It had been quite a stress-filled and hectic day for me. I woke up at around noon time and prepared to go to the SITEX 2006 at Expo. My mother gave me a ride in case I wanted to purchase a laptop home. I had done a bit of homework on the day before and was deciding between the Asus J8N and the Vaio C (C15GP).
I arrived at Expo at around 1 pm. Cars were having trouble moving in and the crowd of people was huge as expected. I tried to locate the Sony and Asus booth by walking along the perimeter but didn't manage to spot them at first because they were both close to the center.
At the Asus booth, I saw the laptop I wanted. A lady promoter tended to me and I asked her if WoW ran fine on it. She said that she didn't play games so she wouldn't know (Meh). I told her that I would think about it and then he wrote her name on my brochure, saying that she'd throw in an additional external HDD if I came back to get the lappy from her. Looks like she was keen on leaving a good impression and getting a sales.
I dropped by at the Sony booth next. The Vaio C was a lot smaller than I expected despite being only 1 inch smaller than the 14-inch Asus one. My first impression was that I probably won't be able to enjoy playing games on it. Lots of people were going crazy over its colourful and stylish look, though. I asked the promoter if it would work well with WoW and I got a definitive 'yes'. He said he would throw in a free RAM upgrade to 1 GB if I bought from him.
At this point in time, I couldn't really decide if I wanted to buy a new laptop today. I felt like I was being rushed into making a decision because it was the last day of the SITEX. I decided to go home empty-handed for now to put more thought into it.
Back home, I was beginning to feel stressed. I more or less made up my mind on getting the Asus but now the problem was whether to get it today or not. I began asking around anyone I could find on MSN to see if I was making the right choice. The couple of hours I spent at home passed by very slowly as I struggled to make up my mind before 6 pm. My main concern was bringing home a laptop only to find that it would be a repeat of my nightmarish experiences with both my Acer laptops. That was something that my feeble heart could not take anymore.
After a whole lot of consideration, I finally decided to get it today. My mother drove me down again and I picked it up. Too bad the lady promoter I met earlier in the day wasn't there to give me my HDD freebie but the guy I spoke to this time wavered the extra credit card charges.
The thing that surprised me was that they actually took the laptop out, installed the battery, turned it on for me to inspect and then put everything nicely into the carry bag for me to take home. I guess I am quite 'swakoo' but I thought they would just give it to me in a box.
It was the moment of truth when I got home. I flew into a panic at first when I saw that the wireless connection option was completely missing from the laptop. It was only around five minutes of tinkering later that I realized the laptop used some other program to connect to wireless instead of the standard Windows one. It was quite strange. I spent the next hour or so testing the laptop to see if it worked, with my main concern being the wireless connection.
I am glad to say that, it is now past the 2-hour mark and not a single d/c yet. I hope this will keep up. At the moment, I am trying to install WoW. It is very slow (supposedly takes over an hour). I hope that things will be fine or else all that waiting would've been in vain.
Overall, I am quite glad with the way things turned out.
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