Dear all,

Im planning to buy a laptop with a budget not more then Rm2K. K40AB seems interesting. A dedicated gcard is a plus point ere.

After reading a few pages, i understand a few things

1) It ran hotter after a while unlike the ones dat comes with C2Duo proc. Battery usage less then 2 hours. lots of potential in OC.

Question: this AMD Proc is equivalent to what huh? (Pentium) is it a normal thing it ran hotter then intel proc? how do u guys feel with the ventilation and heat dissipation for this laptop? With dedicated gcard which i assume definitely run alot hotter....

My concern ere is the lifespan of this laptop... yes its maybe cheap but at least can last for 2-3 years without problem is good enough. My last Acer survived for 6 years +. Comes with dedicated graphic too. ATI 9700 mobility i think. Now the fan for Gcard already cacat, display always hang and bla bla bla.... so dat survived for quite sumtimes but am abit skeptical with AMD.

Used to own AMD machines. Yes they have this heat issues since forever afaik.

Sorry guys. Im old and quite lost with current technology. Typing now with Netbook. Super suffering... need to buy a laptop quick.

Everyones opinion is highly appreciated

2)

new owner reporting in... got it for rm1875... with HD4750, am not complaining...

seller installed vista...dont really like it...

so it is ok to have the battery connected while charging?

wont reduce the lifespan of the battery?

im downloading ALL the driver and bla bla bla for WINXP os from Asus website.

I am surprised that theres no driver for XP that comes with the CD! only for Vista it seyz... Im like wtf!?

can someone kind enough to upload all the XP or Win 7 driver and such @ rapidshare or 4shared?

guys, any tips on how to enable powerxpress on WINXP? mine doesnt work!

Many many thanks...last night endup spending more then 3 hours configuring /experimenting with my lappy...


I dont like vista.....my god, does this mean i need to redownload all the drivers from asus AGAIN!!!??

am so gonna upload all the drivers on rapidshare someday.... tis is inconvenience!

kucingfight, I've tried the Win7 (32bit) ultimate...installation was surprising fast...which is great...

guys, i got a question, i used to have an extra 200GB partition on WinXP but after formatted and installed Win7 its all gone! is it normal on Win7? where can i retrieve it?

edit://Solved by self exploration...yippie~

This post has been edited by junkieG: Dec 1 2009, 06:07 PM

end user problem or soft/hardware problem? dont make urself like a fool tomorrow..

i dont think rm2k is cheap for a laptop. I think this laptop comes with great price:performance ratio.

next time do you research first before deciding to buy a lappy. You may google or yahoo first bout this laptop or ask around in lowyat.net.

for your earlier post, i'd say,

1) BSOD happens when the software and hardware is conflict. patching it with updates usually solve the problem. I dont use any antivirus but i have 3rd party FW installed.

2) you better off with vista or win7.... theres alot of user here that are happy with k40ab...im one of them

3) I trust my understanding/judgement over products that im about to purchase

4) U give up easily

peace with 1 love

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Added on December 4, 2009, 7:03 pmso any words about the vga driver for win7?

This post has been edited by junkieG: Dec 4 2009, 07:03 PM

anyone with 4gb ram wanna trade with my 2gb ram pls msg me...i'll topup sum money of course

weh enough la pc fair... mabuk edi...

guys, may i know if this lappy capable of playing left4dead2? howz the gaming experiences like? which setting works best?

i bought from summit usj this game, cannot play coz no password ... wasted 10 bux lol!

who is using win7 on this lappy btw? any issues with any software?

Tried installing Indesign CS3...so far so good.

vmware seems no go for me...corrupted downloaded version i think...

i googled and i found this little info

Asustek Malaysia Office
+603-2148-0827 (10:00-19:00 Mon.~Fri.)

Kuala Lumpur
G-2,Ground Floor,IT@SPS,Wisma SPS,Jalan Imbi 55100, Kuala Lumpur Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia


just give em a quick call rather then asking it here

your welcome

guys, a question, at the moment, theres no support for Virtual machines for win7 yeah?

yup.... downloading VirtualBox 3.1.0 for Windows....will update u guys if its running fine

googled and the result i found is NO!

whut do u guys think if we put anti glare film or matte file on our k40ab?

virtualbox for win7 didnt go well....sigh...

any recommendation guys?

am in lurve with win7, i dun think i will revert back to XP...

besides, XP is like, soooooo yesterday!

kekekekeke

some update,i can run virtualbox version 3.0.6 stable on win 7 ultimate.

ubuntu running fine.

tq

uninstall all ur webcam driver and reinstall the downloaded driver from asus

experiencing the same problem as u bro. I wanna try reverting my bios now. will let u know if its work..

argh! crap...how do i revert back to the old bios? cant be doing that on windows..please assist

This post has been edited by junkieG: Dec 26 2009, 09:46 PM