New Laptop
As always, I’m behind on my blogging. I always want to blog about the neat things I buy or the cool things I do but I just never get around to it. Still better late than never.
Last week I finally got my new laptop that I preordered off Amazon.com. Amazon.com is my favorite shopping website. If Amazon.com has what I’m looking for, you can bet I’m buying off Amazon. For the last 3 weeks I’ve been getting package for myself. I am expecting 1 more until my hiatus at least that’s what I think.
So anyways I first preordered the Asus UL30vt-X1. The UL30vt is the newest edition to the Asus laptop line and with a friend’s recommendation I ordered it. The same friend told me a few days later about the next release off the UL30vt line, UL30vt-A1. The -A1 comes with an additional 1 year global warranty and a larger battery capacity for a small price increase. Since my -X1 didn’t ship, I canceled it and ordered the -A1. The laptop wasn’t expected to ship until the 2nd week of January so holding off was quite a pain since I did all my normal computing on a laptop. Since my friend ordered his before mines he got his shipping notice before I did. I only later find out he cancels it as well! He canceled it because at CES Asus displayed the UL30jt! The jt has an overclocked processor, bigger harddrive, and a better video card. Now we can’t be Asus buddies but hey he’s the one without a laptop now, not me.
This laptop is very nice. It’s widescreen like my previous HP but its slight over an inch bigger which is a definite plus. The LCD is also very bright and the dual graphics card allows for optimized battery consumption. This baby can technically run for 12 hours straight on battery with the appropriate settings. Only downfall for me is the lack of an optical drive. It’s cool because I ordered one off Amazon.com. This isn’t much else I can say about it. It does my normal computing and I’m not hardcore like those other geeks when it comes down to review the laptop. It’s sturdy, I like the keyboard, the multi-touch mouse area is a bit sensitive but other than that, this laptop comes with a good price. And of course I can run my games on it. 