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No Apple, Just Orange

It was a very tough decision to make. I have always wanted a MacBook and recently made the decision to get one for non work related use. I have a NEC laptop that I use for work but I ain’t gonna replace it just yet. In case you are wondering … yeah I have to PAY FOR MY OWN NOTEBOOK to do work for the company. Duh!

Back to my MacBook dream. So I went around checking out the prices and specifications for one but … but … I ended up buying a normal Windows-based notebook from ASUS. Why? Despite being super cool (and tempting!), I wanted better specifications. For a MacBook with better specification … it could cost me almost S$4000 bucks! That doesn’t really sound very good (unless I strike lottery). So with about half the price of that, I picked up a ASUS U6SG 12″ notebook which was on clearance sale. So it’s goodbye Apple for now. šŸ™ With a bright cool 12″ LCD, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD and a IntelĀ® Coreā„¢2 Duo Processor T9300 2.5GHz processor … I am sure an Apple equivalent will cost me a bomb.

Despite being a 12″ notebook, the U6SG ain’t too light. Maybe because of the 6-cell battery that I am using. The other thing I don’t really like about it is the palm rest. It is leather covered in dark brown leather … and I hate brown. Haha. Okay, maybe my dirty palms will turn it black very soon.

They gave me a free upgrade to 4GB of RAM. I’ve always stayed away from using Windoze Vista but this time … since it comes with Vista Business edition … I have no choice. Of course I turned off some of those fancy stuffs that Vista boasts about but sucks up resources like crazy (like I do when it comes to beer).

“From afar, U6SgĀ“s mocha sheen gives off a fashionesque effect that compliments any sophisticated metropolitan. The high-shine cover, Voile, made by a 13-step process shines with underlying shimmering fibers gets its name from the equally delicate luminous fabric”

That’s what the ASUS website says but I don’t quite like the brownish shiny cover. It is a fingerprint magnet!!! I’m gonna get one of those colorful cool laptop skin to cover it up soon. Hehehe.

Yet to put it to full use yet but since it’s a notebook for play (no, not games … I don’t play computer games), I will running applications like Maya and Manga Studio on it. How will it perform? I guess I’ll need some time to play with those software to find out.

Call me vain but I kinda like the fingerprint & face detection login features. Haha. My fat finger sometimes need several attempts for the reader to verify though. Not sure if it’s the reader being too crappy or my finger is screwed.

The ASUS Smart Logon is cool. The webcam will display my fat face everytime I am at the login screen and it will try to figure out if it’s me that’s trying to login. As expected … it takes a little while to do so. Despite being quite fun … I don’t really fancy seeing the video of myself whenever I’m trying to login. For now it’s activated … but maybe later I’ll switch it off. I don’t wanna scare myself when trying to login in the middle of the night.

Specifications on the U6SG can be found here.

The recent week has been crazy. I’ve not been sleeping much since Fitzand has been waking up regularly at night, either for milk or crying. Maybe he has been playing too much and is having dreams too often. Last night, he woke up crying and saying ‘touch the big Pluto! touch the big Pluto!’. Oh my! He must be still in Disneyland in his dream!

Not sure if the bloody domestic helper will come back this Saturday but if she does … that will leave me a little more time to get more rest.

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