Awesome, just feels like a "too good to be true" moment but all I can find is primarily positive stuff for this baby. My credit card might frown but I'm having this!
Asus UL30A
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Awesome, just feels like a "too good to be true" moment but all I can find is primarily positive stuff for this baby. My credit card might frown but I'm having this!
Soldato
I'm finding it unusually hard to decide about this laptop, I had a play and it's not exactly the best built device I've used. It's this ASUS vs. a well made and reliable Lenovo thinkpad I'm considering, whilst the thinkpad is slower I know it won't break and it's performance isn't terrible. Either one I will be buying in the states for a nice discount, at the moment the thinkpad is edging it, just.
Soldato
which thinkpad?
Soldato
do you know what the price is likely to be for the jc? you say vaio is double price but i can't see any mentions on how much the jc will be in uk
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1000 euros. Don't how much it will be in 'rip off' pounds.
The PL80jt is available for preorder for $1600 australian. That converts to £950, but I doubt it will be that high. If it's not competitive, I'll bet a Vaio anyway.
The PL80jt is available for preorder for $1600 australian. That converts to £950, but I doubt it will be that high. If it's not competitive, I'll bet a Vaio anyway.
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So how are these bad boys going? Anyone got electrocuted yet or hear back from Asus?
Also one more question, does it run crysis?
Caught between a decision of getting this one now, or waiting till I am on holiday and getting the UL30VT for About 100 more.
Also one more question, does it run crysis?
Caught between a decision of getting this one now, or waiting till I am on holiday and getting the UL30VT for About 100 more.
They only sent 1 email back to say that they have passed on the details to R&D and will get back to me. But that was 2-3 weeks ago now
Main issue I still have is with the touchpad, it's still a bit finicky and it double taps when I want to scroll or move the cursor. I do use the arrow keys more than the touchpad for scrolling webpages as its so much easier. The multi-touch is still bit of a joke I think.
This won't be able to play anything that demanding, even the UL30VT will struggle with dedicated graphics. You should probably wait a month then as even the UL30JT might be out by then which will be next step above the UL30VT.
What drivers are you using? At first use, the touchpad was terrible, after installing the latest Synaptic drivers (read, not Elan drivers) its much better, not perfect mind, but perfectly usable.
Otherwise, this machine is pretty good at the price. Obviously build quality is imperfect in places although thats what I expected. I'm happy, performance seems good, though it took a while to sort through the hoarde of crap pre-installed.
Soldato
How long is the battery likely to last on for watching films, anybody tested it with cpu intensive stuff at all?
Im after something that will last a decent plane journey, my other option is to stick with my old 13.3" toshiba and get a powergorilla.
Im after something that will last a decent plane journey, my other option is to stick with my old 13.3" toshiba and get a powergorilla.
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I reckon about 6 hours roughly with wifi off and screen dimmed.
Yeh the elan drivers were pretty bad, the cursor was jumping quite a lot. Asus linked me to some synaptic drivers, they were newer than the ones on the synaptic website but still dated december 2009 [tried to install over the asus linked drivers and a warning message came up saying that the drivers on my laptop were newer]... Which drivers are you using right now?
edit: drivers say 20th october 2009, can you link me to the ones you got so I can try them out? Thanks.
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Soldato
I went laptop shopping today and was lucky enough to get to test the ASUS. I'm not impressed to be honest. From a technical standpoint I think they are excellent, from a build quality point of view I was disappointed. Still I think they are great value, but personally I'm looking at the Vaio E series now, or a T series thinkpad. The ASUS felt flimsy at best.
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Almost another £25 off with quidco too.
Hi lads,
is it worth getting the better processor with 4GB of ram?
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/ASUS_UL30A_QX131V_Laptop_UL30A-QX131V/version.asp
Instead of the carphone warehouse one http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/broadband/laptops-and-netbooks/buy/ASUS-UL30
i am looking at connecting this up to my 32@ tv and play 1080p .mkv files?
Would this work?
is it worth getting the better processor with 4GB of ram?
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/ASUS_UL30A_QX131V_Laptop_UL30A-QX131V/version.asp
Instead of the carphone warehouse one http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/broadband/laptops-and-netbooks/buy/ASUS-UL30
i am looking at connecting this up to my 32@ tv and play 1080p .mkv files?
Would this work?
Caporegime
For the extra £200 no chance.
The standard UL30A will play 1080p, the GMA4500 can do hardware decoding.
The standard UL30A will play 1080p, the GMA4500 can do hardware decoding.