Planning to buy mini netbook/notebook with wireless access. I prefer perfomance & durability over design. Smaller the better but not too small, a laptop that allows me to carry everywhere with no fuzz. Any reliable brand. Budget 1k-2k. Other specification like built-in webcam can consider bonus.

Brand : Any brand which has reliable customer service, good quality control, safety policies.

Budget : below 3k if possible

Spec : I'm very heavy-use user, it will soon be my primary PC (will have to left my desktop behind when i'm in KL). I'm not into gaming, but i use a lot of monster eating RAM like Photoshop. I'm also a photographer, usually will have to edit multiple large scale photos that could suck up a lot of my memory - can be very painful if it lags halfway or hang. I will also need large widescreen LCD screen(preferably with high resolution size) for my photos. Reasonable battery life as well. Suitable for architecture student as well. Need to be wireless ready.

Size : Size doesn't matter if performance and screen size comes in mind.

Is there any other brand which offer cheaper than Studio 15? I need my laptop to be:

Hi Def WideScreen LCD (at least 1600x900 resolution) + vivid screen colours - a must have
at least 4GB RAM - Core 2 Duo processor - Vista-64bit - more than 300 GB space - my minimum performance spec
LAN wireless antenna - a must have

card reader slot - bonus

camera - bonus

speakers - i don't give shit

after customizing studio 15, the price is 3.6k, it's a little over my budget.

Well, the resolution the bigger the better in this case.

unlikely I will go for inspiron 14 and studio 14 - checked those, any other brands offers slightly the same as studio 15 in terms of spec?

what you guys think about Toshiba P505-S8940 & P505-ST5800 & P500-ST5801?

any idea how much is these laptops cost in Malaysia?

This post has been edited by clayton-chew: Sep 27 2009, 10:26 PM

1. Brand. - anything but not ACER. Looking for a netbook.

2. Budget. - RM1400

3. Specs.

- WLAN in-built
- High storage capacity (120gb min)
- general casual usage - surfing internet, listen music, etc
- able to use Photoshop

Bonuses
- webcam
- bluetooth
- card reader
- long battery life

4. Size.
any size are okay, but not heavy..

yea.. that's one downside.. resolution is okay.. just hoping performance is as good as able to start photoshop

any netbooks to suggest? almost all netbooks specs are the same, don't know why some expensive, some cheap.. help me choose the best under RM1400 budget...