Sanity test – Asus Notebook

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Griz

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Have been looking for a decent notebook for a while. Intent is to use for travel, office apps, photo storage & edit with DVD drive & long battery life. Not a gamer. Could be used for graphics, i.e. CAD stuff. Given these uses, best notebook found is:

http://http://www.amazon.com/UL50Vt-A1-Light-15-6-Inch-Black-Laptop/dp/B002P3KMPI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1274217852&sr=8-1

Main attraction is ULV, with long battery. Dual-core not the best, but appears sufficient for purposes. Asus track record and warranty lead the pack. This model has been out since Sept., 2009, so could be replaced soon? Last week, AMD announced next gen of ULV chips due out now but haven’t seen yet.

Does that notebook at that price (hasn’t hardly changed since Jan.) seem reasonable to you?
 
Griz said:
Have been looking for a decent notebook for a while. Intent is to use for travel, office apps, photo storage & edit with DVD drive & long battery life. Not a gamer. Could be used for graphics, i.e. CAD stuff. Given these uses, best notebook found is:

http://http://www.amazon.com/UL50Vt-A1-Light-15-6-Inch-Black-Laptop/dp/B002P3KMPI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1274217852&sr=8-1

Main attraction is ULV, with long battery. Dual-core not the best, but appears sufficient for purposes. Asus track record and warranty lead the pack. This model has been out since Sept., 2009, so could be replaced soon? Last week, AMD announced next gen of ULV chips due out now but haven’t seen yet.

Does that notebook at that price (hasn’t hardly changed since Jan.) seem reasonable to you?
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I had the UL30 for about a week some time ago. It's essentially the same laptop but smaller and without dedicated video. All in all I wasn't too thilled with it. Audio left much to be desired. The screen had poor contrast and very obvious light lines along the edges. Performance was pretty slow (don't expect to do any rendering or anything with it). The final straw was when the F key flew off and wouldn't snap back into place.

As for that one and your needs, I'd say don't get it. CAD and most graphic editing software is CPU intensive. I can say for a fact that CPU does not do well in Photoshop and I doubt CAD would fair any better. My suggestion would be get one a Pentium T4400 or something in that range. Something like that, even with basic onboard graphics, would be much better suited your needs.
 
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