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PC Show II

we went back to suntec again today for PC show and yup i got myself a laptop after procrastinating for so long. Acer Aspire 5585WXMi (D). The specs:

Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T7200 (2GHz, 667MHz FSB, 4MB L2 cache), supporting Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel® EM64T)
Display and graphics: 14.1" WXGA Acer CrystalBrite™ TFT LCD, 1280 x 800, 16.7M colours ; nVidia® GeForce® GO 7300 with up to 256MB TurboCache

It weighs around 2.4kg and comes with a webcam, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM (which i upgraded to 2GB). Total cost: S$2057. There was a further deduction of $100 today and comes with free 3yr extended warranty, 4 GB thumb drive, mouse, speakers, headset and icepack. I think it is quite worth it after comparing all the choices and keeping close to my budget. heheh can't wait to play with my new toy... but now i need to charge the battery first for 8 hours. shall explore it tmr =)



Other than the good specs, what really makes me choose this compared to others are:
1) acceptable weight
2) affordable price
3) not-black covering
4) webcam (cos i find it cool to have a webcam haha)
5) 3 yr warranty
6) acer desktop din give me much problems; so hopefully the laptop does me well too
7) freebies!

I also got myself a linksys router so that next time both my sis and i can surf the net at the same time. Managed to set up the router just now so at least one job done before i sleep.

And today suntec was even more crowded and i foresee tomorrow will be worse. too bad i am not free tmr, else i believe i can get a better deal. We also drop by the book fair at level 4 and what a big contrast in terms of the crowd. anyway i am not really a book-fancier so i left the hall after 15 minutes. Surprisingly i managed to find a parking lot immediately when i entered the carpark at suntec! initially i oredi planned to park at esplanade cos i foresee there will be a damn long queue (which happened to me on vesak day), but i actually missed the entrance into the esplanade carpark along nicoll highway, so no choice have to continue driving down to suntec.

anyway the laptop is probably going to be used mainly for work for now, but i suppose i will find it handy when i return back to my official job. oh yah.. thanks to the promoters at the PC show who helped to give me some insight in one way or another - timothy from lenovo, eric from fujitsu, gw and iskandar from acer etc etc. quite professional in selling your products.