Gadgetry
Computers
Desktop
Acer Aspire M5300 aka “Angus” (bought Jan 3, 2010)
— AMD Phenom II X3
— 8GB DDR3 RAM
— 1 TB hard drive
— nVidia GeForce GTS240 (2GB)
— 19″ LCD display (5:4)
— Razer Lycosa keyboard
Scaleo Tix P4 aka “Sullivan” (bought July 30, 2005)
— Intel Pentium 4 (3.2 Ghz)
— 1024 Mb DDR RAM
— 200 Gb
— nVidia Geforce 6600, 256 Mb in PCI Express port
Netbook
Acer Aspire One aka “Alvin” (bought Dec 19, 2008)
— white, customised to metallic red
— Intel Atom N270
— 8 GB SSD + 8 GB SD card
— 512 MB DDR2 RAM
— running Meego
It came pre-installed with Linpus, then I installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix/Heron, also tested Linux Mint, and then vanilla Ubuntu (Jackalope and Koala).
Past Computers
Why list this? Because he has a name.
Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo 600, “Simon” (bought in 2001, I believe)
— AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4 Ghz)
— 80 Gb
— 512 Mb memory
— Radeon 9600 Pro, 128 Mb
— DVD + CD-RW
Currently living his last days with Mum.
Mobile phones
Currently fondling the N900, Oct 16 2010 –
The news that N900 would, eventually, have the possibility to dual-boot to Meego OS helped me make up my mind after a year of lusting after the N900.
I bought my very first mobile phone on my very first proper summer job paycheck. It was a Nokia, of course.
Nokia 3210, summer of 2000 — June 2 2001
3210 was an excellent phone. Very sturdy and weighed just enough. Some new devices feel like toy phones (for example the 5300 music phone) but 3210 felt like a super Gadget.
Nokia 3330, June 2 2001 — Jan 14 2006
I got Nokia 3330 as a graduation present. It was a good phone, with a good Snake II game. 
I had to buy a new battery for it right away because the original was probably faulty (emptied very quickly). There had been a battery problem with a batch of 3330s. I decided to buy a new phone (Nokia 6101) when I got tired of the monochrome screen and the battery had started to “leak” again. I had this for 4.5 years. Not bad.
Nokia 6101, Jan 14 2006 — Oct 7./16 2006
I did lots of “research” and couldn’t get Nokia 6101 out of my head. I compared it to lots of other Nokia models but it just looked so nice. I also had to try a clamshell phone even though some of my friends told me they didn’t like them. Well, they have man-hands — maybe small clamshells fit better for women. I bought this as a bit of a birthday present.
The main gripe about this phone is that it got too popular. And because it has a distinctive look it’s easier to spot all those people who have the same phone as I do. I never minded the external antenna even though some people couldn’t understand why it has to be there. I found it very handy because it made it easier to pick the phone up from the phone pocket in my bag. The clam function was nice and snappy and the buttons amazingly large. Another gripe was the pre-installed carrier software which showed up as a logo when the phone was turned on/off, and also when the cover was open, a carrier-specific background showed up on the mini screen. I wouldn’t have minded it if it wasn’t a wrong carrier.
Nokia N73, Oct 7 or Oct 162006 –
I started talking about buying Nokia N73 in August 2006. And boy did I talk about it… Sure, it would’ve been a big investment (at the time the phone was around 600 €) so I had to think “do I dare.” I thought about it thoroughly, wrote down all sorts of questions and visited the Nokia store to get answers to them. In October I ended up buying a SIM-locked phone in a package deal because I was planning on switching the carrier anyway.
Now, this is my kinda phone, or should I say ‘multimedia computer’. I fell in love with how N73 looks compared to all the other Nseries phones, and the lens cover is just magnificent! S60 is certainly the platform for me — it’s expandable, customisable, and I just love it how a phone is not just a phone (luckily it works as a phone anyway). After buying N73 I’ve started getting curious about all things happening in the mobile world (new models etc.). As I’ve said many many times, the active idle screen is heaven-sent.
Game consoles
Xbox 360 + Kinect
Oh no, I did it. I bought an Xbox. (Jan 22, 2011)
Happy 29th birthday to me.