Athena Glory Figure

The last prima undine figure, Athena Glory, has been revealed, scheduled for August release. I would probably not collecting Akira and Athena since they are not particularly attractive and cost a lot more. The figure would probably cost 6631 yen with 1480 yen SAL shipping. I'll remove my Akira pre-order from HLJ.

The other ARIA figure I'm eagerly anticipating is the Goodsmile/AT-G ALicia 1/8 figure due to July release but there's no preview yet not pre-order. Offical release note at AT-G. The 1/8 figure is 18.5cm high and cost around 5500 Yen (US$46 or AUD$55) which is a lot more expensive compared to other 1/8 figures.
Update: Alicia figure release date has been postponed to September.


Release Date:
Akari: October 2006
Aika: November 2006
Alicia: December 2006
Alice: February 2007
Akira: May 2007
Atena: August 2007

New Laptop

I just order a new laptop Inspiron 6400 from DELL. My current laptop Inspiron 600m is making me feeling both frustrating and insecure as I approach the completion of my candidature. Since I bought the 650m, I have formatted the laptop at least 6 times, twice in the 2005, once in 2006 and thrice recently. Some of the problems and limitations I encountered:

1. Blue screen
This occur several times when my hard disc has physical error in it. I replaced my hard disc last year. Afte current reformat, I encountered twice again.

2. Network, Start-up and Battery charging problem
This was the most frustrating problem of which I had problem with start-up which was suprising related to network as well. The battery failed to charge as well. I have to reformat the laptop to fix the problem. That's the start of the thrice re-format saga recently.

3. The F4 key was broken, making Alt-F4 is so inefficient now.

4. Bought a new RAM last year because the laptop was too slow for computations.

5. Bought a new battery last year because the original one failed. I discarded it before DELL announced for a recall.

6. No DVD burner and I had to transfer and burn off another pc. It's also terribly frustrating and time-consuming doing data back-up.

I have chosen a laptop again because my future career would most probably depend on a laptop rather than a desktop. The new laptop will be 1.73GHz Core 2 Duo processor with XP Pro., 1Gb SDRAM and 160Gb Hard drive. Of course it would have a DVD burner and I dont have to borrow my bro's pc/laptop or sis's desktop to burn backups. I didn't upgrade my graphics card and settle for the default because it was expensive and probably wouldn't make much different for just video watching. It would be more of a concern for online gamer like my bro. I initially intended for the 640m model since it's smaller and lighter but my bro called me stupid for choosing a small screen laptop which is similar to my 600m. There goes my $1408.

P/S: How should I ultilize my 160Gb space? Probably 3 partitions of 60-50-50.