Before the year ends, I’m more inclined to looking forward to upcoming tech and geek stuff. There are quite some to look back at from this month, though.
I finally got my Z1 Compact back from warranty-covered repair with a 3-month warranty on the repaired parts since warranty ended befor November ended. it’s good to have my phone back and I’m amazed at how effective the pc companion backup restore works with settings. It’s a little lacking, though, in that you need to install the apps before you restore. But game progress and the like, they were as before the backup process. Also, I managed to apply the backup screen and rear side protectors. It took a lot longer than makati square people would have but at least, I got to do it. And the purchase of a spare, more than a year ago, did pay off.
I tried and failed to clone my current (not fully utilized) 3TB HDD to the 2TB Seagate SSHD I bought last month. Will try again, maybe next week with some research. Maybe I need to do it on at least a second gen intel core system. So yeah, maybe that’s going to be a good gift to myself, get my main pc fixed after more than a year.
One minor thing about computing, I’m really satisfied with and my expectations were exceeded by the canonc lide 120 that I bought some time ago.
And I have yet to wrap and give the HGAW Gundam X to JT’s kid for nostalgia. And I’ve been wanting an HG for myself again since I bought that.
I prepared myself to wait until January for both but they arrived some time mid-December—MAFEX Wonder Woman, and Evangelion (Rebuild) Portraits VI. I’m keeping Wonder Woman boxed to save its value since I’m not so sure about getting Batman and Superman. But the eva portraits, their “displayed” around the room. Will have to organize soon. Maybe even get a Revoltech Mark.06 for Kaworu to be displayed the same way Mari is with the Provisional Unit-05. Or as one display, with the two eva’s and the two pilots. I must say, the portraits purchase is worth it, seeing the Revoltech 69 with the special color Mari on top of the nvidia edition 690 case. Best thing, they’re both not color accurate to the movie.
And on to upcoming stuff. I’m really excited to see AMD Ryzen (formerly codenamed Zen) and Intel Kaby Lake for desktop duke it out early in the year. I might even consider buying a new platform even if things do go well with my 2500k.
The Xperia X Compact Philippine release is doubtful, questionable at best. I’m just glad I have my Z1 Compact back and fixed and with a well applied pair of matte screen protectors.
I’ve always wanted to get a Masterpiece Optimus Prime but felt it was too expensive for me. Now that I managed to get Bumblebee and Hot Rod, both less expensive models, I’m wanting to get Optimus Prime yet again. well, one reason is the upcoming Masterpiece Megatron 2.0 in the same scale as the MP-10 Optimus Prime. Then again, I’ll leave that to the real collectors, and most likely settle for what I currently have. I’ll just enjoy the fact that they exist.
By end of January or early February, the midseason premieres of DC TV Shows (and Agents of SHIELD) are going to air. The DC TV season had an ok first half and I’m expecting things to just get better.
Lastly, on expectations, Rebuild of Evangelion FINAL is said to be back in the works. Yeah, I think I could be excited for Code Geass R3 and Attack on Titan season 2, but the anticipation for Rebuild Final beats both, combined. I sure hope it brings a closure that End of Eva didn’t bring but have the same profound anime geekery effect.
So there, some look backs and expectations. Cheers to tech and geekery from 2016. Now on to 2017!
