Dell really has great customer service. If you all want to get anything from Dell, do let me know, I will introduce the sales representative from Dell that I bought my monitor from.

My monitor came earlier than I expected in 2 ways:
1. According to Dell Support Order Status page, it was supposed to be delivered to me on the 21st April 2008. However, yesterday, I received a sms as well as an email asking me to confirm the delivery of my monitor on the next day (which is today) and I was so delighted to hear that.
2. My delivery time slot was suppose to be from 2pm to 6pm today, however, I got woken up by the door bell sound at 12.03pm and there is it, the delivery man with my monitor.

Dell 2408WFP Box

Box Has Been Opened

Cables That Come With It

The Monitor Stand Is Separated

Dell 2408WFP Wrapped

My Old Sony 17″ Monitor (SDM-HS73)

My Workspace

Thumbs up to Dell for their great service.

PS: I am seriously loving my 24″ monitor. As what Shaun said in the comments, once you are on 24″, you will never go back down, ever.

Placed and confirmed my order for Dell 2408WFP UltraSharp 24 Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor and Dell E228WFP Entry 22 Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor.

The 2408WFP is for myself and it is retailing at SGD$958.72 and the E228WFP is for my brother and it is retailing at SGD$408.74.

I bought both monitors together and hence I got the discount for the 2408WFP which is about SGD$921.67 (after discount and including taxes). The E228WFP still remains at the same price. Overall I paid SGD$1,330.41 for both monitors.

Estimated delivery date is on 21st April 2008.

Whats up with the Internet today? So many major news floating around the Internet.

• Microsoft releases the long awaited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows Update
• Apple releases Safari 3.1
• Intel officially announced new 6-core processor codenamed “Dunnington” and new Itanium processor codenamed “Tukwila”
• NVIDIA officially launched GeForce 9 – 9800 GX2
• Nokia officially announced N82 in Black
• Engadget played with iPhone Firmware 2.0
• WordPress releases the long awaited WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1

Did I missed out any technological news?

Finally after they some miscommunication, I finally collected my spectacles from Optics Today located at Queensway Shopping Center. I have been patronizing Optics Today since I was in Secondary School. As the shop is owned by my uncle’s secondary school classmate and he can gives us very good price, and I mean really very good after comparing with several optical shops. My Swissflex Spectacles cost $350 (including frame, lenses and taxes) whereas I checked out 1 optical shop in VivoCity and the exact same brand and frame as mine cost $360 alone. My current Oakley Wiretap is also from him, cost me $250 (including frame, lenses and taxes) but just that it is a import set and comes with no warranty.

My New Spectacles By Swissflex Eyewear

My new TV was delivered to me on Tuesday together with my new washing machine. I put it on my TV rack and realize it was quite big and my dad suggested to me to mount the TV to the wall. After having that thought, I can’t figure it out where is the 4 screw holes that my TV suppose (my living room Samsung LCD TV has them) to have. After posting my question in Hardware Zone Forums, I got an answer and apparently I need to unscrew the 4 screws covering the 4 screw holes! The instruction manual didn’t even say anything about that! It just says that if I want to mount the TV to the wall, I need to contact my dealer. It was rather a stupid answer.

Then, the screws that come with the wall bracket could not fit into the hole of my TV, I was like WTF. In the end my dad installed the bracket first and today we went to Daiso to get the screws ($2 for 5 screws). Just for your information the screw needed is 6mm (diameter) x 25mm (length). My dad has been producing screws for the past 30 years and hence once he look at it, he knew exactly what screw can fit.

I really must thank my dad for helping me and of course my mom for paying for the TV!

My New 32″ Hitachi LCD Television (L32A01A)

2 items down, 4 more to go:

• New Hitachi 32″ LCD TV
• New Samsung 24″ or 27″ LCD Monitor
• New Intel Yorkfield Desktop Computer
• New Nokia N82 Mobile Phone
• New Ikea Table
• New Swissflex Spectacles

I just love 2008.

I am not that interested in the Extreme version because I do not overclock my computer and no point paying more for a unlocked clock multiplier when I am not going to use it. I am hoping Intel will have 3000 MHz for the normal edition as well or even more as I am targeting at least 3GHz and above.

And yes, Yorkfield will support DDR3.

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650

• Extreme edition features unlocked clock multiplier
• Frequency: 3000 MHz
• L2-Cache: 2 × 6144 KiB
• FSB: 1333 MT/s
• Multiplier: 9x
• Socket: LGA 775

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300

• Frequency: 2500 MHz
• L2-Cache: 2 × 3072 KiB
• FSB: 1333 MT/s
• Multiplier: 7.5x
• Socket: LGA 775

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450

• Frequency: 2833 MHz
• L2-Cache: 2 × 6144 KiB
• FSB: 1333 MT/s
• Multiplier: 8x
• Socket: LGA 775

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

• Frequency: 2667 MHz
• L2-Cache: 2 × 6144 KiB
• FSB: 1333 MT/s
• Multiplier: 8.5x
• Socket: LGA 775

Source: List of future Intel Core 2 microprocessors