Asus X54C-SX365D Laptop (Pentium Dual Core 2nd Gen/2 GB/500 GB/DOS)

:)n* Great value for money n* Its also got one USB 3 portn* Windows 7(64) runs smoothn* Real quiet machinen* Doesn't look cheap and delicate. Very sturdy build. nn:(n* only 2 USB portsn* audio not very loud but clearn* camera not very clear, but manageable

Use it for trading, multi-tasking, editing photographs in photoshop, corel & lightroom, general browsing, researching trading systems and back-testing some very large data. Have done all of these together and the machine does not break a sweat. Do game sometimes, like NFS etc, and this machine can handle many pretty decent games but not for a gaming addict playing very high fps games, other than that it pretty much does everything under the sun. Pros: +Cheap +Large hard drive - 500 GB HDD +Fast Processor - 2.2 GHz Processor +USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 +Asus IceCool technology - keeps the laptop hand rests completely cool +Asus has quality components +Excellent display quality +Asus software is easy, light and very friendly to use +HDMI Port +Extremely quiet operation +Stays very cool +Has an inbuilt mic, not mentioned in specks, so good for chatting +Touch pad turns off and on, so I have it off and plug in my external mouse, which is great. Good touch pad though +Asus software allows control of colors, red, green & blue individually. Hence enhancing the screen quality further for photographers, web-designers and editors +Good shortcut keys on keyboard for pretty much everything from wifi, external display switching to sound & display brightness +Large keys on the keyboard, very easy to type Cons: -Only 2 USB posts 3 would have been excellent -Webcam - Very dull, have to but an external one for quality chats Flipkart as usual did a fine job, delivered the piece in 2 days flat from Mumbai, I was expecting it in about 10 days and surprise! Thanks. Overall a very good purchase.