haha... bought one directly from john_jay2 at his shop at lowyat.

From what i say after 2 days of use, this baby of mine is superb..... no prob whatsoever, i even upgraded the ram to 2GB on the spot. haha.

this monday, gonna get myself xp disc and make dual-boot. hope the driver john gave me works!

p/s - john, i thought this model come with 8600GT, but why is it only 8600GS?

haha... then it was my fault then for not reading properly....

will post the pics of 2 of my precious baby later, you guys know what image host has excellent service?

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wahaha... some got probs some got beautifull machine like me....

a very happy S41 user.

p/s - ran 3DMark01se trial, got around 15K mark.

pics with my desktop.

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i dunno what specs are enough for you. if want better, then go buy yourself a desktop.

with this S41 price, you can get many better hardware. and ori vista ultimate to boot.

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i never got any blue screen, even photoshop CS2 runs smoothly on vista ultimate. ( i use 2GB ram, you?)

maybe so la.

why i don't see other user post their S41 work environment? camon la... post your S41 with all the accessories attached! don't be shy.

here is mine, at my uni. just check in yesterday, New semester starts this morning. haha.





List:
BenQ JoyBook S41
Edifier M3310
Acrox Wireless Mouse
HP Deskjet D1360

not quite boss la, i got that mini sofa FOC when my parents bought a new bed. These warehouse sale owners will do anything to get rid of their old stuff out.

the good thing is, the mini sofa just fits nicely with my table size. thus working long hours doesn't feel that tired.

okay, for those who want to know, (not it even means anything to me...)

Processor 4.8
Memory 4.8
Graphics 5.9
Gaming graphics 5.3
Primary hard disk 4.3

score : 4.3

its not the score, its how you do the work that counts. some people use ms paint to paste the print screen, but me, i use photoshop. so my proc requirements is higher than the ms paint user.

if you took 3 secs to load a program, if the pc takes 2.5 seconds, would you feel the diff?

look at the score, i think its the same as all the laptops outside because the HDD is the main culprit that takes all laptop to 4.3 state.

that it, that is my main point.

no matter how fast your proc is, if they can't get the data fast enough, then its no use. all laptops are using the same old 5400RPM HDDs... no matter it is SATA or IDE disk.....

like Aoshi_88 said, I also have prob defrag my HDD even using O&O Defrag Pro.

i heard even the 7200RPM version HDD is selective, it means if it runs on power plug, it uses 7200RPM, then if it uses battery, it slows down to 5400rpm....

but if not, if they use 7200rpm all the time, how about the battery life?

not only s41 malaysian version, but all laptop in malaysia does not use it.... its for only 'negara kaya2' je....

aiyo.... in games, 0.1 secs is long u know.... 2 secs i silence ppl vs 3 secs i can silence ppl is not the same liao....

my drive seems quit ok, but certain type of dvd or cd can't be read, if it is the case, then i just read the dvd on my friends desktop or my own desktop at home.

not a big prob, but cen be if in emergency and the disk just won't read. really sux that way..... but this is experienced by most laptops...

yeah... an extra high capacity battery would be fine....

rm200 is quite cheap.... compared to numbers of other laptops...


P/S - John, care to put my name on the first page?

i never got inspiron, but hte battery runs on 2 hours 30 mins, somewhere around that, if plays dvd will considerably reduce the battery time....

i only get 2 hour 50 mins if only use ms word + winamp at mid vol. brightness set to lowest, wifi+BT off.

i dunno how to get more than 3 hours.... even the 1st page battery mark got 2.5hours rite?

a really good buy for you indeed.

haha, welcome to the club bro!

I can't understand any chinese either, but looking at the page i think its simple enough...

but why there are TWO GPU driver link? can anyone translate it?

it is not actually just the S41, but all santa rosa laptop is like that....

it will throttle itself to the current load.....

all will varies according to the load:

Multiplier : 8x ~ 9x
Bus speed: 99Mhz ~ 200Mhz
FSB: 400Mhz ~ 800Mhz
voltage: 0.9v ~ 1.175v

if you want to see the stats above, i suggest u use the latest CPU-Z which is 1.40.5. the version 1.40 doesn't recognize the FSB + Bus speed change.

because almost all new centrino is using Merom Processor....

so it can use this IESS....