Posts by Zaphod

Z91E is the US barebones name of the A3E. The A3-series is the cheapest Asus chassis, a step below the A6. It has a 4:3 matte screen. The new Sonoma-upgraded 'E' does look a bit better than previous models, though.

Are you sure? They're just slits along the front underneath. My guess is they noticed that the W3 models got hot on the right hand side and this 'solution' is an attempt to guide the airflow from the front, across the harddrive, to the...

The most RAM you can have in ANY Centrino notebook is 2GB. The cipsets simply doesn't support more.

The vent is in front of the hard drive bay, by the speakers. There are images out there of preproduction W3's with vents underneath, but the production units doesn't have them. If you're using Power4Gear and it gets too hot on AC,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Djembe_Rob I had that small frustration with Power 4 Gear, also. to the best of my knowledge, you can't enable CPU throttling when plugged in. The 'Game' profile will allow dunamic...

'Cancelled' in this case obviously mean that Asus North America considered bringing it in, but opted not to sell it in their particular market.

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...5&l2=22&l3=123

Quote: Originally Posted by AndyMon Are there currently any notebooks available (or planned) that incorporate ATSC tuners? It would be nice to get over the air Hi Def signals to display on the Hi Res screens (or on an...

Your best bet for getting the Z71V in Norway, besides improting the barebook yourself, is asking the Denmark-based Itbutikken.no to stock it. They have other models from the the 'Vega' brand that also recently added a Z71v based computer...

An A4 (Z81) chassis with a Prescott? Ugh. No thanks! No matter how good the graphics are.