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I’m actually using a floppy drive!! those things only 1.44mb one! haha.. Oh man! takes me back. Anyway the furthest I can remember is using the 5  1/4 inch ones. Those were old man. Need them for updating the bios on my sister’s stripped down toshiba. If after this it can boot from thumbdrive I’ll be a happy man! haha..

Well, I must say this year’s offerings are better than the last 2 years but by not much, only in the price range cos teh technology is kinda at a plateau. Here’s a short review I did for Shirley in case anyone wants to buy one. Choosing criteria is weight and cost.

All the below laptops have 3 year warranty and are below 2.1kg which are probably your key concerns unless otherwise stated. After that, its how much you want to pay for the look and brand name.

Acer TM6292 - $1950 wGST

Not too bad leh.. below 2.1KG, the specs are decent. It doesn’t look too bad. Comes with microsoft office. The price above is upgraded to 2gb ram and increase  from 1 to 3 year warranty. (Must ask hor, without these 2 things the lappy won’t last that long). Acer service also not bad. At least when i sent in mabel’s one they gave me a good impression

Fujitsu LifeBook S6410U -$2203 w GST

Same specs as above.. I think it might look nicer and slimmer but I dunno, haven’t seen it in real life. 3 year warranty. There’s a fujitsu tablet, but its lower spec (1gb ram), smaller screen and well.. $2550. Actually, on second thought, the acer looks better.. but thats a matter of opinion.

Lenovo ThinkPad X61 - $2411 w GST

I think this is the smallest of the bunch. Best build quality (its IBM la!) drop it, wet it and slam it around probably won’t get damaged one. Of course.. it is.. just.. black and ugly as it is. And, it doesn’t have a CDrom drive(!!!)

ThinkPad T61 - $2310 w GST

This one is quite a proven model. Its black and i think it look exactly like ZG’s laptop. can have a look at it on sunday. Its slightly above 2.1kg though. Its 2.32kg. Same toughness like the one above applies

Toshiba

Forget them.. so expensive! the lowest specs too. Though I must say there’s no other screen like theirs. Very high resolution and nice to look at.

Macbook (not pro) - $2580 w GST

Comes with a 1gb ipod shuffle(1gb is super small in my opinion) They are cool and really stable. But knowing you i don’t think you’ll wanna spend time fiddling with the Mac OS. I must say, you’ll grow to love it alot if you do buy cos its really really good to use and stable. Everything mostly just works. No regular crashes and funny stuff happening. Also, you don’t play games so the mac is really quite good to use. Ask aunty joy, she has one. Specs don’t really matter on this one cos the mac usually runs on lesser hardware. It is a little expensive though, but at 2.31kg, they are decently light and they look very nice. Well, nicer than everything else above.

If i were you and choosing among these few, I’d go for the acer cos its cheap, got 3 year warranty (must ask) and the ram can upgrade for cheaper also ($59, also ask when buying).

Yep, so thats it.

Yep, it is! Came in the evening. I had the opportunity to play around with Windows Vista and the likes.. must say its smooth but most changes i think are under the hood. Currently its more intuitive but for people like me who are so at home with the 95, 98 and xp file structures its abit disorienting. I must say its an imroovement although it is quite the copy cat of linux and mac. Installed open office, think no need to get any expensive overpowered powerpoint and word processor. We’ll see how people change and adapt to it.

Took the chance to calibrate my monitor’s colors so I can design and select colours properly. It really does make a difference! The coloursare more accurate and less washed out than they used to be. Yippee!