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Rating:  - Not bad, but i'd expect a little better from Asusill tell you right off the bat that im not a laptop guy. so why i bought one puzzles even me. no matter what the specs i feel theyre a always a little slower and i guess im just paranoid about being careful with them, not only from my friends' bad experiences with laptops but with my own tendency for bad luck. anyway, with that said, please dont take everything i say with a grain of salt. i think i just need some time to get used to it. a big cosmetic flaw (kinda) is the non-backlit keyboard. if you have the screen fairly vertical and just dont have the brightness all the way down its usable at night though. Im writing this in the dark and i can see, so any typos are just bad typing. the battery life could be better, but isnt terrible for a laptop this size. gives about 2 hrs, even with switching to power save mode. the different power modes dont seem to do much except change the brightness. Altho the power save mode does de-color your windows theme and puts a stock Asus background. **A big part of why i got this model was because it said it comes with powerdvd and power director. it technically does. i havent tried powerdvd yet, but power director is a stripped down version that wont even let you do PiP, which i need for my cover band.* Other Cons; -keyboard feels cheap. seems to warp/bend when you type. -mouse does things i dont want it to, like zoom instead of scroll (again, non-laptop guy getting used to it. i also got a regular mouse with it) -tons of Asus named software you think will be crucial and part of the system, its not. still have yet to sort out all the required from not -IMO it somehow seems a little slower than it should be for a quad core (i7) -the Libraries (music, pics, video) in windows 7 are stored in a 116 gb OS partition, which is already taken up by about 75 gb of junk (altho some may be drivers, so dont go nuts uninstalling) -screen resolution isnt great either. in a previous review someone said you can just resize it with the mouse pad; that only works for webpages. -the turbo boost doesnt seem to do much. you can see the meter revv up if you have itunes open and open IE or something. havent tried any games yet. -only has Office starter (excel and stripped down Word) -screen has a fair amount of glare. Pros; -battery charges quickly -runs incredibly quiet and fairly cool for a laptop. loudest thing was the dvd burner revving up -comes with Excel and Word (i dont do anything fancy in Word and rarly use PowerPoint anymore) -big hard drive -good sound (especially when connected to external surround sound) -read my microSD when no other computer or external card reader would. -the webcam is amusing to play with and put designs or accessories on yourself or change the color or what have you... -great graphics card -lots of ram. doesnt slow down when i have itunes and some windows open -USB 3.0 was nice when transferring everything off my external from my desktop Overall this computer is good, but as a video editor i dont really know why i switched to a laptop. For anyone else im sure itll work even better than it does for me. Anyone who does something other than film editing and/or who just likes to have a fast computer and alot of space for stuff, this is perfect for. Rating:  - Cali Colombia, Buen equipo, buen precioLa verdad es la primera vez que compro un portatil, y de igual manera la primera vez que compro por amazon, comprar desde aqui es un poco complicado, ya que para que te llegue el articulo aqui, debes conocer a alguien en estados unidos para que le llegue el paquete y posteriormente te haga envio aqui, ya que amazon solo envia aqui libros y dc's. Si se intenta registrar otra cosa, no te lo va a permitir, he leido que hay empresas que prestan el servicio de recibir tus cosas alla pero no lo he utilizado. el envio de amazon llego a tiempo a estados unidos, no tengo queja del servicio Fuera de ser poderoso, el equipo es muy bonito, los graficos son espectaculares, para ser portatil es muy potente, puedes correr aplicaciones y juegos que solo podrias imaginar corriendo en un equipo de escritorio, no se encuentra un portatil asi en el mercado normal de aqui. Para poder conseguirlo aqui, te tocaria encargarlo y te podria costar $3.000.000, a mi me costo us$964 y us$70 estando a $1.870 el dolar, con lo cual es evidente el ahorro, aunque lo tengo hace poco, no tengo queja alguna, creo que es un equipo con marca y caracteristicas que solo las perciben los conocedores de computadores. lo unico que alguien podria percibir es que cuando arranca como todo portatil carga muchas cosas en memoria, pero nada que no se pueda solucionar con una buna configuracion del sistema operativo. Rating: - perfect laptop with good priceI bought this laptop with $950 that was a great deal with low price and tax free . It works speedly ,I strongly recommend this laptop . Rating: - Great all-purpose machineI have 2 laptops- an asus quad core full-sized and my asus netbook. For everything except heavy duty gaming, I am much more likely to use the light-weight, power sipping netbook. I have used the netbook for Microsoft Access, Word and Excel documents countless times, and it never let's me down. I have yet to experience a crash on this machine. It is plenty speedy for the above tasks. I also use it to play some games on kongregate sometimes between classes. I use a microsoft bluetooth mouse and have no perceptible lag. I'm glad I got a netbook with bluetooth. the battery life is about what you'd expect. I typically get 5-6 hours out of the bat, but I can coax 10+ hours of light use by turning the display brightness down and turning on power-saver mode. my only complaint is that the finish has come off the touchpad a bit, but it doesn't affect performance, so that is no big deal. Great little machine, I recommend it. Rating: - Better than I thought. Fast Boot up and fast performanceThis computer is really great. I did a lot of research on it before I decided to buy it, and this one seemed to fit all the requirement I want. The delivery itself was wonderful, it arrived two days before it said it would, and it is a good looking laptop. There is a lot of ASUS branded software on the computer, many would call it bloatware, but I find it useful. The Intel Core i7 processor is so fast that it uses up a lot less of the memory than most other processors would. The display and functions are really easy, it is like one click to turn off the bluetooth or the wireless, and one click to turn it back on. One thing I must warn is with the Express Gate. I had a lot of confusion with it, but I read the manual THROUGHLY, don't just skim through it like I did several times, and I found out that Express Gate only turns on when the computer is OFF. So that is something useful to know. Also, be cautious if you use the ASUS CopyProtect. Do not lock the CD-DVD Drive or the External storage drives (USB port) or else they will not appear on the computer. I had that confusion as well. The only bad things I could say about this computer may only be with my computer, but the computer display acted a little strange at first. When I first used it, I opened up the computer window and it said this computer had two hard drives. But when I had to restore the computer to it's factory condition (had nothing to do with the computer, it was all my fault) it was back to normal, saying it only had one. I still don't know what it meant, maybe it was just my computer. but I wouldn't consider that a deal breaker. Oh, and also, this computer runs HOT.I read that ASUS computers do, so I would get a good cooling pad with a fan or two, because it will help cool it down.....a bit. I have a two fan laptop cooling pad, and the vent STILL blows out hot air. But the bottom of the laptop is cool, it is strange.
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