Sure got lah, Kedah Alor Star also got ad.
This morning i have try install Dirt Rally in W. Vista, the game performance is at least 20% faster than Acer Aspire 4530, later i will try more game like C&C3 and Call of Duty 4.

CQ20's 45nm CPU should be much cooler than AMD. Btw, mine idling at 50-60C. On load it gets up to 70C
it comes with one 1GB 667mhz RAM. If u wana get 4GB, u need to get two 2GB sticks which will cost u RM2xx. If u plan to use your laptop for more than a year, better upgrade.

price drop maybe when next generation amd notebook come out or until next gen intel notebook come out. AMD is already cheap and they only AMD will drop price only after Intel drop price for the Centrino 2 platform. Btw, this notebook is already cheap and I think the resale/2nd hand value would be quite good. for price/performance I dont think many laptop can reach this model. Some laptop with Centrino 2 and Geforce 9300 or ATI HD 3450/3460 cost almost RM4k but performance wont be twice even though you pay double.

If you have money, I seriously suggest u to go for Core 2 but if you want a short term laptop or looking for budget/AMD notebook, this is the one you should aim for.

Whats soft stylus? Just curious

thx for the info. does compaq offer a higher battery capacity for this laptop? Its currently nt enough for me.

direct with HP can get 4gb thumbdrive and 160gb external hdd.

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Added on October 31, 2008, 10:53 am12-cell battery for your 125AX

http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landing/...sories/#battery

Use the HD3200 drivers or download latest Catalyst from AMD website, use driverheaven's Mobility Modder and mod the inf so you can install on your laptop. I'm using latest drivers from AMD site modded with MM.
Or you can slipstream AMD's AHCI drivers onto the Windows installation CD.

I just bought this baby from Challenger technologies sdn. bhd. at Mines Shopping Fair. I paid RM2299 for CQ40-126AX and i get those items for free




Details:
-CQ40-126AX
-Norton Internet Security 2008 OEM
-160GB WD Element
-Cliptec Luxury Notebook Kit

This baby comes with pre installed Win Vista Home premium (+Win Office 2007, Norton Internet Security etc all preinstalled from compaq).The guy from service center install all for me including make the backup dvd for me.

Worth it rite?

i really frustrated wif the dvd rom of tis laptop .. manage to read only 1 out of my 10 dvds ....

what is overot? mind to explain more?

if u add 800mhz 1gb it will still run at 667 because the original RAM is 667.

if u remove the original ram, add one 2gb 800 it will run faster but still a bit slower than 2x1GB 800 because of single channel.

System will be snappier with 800mhz DDR2. Ive tried that and bechmarked them too. Vista score will stay at 4.0 because lowest is video card, not RAM. Upgrading to DDR2 800 will bring up memory score to 5.9.