Benq Joybook R45

The Laptop for Fine Living From the moment you retrieve the Joybook R45 from your bag to the moment you press the power button to shut down after a session of work or entertainment, you'll know this is a laptop that truly stands out from the rest. The luxurious styling—which evokes a handsome leather-bound folio more than utilitarian notebook—enables the R45 to fit in with any ensemble of exquisitely designed personal accessories.

Specification
* CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.8GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 667MHz FSB)
* Chipset: Mobile Intel® PM965 Express Chipset
* Graphics: nVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS - 128MB
* Memory : DDRII 1GB (max to 4.0 GB)
* Hard Drive: 120GB SATA
* Optical Drive: 8x DVD Super-Multi Double-Layer Drive
* Screen Size : 14.1" UltraVivid widescreen display
* Webcam: Built-in 2.0-megapixel webcam
* Battery: 6-cell Lithium-ion Battery, 53Whr (4800mAh)
* Dimensions: 340 x 246 x 27.5 (front) 33.4 (rear) mm
* Weight : 2.1 kg (without battery)

Design
The Joybook R45 is an odd mix between premium and entry level. It's certainly built solidly enough, and when closed it paints quite the attractive picture. Even the brown vinyl surrounded by a silver trim, designed in faux-leather style gives it a nice, refined touch, if a little fake.

The standard battery extends beyond the back of the laptop, but only slightly, and given the laptop's 14.1-inch size this shouldn't cause any issues with fitting it in satchels or laptop bags.

The interior is a mix of black, silver, grey and a single red trim, along with glowing red buttons for power and wireless — giving the impression that we were typing on a cylon, which is all types of cool. Nonetheless, the cheap silver plastic may offend some in its old-school nature, and the single bar used as a both left and right mouse buttons requires far too much pressure to activate.

Features
Being a mainstream laptop, the R45 comes with a fairly standard set of ports — four USB, HDMI, D-Sub, FireWire, headphone/microphone, Express card, SD/MS card reader, and gigabit Ethernet and modem jacks.

A DVD+-RW sits on the right-hand side, a 2-megapixel camera on the top, while internally the machine is driven by an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1GHz), 1GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8400M G graphics chip, and a 160GB hard drive split equally into two partitions. Those who want to do more than just office work or internet browsing may wish to upgrade the 1GB RAM to 2GB, especially since the laptop runs the resource hungry Windows Vista Home Premium.

Performance
3D performance was expectedly low considering the GeForce 8400M, scoring 1,125 in 3DMark06 — this is not a gaming laptop. In PCMark05 the R45 scored 4,397, making this more than adequate for day-to-day tasks and office usage.

Turning off all the power-saving features, setting the screen brightness and volume to maximum, we played back a DVD to stress the system. Under these conditions, the battery lasted one hour, 24 minutes and 41 seconds. Obviously under normal office conditions with
power-saving features turned on it will last significantly longer.

Here My Review:
The Good
* Affordable for limit budget gamers
* elegant design
* Perform as i expected(yes loor, esp when you compare with the price)

The Bad:
* Singular mouse button hard to click
* Got warm a bit after gaming for 2-3 hours(gothic 3, required high performance of Graphics)

The Bottomline:
When i got this laptop on mid june 2008, i add another 1 Gigs of RAM, as for now it performs quite well even with vista(yes vista sucks). the graphic card is just amazing as we compare with the prices(my mates just bought HP Pavillion Tx2032AU series) for almost same price, but their laptop can't run high graphics game..as for me this laptop is recommended for middle class gamer with low budget(arround 900 US$).

Sosai Masutatsu Oyama

Masutatsu Oyama was the founder/creator of Kyokushinkasi karate in japan, was born as Yong I-Choi on the 27th of July, 1923, in a village not far from Gunsan in Southern Korea. At a relatively young age he was sent to Manchuria, in Southern China, to live on his sister's farm. At the age of nine, he started studying the Southern Chinese form of Kempo called Eighteen hands from a Mr. Yi who was at the time working on the farm. When Oyama returned to Korea at the the age of 12, he continued his training in Korean Kempo.

In 1938, at the age of 15, he travelled to Japan to train as an aviator, to be like his hero of the time, Korea's first fighter pilot. Survival on his own at that age proved to be more difficult than he thought, especially as a Korean in Japan, and the aviator training fell by the wayside.

He did however continue martial arts training, by participating in judo and boxing, and one day he noticed some students training in Okinawan Karate. This interested him very much and he went to train at the dojo of Gichin Funakoshi at Takushoku University, where he learned what is today known as CyberDojo home pages.

His training progress was such that by the age of seventeen he was already a 2nd dan, and by the time he entered the Japanese Imperial Army at 20, he was a fourth dan. At this point he also took a serious interest in judo, and his progress there was no less amazing. By the time he had quit training in Judo.

When he was 23 years old, Mas Oyama met Eiji Yoshikawa, the author of the novel Musashi, which was based on the life and exploits of Japan's most famous Samurai. Both the novel and the author helped to teach Mas Oyama about the Samurai Bushido code and what it meant. That same year, Oyama went to Mt. Minobu in the Chiba Prefecture, where Musashi had developed his Nito-Ryu style of swordfighting. Oyama thought that this would be an appropriate place to commence the rigours of training he had planned for himself. Among the things he took with him was a copy of Yoshikawa's book. A student named Yashiro also came with him.

The relative solitude was strongly felt, and after 6 months, Yashiro secretly fled during the night. It became even harder for Oyama, who wanted more than ever to return to civilisation. So Nei Chu wrote to him that he should shave off an eyebrow in order to get rid of the urge. Surely he wouldn't want anyone to see him that way! This and other more moving words convinced Oyama to continue, and he resolved to become the most powerful karate-ka in Japan.

Bulls, Challengers, and the Godhand
In 1950, Sosai (the founder) Mas Oyama started testing (and demonstrating) his power by fighting bulls. In all, he fought 52 bulls, three of which were killed instantly, and 49 had their horns taken off with knife hand blows. That it is not to say that it was all that easy for him. Oyama was fond of remembering that his first attempt just resulted in an angry bull. In 1957, at the age of 34, he was nearly killed in Mexico when a bull got some of his own back and gored him. Oyama somehow managed to pull the bull off and break off his horn. He was bedridden for 6 months while he recoverd from the usually fatal wound. Today of course, the animal rights groups would have something to say about these demonstrations, despite the fact that the animals were already all destined for slaughter.

In 1952, he travelled US for a year, demonstrating his karate live and on national television, during this year he took on all challengers and fight with 270 different people, the vast majority of those were defeated with one punch! a fight never lasted more than 3 minutes, and most rarely lasted more than a few seconds.If he hit you, you broke. If you blocked a rib punch, your arms was broken or dislocated. If you didnt block, your rib was broken. so that he become known as the Godhand.

The beginning of Kyokushin
The current World Headquarters were officially opened in June 1964, where the name Kyokushin, meaning "Ultimate truth" was adopted. In the same year the International Karate Organization (IKO) was established. From then, Kyokushin continued to spread to more than 120 countries, and registered members exceed 10 million making it one of the largest martial arts organisations in the world. Among the the better known Kyokushin yudansha (black belts) are Sean Connery (Honorary shodan), Dolph Lundgren (sandan, former Australian heavyweight champion), and President Nelson Mandela of South Africa (Honorary hachidan), and most recently (June 1988), the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard (Honorary godan) who was awarded the grade at the official opening of the Sydney Kyokushin dojo.

The End?
Sadly, Sosai Mas Oyama died, of Akiyoshi Matsui in charge of the organisation. This has had many political and economic ramifications throughout the Kyokushin world, which are still being resolved. In the end, the result may well be a splintering of Kyokushin, much like Shotokan now appears to have done, with each group claiming to be the one-and-only true heir of Mas Oyama's Kyokushin, either spiritually or even financially. It has even been suggested, not entirely in jest, by one Kyokushin writer in Australia (Harry Rogers) that maybe Oyama created the turmoil on purpose, because he didn't want Kyokushin to survive without him! It is however reasonably certain that all Kyokushin groups, regardless of their ultimate allegiance, will still maintain the standards set by Mas Oyama.

RIGHT BRAIN .VS. LEFT BRAIN

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
* uses logic, detail oriented, facts rule
* words and language
* present and past
* math and science
* can comprehend
* acknowledges
* order/pattern perception
* knows object name
* reality based
* forms strategies
* practical
* safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
* uses feeling
* "big picture" oriented
* imagination rules
* symbols and images
* present and future
* philosophy & religion
* can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
* believes
* appreciates
* spatial perception
* knows object function
* fantasy based
* presents possibilities
* impetuous
* risk taking

KYOKUSHINKAI KARATE

Kyokushin kaikan (極真会館, Kyokushin kaikan) is a style of stand up, fullbody contact karate founded in 1957 by Sosai Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達, ) in Japan. Kyokushinkai is in Japanese means "the society of the ultimate truth". Kyokushin is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline and hard training. Its full contact style has had international appeal

Techiques/Kihon
The Kyokushin system is based on traditional karate like Shotokan and Goju-Ryu karate, but incorporates many elements of combat sports like Boxing and Kickboxing in kumite. Many techniques are not found in other styles of karate. Kyokushin does not allow its students to appear in paid fights and remain with the style. In the past this has caused many high-ranking competitors to leave the organization, even if they continue to practice the art and skills of Kyokushin.

In this form of karate the instructor and his/her students all must take part in hard sparring to prepare them for full contact fighting. Unlike some forms of karate, Kyokushin places high emphasis on full contact fighting which is done without any gloves or protective equipment. This apparent brutality is tempered somewhat by the fact that you are not allowed to use a non-kick or non-knee strike to hit your opponent in the face, thus greatly reducing the possibility of serious injury. Knees or kicks to the head and face, on the other hand, are allowed.

In the earliest Kyokushin tournaments and training sessions bare knuckle strikes to the face were allowed but resulted in many injuries, and, thus, students who were forced to withdraw from training. Mas Oyama believed that wearing protective gloves would detract from the realism that the style emphasizes. Therefore, it was decided that hand and elbow strikes to the head and neck would no longer be allowed in training and competition. Furthermore, many governments don't allow bare knuckle strikes to the head in sanctioned martial arts competitions. The vast majority of Kyokushin organizations and "offshoot" styles today still follow this philosophy.

Technically, Kyokushin is a circular style. This is in opposition to Shotokan karate, which is considered a linear style, and closer to Goju-ryu, another mostly circular style. Shotokan and Goju-ryu were the two styles of karate that Oyama learned before creating his own style. However, Oyama studied Shotokan for only a couple of years before he switched to Goju-ryu where he got his advanced training. This is reflected in Kyokushin where the early training closely resembles Shotokan but gradually becomes closer to the circular techniques and strategies of Goju-ryu the higher you advance in the system.

in 1964, Muay Thai fighter from Thailand send a challenge letter to Japan Karate, while most of them didn't reply the challenge, Kyokushin send 3 of his fighter and win 2 of three matches since then Kyokushin is very famous in Japan.

Nowdays, Kyokushin continued to spread to more than 120 countries, and registered members exceed 10 million making it one of the largest martial arts organisations in the world. Among the the better known Kyokushin yudansha (black belts) are Sean Connery (Honorary shodan), Dolph Lundgren (sandan, former Australian heavyweight champion), and President Nelson Mandela of South Africa (Honorary hachidan), and most recently (June 1988), the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard (Honorary godan) who was awarded the grade at the official opening of the Sydney Kyokushin dojo.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyokushinkai