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Finally after 6 months since this model is released I own him in possession since 16-07-2004. Now, two days later I have been working very satisfied with it and thought I'd better let me write a review. Before going deeper into this beautiful notebook, I will go in first provide an overview of my configuration and what you can expect if you bought it in the box. So much for the intro, now the rest of the review. The Specs: - 15 inch SXGA + (1400x1040) - 1.7GHz Pentium M Dothan - Ati m9700 64MB - 1x512 MB - DVD + / - RW combo - 54Mbit WLAN (Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG) - NO OS These are the main features of my copy. The rest of the specs can be found on the Asus website. bald so I have WinXP installed. I have done the following steps to get with minimal junk everything working: Step 1) WinXP SP1 followed by Step 2) Audio, VGA, LAN, WLAN, Modem, Touchpad, IR, Ricoh Media Card drivers installing ones from drivercd Step 3) Then adjust the Intel INF Update (USB 2.0), ATKACPI driver (WLAN button) and CPU hotfix also drivercd. Step 4) Finally, the following ATKACPI Utilities: Only Power4Gear power management, the rest is useless junk. (Maybe the PC if you want temp probe measurements and check mail for the button, but the rest is not needed.) WinXP sees almost nothing because allowing you to step 2 need to get everything working. After these four steps have WinXP as bare as possible but everything works well in my opinion. What do you do? The notebook, manuals for the notebook and the software, the travelers drawer and some cables. Included junk: You get from Asus a Shoulder Bag & Mouse with your notebook. Bundled software & games: - Drivers & Utilities Version 3.0 (also convenient if your hardware does not look half as WinXP so that you definitely need a bare install) - Nero 6.0.0.20 OEM (Burn baby burn) - Asus DVD (Power DVD 5 but then renamed as Asus DVD) - PowerDirector Pro (video editing software) - Medi @ Show (Let's you create, show and share multimedia presentations) - Asus V299 : Battle Engine Aquila - Asus V300: Gunmetal War Transformed - Asus V301: Games Power (Tom Clansy Splinter Cell, Warcraft 3 Reign Of Chaos, Big Mutha Truckers, BREED, Colin McRae Rally 3, TOCA Race Driver) Working with the battery About working time is this to say that it is up roughly between 3 to 4 hours depending on what you do and how you are. your power settings Personally, I achieved these results by using the Power4Gear utility on the driver CD is Asus. I have files from my home computer are copied to the computer, install software sitting, surfing, both wired and wireless, music and other office work. If you put the settings on battery saving the battery meter that you can work. Max 4 hours These four hours will provide you with simple office work and surfing can get it. It's not the 5 hours indicated on the Asus site, but 3 to 4 hours is a long time was in my eyes. With a 2nd battery in place of the optical drive, you'd think I have 5 to 6 hours must be met. So if you want to work for more than three hours the 2nd internal battery to the councils. Especially if you're going to use the internal optical drive little to no use. Display: As for display, I am very satisfied, no dead pixels (quick knock on wood) and good clear picture. The backlight can be set using the FN + F5 and FN + F6. 16 positions Personally, I put it between 25 to 50% strength with Power4Gear in office mode. I think the screen in most cases than enough highlights to it to work, besides the fact that this causes more working on the battery. When playing movies on DVD, I suggest Power4Gear mode and I myself am between 50 to 100% strength of the backlight. Depends on the type of movie. Many dark scenes, I put the backlight at slightly higher strength and with many bright colors slightly lower. About the quality of the screen is the following to say. AIDA32 and SiSoft Sandra say unfortunately not much about what what kind of screen in there, make and model. Or I do not look good. I have always worked to 1024x768, a resolution itself which applies to both the monitor of my home baking as my previous notebook (not recommended as a brand Gericom, but that's another story) so I was a little hesitant to step. higher resolution on In my case 1400x1050. But I must say, at max resolution everything looks sharp. In terms of viewing angle both horizontally and vertically in order, image remains legible. Of course this is subjective, since everyone has different eyes. When I again at 1024x768 work on my home bake it looks not. Be in the three days that I've become so used to SXGA + and the crystal clear picture. Asus Upgrade now constantly on my Asus. Finally I chose specifically for 15 inch because I use my. widescreen see no added value SXGA + is was enough to get everything on screen for movies and all I do not think it's worth it. But that's my opinion, everyone has his or her thing. In addition, the wide only verkrgijgen in WXGA and that is a max resolution of 1280x800. So effectively seen it go backwards if you go for the widescreen version. If you need wide or necessarily want a choice to be made yourself, but keep in mind that widescreen resolutions are not supports often enough gaming so you or must return to 1024x768 or you stretched get image. Audio: Even though everyone sound different experiences and this is a highly subjective, I still want to say. the following The quality of the speakers is certainly a lot better than my previous notebook (a Gericom 3 years old). I can clearly hear the voices when playing video and audio files, and while I did not stand. Volume at its loudest There are 16 positions for the volume, you can customize with FN + F11 and Fn + F12. I myself is always between 12.5 and 37.5%. I must mention that I stood there, in WinXP in the sound settings everything on MAX that goes for Windows Media Player and Winamp. In my Gericom I must have the volume full open (ie max in WinXP sound, max in Windows Media Player and the knob on the housing) and then I'm with video files occasionally not even know what was said, especially when playing DVDs. Video: You can add an extra monitor and a TV connected to the Asus. The image on the monitor is good and easy to set up, but when trying with TV out, I got very bad picture on the TV. That while my Riva TNT2 in my home bin gives better picture. I got to look at this or this could be the drivers or settings. In the worst case, my TV broke out, I hope not. If that is the case it will probably be a case of RMA. edit FongWan is happy My TV out doing it perfectly, sharp image as Oscar said. So my Asus does not have RMA and everything works perfectly . Problem was just my tv (some no-name brand). On the TV in my parents room (Sony) so I get razor sharp color. You must indeed have standing. Well the settings 1) In the bios indicate PAL, NTSC standard arose. 2) on 32bit WinXP settings set to 1024x768 for 2nd screen. 3) The TV itself using the correct scart socket ( if necessary, all connections go off and try all possible settings of the TV) and then ext with S-VHS. Without S-VHS I got black and white image, but her sharp way. With S-VHS in color and crisp. The best thing is that you can turn on so you have three displays everything at once. However, your screen and external monitor show the same thing, so it's unfortunately not a triple head. Switching comes with FN + F8. / edit LAN, WLAN & Optical drive: It takes about copying 5GB in about 10 minutes, or a rate of between 8.3 and 8.6 MB per second via a 100Mbit LAN (or that is between 66.4 and 68.8 Mbit / sec). I do not know if slower disks get this kind of speed, but I find this very quickly. 'm Used to the pumping of approximately 5GB takes 45 minutes (that was with my old notebook case). So the 60GB hard drive @ 7200RPM will probably have something to do with it. I do not have 1Gbit network and unfortunately I do not know any people that do so I do not know if there is a performance gain when using a 1Gbit network. Do not think otherwise I would have brought higher speeds on my network. Or you always have so many losses? If you have a lot of loss through long cables then I would be able to achieve higher speeds. Because that looks like the network that is used to pump the 5GB. home board -> (cable 5 meters) -> Asus WL500-g router -> (Cable 25 meters) -> . N6000Ne Asus Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG just works immediately after installing the drivers. I had no problem with setting up WEP 128 bit, WPA no use itself but perhaps that it will happen. Range is just good, have throughout the house between 54 and 18 Mbps. The router is on the ground floor where my room. I'm mostly at 18 Mbit when I'm on the 2nd floor. Concrete floors with both the 1st and the 2nd floor heating. So that's not bad, but good. I never sit still on the 2nd working with my notebook, at most, on the 1st floor in the living room. I only DVD + R burned, this makes the combo drive at 4x speed, and takes 30 minutes. Since the hard disk throughput of at least 8.5 MB / sec handle is 4x burn no problem. According to Nero you need. Throughput of 5.5 MB / sec DVD + /-RW and DVD-R I have not tried yet, but DVD + /-RW is at 2x or 2.4x and DVD-R is also at 4x. CD burning goes on max 16x and presents no problems. Benchmarks: The 3d scores are obtained with the Ati driver on the Drivers & Utilities Version 3.0 stand and has the following version: 6.14.10.6422 with release date of 27 - 01-2004. I have also not looked at other drivers or modded drivers out there for the Ati m9700 be found. Maybe those drivers higher scores can be achieved. Aquamark3: GFX: 2544 CPU: 8657 Total: 22178 3dmark2001se: 10274 3DMark03: 2673 Finally, I do not sit still play with the notebook, but if you see the benchmark results is that certainly be fine. Especially if you go look at benchmark results from other sites where the Ati m9700 does very well for a mobile graphics card. The keyboard ticking time away and the speed buttons above the on / off button works very convenient. The card reader I have not used since I've SmartMedia cards for my digicam (which the card reader is not supported) and I do not want to My MMC card to get to test this out. my Nokia 6230 I believe that this thing does its job. WinXP sees the card reader so that should not be a problem. Nevertheless, some criticisms. I still find it a pity that Asus has no Bluetooth integrated into the M6 series and as far as I can see in all the other newer series such as the M5, S5 and W1 series. In their previous Centrino series (M2 and M3 series) namely that they do. That's something I miss, especially now as PDAs and mobile phones also support this. But I have already a Bluetooth dongle so that's not a problem. I also find it unfortunate that the card reader does not support Compact Flash and SmartMedia cards. I could have easily retrieve. My photos from my digicam Because I have a Fuji FinePix F601 and uses SmartMedia cards. But for the rest it is almost the ultimate notebook for me. Too bad these two minor negatives but I can live with that. I am sure that the coming of years back can go with this notebook so the money is well spent. Well I hope you have had, if you have any questions or comments on the basis of this review, ask away and I have some in my review will try to give an answer. FongWan
Finally after 6 months since this model is released I own him in possession since 16-07-2004. Now, two days later I have been working very satisfied with it and thought I'd better let me write a review. Before going deeper into this beautiful notebook, I will go in first provide an overview of my configuration and what you can expect if you bought it in the box. So much for the intro, now the rest of the review. The Specs: - 15 inch SXGA + (1400x1040) - 1.7GHz Pentium M Dothan - Ati m9700 64MB - 1x512 MB - DVD + / - RW combo - 54Mbit WLAN (Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG) - NO OS These are the main features of my copy. The rest of the specs can be found on the Asus website. bald so I have WinXP installed. I have done the following steps to get with minimal junk everything working: Step 1) WinXP SP1 followed by Step 2) Audio, VGA, LAN, WLAN, Modem, Touchpad, IR, Ricoh Media Card drivers installing ones from drivercd Step 3) Then adjust the Intel INF Update (USB 2.0), ATKACPI driver (WLAN button) and CPU hotfix also drivercd. Step 4) Finally, the following ATKACPI Utilities: Only Power4Gear power management, the rest is useless junk. (Maybe the PC if you want temp probe measurements and check mail for the button, but the rest is not needed.) WinXP sees almost nothing because allowing you to step 2 need to get everything working. After these four steps have WinXP as bare as possible but everything works well in my opinion. What do you do? The notebook, manuals for the notebook and the software, the travelers drawer and some cables. Included junk: You get from Asus a Shoulder Bag & Mouse with your notebook. Bundled software & games: - Drivers & Utilities Version 3.0 (also convenient if your hardware does not look half as WinXP so that you definitely need a bare install) - Nero 6.0.0.20 OEM (Burn baby burn) - Asus DVD (Power DVD 5 but then renamed as Asus DVD) - PowerDirector Pro (video editing software) - Medi @ Show (Let's you create, show and share multimedia presentations) - Asus V299 : Battle Engine Aquila - Asus V300: Gunmetal War Transformed - Asus V301: Games Power (Tom Clansy Splinter Cell, Warcraft 3 Reign Of Chaos, Big Mutha Truckers, BREED, Colin McRae Rally 3, TOCA Race Driver) Working with the battery About working time is this to say that it is up roughly between 3 to 4 hours depending on what you do and how you are. your power settings Personally, I achieved these results by using the Power4Gear utility on the driver CD is Asus. I have files from my home computer are copied to the computer, install software sitting, surfing, both wired and wireless, music and other office work. If you put the settings on battery saving the battery meter that you can work. Max 4 hours These four hours will provide you with simple office work and surfing can get it. It's not the 5 hours indicated on the Asus site, but 3 to 4 hours is a long time was in my eyes. With a 2nd battery in place of the optical drive, you'd think I have 5 to 6 hours must be met. So if you want to work for more than three hours the 2nd internal battery to the councils. Especially if you're going to use the internal optical drive little to no use. Display: As for display, I am very satisfied, no dead pixels (quick knock on wood) and good clear picture. The backlight can be set using the FN + F5 and FN + F6. 16 positions Personally, I put it between 25 to 50% strength with Power4Gear in office mode. I think the screen in most cases than enough highlights to it to work, besides the fact that this causes more working on the battery. When playing movies on DVD, I suggest Power4Gear mode and I myself am between 50 to 100% strength of the backlight. Depends on the type of movie. Many dark scenes, I put the backlight at slightly higher strength and with many bright colors slightly lower. About the quality of the screen is the following to say. AIDA32 and SiSoft Sandra say unfortunately not much about what what kind of screen in there, make and model. Or I do not look good. I have always worked to 1024x768, a resolution itself which applies to both the monitor of my home baking as my previous notebook (not recommended as a brand Gericom, but that's another story) so I was a little hesitant to step. higher resolution on In my case 1400x1050. But I must say, at max resolution everything looks sharp. In terms of viewing angle both horizontally and vertically in order, image remains legible. Of course this is subjective, since everyone has different eyes. When I again at 1024x768 work on my home bake it looks not. Be in the three days that I've become so used to SXGA + and the crystal clear picture. Asus Upgrade now constantly on my Asus. Finally I chose specifically for 15 inch because I use my. widescreen see no added value SXGA + is was enough to get everything on screen for movies and all I do not think it's worth it. But that's my opinion, everyone has his or her thing. In addition, the wide only verkrgijgen in WXGA and that is a max resolution of 1280x800. So effectively seen it go backwards if you go for the widescreen version. If you need wide or necessarily want a choice to be made yourself, but keep in mind that widescreen resolutions are not supports often enough gaming so you or must return to 1024x768 or you stretched get image. Audio: Even though everyone sound different experiences and this is a highly subjective, I still want to say. the following The quality of the speakers is certainly a lot better than my previous notebook (a Gericom 3 years old). I can clearly hear the voices when playing video and audio files, and while I did not stand. Volume at its loudest There are 16 positions for the volume, you can customize with FN + F11 and Fn + F12. I myself is always between 12.5 and 37.5%. I must mention that I stood there, in WinXP in the sound settings everything on MAX that goes for Windows Media Player and Winamp. In my Gericom I must have the volume full open (ie max in WinXP sound, max in Windows Media Player and the knob on the housing) and then I'm with video files occasionally not even know what was said, especially when playing DVDs. Video: You can add an extra monitor and a TV connected to the Asus. The image on the monitor is good and easy to set up, but when trying with TV out, I got very bad picture on the TV. That while my Riva TNT2 in my home bin gives better picture. I got to look at this or this could be the drivers or settings. In the worst case, my TV broke out, I hope not. If that is the case it will probably be a case of RMA. edit FongWan is happy My TV out doing it perfectly, sharp image as Oscar said. So my Asus does not have RMA and everything works perfectly . Problem was just my tv (some no-name brand). On the TV in my parents room (Sony) so I get razor sharp color. You must indeed have standing. Well the settings 1) In the bios indicate PAL, NTSC standard arose. 2) on 32bit WinXP settings set to 1024x768 for 2nd screen. 3) The TV itself using the correct scart socket ( if necessary, all connections go off and try all possible settings of the TV) and then ext with S-VHS. Without S-VHS I got black and white image, but her sharp way. With S-VHS in color and crisp. The best thing is that you can turn on so you have three displays everything at once. However, your screen and external monitor show the same thing, so it's unfortunately not a triple head. Switching comes with FN + F8. / edit LAN, WLAN & Optical drive: It takes about copying 5GB in about 10 minutes, or a rate of between 8.3 and 8.6 MB per second via a 100Mbit LAN (or that is between 66.4 and 68.8 Mbit / sec). I do not know if slower disks get this kind of speed, but I find this very quickly. 'm Used to the pumping of approximately 5GB takes 45 minutes (that was with my old notebook case). So the 60GB hard drive @ 7200RPM will probably have something to do with it. I do not have 1Gbit network and unfortunately I do not know any people that do so I do not know if there is a performance gain when using a 1Gbit network. Do not think otherwise I would have brought higher speeds on my network. Or you always have so many losses? If you have a lot of loss through long cables then I would be able to achieve higher speeds. Because that looks like the network that is used to pump the 5GB. home board -> (cable 5 meters) -> Asus WL500-g router -> (Cable 25 meters) -> . N6000Ne Asus Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG just works immediately after installing the drivers. I had no problem with setting up WEP 128 bit, WPA no use itself but perhaps that it will happen. Range is just good, have throughout the house between 54 and 18 Mbps. The router is on the ground floor where my room. I'm mostly at 18 Mbit when I'm on the 2nd floor. Concrete floors with both the 1st and the 2nd floor heating. So that's not bad, but good. I never sit still on the 2nd working with my notebook, at most, on the 1st floor in the living room. I only DVD + R burned, this makes the combo drive at 4x speed, and takes 30 minutes. Since the hard disk throughput of at least 8.5 MB / sec handle is 4x burn no problem. According to Nero you need. Throughput of 5.5 MB / sec DVD + /-RW and DVD-R I have not tried yet, but DVD + /-RW is at 2x or 2.4x and DVD-R is also at 4x. CD burning goes on max 16x and presents no problems. Benchmarks: The 3d scores are obtained with the Ati driver on the Drivers & Utilities Version 3.0 stand and has the following version: 6.14.10.6422 with release date of 27 - 01-2004. I have also not looked at other drivers or modded drivers out there for the Ati m9700 be found. Maybe those drivers higher scores can be achieved. Aquamark3: GFX: 2544 CPU: 8657 Total: 22178 3dmark2001se: 10274 3DMark03: 2673 Finally, I do not sit still play with the notebook, but if you see the benchmark results is that certainly be fine. Especially if you go look at benchmark results from other sites where the Ati m9700 does very well for a mobile graphics card. The keyboard ticking time away and the speed buttons above the on / off button works very convenient. The card reader I have not used since I've SmartMedia cards for my digicam (which the card reader is not supported) and I do not want to My MMC card to get to test this out. my Nokia 6230 I believe that this thing does its job. WinXP sees the card reader so that should not be a problem. Nevertheless, some criticisms. I still find it a pity that Asus has no Bluetooth integrated into the M6 series and as far as I can see in all the other newer series such as the M5, S5 and W1 series. In their previous Centrino series (M2 and M3 series) namely that they do. That's something I miss, especially now as PDAs and mobile phones also support this. But I have already a Bluetooth dongle so that's not a problem. I also find it unfortunate that the card reader does not support Compact Flash and SmartMedia cards. I could have easily retrieve. My photos from my digicam Because I have a Fuji FinePix F601 and uses SmartMedia cards. But for the rest it is almost the ultimate notebook for me. Too bad these two minor negatives but I can live with that. I am sure that the coming of years back can go with this notebook so the money is well spent. Well I hope you have had, if you have any questions or comments on the basis of this review, ask away and I have some in my review will try to give an answer. FongWan
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