Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email since my pc is giving problems in the last few weeks, i was scouting around to get a laptop as a secondary computer. the laptop was also to be a gift for Then. my eyes were on products from Dell. Took the opportunity to visit PC fair on 7th Dec at KLCC. We went around most of the laptop dealers booths. my budget was below RM3500 and style was the last thing on my mind 🙂
We surveyed the following brands: Acer, HP, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Twinhead, Fujitsu, Lenovo, and NEC (did i miss any brands?) among others.
The lady at NEC tried to pull a fast one by showing their tablet PC which does not run on batteries (cannot compare with laptop, right?) when we asked for laptops.
Fujitsu pushed their “made in japan” tagline. their cheapest was about RM4K.
Sony was good at design and bundled softwares, but was pricey.
Oh, right i forgot to mention the specs i wanted:
– core 2 duo 2.0GHz minimum
– 2GB RAM
– 14″ screen
– free delivery/immediately delivered.
– 200GB hard disk
– vista home premium
now, that looked a bit tight for RM3400, but there were three which we felt quite reasonable – Dell, Acer, and HP.
Acer tried to attract by offering free movie pass for a year (buy 1 ticket free another ticket), which Then nearly fell for 🙂 The guy even offered a printer together.
Only problem with HP and Acer was the payment which had a charge of 2.5% for credit cards (i mean who in their right mind will be carrying Rm3000++ in a jam packed hall?). Secondly, it was impossible to upgrade the hard disk from the initial 160GB to 200GB.
That left us with DELL, which for the promotion, offered the Inspiron 1420 for RM24xx. I chose to customize and upgraded to the specs I. The final cost was about RM32xx, which is RM200 below my budget.
Post-purchase there were some problems. i asked to partition the hard disk. actually the sales agent forgot to write the partition request and cost in the initial bill. i called the following monday, and mentioned that the agent did not write on the order. the customer care said they will do so. but the laptop was delivered with any hard disk partition. Now i’m stuck with a 250GB partition 🙂
The laptop seems ok, but the DVD drive is a bit plasticky and looks like may not last long. I also feel that 2GB RAM for Vista Home Premium is the minimum required. The laptop is a tad bit slow at times.
I’m yet to install protection tools in it, hopefully can do it tonight. Plan to use AVAST Antivirus and also ZoneAlarm firewall.
boss…use avira antivirus clasic edition(anti virus)
+lavasoft adware(spyware)…perfect combination! u wont regret..