It might not be as fancy as the high-class
Lamborghinis our pals at Engadget Chinese saw at
Computex, but according to this review, the 14-inch Centrino Duo W3J is a winner. Weighing in around 4-pounds, it fits right into the ultra-portable category, but doesn't skimp on specs including a Core Duo processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 that maxes out at 512 MB when the HyperMemory kicks in (256MB onboard and 256MB shared RAM). It even has the Bluetooth 2.0 that its cousin the
A8Jm was so tragically missing – at least here in the States. All that, plus Asus' signature brushed metal styling and a battery life of about 2.75 make this machine sound like a champ, but we still can't help but think about the slick
Q35 we could buy with the £1029 asking price.
posted Jun 14th 2006 2:07AM
Are you sure that battery life of 2.75 hrs is correct!?
Too bad the Samsung doesn't have the X1600 Mobility like in the Asus. That card is a beast, even beating the 7600 Go.
Asus sure doesn't skimp on decent GPUs for their laptops.
I wish this laptop came out about 3 months earlier. I would have gotten it instead of the Ferrari 4006.
What a goodlike product.. xm...
2.75 hours battery life? That is unacceptably poor. One would assume that, with Wi-Fi on, that would drop to, what, an hour and a half? Unusable.
The review says 2.75 with "general use" and the non-extended battery, so it doesn't seem that bad for all the power it's packing.
It gets over 3.5 hours of battery life. I know asus laptops very well. it even has a modular bay for another battery giving it over 5 hours of life.
and to the user above WIFI only take away about a half hour. 3.5 hours is with everything on in battery saving mode.
You can buy the big battery and double the battery life. But then its no longer ultra portable ...
actually there is no big batter for this laptop. it comes with an 8cell battery the laptop weight is 5.5lbs. but you can remove the optical bay and put a second battery in. and this isnt an ultraportable and ultraportable is like a 3.5lbs laptop and less.
It has the specs of a mid-size notebook, that's for sure. That X1600 is incredible.
Any word if ASUS is planning to release a barebone model with these specs? Doubtful, but one can only wish. This is a soup'd up Z63A.
asus barbones and ensembles this time around will not share any chasis. They new barbones are very bland looking. but they have two barbone series now reg asus and VBI verified by intel. they also have a model a8jm wich is like the w3j but with a 7600 go a webcam and dvi port. its 1499. just go to notebookforums.com and the asus forum. if you want to look at whats out go to proportable.com or geared2play.com they sell asus laptops. But there are some barebones 15.4in with pretty much the same specs.
Can it be had without the glossy screen?