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Legit Window 8.1 will add 3000 baht to your cost. I've found Dell to have excellent support and they don't seem to care where you bought it.

That's what I remember... the last time I bought a laptop at "Prawn Tip Plaza", I had the choice - hacked or not. Of course I went legit and the kid would have even installed it for me if I let him, which I did not. best of luck to the OP.

but it seems the rMBpro is almost as light.

Have you held both? they are like night and day. One is a dense heavy bit of bulk and the other is more like a heavy tablet, but the keyboard won't come off. The MBA makes such a difference in a shoulder bag, and it's easy to grab if just going down the stairs.

No I haven't held them, but I will do so.

I am simply citing the reviews and the measured weight difference. However I take your word for it so far as the perception goes. Am I right that the lighter weight and longer battery life are the two objective reasons to prefer the Air? Did you have a chance to consider the new rMBpro, or did it appear after you bought the Air?

I had both side by side in the office last week. I own the 13" mba, parner has the new rMBP. I could have waited a few weeks for the rMBP, but I figured why not try the MBA, as I knew the retina display would be a battery suck, and it is. 6 hrs vs. 10 hrs+. With the Air, I've forgotten what a charger is, as I don't have to carry it outside of the house for a day job with client. It will go the 8+ hours no problem. Not so with a rMBP. U are tied to the charger, as with most other laptops. Granted, the rMBP display is gorgeous and all of that, but for a workhorse that is light and thin and goes 10 hours on a charge, the MBA is my preference. The price is almost 33% less. My partner spent about 3 grand on his, after applecare and doohickeys. I spent about 2 grand on mine with applecare and doohickeys. 2 grand seems like enough to pay for a laptop, inmo. 3 grand is over the top. cheers!

but it seems the rMBpro is almost as light.

Have you held both? they are like night and day. One is a dense heavy bit of bulk and the other is more like a heavy tablet, but the keyboard won't come off. The MBA makes such a difference in a shoulder bag, and it's easy to grab if just going down the stairs.

Haswell 13" MBPr. Smaller footprint than 13" air and not much in it weight wise.

great machine, but a battery suck compared to the MBA. I guess ya have those tradeoffs: battery life vs. really sharp display.

Can't remember the name or #, but Pran Tip Plaza main floor in the back right side while going in. There is an Apple repair shop that has been there for decades. Look for a display board full of old parts. Those guys rock.

Got the full-blown 13" air with all the upgrades, a bit more than your budget, but this machine is a beauty. 10+ hours and it will do anything my old MBP did (runs both Windows 8 and Mavs with VMWARE perfectly). The only downside is the lack of retina display, supposedly soon to be fixed in an updated model. cheers!

For all: to get the most out of your ATV, do this: install VUZE and PLEX. Then install PlexConnect for ATV. This will connect you to all the content on the bit torrent networks and allow you to use the ATV to view content downloaded via VUZE, via the Trailers hack. Of course, if you want to subscribe and pay for content, you can always do that too.

Well, I think it all depends on what you mean by "TV." If it's shows, series, and sitcoms you are more interested in than live news updates, I recommend just bypassing the entire "streaming" strategy (overcoming us blocks with ToR and others) and just download the content using Vuze. For example, you can just download all the seasons of Game of Thrones and watch at once, instead of trying to find a streaming site. The new episodes for popular shows is usually posted within days, if not hours, of airing. The content is commercial free and can be put on your home media server for sharing throughout the house. Well, that's what one American expat does here in Asia, hope it helps.

What I find offensive is that these dildos and stuff are on sale on the street - apparently in Klong Thom but also lower Sukumvit. I don't take my 11 year old daughter or visiting friends out for Lebanese food in soi 3/1 anymore because of this crap being sold everywhere. Or, if I do go, I approach and leave from Soi 3.

Why can't they just move this crap into shops? Answer: the usual reasons.

i just hate it when my 9-year old niece asks me "what's that for?"

you read the strangest things on this website. i came here thinking the headline was leading me to more naked tourists running amok, and perhaps a pedaphile-free zone might be getting set up. But no, they want to close what sounds like a lovely school?!? Humans do the stupidest things on earth.

Human Rights Watch Asia (should be) under fire for 'racist' report title:

The Dark Side of Green Growth

Where is the outrage?

Amazing stuff that Algae.

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I agree. I've only taken as a supplement when I lived in America... almost everyday for decades. The stuff came in capsules from various lakes or areas in the upper north west. Good stuff. But this growing on your rooftops in barrels is new to me. I wish there were more info or pics on that! Also, as a bio fuel, my pals who are into that say it works. Cheers!

I want Google to help me navigate my life. Those who accept the future and use it to their benefit will benefit enormously compared with those who try to opt out.

I tend to agree with you. But my beef with google is that they are "search shaping" and not returning the complete picture, but just the picture they want you to see (or perhaps the picture they think you want to see). Outside of that, the email service is great, and using Apple mail as a client means I hardly see any spam at all. On the reporting, it has been said that over 400 million users of Gmail are affected by this US-based law. That does not seem right, as individual countries could/should pass protective laws to restrain Google. Perhaps they already have... I can't see this flying in France, for example.

Bangkok's 'nightlife' is capable of 'declining'

Perhaps nightlife as we know it is ending, or thinning out significantly. I've been in sasia for over a decade, so I might be out of touch, but here the market for club venues seems small compared to say Berlin or say NYC, where I used to live.The business plans must be tough.

Wheres the OP gone?

He must be out shopping to spend that kinda money each month. I'm with all that live simply, and would find it hard to spend that kinda money, even if I still was living in America. But at his age, eons ago, I had a wife and child and made $28K per year in 1980 dollars. We did alright.

It's truly a sad situation that is obviously getting worse every year. But I feel safer visiting Tland than I do visiting the USA. I feel like loading up with ammo whenever I visit my old homeland.

Whatever happens, please don't move the three places I go when in town: The Federal, Pan Tip Plaza, and MBK.

I have a 2 stroke Honda Phantom 150 cc , 20 years old as well as a Honda Phantom 200 cc 4 stroke in my view the 2 stroke knocks spots off the 4 stroke

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That looks a bit like an Enfield… do they sell those in Tland yet? If so, for how much?

>> But why pick on Thailand for this? Corruption of this type is endemic in many SE Asian countries and other regions too.

Love the SA version of corruption! At least here, you know where the money goes (feeds the cops kids, pays their rent, buys extra gifts during the holidays, etc.), but in the western version of corruption (in the form of crazy taxes, fees, and fines) that money is pooled into black holes.

Do Thais really speak like this "non-final expulsion order", "Superiors Of Bribes Taking Bangkok Traffic Police Officer Transferred"

or is it just lost in translation?

You can go to ZEN and get your poodle a makeover?

thx all, just to clarify: my pals all own tour companies here, and will be helping me with the paper work. But no one here knows about Myanmar (or even how to spell it correctly). ha!

I haven't researched it but there are numerous pitfalls, and almost certainly prohibitive ones, all along the way, even going as a simple tourist. You would need, inter alia and without a vehicle:

1. Plenty of money and advance permission to enter Bhutan from Nepal. Not cheap and as far as I'm aware not a route allowed to tourists.

Nepal and Bhutan has no common border so to enter Bhutan from Nepal is impossible....

Well, if you look at it historically and current culturally, east bengal (Darjeeling / Gantok) was part of Nepal once, and most still speak Nepali. I ride there often just using my 10 year india visa... no problem. But Bhutan will be the nut to crack!

Well - lets not make a big story about this. Anyhow most of the territory between Nepal and Bhutan is called Sikkim (which Gangtok is the provincial Capital of - if I remember right...) And Sikkim is a former Kingdom that until 1975 was an indipendant state. And youre most probably right that Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and East Bengal has a lot of historical and cultural stuff in common.

I dont think Bhutan would be that hard to enter. I rode through parts of Sikkim and through Bhutan last year (entered from Phuntsoling and exited from Samdrup Jongkhar). It was a group tour with everything arranged in advance, but still.... as long as you contact a guide/guide Company in advance and let them arrange it for you - its possible. But it will of course cost some buck.....

True enough. Bhutan is not a problem, as one of the dudes I am gunna drag with me routinely takes people in Bhutan on bike anyway. I meant to say Miramar is the nut to crack, sorry about that... too much chillum yesterday I suppose. My bones are still aching from ride to Muktinath and back. Anyway, any info on adventures into Miramar will be followed closely... cheers!

jigs - permanently based in Kathmandu

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