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S'Next Final previously known as Final Audio Design makes quite a few of high end audio devices in the past and entry level market is hardly being their focus. However few years ago, they begin to release a few earphones in the entry level market price range. They have the Adagio II and Heaven II in the past, but these 2 entry level IEMs have a very distinct audio signature that not many could accept. Moving forward to 2018 they released the E series, starting with the E3000, E2000 and later on, the E1000. This caught many audiophile eyes as it is priced at a really competitive price of RM128. Specifications: Housing: ABS Plastic Driver: 6.4mm dynamic Cable: Oxygen-free copper Sensitivity: 102db/mW Impedance: 16 Ohm Weight: 15g Cable length: 1.2m Official Website:  https://snext-final.com/en/products/detail/E1000 The E1000 package comes with total of 5 pairs of silicone eartips. This is quite surprising as most of the earphones usually only comes with 3 pairs ...

Today for in our work station, we have an old top of the line Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro headphones. This headphones is used to be the flagship model of the Beyerdynamic DT line up, way before Beyerdynamic introduce their Tesla drivers. Before working on the headphones, I had a test drive with it with my desktop setup. This headphones have a great soundstage and tons of lows but I personally don't quite like it's spiking mid-highs though. One might describe it as a well improved DT770 pro. Due to it's old age, it's 3.5mm connector gold plating had worn off and the internal connection is loose. To fix this, we will need to replace the 3.5mm connector. After stripping the cable PVC sleeve we can see it has 3 internal wiring and this reminds me that amazingly at this price point, Beyerdynamic opt to use cables that have PVC coating for the internal wiring which most headphones at this price or even higher doesn't have this. The internal wiring is colored as ...

Historically speaking, Dell hasn't really putting much effort to their design on their machines especially for the lower end line up. The flagship XPS lineup looks great and performs great, but for the other series like the Inspiron and the Vostro lineup design is usually quite dull. During the late 2018, Dell had launched a few new models to the Inspiron and Vostro lineup and this time around, it seems that Dell had really put some effort to make these 2 series looks way better than the last model, especially for the Vostro 5481 . Tech Specification 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-8265U Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.9 GHz, 4 cores) (Whiskey Lake) 4GB DDR4 2666Mhz RAM NVIDIA® GeForce® MX130 with 2GB GDDR5 graphics memory 1TB 5400 rpm 2.5" SATA Hard Drive 14.0-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) Anti-glare LED Backlight Non-touch Narrow Border IPS Display TPM 2.0 Overall the specs for this model is pretty standard for a mid-low tier machine. It is nice to see that Dell ...

The ADATA UV131 USB Flash drive is a simple and great looking flash drive so far at it's price point. The whole drive body covered with zinc alloy material finishing in matte sleek dark grey color. Due to it's zinc alloy body it feels really sturdy and it should not rust over time, the cap-less design allows you to not worry about missing the cap over time and it have a hook for you to attach it with your keychain. Appearance aside, from the packaging it promotes that it is USB3.1 capable. In layman terms, it should USB3.1 should theoretically supports up to the 5Gbps. But we all know, at this price point, there is no way that this flash drive could go up to that speed. So here's the test result using Crystal Disk Mark: As expected, this flash drive performs averagely among other entry level flash drives in the market. People who usually buy this normally would not care much on the performance but they do care on the sturdiness, sleek design and the po...

The USB port is probably one of the best invention in the history of computing. It is simple to use, however due to some operating system configuration, it sometimes can be tricky. It happens when I upgrade my laptop, the laptop comes with multiple USB 3.0 ports. As usual, I plugged in my old trusty USB 2.0 hard disk and start transferring all my files into the new laptop. Because it have quite a bunch of files to transfer, naturally I let it sit over night to do it's job. When I wake up the next morning, I heard my laptop is making some sounds, apparently it is disconnecting and reconnecting my trusty external hard disk repeatedly. Fearing it may kill my hard disk, I immediately unplug it and try to look for a solution to this answer. I had tried many configuration and even formatting the PC, thinking that the laptop manufacturer may had included some USB power settings that may leads to this issue. However, it still doesn't fix it. Finally I came across the solution aft...

When it comes to high speed SSD, most tech enthusiast will turn to NVMe SSD. These SSDs doesn't runs on the typical SATA protocol due to the SATA protocol speed limitation. NVMe runs on a higher speed protocol which is the PCIe, as of today in the typical consumer market the best you can go is the 4 lanes PCIe SSD. Fast means it will comes with a great cost, most of the NVMe SSD could easily cost as much as double the price of the typical SATA SSD. The Samsung 970 Evo, one of the famous SSD at the point of this post is up cost around slightly under RM700 for a 500GB model. What if you could enjoy the performance of a NVMe SSD with the half the cost of Samsung 970 Evo? No, we are not talking about sacrificing the speed by going  for a 2 lanes PCIe SSD like the Kingston A1000. We are talking about the Adata SX8200 Pro SSD which runs on full 4 lanes PCIe protocol. Like most premium SSD, the Adata SX8200 Pro comes in a paper box. Diving into the box, we will find the NVMe SSD ...

When it comes to gaming laptop brands, most people will immediately think of Asus ROG, MSI, Lenovo Legion, Dell Alienware or even Dell G Series. In Malaysia, when someone is trying to look for an affordable gaming laptop, they might encounter the brand Illegear. Illegear is a relatively new system integrator (comparing to the more matured brand such as Lenovo and Asus). Most if not all of their laptops chassis are usually based from an common chassis maker (for this model, they are using the Tong Fang GI5CN5E), what interesting and attracts consumer to their brand is their pricing. Today we have here a 2018 version of Illegear Raven, their entry model gaming laptop for just RM3,670 (during promotion). Below are the specifications: Display: 15.6" Full HD Anti-glare 144Hz IPS Display with sRGB 100% Wide Color & Wide View Processor: 8th Gen. Intel Core i5-8300H (Quad Core, 8M Cache, 2.3GHz to 4.0GHz) Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB GDDR5 with Optimus (Pascal...