Warming up

I.Am.Just.So.Lazy.

Haha.. i thought when i bought a new laptop, and throw away the old one, I'd be all fired up to blog and to write and to read more. Gain new skills like do more tricks on photoshop or illustrator or bloggertricks and whatnots. Learn new stuff. Read and read more. Coz I havent been reading any academic stuff lately. The last book I read was by Stephen Hawking. The theory of everything. which is like a month ago. The book consist of 7 lectures oh how the earth begin and blablabla. Im only in my second lectures, and I put the book down, and there you go, Im just lazy.

Haha.

So this is a warm up entry, so to speak...

I bought this new, cheap, affordable laptop from Cycom@Lowyatt. Actually, I browse through lowyat forum and checkout all the priceguide. I just selected and model, call them to get the laptop set ready, wired the money to my sister, and give her the address of the shop, and she went there to pick up for me. Easy peachy. The new way to shop, again.. so to speak. For someone like me who hates shopping, the whole process is just great. Convenient. Heh.

Check out the latest price guide for most of your computer, and laptop and IT accesories needs here at hardwarezone.

I bought a Compaq CQ40 627TU @ RM1600. But actually, it was advertised as RM1799.

 Haha.. The advantages of having a certified psychologist to do your shopping is that, my sister can bargain, negotiate, and manipulate anyone she comes across with. She is charming to a point where, she can get almost Rm200 discount from a Chinese shop. Way to go sister!! And the funny part was, dah la dapat diskaun, she insisted on getting all the free gifts. There was this one amazing storiy about my sister where an Air Asia flight, actually waited for her to board. I'll write about it maybe later. Hehe.

So anyway, this laptop works fine. Freedos and everything. So all i needed was to install and Operating System, which, to be honest, I kinds sucks with all these. Not to mention the first CD Vista that my sister bought for me was malfunction. Not bootable at all. So it wasnt my fault that I didnt really know this stuff, it was the CD fault. Haha.

Anyway, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, and it works superbly. Its kinda light and perform as promised, a far cry from my previous Acer Aspire One (the small mini laptop, runs on Intel Atom N270) which really stinks to high heaven. That will be my last association with any Acer products. People, DO NOT BUY ACER PRODUCTS. Period.

I ran a Window Experience Index Assessment test to see how my machine performs after I fully installed all the programs and stuffs. I already isntalled the ADOBE CS4 Master Collections, Microsoft Office, games and stuffs. Surprisingly, it took less than 20seconds to boot, and its really fast. No more waiting while the windows load during start up.

Check out my performance index.

Base score is determined by the lowest subscore. It indicates that my graphics are not really powerful. It was 3.3 before I installed all the Warcraft and Dota games, and not it was down to 2.9. Next time, I'll go and upgrade my graphic card.. (is that the correct term?)

Overall, I'm quite impressed with Win7. I dontreally like Vista interface, and Win7 is very much like Vista, but what the heck, as long as it performs, Im okay with that. Of course there was some compatibility issue. For example, my Yahoo Messenger keep crashing after few minutes. Havent quite figured out why, but maybe compatibility? Dunno.

And, I can't connect to other Wireless LAN that was running on Vista or XP servers. My sisters and my bro are playing Warcraft on network LAN, and I keep trying to connect to their server but windows just refused to do any connection.

So what I did instead was, I setup my laptop as the primary server using the ad hoc LAN connection, and get them to connect with me, AND IT WORKS.

So people, next time you have problem to do LAN thing with other servers running on XP or Vista, fret not. Just create new ad-hoc connectiona nd have them connect to you instead.

Thats all folks.

Im all warmed up now.

Think I might get some sleep though..

:P :P