Bored Bored Bored: Dilemma of Choosing a Notebook

Last Monday was a rather hard day for me...since I don't know if I should get a notebook or not! I know I'm a computing student and without a notebook...seems rather peculiar...it's like being a monk who doesn't eat vegetables...

When I was thinking whether should I buy, I kept checking which notebooks belong the cheap category and among the category which is the best value. I don't want to use more than 1.7k to buy a notebook. If you ask why I set such a low standard, it's because my main machine has always been my desktop.

After finding the range of notebooks that's below 1.7k, I begin estimate how much each component worth. And add them up together too. And discuss with my friends and brother which 1 would be suitable for me too. What a troublesome week that is...just to buy a notebook...

Even on the day of buying the notebook, I'm still thinking whether it's a need or a want...and how much teh tarik and roti canai I can get with the RM1.5k...(By the way, it's 681 sets of teh tarik and roti canai.)

In the end, I bought the Compaq Presario CQ40-406AU which costs RM1.5k in Tesco. The specs are as follows (the geek inside me just want to type it out!):

AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.1GHz

1GB RAM 667MHz

Samsung 160GB HDD

14.1 inch Screen

Radeon Mobility HD 3200

8X LightScribe SuperMulti DVD +/-R/RW with Double Layer Support

HDMI and 3 USB ports

Webcam with mic

5 in 1 Card Reader

Altec Lansing 2.0 speaker

After buying the notebook, I increased the RAM to 3GB and bought a laptop bagpack (costs RM 50) since the included bag make my shoulder cramp. Beside, I put a lot of things inside my bag to pass my time in APIIT. And I bought a big-a$$ Gigabyte mouse (RM39) also since I can never understand why most people like to use such a small mouse with thier BIG hands! (I got long fingers by the way). I installed Ubuntu 9.04 just to play around with Linux OS~