Hehe you’ve all guessed it wrong. I don’t need a printer, I’ve got one already! I don’t need a pda, my Nokia N82 is serving me amazingly well.
Actually, I got a massive notebook pc from Compaq HP :D
17″ of visual pleasure, baby. Since I’ve got an ultra portable notebook in the form of Asus EeePC, I figured that I’d need an upgrade from my Lenovo N100. All this “figuring out” happened within 1/2 hour. My original agenda was just to get an optical mouse and an 8gig SD card but I came across this beauty that is Compaq Presario A900 at a very affordable price (in the lower range of RM2000).
It’s so massive it’s even got its on numerical keyboard. I.VERY.LIKE. I wanted something I could use comfortably at home but yet still portable and this laptop is perfect. Since I picked up photography, I’ve been doing a lot of editing on Photoshop too, so the 17″ screen is perfect.
Look ma, I’m digging me own nose!
There was some drama installing the OS too. I wasn’t keen on using Vista, so I decided to get the laptop without the OS so I could install XP at home. Okay, not me lah…the g33k that is my bf lah. After 8 hours, he still couldn’t get it installed, the damn thing just kept restarting itself. As for me, I got more panic by the second. We decided to catch a breather and escaped to McDonald’s at 3am. While eating we discussed the alternative options. Keep trying with XP or give up and use Vista?
Eventually, I was like okay, maybe it’s not really THAT bad, so lets just use Vista. Munching half way through my fillet o fish, my bf dropped the bomb.
“Yeah, it’s gonna use up 2gig of your memory just doing nothing”.
“What? You mean the vista?”
“Yeah”, continue munching on his quarter pounder nonchalantly.
I burst out crying. “So I just upgraded the ram to 3gig so that Vista can take up 2gig of if!?”. Sniff.
“Yeah”.
I was whimpering at this point. And the bf, he just laughed like an evil clown.
He’s so mean right?
So we went home and he tried to install XP for the final time. For some reason he decided to take out the new ram and voila, it worked! So for 8 hours we were dragged to a dead end by some faulty ram -_-.
Damn happy now. Hehehe but still have to go back to exchange the ram. But at least my gigantor laptop did not turn into an oversize brick!
/UPDATE/
We just stuck the 2gig ram back into gigantor and it’s working like a dream :D 3gig of memory to play with…come to momma photoshop actions…….w00t
SIGH I have a Vista on a 1 gig RAM =((((((. And I can’t bear to downgrade to XP cause the graphics are so prettyyyyy
Please bring this laptop to starbucks! :D
apparently from hp website, the maximum supported memory is only 2Gb…
https://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/my/en/ho/WF06a/1090709-1116637-1123071-1123071-1123071-81136593.html
OMG syok lah you hehe. btw you won’t regret not getting Vista, it sucks. i’m no pro g33k like your bf, but simple tasks like surfing or opening up applications can drive your patience up the wall liao. -__-
@skyler,
same here leh… i can’t bear to downgrade coz i wanted to be ‘in trend’. lame joke. -.- my Vista just hanged on me for over an hour just now, can’t even start the Task Manager. am considering XP. :P
skyler: hehe i guess you should upgrade the ram then. it’ll make life so much easier!
ky: lol no way
howzan: funny i just put the 2gig memory back in, it’s detected 2.99gig ram and is working like a dream.
yahui: yeah, so what i heard is true. honestly, im kinda relieved that my bf managed to get the xp working on a sata hd.
Dangerous shopper.. say buy mouse, end up buy big laptop. You just might decide to buy a Beamer the next time you go to a mall (actually, a friend of mine did suddenly think of buying a Smart ForFour while shopping with her Mom and did it heh heh..)
3 GB just nice. Anything more than 3 GB is only supported if you’re using 64bit version of Windows OS.
Vista is useless shit.
Hey….I run vista x64 an it works great for me on my Desktop. DirectX 10 games are probably the only reason I even use Vista, but for its purposes, it works fine.
Oh, and the built in media centre the comes with Vista is actually quite nice.
suertes: hahaha i was considering getting an upgrade for sometime already but didn’t think would do it so early. hard to pass a good deal i guess.
simon: yeah i read about that too. thanks man
eyeris: short and sweet haha
david: heh, im not big on media centres, im happy with my vlc media player.
impressive!! 17″ screen… i couldn’t say more..
tc: lol thanks i love it