May 2007 Rs.70,000 from Plug n' Play Technologies, Lamington Road, Mumbai (also considered wide range of vaio laptops but HP ruled my senses when i saw it!)
HP dv9222tx Laptop:
Intel Core2Duo 1.6 Ghz
1 GB RAM
160 GB SATA
nVidia GeForce 7600 256 MB
17 inch HD(ready) widescreen
Vista Home Premium
Altec Lansing Speakers
DVD RW, Wi-fi, Bluetooth enabled, 1.3 MP Cam & the works from HP
October 2008
Assembled my own system: from Raj Enterprises, 349 Lamington Rd, Mumbai. Tel:23880068 / 23808898 - ask for Raju
Intel Core2Quad Q9300 2.5 Ghz 6MB L2 Cache 1333Mhz FSB (Rs.12250)
Asus P5-KVM Motherboard (Rs.4800)
Western Digital SATA 500 GB (Rs.3350)
nVidia XFX 8400GS 512 MB Graphics (Rs.2150)
ViP Cabinet (Rs.1,350) - sorry i can't remember the model no.
True 500 W SMPS (Rs.2,850)
Simmtronics 4GB RAM (2GB*2) 667 Mhz with 5 yrs warranty (Rs.1800 x 2)
Intenal Card Reader (Rs.700)
Sony 20x DVD RW (Rs.1300)
Installed: Vista Ultimate, Norton 2008 Net Security, Office 2007 & using XP Pro as my 2nd OS
i trusted 2 experienced comp dealers with the smps choice & motherboared (had considered a Gigabite earlier) cause i didn't know too many people with QuadCore Systems, so i had no way to compare the effectiveness, but thankfully everything seemed to fit in perfectly, esspecially the Mobo.
at the time, i chose to invest more money in the cpu, ram & drive cause we never tend to upgrade the basic config usually, instead i saved a bit of cash on the graphics which i hope to upgrade around 6-8 months down the line along with my Monitor
My Peripherals:
HP Officejet all-in-one 4255 (Rs.7800 in October 2005 from Mumbai)
LG 15 inch LCD Monitor (Rs.11000 in October 2005 from Mumbai)
Transcend 8GB PenDrive (Rs.1000 in October 2008 from Mumbai - Lifetime Warranty!!)