made controlling the line much more easily, making work that require precise line like sketching and inking goes much faster, I actually stood there and sketched and inked the whole picture in about 20mins, pity I didn’t save.

one concern I have had with cintiq when I first heard it is that it would be too hot to work on for long period of time, that was what happened with tablet pc that rendered it unusable >: ( but I found out that heat isn’t the issue at all and it seems that I have no other excuse not to get it beside money XD

does anyone want my kidney? :D

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