As you know I got mysef a laptop while in KL and "she" (yes she has been dubbed she mainly because of her name "BaoBei" which means "treasure" in Chinese - also means "baby" and well she's both) only cost me RM1,899 which is about S$825. Not bad right? She would of cost me at least twice that amount here, and yes she's brand new!

She's an Acer Aspire 3680 and came with:

Processor : Intel Celeron M @ 1.73 GHz

RAM : 512 MB

Hard Drive: 60 GB

Optical Drive : DVD/CDRW combo

Screen : 14.1" 1280 X 800 LCD screen

Weight: 2.4kg (5.28 lbs)

Others : Built in wireless modem, 5-in-1 built in card reader, s-video/tv out support, PC card slot, built in mic, 3 USB ports, 1 year international warranty

She was pre-loaded with Linux (Windows XP would have cost me an extra RM300/S$130) but I've since installed Windows XP on her (which I got for like RM8/S$3.50) as well as a load of other software.

She's mainly silver in couple but I've "beautified" her top a couple of times. The first I "beautified" here I made this sticker of this black piggy cartoon character I like called Monokuro Boo as well as having "MeiBao" (my Chinese name) printed out on this pink film in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. All of which I stuck in a variety of places. Here's how she looked...

After that I decided to take off the pink film stuff, mainly because the printed black area was coming off (I used the office printer which uses toner powder so that could be why) and plus the film wasn't sticking all that well. I kept the piggy which I made out of black and white vinyl sticker roll which I bought at an art store. I decided to use a Korean phrase instead. I ended up choosing "Please help me" - don't ask me why - I had to cut out each character out. I used the same black vinyl sticker roll as the piggy.

Lynn was asking why I used that phrase and I started to think that maybe I should change it, so at her suggestion I used BaoBei but did it in Korean instead. The Korean word for "treasure" is Bo-Mul and that's what I used. Whatcha think?

Since I've gotten her though I have "spotted" another laptop that has caught my eye. It's a Twinhead Stylebook 12D. The 12D comes with a slightly faster processor (1.86 GHz), a larger hard drive (80GB), a DVD-RW optical drive, a slightly smaller screen (12.1"), and only weighs 1.78 kg - everything else is pretty much the same - plus it's white! Would prefer this one so much more because it's smaller and lighter so really more mobile that the Acer one I have now, and that is actually the main reason for the switch. I can this puppy in Singapore for about S$1,600. I've yet to see if I can get it at a lower price in Malaysia, if not then I'll just get it in Singapore. I'm hoping to get the new one in June/July when I get my mid year bonus and then I'm selling my laptop to my nephew for about S$400. I'm going to name "BaoBei" as well and just basically transfer her "life force" over lol. Here's what the future "BaoBei" looks like....