Introduction
At the end of 2007 I ordered from this F3SV 4launch Eindhoven. I have the laptop so than 1 month in use. The laptop is mainly used for web browsing and work. I also regularly play RTS games.
The laptop is used in combination with Ubuntu. Vista is installed in dual-boot, but I hardly. Use As far as I know, all the parts work under Ubuntu except for the fingerprint reader. The sound and the webcam did not work out-of-the-box. Display: 15.4 "WXGA Resolution 1280 x 800 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz) Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8600M GS 256MB DDR2 VRAM (up to 1024MB Turbo Cache) Memory: 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 DDR2 (Max. 4GB) Hard Drive: 160GB 5400rpm SATA 6-Cells Battery Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Dimensions: 361x267x28mm Weight: 2.9kg The laptop comes included mouse and bag. Featureset performance and the laptop has a fast processor T7500. At the time of writing this is still one of the fastest laptop processors. In this area it is certainly good. Also on the card is little to criticize. It's not just a 8600GT 8600GS but for most people (myself included), this is more than enough. The video card has its own memory of 256mb. 'Cause I, I have nevertheless chosen to participate. separate video card, at least fairly regular gaming video card performs well in games . So far I've only Dawn of War, World of Warcraft and Spring played. Turning the first two with no problems at most, while the latter gives more problems. I think that is due to the release (alpha) as it currently supports no dual-core processors, etc. This laptop is 2GB of internal memory to expand what is off to 4gb. With the current prices of internal memory, I think very soon upgrading to 4GB of memory since I expect the prices not much lower lake (can be) the coming years. The laptop is well equipped with connectors. On the back is the connection for the power and two USB ports. On the right are the DVI, VGA, S-video, Firewire, Ethernet, modem, ExpressCard expansion slot and a USB connection. On the front headphone and speaker jacks as well as a fourth USB port and a SD card reader. Left is still a DVD burner. What connection is not a flaw on this computer! screen with a screen of 15.4 inch laptop falls between the large desktop replacement and portable laptops. The screen has a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. This resolution is quite low compared to slightly more expensive computers, but since it is a 15.4 inch screen, I found it more than adequate. Keep this in mind if you want to see. Different programs side by side Here is the resolution quickly too low. screen surprised me with its colors. The picture looked very lively. Yet, the screen is one of the biggest drawbacks of the F3SV. This is due to two factors. First, the viewing angle dependence. From the sides, but especially from the top, the picture quickly darken. It also changes color slightly but it certainly could have been better. In addition, the screen reflects terribly. Here you have to regularly keep in mind when you sit down somewhere. If there is a bright light behind you, you see that very well back in the screen. However, this also has an "advantage". Disabling the fn + f7 button the backlight of the display screen can be used as well, although somewhat dark mirror. Multifunctional so! build quality and ergonomics The laptop is a solid material and seems to endure. rough handling When I get the screen from the back impressed I see as I have experienced that years back with some other laptops. No color distortion The swivel webcam is also firmly connected. I do have slight criticism of the pivot point of the screen. One of the two points is a little slack if I do not experience this as a serious defect (I just found out while writing this review). The keyboard is not particularly good nor bad. The touchpad is nice and includes a scroll piece being a very useful addition. Unfortunately you sometimes tend in this scroll piece to come without the intention, since there is no perceptible difference between the scroll and the "normal" piece. The included laptop mouse does what he needs to do and is easy to carry. On the arrangement of the connections I do have to note. a thing to The mouse is not very convenient to connect if you use other cables as always getting in the way of the mouse cable. It is more practical to place. Vga and dvi connections on the back What downright stupid placed the headphone jack. This is on the front and if you use it always is in this way. So if you have the laptop on your lap is the cable against your stomach, but if you've got the laptop on your desk the cable is in the way when you connect it to an external boxenset. I do not understand therefore why this connector is on the side. Moreover, it is still advisable to use the headphone jack for sure because the sound is really laptop sound. It may not sound very harsh and shrill. Heat and noise The laptop stays cool during normal operation. When the laptop computer is heavily loaded, you feel that it is quite hot on the spot under the cursor. This I have not experienced as annoying as it certainly kept within bounds. About the noise, I am also extremely pleased. Under heavy load, the laptop is only audible in a quiet room. Only makes the DVD player, as usual, some noise. mobility and battery life , the laptop is not particularly large for a laptop with a 15.4 inch screen. He is sure to take note though I would prefer to choose a smaller laptop with a smaller screen for daily work. The weight is not particularly. The adapter can be seen in the picture and is nothing special, though this one quite warm during use. The battery life I have some to criticize. Without socket you keep it at around 90-100 more minutes while you're surfing the web wirelessly. I think that is still very little. During heavy load, this further reduces to about 60-70 minutes. I use the standard 6 cell battery included. general -Some general things I want to mention. Standard Asus provides a recovery DVD with which you can recover. Vista again Unlike some others, it's on DVD instead of your hard drive. I think that is definitely worth mentioning. Also, a driver CD included. This only works on vista dvd asus laptops or what ensured that I had to use to run Vista in a VM. Another DVD -Vista is installed by default with plenty of "useful" utilities such as Norton Anti-Virus. Many other small program from Asus themselves are installed by default. Do you want anything out of this laptop, I still recommend to install (or another OS course) vista self -Asus delivers standard 2 year pick up and return warranty. -On to find the Asus website bios and driver updates only should you be able to get on that site. The site is flat and is often terribly slow. That should be better. -If you prefer windows xp used on this can be found on the Internet. manuals It should work though I have no experience with. -Under Ubuntu 8.04 everything works for me except for the fingerprint reader. Everything (including webcam) works out-of-the-box except the sound. To get the sound working you have the file in the / etc / modprobe.d alsa-base add the line "options snd-hda-intel model = lenovo" below the last line options. Mute (so NOT unmute) all sound channels and restart the computer. Now one for the channels again to unmute. When all channels full of open sets you get to hear. Hard annoying beep Price The price I think is a big plus of the laptop. In early January, I bought it for 919 euros but is already below 900 euros. For a laptop with these specifications, I think this is a very nice price. Despite some flaws, you get this money a complete laptop with mouse, bag and two year warranty from Asus. That was worth it for me if you have any questions, let's hear it, I try to respond. PS: this is my first review on tweakers.net -> criticism is welcome
At the end of 2007 I ordered from this F3SV 4launch Eindhoven. I have the laptop so than 1 month in use. The laptop is mainly used for web browsing and work. I also regularly play RTS games.
The laptop is used in combination with Ubuntu. Vista is installed in dual-boot, but I hardly. Use As far as I know, all the parts work under Ubuntu except for the fingerprint reader. The sound and the webcam did not work out-of-the-box. Display: 15.4 "WXGA Resolution 1280 x 800 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz) Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8600M GS 256MB DDR2 VRAM (up to 1024MB Turbo Cache) Memory: 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 DDR2 (Max. 4GB) Hard Drive: 160GB 5400rpm SATA 6-Cells Battery Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Dimensions: 361x267x28mm Weight: 2.9kg The laptop comes included mouse and bag. Featureset performance and the laptop has a fast processor T7500. At the time of writing this is still one of the fastest laptop processors. In this area it is certainly good. Also on the card is little to criticize. It's not just a 8600GT 8600GS but for most people (myself included), this is more than enough. The video card has its own memory of 256mb. 'Cause I, I have nevertheless chosen to participate. separate video card, at least fairly regular gaming video card performs well in games . So far I've only Dawn of War, World of Warcraft and Spring played. Turning the first two with no problems at most, while the latter gives more problems. I think that is due to the release (alpha) as it currently supports no dual-core processors, etc. This laptop is 2GB of internal memory to expand what is off to 4gb. With the current prices of internal memory, I think very soon upgrading to 4GB of memory since I expect the prices not much lower lake (can be) the coming years. The laptop is well equipped with connectors. On the back is the connection for the power and two USB ports. On the right are the DVI, VGA, S-video, Firewire, Ethernet, modem, ExpressCard expansion slot and a USB connection. On the front headphone and speaker jacks as well as a fourth USB port and a SD card reader. Left is still a DVD burner. What connection is not a flaw on this computer! screen with a screen of 15.4 inch laptop falls between the large desktop replacement and portable laptops. The screen has a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. This resolution is quite low compared to slightly more expensive computers, but since it is a 15.4 inch screen, I found it more than adequate. Keep this in mind if you want to see. Different programs side by side Here is the resolution quickly too low. screen surprised me with its colors. The picture looked very lively. Yet, the screen is one of the biggest drawbacks of the F3SV. This is due to two factors. First, the viewing angle dependence. From the sides, but especially from the top, the picture quickly darken. It also changes color slightly but it certainly could have been better. In addition, the screen reflects terribly. Here you have to regularly keep in mind when you sit down somewhere. If there is a bright light behind you, you see that very well back in the screen. However, this also has an "advantage". Disabling the fn + f7 button the backlight of the display screen can be used as well, although somewhat dark mirror. Multifunctional so! build quality and ergonomics The laptop is a solid material and seems to endure. rough handling When I get the screen from the back impressed I see as I have experienced that years back with some other laptops. No color distortion The swivel webcam is also firmly connected. I do have slight criticism of the pivot point of the screen. One of the two points is a little slack if I do not experience this as a serious defect (I just found out while writing this review). The keyboard is not particularly good nor bad. The touchpad is nice and includes a scroll piece being a very useful addition. Unfortunately you sometimes tend in this scroll piece to come without the intention, since there is no perceptible difference between the scroll and the "normal" piece. The included laptop mouse does what he needs to do and is easy to carry. On the arrangement of the connections I do have to note. a thing to The mouse is not very convenient to connect if you use other cables as always getting in the way of the mouse cable. It is more practical to place. Vga and dvi connections on the back What downright stupid placed the headphone jack. This is on the front and if you use it always is in this way. So if you have the laptop on your lap is the cable against your stomach, but if you've got the laptop on your desk the cable is in the way when you connect it to an external boxenset. I do not understand therefore why this connector is on the side. Moreover, it is still advisable to use the headphone jack for sure because the sound is really laptop sound. It may not sound very harsh and shrill. Heat and noise The laptop stays cool during normal operation. When the laptop computer is heavily loaded, you feel that it is quite hot on the spot under the cursor. This I have not experienced as annoying as it certainly kept within bounds. About the noise, I am also extremely pleased. Under heavy load, the laptop is only audible in a quiet room. Only makes the DVD player, as usual, some noise. mobility and battery life , the laptop is not particularly large for a laptop with a 15.4 inch screen. He is sure to take note though I would prefer to choose a smaller laptop with a smaller screen for daily work. The weight is not particularly. The adapter can be seen in the picture and is nothing special, though this one quite warm during use. The battery life I have some to criticize. Without socket you keep it at around 90-100 more minutes while you're surfing the web wirelessly. I think that is still very little. During heavy load, this further reduces to about 60-70 minutes. I use the standard 6 cell battery included. general -Some general things I want to mention. Standard Asus provides a recovery DVD with which you can recover. Vista again Unlike some others, it's on DVD instead of your hard drive. I think that is definitely worth mentioning. Also, a driver CD included. This only works on vista dvd asus laptops or what ensured that I had to use to run Vista in a VM. Another DVD -Vista is installed by default with plenty of "useful" utilities such as Norton Anti-Virus. Many other small program from Asus themselves are installed by default. Do you want anything out of this laptop, I still recommend to install (or another OS course) vista self -Asus delivers standard 2 year pick up and return warranty. -On to find the Asus website bios and driver updates only should you be able to get on that site. The site is flat and is often terribly slow. That should be better. -If you prefer windows xp used on this can be found on the Internet. manuals It should work though I have no experience with. -Under Ubuntu 8.04 everything works for me except for the fingerprint reader. Everything (including webcam) works out-of-the-box except the sound. To get the sound working you have the file in the / etc / modprobe.d alsa-base add the line "options snd-hda-intel model = lenovo" below the last line options. Mute (so NOT unmute) all sound channels and restart the computer. Now one for the channels again to unmute. When all channels full of open sets you get to hear. Hard annoying beep Price The price I think is a big plus of the laptop. In early January, I bought it for 919 euros but is already below 900 euros. For a laptop with these specifications, I think this is a very nice price. Despite some flaws, you get this money a complete laptop with mouse, bag and two year warranty from Asus. That was worth it for me if you have any questions, let's hear it, I try to respond. PS: this is my first review on tweakers.net -> criticism is welcome
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