Member Reviews: Asus W3J

I've had my W3J refresh for about a week now (specs in sig below). Initially, I stuck with the factory default two partition drive, but noticed that startup was slow and I was having wierd issues like the lockups and no wakeup after standby that some people are experiencing. So I reformatted with my own copy of Windows XP Pro, repartitioned to my liking (C: Drive - 11GB and D: Drive - 82GB... both NTFS), and trimmed down the unnecessary processes. Now I'm getting considerably faster startup and it got rid of the issues mentioned above. My opinions: I love the build quality on this.. I've used a W3V before, so I knew what to expect. This machine is rock solid and beautiful. The...

I will be adding to this review later today including some photos but for now I will give you my first impressions after using the notebook for a few hours last night and this morning. Specs: Processor : Intel Centrino Duo T2400 1.83GHz RAM : 1024 MB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 Memory HDD : 100 GB Hard Drive Display : 14 inch WXGA Colour shine Display Optical Drive : DVDRW Dual Layer Graphics : ATI Radeon X1600 256MB (512MB Hypermemory) Wireless network : 802.11b/g + Bluetooth Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Warranty : 2-year limited global hardware warranty DVDRW +/- Dual Layer Packaging and looks. The laptop was packed in a white asus box,...