The Great Notebook Search Part Deux

ang pagdadalaga ni maximo oliverosFirst off, you would notice that I quite ingeniously used “Part Deux” instead of the more commonly used “Part II” to mark the distinction that this post is the second part of an ongoing process, namely to leech a laptop off of my client, as discussed here.

Using the French version done ostensibly, of course, to parlay the message that I am a smart person, incidentally one of the many, albeit hidden reason why this blog exists. Other than that of course, is the fact that I am a fan of stupid Charlie Sheen movies, one of which is Hot Shots! Part Deux, which for some reason I dreamt of last night.

At any rate, enough of Topper Harley (I think that’s the reason I dreamt of it. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a name like Topper Harley? I have a friend named Topper, he’s pretty weird. He once went and took a job as a dishwasher in Binondo “just because he wanted to try it out”. More likely because he was also a movie fanatic like myself, and wanted to emulate Bruce Lee’s early life as glorified in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story). Now whenever I see him, I feel like asking: “So did you get education? Or check in motel with girlfriend, dishwashaaa?!”

So anyway, this post, believe it or not, is about notebooks. And before I discover more unrelated topics to talk about (right now I was just about to start on the Franco Prussian War of 1871, not that I know anything about it, but like I said, I just wanted to show that I’m smart. If you didn’t know that already, read this whole post again as you are obviously not paying attention).

There’s a computer store at the basement of Robinson’s Galeria, one of which always has a crowd of mostly male onlookers standing around, as it shows over and over again “The worst fights in the NBA”. Actually I just made that name up, but I’m sure it’s named somewhat the same. Anyway they’ve been showing that same clip over and over again for probably more than a year now, and it never fails to get a crowd. Seriously, what a bunch of losers. I mean, can’t these guys find anything else better to do with their time than watch stupid basketball fights over and over again?!?

So anyway, I was there uhhmm.. researching Stephen Jackson and wild boy Ron Artest display their love and affection to appreciative Detroit fans, when I glanced over to the next store, and there it was:

efio e12b-524

Topper Harley!!

Just kidding. Actually it was the Twinhead efio e12b-524

efio e12b-524

Specs are as follows:

    Processor – Intel� Celeron� M 370 (1.5GHz / 1Mb cache / 400MHz)
    O.S. – NO O.S.
    Memory – 256Mb DDR SDRAM
    Video – on board
    Audio system – on board
    Display – 12.1in. XGA TFT LCD (WOW !!!)
    Harddrive – 40Gb Harddrive
    Optical Drive – DVD+CDRW Combo Drive
    Modem – 56Kb Modem
    Mouse Device – Touch Pad
    Weight – Extra Light Weight
    Battery – Extended Life
    Thermal – New 3D Thermal Dissipation
    Wi-Fi – 802.11b Wireless LAN
    Software – Nero V6.0 / PowerDVD

Notice if you will, that there’s a “WOW!” beside the “Display – 12.1in. XGA TFT LCD” portion of the specs. I did not put that there, I just copied straight off of the PC Corner website. Notice as well, if you will, that nowhere is the Efio e12b-524 model anywhere to be found on the net other than Pccorner.com.ph and subsite laptopking.com.ph.

Yes, it’s not on the Twinhead site itself.

Notice as well, that there is no claimed weight on the “Weight” portion, as it just says “Extra Light Weight”. I think this is “Extremely Stupid”, given the fact that one needs merely to “Read the brochure” for the appropriate measurement. Incidentally, the weight is on the horribly risographed brochure I got from the store, claimed at a feather like 1.6kg.

Notice finally however, if you will, the list price, at P39,900.00 – the main issue why I am paying attention to it. Not its piddling Celeron, not the “WOW” 12″ XGA Display, and not the fact that it’s white – which reminds me – i’ve always wondered why notebook manufacturers weren’t offering colors to snazz up their lineups. And now that Macs made inroads, everyone’s offering white books as well. How creative.

And finally, interviewing the saleslady resulted in other discoveries. It cannot handle more than 512mb. (it has 256mb. by default, and the upgrade costs around P2k), and one cannot make a deal with the features (I asked if I could trade the DVD reader for a normal one in exchange for more RAM or a discount, amongst other variations of trade offs, which was met with headshaking and slightly annoyed guffaws from said saleslady).

So now I’ve finally decided on a model – will I buy it? Well, I’ll ask my client first again (hoping that she hadn’t forgotten our conversation about it), and then we’ll see.

Aaaand, that’s it – that’s what this whole post was about. To display the model I like, and my plans on acquiring it. Exciting yes?

Oh btw, I’m not gonna let this post finish without one final opportunity to show off my skills, this time in the useless information department.

Topper Harley is actually a Harley Davidson scooter model, circa 1959, ad here:

efio e12b-524

I found that out whilst googling the word. Smart smart smart. Til’ later, dishwashaaa.

2 thoughts on “The Great Notebook Search Part Deux”

  1. hey, have you bought the unit? hows the battery life? i mean how extended is extended?
    tnx

  2. nope havent bought it. sadly, my priorities have changed rather drastically these past few weeks :(. thanks for the visit though!

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