The machine is great. Just feel cheated because travel so far and to be realized being conned. I was looking for blu ray combo. Very difficult to find that one. So end up settle this one. Paid RM80 to upgrade to 8 GB RAM. Then ask the shop wanna upgrade to 16 GB, he say the spec cannot be upgrade. 

I wonder who is telling the truth bcos called another Lenovo exclusive shop, say can. Cost RM 350.

Some say cannot. 

You might wanna consider getting a MBP 15 since you have such a good budget
The other Windows-based 15 inchers are mostly overkill for your usage-
15.6"
Asus N56VZ-S4284H, i7-3630QM + Nvidia GT650M + (1920x1080) + Bluray@RM3699[2.7kg][B&O], 4GB, 1TB, W8; color: black

HP Envy 15-3204TX, i7-3610QM + AMD HD7750 + (1920x1080 Radiance)@RM4999[2.63kg], 8GB, 1TB(5400rpm)

Lenovo
Ideapad Y580, i7-3630QM + Nvidia GTX660M + 1920x1080 @RM2999[JBL], 4GB, 500GB(5400rpm), W7HBasic, backlit keyboard, 2 yrs warranty; *W8 (white) version upcoming
Ideapad Y580, i7-3610QM + Nvidia GTX660M (2GB) + (1920x1080) + Bluray@RM3599[JBL], 8GB, 1TB HDD(7200rpm), W7HP, backlit keyboard, 2 years international warranty
Ideapad Y580, i7-3630QM + Nvidia GTX660M (2GB) + (1920x1080) + Bluray@RM3999[JBL], 8GB, 32GB mSATA + 1TB HDD, W7HP, backlit keyboard, 2 years warranty

Toshiba Satellite P850-1006X, i7-3610QM + Nvidia GT640M + Bluray@RM3999[2.6kg][harman/kardon], 4GB, 1TB, W7HP

lol, chill bro, don't worry too much. W8 is basically W7 with an useless additional tile menu

Bro, I beg to differ 
My experience with Win8 is so good that I don't do much else with the Win7 of my company issued T420 except work 
Golly, my 60 years old mom and my 4 years old son like the tiles in Win8. Imagine the peer pressure I'm under 

The machine is great. Just feel cheated because travel so far and to be realized being conned. I was looking for blu ray combo. Very difficult to find that one. So end up settle this one. Paid RM80 to upgrade to 8 GB RAM. Then ask the shop wanna upgrade to 16 GB, he say the spec cannot be upgrade. 

I wonder who is telling the truth bcos called another Lenovo exclusive shop, say can. Cost RM 350.

Some say cannot. 

Performance wise? Isit much smoother? faster? I have 0 idea about win 8 now. haha.

Chill  Go and caress your new machine and play some games 
There are only 2 RAM slots. You bought the spec with 4G RAM which take up 1 slot. If you want to upgrade to 16G, you need to get 2x8GB, which mean either the shop trade in the 4G stick or you "makan" sendiri 
8G RAM is good enough lah 

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Added on November 19, 2012, 11:30 pm
Win8 is snappier than Win7. Look past the tiles, I will say it is a better OS built than Win7.

Bro, I beg to differ 
My experience with Win8 is so good that I don't do much else with the Win7 of my company issued T420 except work  
Golly, my 60 years old mom and my 4 years old son like the tiles in Win8. Imagine the peer pressure I'm under 

HP Pavilion G4-2111tx.

Is it a good laptop?

Hi all, my budjet is below rm1.5k for a laptop.

The purpose of this laptop is office use + pps + engineering drawing.

any brand also no problem.

currently using acer aspire 5050 =.=

Hi, i just bought asus a45vs, with i5 3210, GT645m and 500gb hdd. one thing is that in the pc, it does not come with recovery cd. and i was told to follow the instruction in manual. The AI recovery does not exist in the pc and there is no sort of recovery partition in my hdd. so how i am going to burn recovery cd? thanks

There should be a preinstalled program that allows you to burn those recovery discs right?
Usually its an annoying pop up that keeps remind you to burn those recovery disc images

nope. that is the problem. It does not have pop up thing. Is that possible there is hidden partition? cause i add up my hdd space, is 444gb. lost about 50 gb there. possible recovery data all inside those lost spaces?

Sifus please help!

1. Preferred Brand : Any
2. Budget : 3k-4k
3. Usage : Gaming (DOTA 2, GW2, DN) and Daily Entertainment
4. Preferred laptop/screen size : 14" - 15"

Thanks!

Try search AI Recovery.
500GB would only left 465GB usable, so ~20GB for recovery partition sounds about right,

Don't seems to have link to download it.
You can backup using the built-in from Windows as well...