Vagabond’s Caravan

Bet that no one would ever agree with me (on the post title), haha. Nah, not an Acer fan here but price plays a big role in my decision making, so I finally got myself an Acer desktop PC. And so far, I’m more than happy. =)

Had been shopping for a new desktop for months - asking around for the lowest price (lol, in Brunei, you gotta know someone..), comparing specs (especially for gaming!) while fighting off my dilemma of buying it before or after I finish my A level exams.

^ It comes with a free set of Acer wireless keyboard and mouse. The black mouse pad serve as a handy background for my amatuer product shot, =)

^ Another shot of the set, I think it’s pretty well lit. Haha. The keyboard is very damp, i.e. silent operation but required some time before I could get used to it, common for a transition from laptop keyboard to desktop keyboard.

^ I love the glowing ASPIRE! Nice touch up Acer! =)

Now the real technical part - the desktop runs on a powerful Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor (with 6MB cache, featured Intel’s new 45nm technology), 2 GB DDR2 RAM (typical on it’s class), 320GB hard disk and GeForce 9500 GS.

In layman’s term, it means that Photoshop CS3 takes less than 3 seconds to start-up. WOW!

Not sure if that’s impressive but for someone who upgraded from a dead Pentium 4 desktop (with 256MB RAM.. -.-”) and a hyper low spec laptop (Celeron M 1.6 GHz with 512MB RAM), the upgrade is steep. =)

^ The expansion bay is nice, and there’s a lot of USB ports - 9 in total excluding firewire. Nice! =)

I’m still not used to Windows Vista and are very skeptical about it’s stability, lol. Too lazy to reboot it with XP…. maybe after A level, lol. And I really need to calibrate my monitor, the contrast is amazingly high! Or perhaps my previous laptop’s contrast was way too low.

Let me know in your comment about the contrast and colour of the second photo, so I can have an idea of how my LCD differ from yours. =)