Asus UL30A

Anyone running anything that can read SMART sensors on their UL30A? If so, can I ask a big favour? Please post the stats (bad sectors and error rate) for your disk.

Mine's showing 83 bad sectors already. :/
 
olivier renault said:
to keep with the spirit of the community, I've got mine as well. Really like it so far, It feels like a netbook+, a bit more of everything, for not much money.

I've also installed a Samsung PB22-J 128gb SSD as an experimental trial-run, no problems at all. Loads win 7 under 20 secs :)

cracking machine, keeps me sane since I've sold my NC10, waiting endlessly for a decent switchable graphics notebook!
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Did you keep it as one large partition? Or follow Asus's example with OS and Data partion?

I've been thinking about the Corsair Reactor from OcUK, but reading about it sometimes not being recognised by BIOS has put me off (see Corsair forum).
 
i'm really tempted by this deal before it runs out, but have a few questions.

as someone mentioned earlier would it be able to run photoshop/illustrator, nothing big just light use?
interestingly the review by liliputing shows the windows experience score to be higher than my current acer aspire 5613. my acer has a graphics score of 3.1 with its geforce go 7300, compared to the asus's score of 3.4.

also, is the asus much better than the,
Acer Aspire Timeline 3810TZ, or
Toshiba Satellite T130-11H

thanks for any insight you can give.
 
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-Go-7300.2145.0.html

Looks like it's on par with your graphics card (meaning, not even adequate for 3D).

As for comparison with others, difficult to say, but the Acer looks to be punching in the exact same category. If you can find one for the same price.

The Tosh' looks ok. All things considered, I'd probably go with Acer, but I'm perfectly happy with my Asus.

It boils down to price imo. Both are pretty close, but I like the look of the Acer.
 
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thats a very interesting site you linked there, there doesnt seem a huge gulf in class between the two graphics chips. apart from the geforce's memory of course, but it is a good few years old now.

the asus, acer and tosh are all available for £350.
the only noticeable difference between the asus and acer is the acer has an extra gb of ram and a Intel Pentium SU4100 processor (dual core),
do you think theres a noticeable difference between the SU4100 and the Celeron SU2300?

for me the asus wins on overall style and keyboard design, but the rest its a close call.


ps: just seen the mention of switching between photoshop in the first review post, so guess its useable
 
Just been offered a £400 budget by work to get a laptop for my travels (working travels unfortunately :p). Will I get better than this?

The vast majority of the time,Word, Excel, Outlook, MSN Messenger, and either Winamp or Spotify will be running. Will this handle all of that at once?

Will it also handle Football Manager? That's make or break for me ;)

Cheers! Is there anything better for the money?

EDIT: Am also looking at the HP Pavilion DM3-1112SA. Much difference?
 
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Better? maybe if you can find an Acer 3810TZ. As I said, very similar laptop, slightly better specs. For £400, my guess is you'll be hard pressed to find anything else better if you value mobility (long battery life, light). I'm sure it will cope with Football Manager just fine (if a little slower than you are used to). Dunno if the acer has a matte screen, but that would work in its favour also.

Also, you can shop around for the UL30VT, similar laptop, with added graphics card and turbo-boost, while keeping the battery life.
 
dont know about the site but the price looks good,
http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_Timeline_3810TZ_Windows_7_Laptop_LX.PE602.039/version.asp


i've been looking around town to find a ul30. i found one today in a cpw and got to check out the size and weight, looked pretty stylish. i also saw a ul30a (high spec version) in another shop, i actually like the design of this version better. the screen is slightly different, connected by two arms with a big gap in between giving the screen more room to move.

though i'm moving towards the cpw deal, might just jump on the ul30 bandwagon :D
i'm put off my acer given reliability issues with my current acer.. though some problems could have course be caused by vista :rolleyes:
 
Hmm, that Acer doesn't look bad, although that CPU isn't a whole load better than the Asus and, like you, I'd trust Asus more than Acer quality-wise. I can't afford the UL30VT :(
 
can i clarify a few things about the ul30,

it has b/g/n wifi?
the ram is DDR3?

i'd also like to ask, whats the benefit of/difference between 64 bit and 32 bit?
 
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thanks for answering all the questions guys, i've just placed my order from cpw :) really hope i'm not disappointed!

just let you know, i tried to pick one up in a local store but they said they didnt have any and that they were being phased out. whether that means just in stores or online... make the most of the deal before its over!
 
I am thinking of buying Asus UL80VT because it's only £400 and has 1GB of extra RAM and a dedicated G210M GPU. But I am worried about the CPU, it's the same as in UL30A and I don't know how well that might run older games like Team Fortness 2 and Counter Strike.

I know that the GPU can play these games but I am not sure the low spec CPU can keep up. Anyone has any idea how well the CPU can run these games?
 
Gux said:
I am thinking of buying Asus UL80VT because it's only £400 and has 1GB of extra RAM and a dedicated G210M GPU. But I am worried about the CPU, it's the same as in UL30A and I don't know how well that might run older games like Team Fortness 2 and Counter Strike.

I know that the GPU can play these games but I am not sure the low spec CPU can keep up. Anyone has any idea how well the CPU can run these games?
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i cant give a definitive answer, but after googling i found this forum regarding the acer 1410 using the same su2300. they seem to have trouble with team fortress 2, "Framerate drops to 10ish when the action picks up".
of course this is not a not direct comparison as the acer doesnt have dedicated graphics. others have reported playable performance on counter strike source, but none of this is from an asus i'm afraid

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ace...otebooks-su3500-su2300-celeron-m-743-a-2.html
 
olivier renault said:
The UL80VT has turbo boost (+30% clock speed). That should help a little, but it wont be a speed demon.
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I have heard about the turbo boost but I have only heard that software being used with the SU7300 CPU. The model that I am getting comes with SU2300 which is 1.2Ghz dual-core and I haven't heard anything about using turbo boost with this CPU.

Can anyone conform that turbo boost can also be used with SU2300?
 
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