Entry 32 - New Laptop

I bought a new laptop yesterday, it's an Asus N43J.  The Asus N43J wasn't actually part of my list of choices.  I already did a lot of research about which laptop I should buy, and Asus N43J wasn't in that list.  I didn't even know that the Asus N43J existed until yesterday.  My original choices were either the Dell XPS 15 or the HP Envy 14. I chose these two models as they had good performance, and they were not noisy and not prone to overheating.  I already tried looking for these models but these two models are not available anywhere here in the Philippines.  I already looked everywhere and gave a lot of time researching as to where I could possibly buy these here in the Philippines but I just couldn't find it.  Because of this, I had to change my plan.  My plan yesterday was to look around at SM Megamall's Cyberzone, check out what laptops were available in the market.  The specs I was looking for is at least an Intel CORE i5 as well as at least an AMD Radeon 5670 or GeForce GT 325m.  As I was looking around, I mostly saw some low end specs, and I only saw a couple of models that was near the specs I wanted.  I went to a couple of stores, looked around, and at one of the stores, I was given an Asus brochiere.  Asus was actually having a new years promo, the brochiere had a couple of models they were selling with some additional freebies.  I saw the Asus N43J, the specs were within what I wanted, but was a little above my price range.  Freebies included a 500GB USB3 external harddrive as well as a Logitech wireless mouse.  I also kinda liked the look of the laptop, aesthetically it looked good.  I was intrigued so I tried reading about this model through the internet, but I couldn't find much information as this was a farely new model.  I wasn't sure if I was going to buy this model, so I still looked around.  I got to this Lenovo store, and saw the Lenovo Y460.  I actually had read a lot about the Lenovo Y460 already, and one thing I didn't like about it was that it heated up more than other laptops.  The specs were within what I wanted, price range was actually nearer to what I was aiming at.  Freebies were also available, including a wireless mouse and two laptop bags (the bags actually looked good).  So now I had two choices, buy the Asus N43J which I didn't know a lot about or buy the Lenovo Y460 which I had read a lot about but had some negatives to it like the heat issue.  Well, it took me a while but I finally decided to go for the Asus N43J.  What made me decide?  One factor was that it was newer than the Lenovo, it had a Blue-Ray drive, and a USB 3.0 port.  The Lenovo didn't have this.  I was thinking, since I was willing to shell-out a somewhat large amount to buy a laptop, why not buy something that was more future proof.  I also thought that I was already overthinking, taking into consideration too much of the research.  I was thinking that I wanted the perfect notebook, considering performance, noise level and heat issues.  I didn't know any of these things about the Asus N43J but I decided to buy it anyway.  I made a risk, and hopefully it pays off, that the laptop I bought would live up to what I want it to be.