Asus W90 with dual mobility 4870

[Bugged Out Egg]

Asus W90 - first laptop to break 20000 on 3DMark06

Just announced at the CES 09 is the new Asus W90. It looks a monster

Processor and Cache Memory

Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T9600/T9400/P8600/P8400
Intel® X38 + ICH10R Chipset, FSB=1066 MHz

Operating System


Microsoft® Vista 64 bit SP1 Premium

Main Memory


DDR2 800MHz, up to 6GB, 3xSO-DIMM slots support

Display


- 18.4” widescreen HD ultra-bright LCD display (W90Vp/W90Vn)
- 17” widescreen WUXGA ultra-bright LCD display (W90V)

Graphics Card


- ATI CrossFireX™ technology with ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4870 graphics, GDDR3 1024MB VRAM (W90Vp)
- NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS, GDDR3 1024MB VRAM (W90Vn)
- ATI CrossFireX™ technology with ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3850 graphics, GDDR3 1024MB VRAM (W90V)

Hard Disk Drive


320 + 320GB / 250 + 250GB / 500 + 500GB (5400rpm)

Optical Drive


Blu-ray Combo/ DVD Super Multi DL

Video Camera


2.0M Pixels Auto Focus Webcam

Communication


- 802.11 Draft N wireless connection
- BlueTooth 2.1+EDR
- 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
- 56k Modem

Audio


5.1 channel Altec Lancing speaker (w/ subwoofer),
2nd Generation Dolby™ Home Theater

Interface


- 1 x HDMI
- 1 x E-SATA
- 4 x USB 2.0
- IEEE 1394
- VGA-out (D-Sub)
- Headphone (SPIDIF)
- Mic-in
- 8 in 1 Card Reader
- 1 x Express Card
- 1 x CIR
- RF-in (w/ TV SKU)
- 1 x Modem jack (RJ11)
- 1 x LAN port (RJ45)


can't wait!

 

[reflux]

The technology is impressive, but gaming laptops = pointless.

 

[Bugged Out Egg]

well there is a big market out there for gaming laptops, including those custom made by overclockers, so i am sure there will be a lot of interest in this particular model.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

The technology is impressive, but gaming laptops = pointless.

Untrue, mixed with failings, even more so because it's the laptop forum.

If you're moving around a lot and have the money then a gaming laptop is great, especially for lans etc.
The old "buy a cheap laptop and get a good desktop for less" is what I usually hear, I like hearing that, it's such a pointless thing to say.

Very powerful laptop which can run all games with max detail is great if you're tight on space. Benefits over a gaming SFF, no monitor to cart around, less weight, smaller, sturdier (to an extent) only 1 plug point required.

If you have the money and have a use then a gaming laptop is far from pointless.

 

[sja360]

Untrue, mixed with failings, even more so because it's the laptop forum.

If you're moving around a lot and have the money then a gaming laptop is great, especially for lans etc.
The old "buy a cheap laptop and get a good desktop for less" is what I usually hear, I like hearing that, it's such a pointless thing to say.

Very powerful laptop which can run all games with max detail is great if you're tight on space. Benefits over a gaming SFF, no monitor to cart around, less weight, smaller, sturdier (to an extent) only 1 plug point required.

If you have the money and have a use then a gaming laptop is far from pointless.

the only reason i myself could see the benefit is as you said, from lans or if you go gaming around your mates or move about maybe a few times a month. but a gaming laptop on battery power is only going to get you 2 hours and a lot less while gaming (yes it sounds silly to game on a battery).

Also i suppose the cost of the same desktop gaming rig (using more power and sockets) would be around 1/3 less if not more than a gaming laptop and the desktop is upgradeable. I guess it depends whether you'd like to move it about or whether its cool for you to pickup the speakers/keyboard/mouse/monitor/case etc and move it or if it at all... and if your bothered about upgrading

 

[Moeks]

I think they are quite far from pointless. For instance, my situation. About every 6 weeks I go to stay with my girlfriend in the Netherlands for a week, sometimes as much as 10 days. Obviously while I am there all that time I want a decent computer that I can use to do more or less anything I would expect my desktop to do. Basically I have a standard sized laptop backpack to pack my computer equipment into, take it on a plane and then a train and then setup on my girlfriends dining table as my makeshift desk fot a week. You could not realistically do this with a SFF system, at least not unless you used an lcd picture frame as a monitor ..thus powerful/gaming laptops enter the equation.

The Asus does look rather nice with that spec, hopefully it's not as ugly as most of their other G series offerings.

 

[XiS111]

any pictures of this laptop yet?

battery life is usually a huge let down when it comes to laptops, my HP DV7 does only last around 2 hours when gaming, around 4 hours at tops when im sitting in lecture with vista power saver mode on.

 

[mea98rm]

Just announced at the CES 09 is the new Asus W90. It looks a monster

Processor and Cache Memory

Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T9600/T9400/P8600/P8400
Intel® X38 + ICH10R Chipset, FSB=1066 MHz

Operating System


Microsoft® Vista 64 bit SP1 Premium

Main Memory


DDR2 800MHz, up to 6GB, 3xSO-DIMM slots support

Display


- 18.4” widescreen HD ultra-bright LCD display (W90Vp/W90Vn)
- 17” widescreen WUXGA ultra-bright LCD display (W90V)

Graphics Card


- ATI CrossFireX™ technology with ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4870 graphics, GDDR3 1024MB VRAM (W90Vp)
- NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS, GDDR3 1024MB VRAM (W90Vn)
- ATI CrossFireX™ technology with ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3850 graphics, GDDR3 1024MB VRAM (W90V)

Hard Disk Drive


320 + 320GB / 250 + 250GB / 500 + 500GB (5400rpm)

Optical Drive


Blu-ray Combo/ DVD Super Multi DL

Video Camera


2.0M Pixels Auto Focus Webcam

Communication


- 802.11 Draft N wireless connection
- BlueTooth 2.1+EDR
- 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
- 56k Modem

Audio


5.1 channel Altec Lancing speaker (w/ subwoofer),
2nd Generation Dolby™ Home Theater

Interface


- 1 x HDMI
- 1 x E-SATA
- 4 x USB 2.0
- IEEE 1394
- VGA-out (D-Sub)
- Headphone (SPIDIF)
- Mic-in
- 8 in 1 Card Reader
- 1 x Express Card
- 1 x CIR
- RF-in (w/ TV SKU)
- 1 x Modem jack (RJ11)
- 1 x LAN port (RJ45)


can't wait!

A nice spec, but I can see one major failing already - it doesn't have a dual link DVI-D port, and therefore cannot drive a 30" monitor at 2560 x 1600.

 

[sja360]

A nice spec, but I can see one major failing already - it doesn't have a dual link DVI-D port, and therefore cannot drive a 30" monitor at 2560 x 1600.

if you can afford that size of monitor surely it would have hdmi then

 

[Bugged Out Egg]

 

[Bugged Out Egg]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=218157

 

[reflux]

Untrue, mixed with failings, even more so because it's the laptop forum.

If you're moving around a lot and have the money then a gaming laptop is great, especially for lans etc.
The old "buy a cheap laptop and get a good desktop for less" is what I usually hear, I like hearing that, it's such a pointless thing to say.

Very powerful laptop which can run all games with max detail is great if you're tight on space. Benefits over a gaming SFF, no monitor to cart around, less weight, smaller, sturdier (to an extent) only 1 plug point required.

If you have the money and have a use then a gaming laptop is far from pointless.

You're talking to someone who owned a Dell XPS Gen 2 for two years, so I know what I'm talking about. At the time it was great. A year later it was flagging in applications, especially games, and three years after that, it's on its third graphics card. Total spend on the machine since September 2005 is around £2700, and it's a dead platform, with no upgrade prospects.

I reiterate....a waste of money

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

It's only a waste of money if you need the cash for something else and have no use for it.