Ferrari 410 Superamerica是法拉利在50年代為了迎合當時的美國市場而推出的一系列產品﹐其特色就是帶有極濃厚的美國味道。如果不是車頭的法拉利躍馬標誌和旁邊的Pininfarina標籤﹐很可能就連很多標準的法拉利車迷們都未必一眼認得出這是另一台法拉利家族的傑作。
410 Superamerica車型不僅帶有250 GT Lusso的味道﹐而且車身來的更加龐大去適應美國的寬敞公路﹐而且美國50年代是沒有石油限制這回事﹐所以這一系列的America車款幾乎全是V12為主﹐實行大﹑寬﹐快速而且一定要馬力十足﹐完全符合50年代的那種大美利堅主義。其實法拉利在50年代末和60年代中期出的那些轎跑車幾乎全都是一個模子出來的﹐如Ferrari 250 GTE﹐ 250 Tour de France TdF﹐250也是我最喜歡的法拉利系列之一﹐那些典雅高貴的250外形真令人感受到那個時代法拉利設計師的偉大﹗
Hotwheels Elite 的做工越來越進步了﹐尤其是法拉利的Classic車﹐車型很流線型﹐蝕刻片用了很多﹐而且內飾保持了一貫的精緻﹐特別是那車尾窗和屁股﹐做出了50年代法拉利應有的優雅和高貴大方。
黃色的那台是1965Le Mans拉力賽的法拉利250﹐5年後雖然用的依然是當年的模具﹐但很多細節上都有了根本上的進步﹐終于可以跟我之前那台“木乃伊”紅色250LM配對內。
最後再次多謝車友割愛﹐用極合理的價格轉讓了給我。
1/18 Hotwheels Elite Ferrari 410 Superamerica – Silver & Black
1/18 Hotwheels Elite Ferrari 250 LM 1965 #26

After years of preparation, Hot Wheels Elite finally launched its offical web site for die-cast fans. (Especially excited for Ferrari die-cast fans)
http://www.hotwheels-elite.com
英國的超跑Mclaren F1曾經雄霸車壇整整十個年頭﹐其出類拔萃的成勣令眾多車迷們至今還如痴如醉。UT大約十年前曾經推出過一批完整系列的Mclaren F1﹐現在全成了國際拍賣網站上的珍品﹐隨隨便便都動則過千。
這次AA終于不負眾望﹐這款銀色的Mclaren F1完全可以稱得上是Signature系列的表表者﹐全車應用仿油壓的開關極多﹐Mclaren F1完全打開後﹐的確很像一隻張牙舞爪的昆虫。值得稱讚的是這次的Mclaren F1品質控制(QC)做的不錯﹐唯一不滿是車座位太過單調和塑料感比較強。還有就是價格也貴了點﹐但相信此車的性價比還是可以的﹐作為第一台AA正式的Mclaren F1產品﹐它確實沒有令一群Mclaren車迷失望﹐值得讚許。
還有就是今天看了白色的保時捷959實物後﹐就連最後的希望也一同破滅了﹐輪子的白顏色和車身白色不協調﹐最主要車型總覺得缺少了一些重要的東西﹐那就是保時捷959的感覺﹐整體太單薄不夠圓潤﹐車型做工真的不如當年EXOTO的準確。那紅色AA保時捷959更不用提了﹐顏色有些令人反感﹐這種種的一切令我決定放棄收藏全部AA的保時捷959。
1/18 Autoart McLaren F1 – Silver

Jim Carrey近年罕有的登峰造極之作﹐淚中帶笑﹐苦中帶甜﹐絕對值得一看﹗

今天在香港看到和摸到了實物﹐說實在的﹐完全不值得港幣900(這是打8折後)這個價格﹐外形還不如我那些幾年前的EXOTO 959準確﹐車頭燈做的肯定不夠EXOTO好﹐水撥簡直開玩笑﹐車尾不夠EXOTO 的圓潤﹐紅色PORSCHE燈飾模糊一片﹐內飾雖然精細但顏色太漆黑﹐看不出什麼細節﹐車門裡面感覺太塑料﹐引擎室只有那麼一點進步。整體來說最多值港幣600﹐所以我放棄了購買這台銀色和之後的紅色﹐白色還有一丁點興趣。
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自己比較了一下幾年前EXOTO做的和這星期AUTOART推出的959。最主要覺得AUTOART的959外形不太准,EXOTO的圓潤很多,外形比較接近真車。959尾巴的外形,大家可以自己比較一下:
真車

Exoto

Autoart

希望AA最后不要爆出事實真相如“其實我們用的就是EXOTO多年前的模具,所以應該沒兩樣”(翻白眼)
Coming soon, a must have item for all Jag’s die-hard fans. I am going to get the Silver/Red Roadster and the Green/Red Coupe.
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今天有幸得到了另一款的24 Hours of Le Mans Aston Martin DBR9 #58﹐上AA網站查了一下﹐原來橙紅色嘴唇的其實出過兩款﹐而又以這款的橙紅色顯得特別突出。(前幾天才在MC論壇裡看到有模友把這台拍的特別有氣勢)
1/18 ASTON MARTIN DBR9 SEBRING 2005 #58 KOX / LAMY / SARRAZIN

離遠觀看下﹐原來這台DBR9看來還真像中國年畫裡橙紅色的鯉魚嘴﹐尤其那橙紅色的嘴唇和大大的眼睛﹐之前收的那台素綠色版的DBR9反而覺得沒這麼顯眼。
最後樓下的銀色F430今天又出現了﹐這次拍到了大部份車身和那透明的紅色引擎蓋(好看﹗)。值得稱讚的是﹐車主今天的質數改良了不少﹐馬的脾氣也大大收斂了不少﹐再沒有像之前的那樣耀武揚威了﹐可能他幾個月前第一次做了法拉利車主後﹐那份興奮的感覺已經急速下降﹐憑他換車的經驗來估計﹐看來他下一台換的應該會是林寶大牛才對口味。

The new Virtual Data Center project has been keeping me really busy, the followings are some of my findings.
- Learn that R810/M910 with 4 sockets will only use 1 memory controller instead of two, memory bandwidth will be cut by half, that sucks! Strange enough, when R810 populates with 2 sockets only, it will use both memory controllers and gain access to all 32 DIMMS. So R810/R910 is still best for 2 sockets server, that why we switch to R710 instead after read the benchmarking, it’s a waste of money to go for R810.
- DDR3L low voltage (1.35V), we populate with 2 DPC (8GB x 12 DIMMS), guess what? Voltage will shoot to normal 1.5V! and no one at Dell pre-sales or pro-support can answer us this, I found out this fact from HP’s resources, ridiculous! Anyway, it’s still running at 1333Mhz, that’s a bless.
- Equallogic PS6000XV 15K should be a monster, we will only be worried about adding front-end (like R710/R720/R730) and adding back-end PS6000XV/PS7000XV etc. in the future, that’s main selling point for this solution, scalable beyond imagination, this really is the whole motivation we selected EQL boxes.
- With the release of vSphere 4.1, VAAI, iSCSI Off-load fully support on Broadcom 5709 but no Jumbo Frame, what the heck! EQL vStorage off-load improvement, Multipath plugin (EQL finally solved the big problem)
- One box of PS6000XV is good enough for 4Gbps, absolutely no need to go for 10Gbps for the time being except you are aiming for that 200M/s increase (yes, it can only reach 650M/s at max, there is no way reaching 1000M/s in reality. We were also told by paying about 1/4 of the box, you can always upgrade to 10Gbps version of PS6010XV in the future, but for our environment, IOPS is way demanding than thoughput, so 4Gbps is more than enough, just get a PowerConnect 5448 with 48 ports, we should have lots of space to grow from here.
- There is a special iSCSI Key need to be purchased in order to have TOE+iSCSI Off-load on R710, this is the same on HP Proliant servers.
- Found HP Proliant’s server resources are much more professional than Dells’, but Dell’s stuff are a lot cheaper (1/3 at least), so we just have to live with that.
- In ESX 4 or above, Thick provisioning is always recommended for performance concerned VM applications, it’s a lot faster.
- Talked to two of the local IDC who’s going to start a cloud business, but their core technical team doesn’t seem to know what they are really doing, seemed they have a long way to go comparing with US counterparts.
- Again, virtualization is the future and you need a good SAN to support it!
- Talk to your inside sales manager, show your sincerity, you will be rewarded and get unbelievable discount at quarter end!
- Dell’s EQL expert is really helpful and resourceful, thank you so much! You are really the super-hero, kick-ass type!