I am a student doing my graduation in Computer Science.  Being a Geek, technology is all I can think about! I know I know, most of you are probably saying how come he is proclaiming himself as a g33k (leet enough for you? )......well the fact that I am the top ranker in my college, having set up and managed the entire Computer lab in my college, pioneered a special ‘Teach the Teachers some Tech’ initiative, and being the guy who everyone calls when they have an issue, I can safely say I have used Technology in the way it was intended to be used!

But being a student has its drawbacks. I am currently using an HP Pavilion dv6000 series laptop. Although its a bloody good performer, its not the Iron Man of laptops!! It can manage to run a majority of the apps that I use most often, such as Visual Studio 2k5 or Photoshop(albeit a bit slow).....but it sucks at gaming! I tried playing Bioshock on this once, but the Nvidia 7200 series gfx card, made me enjoy a slide-by-slide presentation of the starting presentation video. I gave up immediately after that, b’cos I didn’t wanna keep playing the game till my first son arrives!!! :D I’ve even had nightmares that I tried to run Crysis on it and caused a meltdown! :S And since I am an avid movie buff, as well as an amateur photographer, many a times I feel that the machine is a helluva lot underpowered when it comes to editing and encoding movies. Now this is where the HP Pavilion HDX can fill a huge void in my life! Do you know what happens to the self-image of a geek when he realises his PC is slower than his neighbour, who uses it only for surfing Facebook??!! :S With this baby, I could have the most mind-blowing, teeth grinding, crysis fraggin beast in the city(I dunno how many people have this ‘powerhouse’ in Mumbai!) I mean just imagine how much this machine will change my life! I could play all the latest games without having to play at the lowest resolution and switching off all effects. Nor would I have to pray to god everyday to get me an xbox360(every night!!) hehehe...And no one would dare challenge me to a frag-off in CS if he ever saw my laptop!!!! Then comes in the firepower in terms of the kick ass CPU. I could convert all my movies for my PSP, MS Zune and brother’s iPod with ease! That would save me so much time rather than waiting for hours waiting for the bloody process to complete! Speaking of movies, I watch all my movies on my laptop, since I do not own a television. Believe me, watching a movie on a small laptop, hunched in front of your desk, with earphones, sucks!!!! This thing would revitalise my movie watching experience. With this beauty, I could enjoy my movie watching experience in comfort thanks to that brilliantly designed remote (when I saw that, I blurted out loud “ Why didnt I think of that?!") and that 20 inch screen would be sweeeeeeeeet! And that in-build TV Tuner will give me my TV fix whenevver I crave for it!! Speaking of a 20 inch screen, having so much screen real estate would help me in my designing. I design small websites and graphics to earn some money on the sidelines. And a 15 inch screen isn’t really helpful in that endeavour!! And those integrated Altec Lansing speakers ought to blow my pants off with their audio quality! I am already impressed with my current Altec Lansing speakers that HP has integrated with my current laptop. They sound friggin awesome. Imagining 4 speakers with an inbuilt woofer in a laptop sounds simply mind boggling to me!! I have to hand it to the HP design chaps, they must have some killer minds to design a product like this! Those speakers will do full justice to my music and movie collection that I have painstakingly collected over the years!

All in all, this machine would fill every technological gap that exists in my life. I leave in June to start my MBA course, and having a top of the line lappy by my side during the two year course would make sure that I am 100% entertained and 100% productive and 200% happy!!! And having that fingerprint recognition system will ensure that my data will remain secure from the other peeps at my college! That 500 GB harddisk ought to hold all my music and pics so that I can keep my family photos and movies to watch whenever I miss them! Having wireless connectivity will ensure that I can use the WiFi facilities to stay connected and also connect my PDA to stay synchronised! This thing will simply change the way I live, work, play and most importantly it will make my ‘Computing’ truly ‘Personal Again’ !! Thank you HP and John Obeto for giving us this amazing oppurtunity and giving me sweet dreams at night that I may one day own this Stylish, powerful and multi-faceted device!