I guess making a switch from a Windows to Mac would be more exciting news but since I have such a tight budget of what was meant to be only $700 initially and since I haven't been robbing any banks lately, I can't get a MacBook even if I want to.
Headed over to IMM yesterday with my Mum to take a look at the laptops, which I think would be better than Sim Lim Square and Funan, because that's where (Sim Lim & Funan) all the really techie guys work and even though I'm not a complete computer idiot, suddenly telling me a AMD Processor is better for gaming as compared to a Intel Core Processor or that Graphically speaking ATI is more popular than Nvidia is enough to turn me blonde straight away.
After hearing a lot of bias opinion from the Fujitsu guy in Challenger at IMM, I decided to go to another shop ,Newstead, to get the laptop. The guy from Newstead was so much more professional plus he knew what he was talking about, and as long as he know what he's talking about, I'm good, because I have no idea what he was talking about, I just kept nodding my head pretending I understand.
At least he was talking about the internal hardware of the various laptops I was asking him about and even making comparisons to one another, the Fujitsu guy at Challenger just kept going on and on about build quality, I understand what he was saying but I didn't really care. I have been using an Acer for 4 years or so, I am pretty sure any other laptop I get will have a better build quality, and the fact that the laptop actually lasted that long with me says something about me.... that I am a gentle and loving laptop person who even though doesn't clean his laptop as much as he should, I cleaned it like 4 times so it's like once every year... the point is I care for my laptop.
What I wanted was hardware capabilities, not external durability, if I wanted durability I would have gotten the Panasonic Toughbook, but because that's one mofo ugly laptop, obviously not gonna get that.
After much hesitation, I decided to go with an ASUS. It was initially a Lenevo I was planning to get since I saw that there was a promotion going on in the newspaper, but apparently there wasn't any because the news paper blatantly lied to everyone in Singapore, I decided to try my luck with an Acer, but then getting an Acer again would be a bad idea because even though my Acer has served me well, the amount of system failures and shitty gameplay was not worth the 4 years of software maintenance at all. It's probably Window's fault but I'm gonna blame Acer as well. Went for ASUS in the end, it wasn't really calling out to me, but I heard from someone that ASUS was a good alternative for a gaming laptop so that fit the bill, plus they gave me a RAM boost from 2GB to 6GB.
Total cost - $999
My mum decided to chip in $400 at the end because she wanted to share the laptop with me and that's very possible because I will be in Tekong more than half the time. What a bad timing to get a new laptop for a gamer who enjoys RPG games who doesn't have the time to play any of it.
