This month’s geekery lookback is not much, as I am getting a bit sleepy. I don’t think I had my usual 2 cups of coffee through the day.
Most techie stuff I had this month would probably be learing Revit. It is indeed the future of building design coordination. As for its importance in structural design, well, it is still not that significant. I wish I could have counted how many times I ranted on how BIM should not be directly related to the creation of the structural analysis model.
I finally got a worthy pc quotation for 4 additional/replacement computers at work. With those coming in hopefully one week, our team will be having 7 Haswell desktop PCs. Pretty exciting. The incoming 4 are basically Core i7-4790k-based systems with a Z97 motherboard, 32GB of DDR3, and a GTX 950 each. If the need for new PCs weren’t that urgent, I wish we could have waited a bit more for Skyfall…err…Skylake-based systems. Again, I’m hoping my cousin would want to get a new PC soon so I can spec him a Core i5-6000 series based system with a GTX 900 series graphics card. Maybe I’d recommend an i7 instead, but I don’t know, I’m still leaning with an i5 for home and not-so-hardcore gaming.
| 6th-Gen i5 + GTX 900 | |
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6600K |
| MB | Z170 Motherboard |
| GPU | nVidia geForce GTX 960 |
| RAM | 2 x 8GB DDR4 |
| HDD | Seagate Hybrid Drive |
| Casing | Coolermaster 690 III (green) |
| PSU | Coolermaster Silent Pro M2 700 |
| HSF | Coolermaster V8 GTS |
I found out that Rey, an officemate, had a watercooled 6th gen i7 with a GTX 980 at home. Not bad, not bad at all. Definitely a member of the PC master race. I miss building a PC.
On phone-related recent events, mhae’s iPhone 4s’ wifi chip failed again and the MCS technicians are very hesitant in doing a second heating repair. The phone still functions as a phone well and is just basically unable to connect via bluetooth and wifi. The search for a new phone for her kinda starts.
I considered getting an Xperia Z5 compact (when available) and giving her my Z1 compact but she says—and I agree—that it’s unwise spending. She’s thinking of getting a Huawei or ASUS phone but LG appeals to her a lot. Samsung is not in the preferred list. Still, if we could find a good deal on a brand new iPhone 5s (that is with a proper warranty as I’m very appreciative of the idea of a warranty), that might still be the best, considering she’s already gotten used to the iOS environment. And the geek that I am with particular preferences (provided well by Sony and Google) wants to have access to an iOS device without having to own one.
Oh, and I just have to say, props to Apple for releasing the iPhone 6s and 6s+ with iOS 9.
