dell is offering online coupon till this wednesday. buy a inspiron with 3years warranty if u dont care the dell quality.

btw, i will recommend NEC if u want me to choose between ftec and nec.

Between FTEC and NEC, I'll go NEC also...

But, I hate the idea of NEC system restore disc... Restore the system back to factory settings and all the craps that comes with it. And those Japanese definately need to check the meaning of "Diagnosis" in an Oxford Dictionary properly in their restore disc. Had a bad experiance, tried the Diagnosis option and it ended up reformat(restore) the whole PC back to factory settings with all my documents gone (even in separate partitions). I would prefer they give me a WinXP CD and a driver CD, just my 2 cents. I wonder if FTEC give restore disc or WinXP?

waahahah.. i have a NEC M540.. i agree with hocklai8.. i think it's better they give us a separate restore cd.. what i know is.. they dun give cd for winxp home..
anyway.. kinnolkf..
the one i have is performing quite well.. the display is nice and clear.. dunno what to say.. overall, i think it's a great notebook for me.. one thing is.. the battery drained quite fast.. dunno what's the problem..

Hey guys, im interested in getting either one of these two notebook. As i dont have a very high budget i dont have much to choose. They are Compaq Presario V2133AP (RM4199) and Acer Travelmate 4002WLCi_M11P (RM4488). I've tried to get all the information that i can get by google-ing. But still i cant really decide.

What i know about the notebooks:

Compaq:
Light 2.36kg!!
Beautiful design
Good reputation?
Short battery life (2-3 hours)
No ATI graphics card
40GB
Read somewhere that the keyboard very flimsy


Acer:
Very very long battery life
15" Wide Screen
Big, heavy(3.0kg)
Bad reputation(my friends ask me not to get acer)
60GB

The price is almost the same because i can get Acer's RM300 student rebate. Hope u guys can let me know your opinoin. Thanks!

erm, i am very blur in computer thing n i now hav a budget <5000 to buy a laptop.... do u guys hav any brand or model that can recommend to me??

the most important thing to me is....reliability....

however, good graphics...light...huge memory....fast processor... will be in the consederation too....haha...craps..

Compaq. Does the acer still have the upgrade-memory-myself-void-warranty thing?

Try the Aspire1691WLMi.
-reliability? So far never hung up, may be still new. Will see in time.
-Huge memory? checked. 1G to offer if you look hard enough.
-good graphics? checked. ATI X700 128M. Good enough to pump up 50fps in DOOM3.
-light? Erm...ok lar. Around 2.5~3kg.
-fast processor? Enough lar. 1.6G Pentium M dothan core in Sonoma chipset. If you dare just overclock it to 2.0G. There are many successive rate in the forum.

and it only RM5388. In case you are a student, you can have another RM300 rebate.

erm.... but from wat ppl posted previously.....acer is nt so good...is it really like tat?? or u hav other suggestion??

anyway, thank u for ur opinion....hehe

Mostly those peoples are just hearsay, they don't even have the Acer notebook with them but they just simply quoted the comment listerned from others. And yes, the old Acer model did have a serious stability problem but definitely not for their newer release. The new generation Acer notabook are way better than their old counterpart and hugely improve in design, stability, presentation and performance.
Don't listern to them as they know nothing about Acer especially these newer model. Acer recently got the gold award from HWM with their Aspire1691 and another editor choice from http://www.trustedreviews.com/ for their 8104 model, and there are many positive feedback from http://notebookforums.com/.

In fact my Aspire 1804WSMi running KOTOR2 extensively for 7hours, never hung up or a single hiccup, and that it with everything setting on high.

This post has been edited by chtan: May 1 2005, 04:23 PM

ok, thank u, man, it's like chatting wif u inside two threads ( duno u realise or nt...hehe )...

anyway, i go to see online the Aspire1691 d, the price there is 5688, 5388 is for MIM members ( i hope i din misspell the name) ... and one more thing, the student rebate u mention is available only if buy online or...?

haha, last thing in mind now, u gt an Aspire1691, rite, so, how long it can survive without the power line...bcos i really wan it to be mobile...

haha, thank u...hehe

For how long it will last i not sure cause i haven't really completely deplete the battery, but as a guideline, i have tested during my last meeting session which lasted 2hours, and yet it still have 40% juice left, so i guest 3+hours is possible. In fact in some forum there are others who claimed to last up to 3.5hrs.
You don't have to purchase online to entitle the rebate.

During meeting nowthing was on izzit?

No, with some hands-on on running production system and demostration, and noting major issues on notepad.

hello everyone, first post here.... cud anyone suggest a laptop for about Rm3500.
should have a DVD-Writer and atleast 512Mb RAM.
Processor, hard disk size not important (not celerons pls )
decent graphics card
also should have wi-fi, bluetooth.
brand preferred: acer
any ideas? and thanks in advance

I think the only option you have now is Dell 510m or I6000, with all the features you required in should be around RM3800, but only the GPU won't cut it for you as it only spot a X300.

As for Acer, there are only two option TravelMate 4151LCi and 4151NLCi, RM3900++ and RM3600++ respectively with on the different in harddisk capacity. But both also don't have the bluetooth and suport only wifi b and only with adequate GPU Intel Extreme 2 Graphics Technology and up to 64MB VRAM.

TM4151LCi & TM4151NLCi running on Mobile 915GM Express chipset... wth is with the intel xtrem graphics 2 up to 64MB VRAM?
isn't it suppose to be Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 and up to 128MB RAM of video memory?

Accoring to my last update from Acer on 29/04/05, yap, that is the one 64M integrated extreme 2.

intel 855GM/GME series and 852GM chipset = intel extreme graphics 2
intel mobile 915 express chipset e.g mobile 915GM/GMS & 910GML = intel GMA 900

I think you have the wrong info with you already, these two model are running on 855GME not sonoma 915.

ahh icic, u r the one with the most updated and correct information

cheers.