Can play lar...but not a gaming laptop lar. Gaming laptop is at least on par with mainstream laptop which is 9600xt with 128MB leh.

I just feel that Malaysian buying gaming laptop is lax in their requirement. That's why you dun see much choice.

In other country, they have Voodoo, Sager etc. Sigh....

This post has been edited by gogo2: Jul 14 2004, 12:52 PM

not every one have the moolah i guess? so that's y the market here for gaming laptop is so n so loh...

just my 2cents.

One new Affordable toshiba A60 - S330. RM 4,799.00
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz, 256MB Ram very cun good quality and most reliable in notebook rangge

Hi,

I'm also looking for a laptop and the only problem is that I found out that only Acer 8003LCi have a 128 video card on board. Anyone out there is using this. Need some comment on this brand as not familiar with Acer.

I will use the laptop for mostly graphic ie video editing and the occasional games.

Cheers.

8003LCi?
wow... a very high end spec-machine
yeah, there's a forum member using it too.
all i can say is., if u can afford it, why not?


how bout ferarri 3200? hahaha, 128 mob raddy 9700 too, but running on AMD64 proc..

Thanks mate....just wonder about the brand Acer. Reliablity and after sales issue especially. I know dell is good coz I'm using it for my desktop and heard a lot of praises for Compaq. But not sure for Acer.

Cheers.

Acer, last time did heard they were not that good, but now i think time have changed, so they did too(i mean improved). The same goes for compaq, also got consumer says not good la...bla bla bla. hahaa, user preferences.

for the 8003Lci, it's like the king of the hill now for a Centrino based Laptop available in malaysia.
if u do alot of Graphic/animation/3d rendering, i think u will need the 128MB mob raddy 9700.
if just for gaming, mebbe can settle down with a 64MB mob raddy 9700 or 9600. video editin? i think u need more RAM instead....
well, y not go and ask the sales at laptop shops there directly, i'm sure they would be more than glad to help.



cheers. just my 2cents.

This post has been edited by 8431: Jul 15 2004, 11:59 AM

uhmm...there is a newer ferarri... it's 3200, AMD64 and mob raddy 9700 128MB
, as mentioned in my earlier post....


btw, just visited dell's website and did the roughly same config/specs with Acer 8003Lci.... the price for Inspiron is roughly rm7.1k(tho now got free upgrade to 1GB of memory), while 8003Lci is roughly rm7.6K(with 512MB memory only).


but since inspiron 9100 it's a desktop replacement...h3h3, so bulky and heavy plus the battery life

so the choice is on they buyer's hand...



This post has been edited by 8431: Jul 15 2004, 12:58 PM

Thanks....will have to review your recommendations. The Dell 9100 is tempting but I find it a bit bulky as I travel around quite a bit so weight is factor.

I'm quite interested in the Acer coz its lighter and on paper have the specs that sort of in my preference list and about the performance I guess I have to try it first.

Just found out that Intel have launched newer mobility chips wtih the new product code (7 series or something like that). Can I know whats the main difference with the current Centrino chips and is it worth the wait?

Really appreciate your help here.

Cheers

yeah the 8003Lci, is roughly 2.9Kg

the new Pentium M processor with product code 7XX is actually the successor to the Banias core, dubbed Dothan.

main diff? the new Dothan has 2MB of L2 Cache, while the Banias has only 1MB L2 Cache loh...futhermore from some benchies seen on some websites, it was said the power management(a.k.a Enhanced Speedstep)has improved too other than the performance.

wait or no wait, is again up2 consumers.

cheers. just my 2cents.

What about stability? Did any of ur people think of this? What happen if u r in the middle to decrypt an encryption but because of stupid hanging scenario come in place, u waste all ur effort to break a 3DES algorithm which maybe spending 1 - 2 days. Who can lead the path to performance stableness?

hehe i saw the new acer red ferrari amd64
80gb,512mb,mobility radeon,wifi,dvd burner @ 7k

Actually I'm kinda confused of the model i got here, i was told in the brochure its an Acer Aspire 2001 WLMi but on the laptop itself it is stated as Aspire 2000 only

Ok what i can say bout this laptop which i got for RM5750 is that its great for everything, i do a lot of programming, photo editing, normal browsing, and lotsa gaming on it too (plays NFSU smoothly) but the keyboard can get quite warm at sometimes, so just make sure you use in a air-conditioned room.

what more can u ask from this machine? its got dvd burner, comes with 512 ram, bluetooth, wifi, multi card reader, wide screen (great for dvd, once u use wide screen for gaming, it will not be the same again anymore)

some suggestion i would like to recomend is that maybe acer shud put in more hard disk space, perhaps a 60G one then mayb using a 128MB version of the graphic card, usin a 512 one stik ram instead of 2 then this shud be one of the very few ideal laptop for ppl like me who needs gaming on the go...

and yeah reduce the weight, i'm gettin sore shoulders...

so
Reliability : No Prob
After Sales : Once i called them beacause they left out a driver on their site, they got it fix the very next morning, quite good kua, lotsa service center - one in klcc, one in subang ....

This post has been edited by earl-ku: Jul 17 2004, 04:25 PM

why most of the notebook in malaysia does not have 802.11g wireless?? most onli 802.11b even the newer dell models