After a lot of deliberation I finally ordered ASUS K55VM-SX086D, a true powerhouse with 3rd gen Core i7 processor (quad core), with 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M 2 GB DDR3, chicklet keyboard, 15.6 inch widescreen backlit LED display, USB 3.0, and touchpad with gesture control. I thought I had spent a lot of time with my 2003 born P4, 1.5 GB PC and my Intel Atom (Asus only!) netbook and finally need a real powerhouse to test what I enjoy most - use different OSs!
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I ordered it on Sunday from an Indian online store and got delivered this amazing machine within 24 hours! I don't have Windows 7 64 bit DVD with me right now to install all the drivers provided by the manufacturer. Tomorrow I'll do it. But, today I booted up Ubuntu 64 bit 12.04 LTS and Fedora 17 32 bit. Amazingly smooth and great effects in Ubuntu using compizconfig. I could have installed both of them today but thought of installing Windows 7 first to update the drivers.
Expect reviews of the latest Linux distros in future from my side. Earlier I couldn't boot a lot of distros in my old hardware and now that limitation is gone.
A detailed specification is provided here.
I ordered it on Sunday from an Indian online store and got delivered this amazing machine within 24 hours! I don't have Windows 7 64 bit DVD with me right now to install all the drivers provided by the manufacturer. Tomorrow I'll do it. But, today I booted up Ubuntu 64 bit 12.04 LTS and Fedora 17 32 bit. Amazingly smooth and great effects in Ubuntu using compizconfig. I could have installed both of them today but thought of installing Windows 7 first to update the drivers.
Expect reviews of the latest Linux distros in future from my side. Earlier I couldn't boot a lot of distros in my old hardware and now that limitation is gone.
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