netboy, does your company carries the compaq nx7000? I am eyeing on the one with 80Gb HD and centrino 1.5, how is the build of this notebook? Is it an compaq evo class? I checked HP online store which stated its AGP as ATI Mobility Radeon 7200c, but saw on the other brochure that it has a ATI Mobility Radeon 9200, so which is true?

I bought before from Dell online, using credit card, what do you want to know?

Chong, from what I know, you can install your own software, that won't void the warranty, correct me if I am wrong. You won't void the warranty provide that if you don't touch their pre-installed memory, there is an user accessible empty slot for you to do your own upgrade, even the included user manual teach you to do so.

HMMaster, you don't need to call them, but I would advice you to do so after placing order, no harm contacting them, it will speed up the process, especially in the case of cash debit, feel free to bug them as often as you can...heheh. I bought it using my credit card, not sure how's cash debit gonna do, but just call and ask, shouldn't be a problem. In fact, for my case, since I bought it before raya and certain part of my notebook is out of stock, I supposed to wait for more than a week (they told me), but at last I got it within 4 days.

One word of cautious, Dell notebook has got noisier harddisk, I have tried 2 (including my 8600 with hitachi 7k60) and both of them are noisy, maybe because they place the harddisk just right below the lower left of the keyboard, near to the surface. Other than that, I haven't find any defects yet...

Any doubts regarding dell's notebook, I think it's better to visit forums.us.dell.com .... A lot of technical information there...

I thought fujitsu and apple are of different class from Dell? I think it's not fair to compare.. I own a dell, yes, stupid combination of blue and silver inside, would you dare to take the blue color thing out and spray it ?.....

Yeh, I like the older model too, looks simple, more like the IBM design, solid black. I am referring to 2650 (some says it looks ugly), but I like it.

Sonic_cd, have you seen the latitude line? they substitute the blue thingy with a silver one, looks good.

You might want to try Dell Inspiron 9100 or 5150? If you don't mind the size. Also, IBM T41, if it has been released in malaysia.

Acer seems to be a famous brand in singapore, or at least in HWZ. I wonder why .... Hate acer.

If there is a model cheaper than that with the same specs, I wouldn't recommend anyone to get, probably only taiwan brands can offer anything cheaper than that.

If not mistaken the default price for presario x series is less than rm6k, but forgot whether it's centrino 1.4 or 1.5.

When ppl say it's lousy means the quality isn't consistent, you might get a good one if you are lucky, else, sorry lar. Acer used to have bad technical support too, but now not sure la. I am using Dell, but disable all the stupid Dell application running on the back, I guess you can do it as well on HP.

ftec's design looks ok on the advertisement, but haven't seen the real thing.

Dell's warranty covers only asia pacific, if anybody wanna use it elsewhere, you have to contact Dell first. Called them last time to ask about this, I think one have to fill up a form or something like that for the "conversion", hope it's still the same now.. Anyway, you still have to pay for the shipment fee even with the warranty on.