ASUS 13.3-inch UL30 gets reviewed, called a cutie pie
By Darren Murph 
posted September 18th 2009 9:44PM
posted September 18th 2009 9:44PM
posted September 18th 2009 9:44PM
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that was supposed to say I ♥ Asus.
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that was supposed to say I find hard to believe that people hit the 'add comment' button by accident before they finnish typing their comments.
Good to know that when ASUS said "Our goal is to provide products that are better than Apple's" they werern't just bluffing, this is a mayor improvement in terms of design, I'm not saying they're better already, i'll leave that to the fanboys, but they're cleary working to get there.
U ♥ Asus???
Eleazar: It's not a mistake, he must have written the heart as "less than" 3. Engadget's superior commenting system thinks it's an html tag and doesn't show it.
he said it "was supposed to say..."
nowhere did he say "i accidentally hit the add comment button."
smartass FAIL.
The glossy trim on the screen does look cute. :)
cue song: One Way - "Cutie Pie"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2o_SKj_-6Q
designers from cupertino, eh?
Without the pretentiousness of Apple, sweet! ; )
RKN: I don't know, something in between an apple and an ANUS would be nice.
if u cant beat them, copy them?
gigabit:
well @ least they didn't use displayport and stuck with hdmi
This machine will play 1080p content just fine since it has 4500MHD video. You just need to play the file using software that does hardware acceleration (Media Player Classic - Home Cinema or better yet, KMPlayer w PowerDVD 8 codecs).
My HP 2730p has a faster LV CPU (1.86Ghz and 6MB L2 cache), but w 4500MHD and KMPlayer, my CPU load during 1080p playback is only around 30% and it's butter smooth.
Mmm butter...
Why can't Asus put blush aluminum on the inside of notebook.
Ehh, give me an Ion powered lap/nettop that can support an external blu-ray and 1080p video
You are one of these people who spout buzzwords to make up for the fact they don't know much. The 4500mhd is perfectly capable of doing what you asked for.
@ matt: yes you will notice these people always start their sentences with "Give me a (insert buzzword here followed by more buzzwords).
Since you're only 13, you would have no idea that this style of keyboard was used on the Radio Shack Tandy TRS-80 CoCo in 1980(!), 16 years before you were born.
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/photos/tandy_coco1_1.jpg
It was rather shocking to see Apple revert to the "chicklet" keyboard merely for looks. However, having tried them, they aren't as bad as they look.
whenever apple comes out with something people just assume apple had an original idea when all along they copied an old idea and made it new again... chiclet keyboards where not an apple invention, sinclair computers that existed back in the days before most people were born had chiclet keyboards but then again most people never do look things up... http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html
Just why don't you slap a glowing logoon the front back and call it an apple rip. me at the age of 13 can even tell it's key looks like the MBP 13"
Yes, oh brilliant one, because Macs are the only ones EVER to use that style of keyboard.
I almost NEVER defend an applet, but here goes ... it's not the "style" of the keys ... sony came out with the modern, island, flat key board before apple. It's the color scheme of black on aluminum/silver. Once apple started using it (with a unibody they're stuck with the aluminum color), all kinds of people, using plastic bodies, unnecessarily copied it.
But hey, that's sort of the spirit of the entire auto industry. Most companies copy-very few lead.
HP was the first to use the black and silver combination. In fact, I have a 3 year old HP laptop with that color scheme in my closet.
But @Cory, you forget that even when a technology or design has existed for years, or even decades (multitouch), whenever Apple inc gets around to using it they invented it. Because they are innovators. Get with the program.
Anyone know if this laptop has lighted keypad buttons?
i tought that dual core cuvl could handle 1080p, but it seems it can't . Sure the gpu will solve that , still cpu performance should be better.
Um my $450 C2S/G45 ultra-portable can play 720p and 1080p H264/x264 content.
Good to know that when ASUS said "Our goal is to provide products that are better than Apple's" they really meant "Our goal is to copy products and make them worse than Apple's"
ASUS has hit a home run here. I was already pondering on buying the old UL30A-X2 with Intel SU3500, and they've come up with an even better offering updating the CPU.
It's a shame in the review by HotHardware that they haven't added an Atom powered netbook in the list of systems tested since this thin-n-light is supposed to compete in between the two categories.
Stand alone volume buttons please.
Agree here. I suppose we will all eventually learn/adjust to this trend of assigning volume, wireless on/off, play/pause/eject, display brightness etc, to the F keys. Still, I prefer dedicated controls for these functions.
Since you're only 13, you would have no idea that this style of keyboard was used on the Radio Shack Tandy TRS-80 CoCo in 1980(!), 16 years before you were born.
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/photos/tandy_coco1_1.jpg
It was rather shocking to see Apple revert to the "chicklet" keyboard merely for looks. However, having tried them, they aren't as bad as they look.
At least it doesn't look anything like a MacBook.....oh, waaaaaaaaaaait.
Now we need someone to put this heads up against the Acer Timeline and Lenovo U350
This or Acer's Timeline 3810T?
I bought this laptop 2 days ago and I love it. It can play a few game like the orange box pretty well and the screen is very nice.
Seven is snappy and the battery is just crazy!
It runs very cold even in full fat mode.
cooliris runs smooth and hard drive is very fast.
I am glad I changed laptop!
the 2 minor bad points I have are the shift key on the right, I am usued to use that one and isn't the better placed key.
The other one is the trackpad, the texture is actually alright but there is no edge so can be confusing.
Appart from those minor hickups, the laptop is awesome.
1080p videos from microsoft website aren't the smoothest but are watchable. Using the proper sotware would help.
It was shipped with 2 massive parttion of roughly 150Go each, not sure if it has a massive importance but it can help.
Any question reply to my comment and I'll try to give extra information.
Does it run Team Fortress 2 well ? I am just looking for a computer able to play this game.
Thanks