Just yesterday, I bought the asus ul30vt-x1k from amazon. The costs was 750 after tax and I received a free external optical drive. booyah.
I now have two laptops (notebooks? wtf is the difference?) but my other hp laptop isn't practical outside my apartment. It's too heavy and bulky and the battery is poor even after recalibration. What I need for school is a thin and light laptop with a great battery. The asus provides this. Today, at panera bread the laptop was on for 3 hours and the battery meter estimated it would work for another 6.5 hours! I didn't have the patience to measure but that is cool if you think about it. The advertised battery life is 11 hours if you run it conservatively.
However, there is one negative. The touchpad is not that good; it's jumpy and somewhat inaccurate. I knew of this before the purchase but this can be cured if I remove the touchpad elan software.
During my shopping, I was going to get a tablet pc so I would look cool at taking notes while everyone else was using pen and paper. However, the tablet I would buy is too expensive and with the new developments of a new generation of tablets coming this year, I knew my mind would fill with regret in buying a tablet pc.
Overall, I'm happy with this laptop. Also, I bought microsoft office professional 2010 from my school for only 10 bucks! Being able to use onenote 2010 on my laptop during class tomorrow has me excited. I can import the power presentations to onenote, and from there i can add notes, draw lines, add color, etc. on to the presentations. BAM!
If you have any tips to using onenote, please tell me!
RANT:
If you don't like rants, please close your eyes and count down from 10.
Now, I am amazed at the power of apple. Their marketing strategies have people hooked at their cheeks like a sucker fish! A few people in my class were immediately hooked into buying the macbook pro just from the influence of another classmate. Crazy.
MACBOOK PRO:
I did look into the macbook pro 13 inch for 1200 bucks. It definitely is slim and has a good battery life but the price is absurd. How could I in justification buy 4+year old intel core 2 technology for that 1200? Granted, their general pricing has gone down but not enough to compete for my money.
Take a look at the 15 in macbook pro with the intel i5: 1799 bucks! WTF! For half the price, I can already beat the specs with a windows build. The mac osx does have media editing software (for more additional charges) that does make a macbook appealing, but there are software applications on windows as well.
Viruses and other malware can definitely be a selling point to purchasing a macbook...for the ignorant. Certainly, I've accidentally downloaded malware when I was younger (like way back in early high school). But I used the internet to help me determine the do's and don't's to internet use. If you are so worried about malware and are rather computer illiterate, then you should buy a macbook. For now, you should be rather safe...I think.
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I must be missing something about these macbooks. Tell me please.
3 comments:
Horray! More reason for me never to get a mac or "i" anything. :D thanks!
Your laptop looks and sounds awesome by the way! especially for it's price! What are it's dimensions anyway? just curios.
12.9 x 9.3 x 1 inches ; 3.7 pounds
http://www.amazon.com/UL30VT-X1K-Light-13-3-Inch-Laptop-Kindle/dp/B003JZC43O/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
Sweetness!
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