How to become a fan.
I like smooth trackpads. Some people like it tacky, cos it provides more feel and feedback.
It’s too bad the Acer trackpad is rather sticky, and since I added on a keyboard protector which is sticky as well, I was rather irked by it for a few days, having my fingers sometime stuck halfway while moving across the trackpad.
I thought of something simple and awesome to make the trackpad smooth once again, even if there was a layer of keyboard protector in between.
Tada!
I just stuck a piece of foolscap paper with two pieces of cellophane tape just covering enough of the trackpad. Now it’s nearly as smooth as butterspread. :)
Btw, see that big ass CRT screen, that’s the bigger brother behind.
I especially love bossa nova, smooth jazz and modern mainstream.
Streams fast and easily as long as you have Flash and a modern browser. Takes only about 8-10 kilobytes per second. Usable even on some mobile internet.
Grandmother
She can barely talk or move around independently anymore. Age really catches up…
ISO400 1/30 f2.2 50mm/1.7
Birds couple
A pair of birds grooming each other and fooling around
ISO400 1/125 f8 300mm 75300/4.5-5.6
I am totally in love with my new laptop because it simply has outstanding battery life. I used it about 3 hours in PSY202 class, about 2 hours in the PSY220 class in the afternoon, some light surfing for about 1 hour and it still has about 50 to 60 percent juice left in the battery.
Awesome!
And it’s barely warm when I put it on my lap during the whole 3 hour SPSS tutorial in the PSY202 class. Nice :)
My new lappie.
My 4th “wife”.
To recap, my 1st is my large desktop I’m typing this post on. My 2nd wife is my Epiphone Guitar. 3rd is my Sony A200 dSLR camera.
Just over CNY, one of my cousins joked about the ‘proliferation’ of the next generation of Chinese people in Malaysia. He proposed that I should have at least 4 to 6 children. Sounds awesome, right?
But what if my future wife doesn’t want to have more than 2, or even 1, or not at all?
He says, get 5 wives, then at least even if each one of them bear 1 child each, I’ll have 5 children already.
I now have 4, but none of them can bear my bloodline. It’s just too bad I don’t have fetishes for electronic devices, nor they are smart enough to rebuilt another smaller copy of themselves ala self-replicating machines.
Anyways, a bit more about this machine… and a short review.
It’s an Acer Timeline 1810TZ. The Acer Timeline series is a new series for people who desire decent power and extreme battery life. I can probably do some 5-8 hours of light web surfing on this device. It also has at least (thankfully) a decent processor - an Intel Pentium SU4100. Although it’s a “Pentium”, it is still built on the newer Core architecture and thus even with a lower clock speed of 1.3Ghz, it performs roughly the same as an older 2Ghz or better Pentium Dual Core, and it takes only about 10W of power doing that, while the older one takes as much as 35W.
I chose this laptop specifically because it’s about netbook sized, but it doesn’t have that wimpy Intel Atom processor that’s as crappy as my 5 year old Toshiba laptop. Instead, it has a nice chiclet keyboard, with a nice vibrant 11.6” LED backlit screen.
It’s also light enough that I can carry it on one hand. I didn’t choose a 14” laptop around the same price because I don’t exactly want to be reluctant to bring a laptop to college or wherever I go. The main point of a laptop is portability right? I already have a desktop at home anyways.
Likes :)
I think the keyboard and trackpad are awesome, and a far cry away from the small keys netbooks typically use. The trackpad is responsive, and has multitouch functions supporting up to three fingers.
I like the LCD screen as well for its nice contrast and sufficient brightness. It is also 1366 x 768, in true 16:9 widescreen format. Text and pictures also appear clear and sharp, better than the 19” CRT I’m using on this desktop (though I like the colors of the CRT more).
Oh and did I say it has a Core 2 processor?
And the 8 hour battery life?
HDMI port and VGA port both on a 12” machine. 3 USB ports, card reader, bluetooth, wifi. What else?
Probably does decent HD video with the Intel 4500MHD chipset in there.
Last and definitely the deal sweetener, it’s priced at only roughly MYR1850. I bought mine at MYR1838. That’s just barely above a netbook’s price.
Dislikes :(
Screen is glossy. Which gets lots of fingerprints and reflections even under indoor lighting. I wonder whether it’s usable outdoors at all?
No optical drive supplied. I heard the HP Pavilion DV2 has an external optical drive with the package. Oh well.
Gets a little hot and Acer is infamous for it’s overheats and power failures.
No Windows 7 or recovery disk. How am I supposed to do a backup or total system wipe then?
Too many stickers. Personal preference is that laptops should be nice and clean without any stickers. Oh well, what to do.
Comes with too much software junk. I had to spend the first whole night removing crap from my baby. Even the sentence sounds terrible.
Conclusion
Everyone who considered a netbook should just buy this instead.
Hello people!
I’ve just received 3 additional beta invites for those who want to try out Heroes of Newerth, a DoTA-esque game.
You can find out more info about the game from http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/ and HonWiki.
Just reblog this or reply to this post and I’ll contact you :)
