Warning - Geekiness ahead!
I wanted to post more about the wonderful Crete where I have taken half of my vacation, alas, I got hit with too much work. Just to catch up on LJ to the current day is somewhat difficult, even though I do not think my flist is very big.
So, to relax one of my very wonderful colleagues has organised us tickets to a Fantastic Four extravaganza. The first movie and the preview of the second film coming out tomorrow today. I have to say, it was far better then I thought, having being slightly disappointed by the first instalment, the second was a more fluent story. Short aside: I never found him hot before, but Chris Evans is hot in this movie, I mean 2 years a difference in a man's face makes.
In other news, I am now in a market to buy a media laptop, and before the movie, one of my gaming guru colleagues came with me to advise on the Graphics card. First stop - Electric City where half our guys bought their gaming laptops and what a disappointment! They primarily had Packard Bells, mainly low to medium office stuff, including their so-called media range.When we asked about the Acer Aspire (the laptop I was hoping to get) he made a face and assured us that Acers are nothing but trouble, and Packard Bell are the best of the lot. Excuse me!!! Who the frell are you trying to fool? I did Packard Bell support, they take the most cheapest badly manufactured hardware from those little factories in Taiwan, assemble it all together and sell it under the brand. Within a few months, everything goes wrong. And you are trying to pull wool over people who have over 20 years of IT hardware experience between them. Sheesh!
No such luck at another shop, a computer chain store - Merlin. Fortunately, the biggest chain store, Fona had one Acer (higher end Aspire range) and they said that they are getting more at the end of the week. I am dreadfully impressed with the Toshiba Satellite range and those Fujitsu-Siemens Amilios pack quite a punch. I do think that Acer Aspire is till my best bet due to my colleagues having such good luck with it. I might even look at the HP Pavillions, but HP is more expensive just because of the established brand.
So the search continues, since the price for the Aspire 9810 is a bit high (14000DKK) and it is a bit bulky to carry around to friend's LANs or just fit into the allocated space at home. Any suggestions?
So, to relax one of my very wonderful colleagues has organised us tickets to a Fantastic Four extravaganza. The first movie and the preview of the second film coming out tomorrow today. I have to say, it was far better then I thought, having being slightly disappointed by the first instalment, the second was a more fluent story. Short aside: I never found him hot before, but Chris Evans is hot in this movie, I mean 2 years a difference in a man's face makes.
In other news, I am now in a market to buy a media laptop, and before the movie, one of my gaming guru colleagues came with me to advise on the Graphics card. First stop - Electric City where half our guys bought their gaming laptops and what a disappointment! They primarily had Packard Bells, mainly low to medium office stuff, including their so-called media range.When we asked about the Acer Aspire (the laptop I was hoping to get) he made a face and assured us that Acers are nothing but trouble, and Packard Bell are the best of the lot. Excuse me!!! Who the frell are you trying to fool? I did Packard Bell support, they take the most cheapest badly manufactured hardware from those little factories in Taiwan, assemble it all together and sell it under the brand. Within a few months, everything goes wrong. And you are trying to pull wool over people who have over 20 years of IT hardware experience between them. Sheesh!
No such luck at another shop, a computer chain store - Merlin. Fortunately, the biggest chain store, Fona had one Acer (higher end Aspire range) and they said that they are getting more at the end of the week. I am dreadfully impressed with the Toshiba Satellite range and those Fujitsu-Siemens Amilios pack quite a punch. I do think that Acer Aspire is till my best bet due to my colleagues having such good luck with it. I might even look at the HP Pavillions, but HP is more expensive just because of the established brand.
So the search continues, since the price for the Aspire 9810 is a bit high (14000DKK) and it is a bit bulky to carry around to friend's LANs or just fit into the allocated space at home. Any suggestions?