How much is the 250GB now? Any specific models/brands I should look for?

I thought your signatures shows you already own AW?

its in my 'must-get list'.

in general you can get any decent ssd in the local market (samsung, plextor, intel, corsair, sandisk, etc.). they will work fine.

if you have some spares, and you wanna get it like now, i suggest you invest in a 256gb or more of samsung 840 pro. although 840 evo should be fine but i personally haven't tested it. based on the feedback from various sources, it's a good choice. (by the way, the RAPID mode feature found in 840 evo has been added to 840 pro just recently)

if you can wait, new releases should be coming out after june this year. there is plextor m6. (plextor m5pro xtreme is one of my personal favorites beside samsung and intel. don't get older drives although they are cheaper; tend to have issues)

you have helped a lot of people finding good laptops for themselves. respect

Thanks for the tip.
I think I'll wait as I am not too much of a gamer anyway

i am not quite a gamer also. i go into bf4 to get killed most of the times

to me the main purpose of having a ssd is to load OS and apps fast (e.g. click and start typing in word; running vm's).

That's what I'm looking for
Why running on vm?

BF4 is expensive $60

yeap by putting in a ssd and setting up a small ramdisk made my dad's i3 hp laptop became much more responsive (MYR 300.00 very well spent. never received any complaints after that)

vm's are good to test stuff without formatting when tahi happen. it's boring work thing.

i got bf4 when it's on sale. save a bit lol! i just put all the settings ultra and go in shoot sand, shoot airplanes, drive tanks, and fly helicopters.

ohh.. now I understand.
Wanted to test the power of the 765 NVIDIA
so far tested only with DOTA2, Diablo III and War Thunder.

it's fine to run bf4 (based on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TaX5VdQo)

looks good
Now kinda regretting not upgrading to 16GB of RAM

ah.. yes, if possible just max it out at the point of purchase. while it's true that 8gb will work fine, but the system will get more boosts when you have a small ram disk for cache and temp folders. (with ssd's, ram disk is a good thing to have because you can help reduce a lot of writes off ssd)

recent ramdisk technology is really simple to use. good stuff like softperfect ramdisk is free for personal use.

gonna do some read up on the softperfect thing.
Thanks for recommedation.
The damn thing is that the current configuration is 4 + 4 GB.
Have to buy both 8GB in order to upgrade.

By the way, if I upgrade by myself, it would not void the warranty right?

hm.. aw14 has 2 slots only right? from the manual it looks that way. you need to swap it with 2x8gb. looking at the price of ram today, i suggest you go for ssd first that gives you much better performance boost. i guess there is nothing wrong if you do it yourself. (although the manual does warn that no one should touch the internals)

by the way no one is attending the it fair at mid valley?

This post has been edited by horns: Jan 17 2014, 01:04 PM

yeah, it has 2 slots.
I confirmed it when I was surveying the device earlier before purchase.
Anyway, I don't expect my usage to max up the RAM of 8GB anyway. Therefore, didn't opt for the upgrade to 16GB.
SSD would be my next target

yeah.. it's more fun upgrading it slowly. you can see the performance maintained with time.

if it's not about work purposes, i like to have smaller laptops/ultrabooks, too :/

You mentioned earlier that I could swap the DVD ROM for the HDD correct?
I would like to have the entire OS running on SSD and using the current 750GB HDD as the storage.
Do not want to always hook up my external 1TB HDD

correct. http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=387

search silverstone at garage sales section, i think you can find some sellers carrying this one. alternatively, viewnet has that. (i got mine from there)

doesn't seem like the removing part would be easy with the new AW14 design.
Thanks again for the tip.

uh? really? looking at the manual, it's just flip the laptop, take off the back cover, tara!

by the way the dell manual is good. check it. ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/e...anual_en-us.pdf