My portable pride

Having a little cash to spare by the end of June, I wasted no time and decided to replace my old desktop PC (affectionately dubbed "The Vaccum Cleaner" due to the somewhat annoying noise it makes after it's been turned on for about 15 seconds) with a nice little notebook (laptop) PC instead. Woot.

After some research, where I among other things discovered that most of the laptops of this world are made in one of two or three factories in the East, I landed on the Quanta KN-1 (sold in Norway by MPX). So, why a whitebox? Well, it's build by the same people that build IBMs, Dells and HPs so the quality is pretty good, the specs are great for the price and the whole thing cost way less than a similar name-brand notebook. MPX has a great warranty deal AND the thing uses bog-standard parts, so should anything wear out/break, I should be able to find spare parts easily.


I've had it up and running for about a week now, and I like it a lot. The screen is good (although at a somewhat limited 1200x800 resolution), the performance is great (Doom 3 runs like, ahem, hell) and it looks like I'll be able to do some out-of-the-studio work on it as well, as soon as I get a proper audio/midi solution for it (something like the M-Audio Ozone).

Still: this thing came in the most dreadfully dull cardboard box with some wording that made it look like a box of soap. As a rough comparison, my PowerMac G5 came in a box that I could have displayed in a modern art exhibition, to great acclaim. And I'm just talking about the outer box.


On a more serious note: My thoughts are with everyone who fell victim (directly or indirectly) of yesterday's explosions in London. I really like London, and I am sad to see this happen.