1. Preferred Brand - Anything, but no HP/Compaq. Also, no Acer, Toshiba.
2. Budget - Less than RM2K
3. Usage - Mostly office work, some gaming (GTA IV, and future GTA )
4. Preferred laptop/screen size - Nothing less than 14"

Also, i'm very particular about the cooling. I think dell/lenovo has decent cooling. Also, how does the 7670M fare against the GT640/650M?

And if I may add, more USB ports are necessary. Bundled Windows is a bonus. HDD should not be less than 500GB. RAM should be nothing less than 4GB. No ultrathin notebooks pls. Warranty may not be an issue, but I might want to avoid asus for that matter. HP (from my experience) seems to have a lot of failure ( motherboard, HDD etc).

So, what would suit me?

This post has been edited by ericmaxman: Aug 7 2012, 02:01 PM

No chance for the Radeon 7670M?

Is it better or worse?

EDIT: Found a Inspiron 15R for RM1999.

3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3210M processor (3M Cache, up to 3.1 GHz)
4GB 1 DIMM (4GB x1) DDR3 1600Mhz
500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
AMD Radeon™ HD 7670M DDR3 1GB


This post has been edited by ericmaxman: Aug 7 2012, 03:45 PM

Paiseh, too tired after work

For that budget, maybe I'll squeeze out to the Inspiron 14R.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M DDR3 2GB

Should still be within my budget..

Darn 14R-SE cant change OS to W7Pro



After some deep thoughts, I need W7Pro. (work related lol)

So 95% chances I'll end up with a Inspiron 15R. With the Radeon 7670M (been having great luck thus far with ATI. )

Final price is RM2182. Added media kit.

Price range kinda different

Online chatting now

Anyhow, I'll see what I'll end up with. Kinda urgent, and hopefully can get within this week itself.

My trusty MSI died after 4 years

Ordered a Dell Inspiron 14R SE. Added media kit, 2 year warranty. Got a Belkin bag for 50% off.

Thanks!