My new laptop :\

*sigh* the ones I want (asus, etc) from CFking is either sold out, out of stock and next week arrival, so I went to Netcom instead to buy my laptop. Would love to purchase from Concept but I hate going into their area, too crowded and hard to navigate (especially rush hour), and beseller? blacklist for life (UNLESS to buy parts, then its ok)

After much thought, and a nice help from one of the shop assistant, I bought this baby

To be quite honest, Acer wasn't my first choice. But then again, with budget constraints (<$2500) and wanting a good midline laptop (because I am a heavy user, thus desktop replacement is an obvious choice of mine), combined that with my time-constraint (either 16th, 18th or 20th I'm flying off to UK), I eventually chose this. When tested, for me it an ok-transition, the graphics are better than my current PC (T_T) when I played my favourite on-line game, Guildwars, and everything looks pretty in vista...

yeah... that bugs me, heavy in graphics in vista... I bet even with my 2 gigs ram, it may still slow down or even crashed due to "full" memory (like my lil sister's laptop). Thank god, so far I have yet encountered that problem and I do hope it shall never happens.

Oh yeah, its an ACER TravelMate 6592G-602G25Mn, Core 2 Duo T7500 (2x 2.2 GHz), 2x 1024MB; 250GB, DVD±RW DL/RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD2400 XT, 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680x1050), matte, VGA, DVI, TV-Out, Gigabit-LAN, WLAN (until N), Bluetooth 2.0, FireWire 400, ExpressCard, WebCam and Windows Vista Business, at a cash price of $2361, without gifts and from an original price of $2888. Unfortunately for me, with big size, comes heavy weight... of 3kg :\ I don't mind though for now, because I am kind of in a desperate situation. In the future, will buy a new one (more powerful by that time) and hopefully there will be some models available for me (like ASUS, with its better quality and lighter weight).

Battery? It fares well so far, and I can choose what kind of battery mode I want (power saver-more batt life, balance, or preeeety graphics aka very short life)

With extra cash, I also bought myself this lovely looking mouse, the G-Cube, Enchanted Collection, which only cost me $16. Mind you, it is not for gaming (800dpi) but only for everyday uses, and because it is good for the eyes

And it comes with its own bag! wow!


Sadly, Netcom didn't have the laptop cooling pad, as the size available is too small for my new laptop... so gotta shop again. Why? Well, during gaming, as usual the heat builds up and thus gets hot. At least this one has better heating dispensing capabilities, compared with my dad's Dell Laptop, where the heat can be felt and cause the laptop to force shutdown due to overheating.

ok, thats all from me. Wish me luck that my new laptop does not caused me too much problem (the only problem right now its 3 kg weight)

ps: oh yeah, did I mentioned this? Its the only one left here in Kiulap XD, the other one can be bought at Kb XD