Acer & Asus Intel Sandy Bridge notebook spotted.

Acer & Asus's Intel Sandy Bridge finally made itself to Malaysia. The 2nd generation of Intels Core i series put a heavy pressure to their counterparts. Acer claims their notebook to be the first sandy bridge notebook ever arrived in Malaysia.

Acer Aspire 5750G

With the following specifications:

• Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel Core i7-2630QM processor (6 MB L3 cache, 2.0 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.90 GHz, DDR3 1600 MHz, 45 W)
• Mobile Intel® HM65 Express Chipset
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M with NVIDIA® Optimus™ technology (1024 MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM)
• 15.6″ HD 1366 x 768 high-brightness Acer CineCrystal™ LED-backlit TFT LCD
• 16:9 aspect ratio
• 640GB SATA HDD / 4GB DDR3 RAM (upgradeable to 8GB)
• 8X DVD Super Multi Plus Drive
• HDMI™ port with HDCP support
• 381.6 (W) x 253 (D) x 25.2/33.2 (H) mm

Price is RM2,899 which is CHEAP for new generation intel chipset and processor for a notebook. The notebook can last for more then 4.5hours of battery runtime. Price is so CHEAP, its really affordable if you want value for pocket money. Powered with NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M, you'll get better experience playing games and also video encoding, it is one of the 2nd class graphic card notebook according to notebookcheck.net. If you want new and "value for money" laptop, this is your choice.


Asus N53SN 

With the following specifications:

• Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel Core i7-2630QM processor (6 MB L3 cache, 2.0 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.90 GHz, DDR3 1600 MHz, 45 W)
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 550M with 2GB DDR3 VRAM Graphics
• 15.6″ HD 1366 x 768 LED Backlight
• 16:9 aspect ratio
• 640GB SATA HDD / 4GB DDR3 RAM (upgradeable to 8GB)
• 8X DVD Super Multi Plus Drive
• Intergrated 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, USB 3.0
• 6 cell battery
• 2 Years Global Warranty (1 year global + free 1 year global)

Price is RM3,599. Asus have clearly made its first sandy bridge notebook to Malaysia. Besides that, this notebook have one of the first class graphic card notebook according to notebookcheck.net. Asus also offers 2 years global warranty which means you can send your notebook to Asus care center anywhere across the globe. Asus have mentioned the notebook will arrive this February, but someone already start selling the notebook with the same price here. So if you want a really good notebook with better build quality and graphic performance, this notebook is your choice. 

You can download ASUS brochure here

One problem, both comes WITHOUT backlit keyboard!!

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