I’ve just bought my first notebook - Dennis' Blog of Indiscriminate

Played around with my notebook these days..

• MS Windows Vista is not that worst....except the UAC.


• CULV and 8hr battery life is SUPER,   I have never walk with the power adapter on street yet. It change how you do think - like a mobile phone,  can use it at day and charge it at night.


• Just tried the DXVA with Media Player Classic - HC and it works very well, less then 10% CPU time was consumed. But how can I RIP my own AVI with DXVA compatible encoding?


• The harddisk is even 30% larger that on my deskop PC.


• It seem that the CPU is not slower then my desktop  PC also.....


• The text are little bit small on the 11.6" LCD, it is a problem.


• Waiting to upgrade to Windows 7


• I always forget the numlock.


• The wifi is good, not tried the 802.11-N.


• I must buy a cleaning toolkit in this month........


• It is quite tried if you take it and walk for a whole day........you might running out of power before it does.


• Do you know that they officially remove the 10-half-connection limit from Vista SP2?


• Some how I disabled the Hibernate feature.....I have to enabled it back later.


• It is stupid.......... It does not ship with a DVD-ROM or DVD-burner, but pre-installed a PowerDVD (I guess it is for DXVA)


• It it stupid(x2) .. Acer eRecovery tool cannot produce backup DVD, because it does not have one..... seeking for a remote burn or virtual DVD-burner.


• It ship with MS Works...try it out later,  but I still have to install Word/Excel Viewer later.

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I've just bought my first notebook

It is a Asia AS1810TZ.

I choose it not because it has many great feature nor size-&-weight.

I choose it because it is the only one in my ideal size with life battery in a acceptable price.

10" inch models are too small for me. 14" inch models are a bit heavy for mobility.  There are not many options between 11.5" and 13" inches.

I've think about HP DV2, but it is hot and short battery from some comment I heard about it. I will eventually do programing on it so I need RAMs and dual-core, netbook is cheap but they are not my choice.

I am looking for some how long lived battery and I found Acer timeline serials. 8 hours, wow, more then a double then the others.

There are not too much options with Inter's solo processor (SUxxxx) CPU which have ultra-low-voltage. Lower power consumption make it lower heat and longer battery.