Jaben is a specialize store that only sells all kind of headphone, you can search from the garage sales.

You're funny.

Oh No, I just paid the deposit for Asus N53SN, anyway, congratzz on your purchse, hope to see the picture and a short review tonight.

Yeah, out of stock in lowyat plaza's Evernew IT Sdn Bhd, but they do have stock in the Sunway Pyramid store, so paid RM50 deposit and collect the laptop on tomorrow.

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Added on April 15, 2011, 7:26 pmMarcus sells HP DV6 for only RM3300.

This post has been edited by reevephon: Apr 15 2011, 07:26 PM

How to verify whether it has USB 3.0 or not? So far I noticed other brand laptop's USB 3.0 port has blue in color for the internal connector, but I checked the HP DV6 in PCFair, those USB ports are in black color like those USB 2.0 port.

You're right, I just check from internet.

i7 Quad Code
4GB DDR3 1333MHz
ATI HD6770 1GB GDDR5
750GB HDD

PCFair's HP Booth selling it for RM3199 without the free Beat Audio Headset, if bundled with Beats Audio Headset then RM3699 with extra 4GB RAM for free.

Is the sound system under Beats Audio? Or just normal Altec Lansing speaker?

Not only it's in the newspaper but also in the official HP brochure, saw this promotion today in the HP booth in PCFair, they even got free 4GB Ram upgrade for the price of RM3699, which mean other than you get the Beats headset you also get the additional 4GB Ram.

Luckily you still get the 500GB external HDD. If I were you, I'll go blame them since the Beats Audio headphone is quite expensive.

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Added on April 16, 2011, 7:22 pmIt's lighter than N53SN, DV6 is weighted at 2.63kg, while N53SN is weighted at 2.70kg. If you have extra budget just get the DV6 since the GPU is stronger than the N53SN, and the price is only RM3199 without Beats Audio Headphone, then top up another RM130 for DDR3 Ram and another RM120 for extra 2 years warranty, total is RM3449 with 8GB Ram and 3 years warranty.

This post has been edited by reevephon: Apr 16 2011, 07:22 PM

No news about the Y470/Y570, only G470 available I think, it's i7 Quad Core and without a discreet GPU.

Thanks for correcting, quite confuse with those 470 model, V, G, Y.

This post has been edited by reevephon: Apr 16 2011, 07:39 PM

Heh. I'm the owner now, shifted from Asus N53SN to this model, I bought it at RM3199 without Beats Headphone, because I refused to get it and got RM500 discount, so top up another RM130 for 4GB Ram and Rm120 for 3 Years warranty, regarding the speaker, what I can tell you is, it's way better than the one in Asus as I had tried out both laptop's speaker. The sound is clearer, and bassy.

Yup, you're right with the RM500 I can get much more better headphone, the reason I don't take the headphone is I'm a guy who wears spec all the time, whenever I put on the headphone I feel like very uncomfortable, that's why I didn't take it.

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Added on April 17, 2011, 8:27 amNo, I mean I change my mind/decision from Asus to HP.

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Added on April 17, 2011, 2:10 pmThe processor temperature around 50++ is it consider normal? I mean under normal load, such as web browsing, and music listening.

This post has been edited by reevephon: Apr 17 2011, 02:10 PM

Heh, kind of lazy to do a review, just ask whatever you wanna ask, and I'll try my best to answer all your question.

The GPU is nice, so far I only tested the Black Ops, with all setting to highest and AA 16x.

How to do it?

Answer:
Question 1
Just check on the attachment below, note that I'm not using any cooler when testing and it's under normal temperature room and with a ceiling fan turn on only. When on gaming like Black Ops, I don't feel the palm rest is hot but only warm with all the highest setting turn on and AA for 16x and it's real smooth without lag.

Question 2 & 3
I found that the nVidia Optimus is way better at least it can automatically change the GPU according to different need, but for ATI it's not that bad also, what you need to do for changing the GPU is just right click on the desktop and select the Switchable GPU then just select the GPU you want to. There is an option where you can enable it so that when under battery mode it will automatically use the Intel GPU instead of the ATI ones. Btw, I haven't really play with this function in depth as I'm not really using it. What I want is just when AC plugged in then use ATI while battery plugged then use Intel, I don't need anything extra than these, so I found the ATI is more than enough for me. Btw, switching the GPU do not require any reboot nor black screen.

Question 4
This model only comes with 2 RAM slots, not like N series that comes with 4 slots, but it's more than enough for me to slot in two 4GB Ram with a total of 8gb Ram.

Question 5
This is the part that I like the most, HP doesn't come with those useless bloat ware, in fact it only has few programs installed maybe like 5-6 which I found it's really useful so no point to uninstall it since it's useful to me. And so far I didn't uninstall anything yet but only the Norton AV program, other remain there as it's really useful, such as the HP SenseCool which it can use to adjust the fan speed according to the user need, whether you need Coolest, Optimized, or Quiet Mode. This is really useful. Initally I was thinking to do a clean install on this laptop but then I found the Windows that comes with this laptop is clean enough so useless for me to do another clean format, by the way the boot time for this laptop is around 40secs++ without uninstall any bloat ware and remain the same after I installed those games and software. Of course done a defragment.

Question 6
It has quite a lot of vents under the laptop, I think around 4-5 vents for different compartment such as RAM, HDD, and etc.

Question 7
I thought one of the owner already uploaded so many picture for this laptop with different angle?

Conclusion
I do like this laptop so much, it's simply awesome. Initially I was planning to buy the N53SN but after struggling for a while then I decided to go for the HP one. Although it's a bit higher price than the Asus one but at least I get extra thing like GPU stronger, and etc. One thing I need to mention is the finger print reader, I found this is really useful, not only it can be used to login the windows but also for facebook, yahoomail, and etc. What you need to do is just setup the password for your facebook, yahoomail, and etc account, so the next time whenever you access to your website you just can simply swipe your finger print to login to the website which really useful for me. Regarding the battery life, it can last around 2 hours and 30 minutes with gaming on, while last around 5 hours with only wifi turn on and web surfing and brightness to the lowest. The laptop build quality is so solid especially the keyboard, I just like it so much and it's without any flex at all. Regarding the touchpad, it's good to use, but I found the multi gesture is not that sensitive like those Macbook, no way to compare with Apple as their build quality is always awesome. Regarding the speaker, what I can say it's so much better compare to N53SN, it's really loud clear, and a bit bassy and without cracking sound even turn to the loudest. I enjoy the speaker so much as it has 4 speakers which two speakers are locate above the keyboard and another two locate at the front panel. Beats is really Beats, as it really Beats the Sound & Olufsen.

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Regarding the touchpad I don't feel it's cheap but a bit noisy when clicking on it, but it's still fine for me. Only the con I found for this laptop is the keyboard fn keys and f1-12 keys because it's terbalik for it's function, example like if I want to rename the file usually it needs to press f2 but now I have to press fn plus f2. No the fingerprint is very sensitive, only require one swap will do.

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Added on April 20, 2011, 9:58 amI had extended to three years warranty for only rm120.

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Added on April 20, 2011, 10:06 amI don't think Asus will bring i7 for N43SL as it's already promoted in their May brochure that this model is come with i5 only, so just get this instead now, no need to wait, and for the weight I found it's lighter than any other laptop with 15"6 inches.

This post has been edited by reevephon: Apr 20 2011, 10:06 AM

It's RM3199 to be exact.

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Added on April 20, 2011, 11:25 amNo.

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