Better avoid HD5470, weak for gaming, especially in this price range where you can get better one...

Thinking of selling my A42Je after it back from RMA to buy smaller & longer battery life laptop/subnotebook. These are my criteria:

1. Brand: Any brand
2. Budget; under RM2k, cheaper the better
3. Specs: Non glossy body and if possible the screen as well so it won't be easily scratched. Cool surface. It doesn't need to be powerful, as long as it cool and long battery life. Decent onboard speaker would be great (such as Acer Dolby speaker)
4. Size: under 14" would be great.

Thinking of buying Thinkpad Edge 11 but would like any other suggestion as well.

After using backup laptop it looks like even C2D 1.5GHz with Intel X3100 could handle old games that I enjoyed the most (UT2004, RA2, CnC Renegade, GTA SA and VC) so I thinking ditching dedicated card for longer battery life and lower heat

What is the exact for the release of the XPS15 with i7 SB processor?

Think the Edge 11 the best one with anti-glare screen since the other option is Vostro V130 but much smaller battery...

don't know, but that's before the SandyBridge flaw come out..

budget : under 3.5k
brand : any
for : gaming, hd movie, web surfing, multitask

extras : good heat management

Acer 5750G, Lenovo Y560p, HP DV6...

Is there any other laptop within the price category? I don't mind glossy screen, the most important thing is I don't want glossy body. Thinking of getting the Acer Aspire 522 or HP dm1z but where to buy them and how much?

1. Brand: Any brand
2. Budget; under RM2k, cheaper the better
3. Specs: Not bother about power, build quality comes first. Intel HD also can.
4. Size: 14" la...

looking at the Lenovo Z460... which other laptops ah?

Acer 1830TZ? But edge 11 still have better CPU..
AO522 is RM1299..
Don't think the new DM1z is available...
on the more expensive side, RM2200, there's Acer Travelmate 8172..

Try look for refurb Latitude E6400/E6410 on garage sales ?

Thanks for recommendation, 1830 is hard to get, if RM2.2k I would better buy 3820TG with HD5650 Just looking for something cheap with usable battery life

If A42Je could switch to its Intel HD I would expect better battery life and lower heat

Just increase ur budget by rm100 can get 3820TG already ar haha.. It's with HD6550 btw... Can get for below 2.1k I think..

Yea I see one for 2.1k on Garage Sales. Tempted, but we'll see how much would this A42Je fetch for 2nd hand. Maybe not much with newer ASUS laptop comes with slightly better HD6470

How much better is the speaker compared to A42JP speaker?

A42J speaker is awful, anything would be an upgrade from this speaker

Lets say they're on a different class LOL...

However A42JP has better GPU.. N43Jf has better build quality though..

r ther any 2nd gen i5s in the market? i prefer i5 to i7 though ..

the hp fixed their heat prob?

hey mates..
rite now i'm thinkin of purchasing laptop
my budget around 2.5k - 3.5k..

what i do with it?
*traveling..(dun wan too heavy dun wan to small, so 14" its ok i think)
*programming n compiling, (easy-fast-typing keyboard..dun wan too soft feels like not 'macho lah' =p)
*gaming : PES/FIFA, & **FM 2011(spend time with it almost around 4-5hrs)

**i think dat game use a lots of memory n processed many task especially to load very large database and face pictures for about 10,000++ files.

what i dun wan?
.ACER (so plz dun suggest it)
.heat prob

am i should go with i5 or i7core? or wait for SB?

if i can't wait for SB..
izit asus ok? A42JP? N43JF? U41JF?
or any others brand or model wud u recommended?..

thx

p/s:asus n53sn really tempted my heart

With ur usage, A42JP, N43JF, U41JF is a good choice...

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Added on February 6, 2011, 9:42 amSB i5 only coming out in March as told by Intel, this was mentioned quite a few times already

This post has been edited by eugenechiuu: Feb 6 2011, 09:42 AM

eugenechiuu,
thx 4 reply..
if u are in my situation..which one u choose with da 3 models u gave?
or u rather wait 4 SB model?
or others then asus model?

This post has been edited by freakjb: Feb 6 2011, 09:48 AM

Sandy bridge won't be out before march right? Any toshiba with budget 2.5k...i think i3 would be enough for some stockcount program and cctv monitoring