Bought a new laptop yesterday.

[Atlantean]

After looking around for a week or two at reviews online, I found a laptop I think I will be happy with when it arrives. The asus Z70Va. I ordered this laptop with 1gb of ram, 2.0GHz centrino processor, an 8x dvd burner, an 80 gb hdd, and wireless a/b/g. The laptop itself comes with an ati x700 video card, and the screen is 15.4" with a native resolution of 1680x1050, the body is composed of a carbon-fiber alloy. It weighs in at 5.6 lbs, and the dimensions are 13.9" x 10.9" x 0.86"-1.34". I will try to get some pictures and a review up when it arrives sometime next week. Oh and supposedly this laptop gets 4 hours of battery life. When I first started looking for a new laptop I considered getting a dell, but then realized I would rather shoot myself than buy a dell, and the deals for Dells in Canada are not that great. Then I looked at the Acer Ferrari, it looked pretty nice, but wasn't quite what I was looking for, and I heard the reflectiveness of the casing made it easy to smudge with fingerprints. So the next laptop I looked at was an asus z71v, it looked ok, but was plastic and I am not a huge fan of Nvidia. So... shortly after hearing about the z71v I heard that there was a new laptop coming out at the beginning of September. The asus z70va, after reading a few reviews for the previous versions of this laptop (similar specs, video card not as good) I decided that this was the one for me, and ordered it from a company in Toronto called lu computers. Grand total with taxes and shipping was $2150 and they accepted credit card payment without charging the 3% fee thats usually charged by computer resellers for credit card payments.

 

[Cook1]

Glad you like it, personally I can't wait for my Z71v to arrive 😀

 

[Corporate Thug]

OP, Paragraphs are your friend

 

[Atlantean]

haha I was in a hurry and didn't feel like grammar/easy to read checking it.

 

[VenomXTF]

Just ordered the same laptop! With P-M 1.86, 1gig DDR2, 40gig Fujitsu 5.4k, Intel A/B/G. Will hopefully have it monday/tuesday of next week.

 

[robot captain]

i also ordered the same one. w/ P-M 2ghz, 1 gig ram, 60gig 7200rpm hd, all from rawpowerpc.com. im looking forward to getting it!

 

[Atlantean]

Mine just showed up yesterday morning, spent the day getting everything setup, installing all the random software thats needed on a pc. I even missed work, but the laptop isn't the only reason I missed it. I was still a bit upset about one of my friends who died in a motorcycle accident on monday.

 

[VenomXTF]

How you like it so far? I should have mine next week.

 

[Atlantean]

Its so awesome... posting from class right now lol. The thing isn't loud at all like some of the forums say... only when I am gaming on a game that is graphically intensive. I like that you can choose the speed of the processor to increase battery life and performance or that you can increase the speed to make the machine faster. I am going to be posting a photo review sometime in the next two weeks once I have had some more time to play around with it and game wih it. I just need to buy a wireless mouse for the thing because its annoying using the touchpad. I don't think I will be getting used to that anytime in the near future... any recommendations for mice (wireless) that are fullsized but with a usbkey sized plugin (rather than a corded one (the old style with the IR port) or one with a docking station)?

 

[imported_Kensai]

I would've got that but I got an Inspiron 9300 at a better price.

 

[Atlantean]

I would have gotten an inspiron 9300 for about the same price... but didn't want a dell and didn't like the plasticky look of it.

 

[pre1014]

plus the 9300s are HUGE!!!!

 

[VenomXTF]

Mine shipped out today... the bluetooth part deleayed it a bit since no one got a shipment of internal bluetooth version till late last week (friday). Hoping it comes tomorrow or thursday, only one state away.