Posts by chuck232

Depending on what applications you use, the 7200RPM drive can speed things up quite a bit (programs that read and write to disk a lot). It is a little warmer, but not significantly so, especially if you compare outside of the...

It totally depends on what you want to do with your laptop. If you value desktop space, I'd definitely get a higher resolution screen. I can't live without WSXGA anymore.

Only difference would be that the W3J has a VGA port compared to the DVI of the macbook pro. Image quality could be a little degraded compared to using the DVI connection, but it's definitely doable.

Consumer-level laptops usually come with WXGA solely because they don't need to cram a ton of applications onto the desktop. You'll probably find more business oriented laptops with higher resolution screens. (Dell Latitudes, the HP...

Give the W3J a run for its money?!! That thing will definitely outperform the W3J, no questions asked.

Seems to me that ASUS would probably make a higher profit margin if they sold it themselves, instead of selling them to Intel or Apple first... Then again, they probably sell loads more to those companies than they do themselves.

Quote: Originally Posted by crisrees I'm not saying that they are two totally different systems, I guess its what I said earlier, you are getting what you pay for. For the added xxx dollar amount, you are getting a...

Yeah I had the same problem. I had to use Vista's sound manager thing. It's probably just a matter of integrating the actual keyboard sound control with Vista's software control. That is what happens in XP after all. I'd chalk it up to...

If you think the S96J looks decent, then I'd go for it. The build of the Z70Va may be slightly better (carbon fibre correct?) but the increase in performance for the S96J cannot be ignored. Plus, even though it's plastic, it's still...

I'm sure you'll be very happy with it. It's got solid performance for that sized laptop and is pretty cheap to boot. Battery life should be around 3 hours if you were wondering.