hi, i wanna know, if i only have a choice between, samsung,panasonic, sharp, hitachi, which brand should i go for? i dont have other brand around my hometown, that's the sad part.

How bout York, Acson, Media, Daikin, Mitsubishi Eletric, Mitsubishi heavy Industrial... And many more you can decide.

Panasonic and please decide to deluxe model or inverter.
Sharp should be quite normal as plasma cluster.
Hitachi would be higher BTU at 10000 but input watt also higher.
Samsung not really recommended.
York and Acson with daikin got more choice.
Media or Gree is china brand but also quite durable and cheaper price.
ME for non inverter or easy clean these is more cooler than other brand.
MHI no easy clean but also good brand behind ME.

Anywhere Singapore in it coming Sept. has been discontinued for R22 gas, I dunno good new or bad new for malaysia user.

Even non inverter also using R410A gas.

Just don't too surprise for non inverter set point as 19-20c to become whole room walls or paper box turn into water marks.

MHI SRK10YL quite good.
8530BTU at 670w , even condenser size quite big also, hopefully can cooling fast.

My wife home town in sibu then the only choice for MHI.. still better than Daikin..
even in kuching sarawak dun have ME model, but MHI inverter deluxe model is quite good already.

if in west malaysia baru got ME model and prefer here : http://www.mitsubishielectricmalaysia.com/...ircond/inverter

ME got easy clean only, then the dun have easy clean function for manual user do in without any tool.
Any how MHI is the best choice... if i am living in sarawak the only choice also go for MHI deluxe.

http://www.kimrovacstore.com/mitsubishi-el...lean-video.html