Chevrolet Optra Review Part II

Okay, here is the second part of my review. Here, I think I will talk about the performance of the Optra. The 1.6l powerplant may not be enough to push the car, as the car weighs roughly 1400kg. The engine is relatively smooth. I managed to rev the engine to around 6000rpm, in which the engine starts to feel rough, and noisy. But heck, who revs the car to such insane rpms? I only did so because I wanted to overtake some slow drivers. The best part was that daddy did not mind much. All he said was mind the corner ! Near my home ( Len Sen area ), the hilly roads are relatively windy, and is perfect to test the car. At the back roads, I managed to do around 75km/h, which the car still feels planted, and it is still possible to push the car even more. I did managed to have some fun with cars like a Kancil, a Volvo 240 and a Honda City. But the same can't be said for my mom, as she keeps saying this like, " SLOWER ! " Daddy said he will change the tires to Goodyear Ducaro GAs soon, which I can't wait, as the current tires are quite noisy.

A little review

Here I would like to put my little review on a Chevy Optra 1.6. Well, the car isn't brand new, and I did not know how the previous driver drove it, so my review is an as-is basis. Anyway, I'll start now.
The car is the first gen Optra, which means that the looks is generic when compared to its international siblings. It has a good shape, safe for the fact that not many people are aware of how good this car actually is. The direct competition for this model, which is the 1.6, is the Proton Waja, Proton Persona and maybe even the new Suzuki SX4 Sedan. The engine is a Daewoo sourced 1.6 E-TEC II, which produces 107bhp at 6500rpm. A little more when compared to the first gen Waja, but if compared to the CPS Waja, even the 1.8 Optra pales in comparison. The Waja and Optra's suspension system is tuned by Lotus. But I suppose the similarities end there. The steering of the Optra feels planted, and has a good weight feel to it. My quip is that the sudden pickup of the car is just not good enough. I have driven other cars where when the accelerator is pushed down, the car slips down a gear or two, but for the Optra, I need to press rather hard before it kicks down A gear. It seems to lack the fun factor there.

End of Part I

A small update.

Its has more than a week since I have last updated my blog. Delays and delays. Damn. Anyhow, I have finished testing the "damn" izzi 4G. I am seriously not impressed by this product at all. For something that costs RM700+++, I was expecting a hell lot more. My principal thought it could work indoors, but I have tested it, and well? it sucks. No offense, but only 1 or two rooms has marginally good signal. I am disappointed by this product. Don't get me wrong, it has the potential to do well, but I was not allowed to ring it out, due to the nature of this product. Download speeds hovered at 30 kbps, which is nothing to shout at. Really, I do hope that the Government brings out WiMax sooner, so that it will be a hell lot easier for most, if not all, of us.

PC Fair August 2008 Coverage PT4

After emerging from the speaker zone, I was greeted by

Sony girls. Nice..

Anyhow, Intel was opposite Sony, and...I saw these guys.

So-called Intel engineers. Scary.

I went to look for something that interests me more, like this,



If you are so inclined, this is the new 45nm CPU from Intel. TO be honest, I don't really give a damn.

I only gave a damn to this.


3 graphics cards in perfect harmony. Beautiful. But there were too many idiots ogling at the poor thing. But if you do look carefully, you'll notice two thins. One, the cards are too near together, which is bad for airflow. Two, where are the SLI connectors?? I do wonder how much does this rig costs.

Wall-E spotted. Cute fella.


More girls.





Anyhow, this was the last hall with girls worth snapping. I think I'll just let it stop here. Enjoy. :)

PC Fair August 2008 Coverage PT3

Ha. My dreaded zone. The speaker zone. Sigh.





I officially lost a few decibels after coming out of there.

PC Fair August 2008 Coverage PT2

The specs are not to be laughed at as it has an Intel Core2Extreme Quad Core CPU at 3GHz. Damn. It come with 4GB of RAM (!), 1TB of HDD (!), Vista Ultimate and 2x 8800GTS. The letdowns are the motherboard. Who would still be using an X38 with X48 around? And why "just" a DVD-RW? Why not go straight for Blu-Ray? BTW, it also comes with a Samsung 22" LCD, which I can say, is stunning.
Whitebox, the local PC assembler had some interesting rigs up. First off was the Whitebox Titanium, which costs a whopping RM9000. This is the spec sheet.

The rig.
They did set up GRID as a demo game, so I tried my itchy hands on it. To my disappointment, it does not perform as well as I expected it to. Whenever there is dust/smoke, it lags horribly. Why not? The X38 is mean for CROSSFIRE, not SLI, if that is what Whitebox is trying to do. Why not throw in the ATi cards that were meant for the beast?

The rig's yellow casing. Note, the LCD on the right is not the Samsung, but rather a 19" LG Fantasy LCD.

PC Fair August 2008 Coverage PT1

Friday, 11am. PC Fair starts. I was there 20 minutes later. That was surprisingly early. Anyhow, let the pictures do the talking.

So early that this is the first time I saw this. No crowd. Nice.

Map of PC Fair 2008. I wonder where to start from.
I'll start from Conference Hall, then.

Look at the first girl that I snapped.

Cute?
Well, here's the second one.

Why Japanese style? Because Oki is Japanese.


Toshiba girls.