Asus Notebook Questions - Page 2

Interesting that the article makes mention of Asus using a carbon fiber frame. Any of the other ODM's doing such? I've heard of mag alloys but first I've seen carbon fiber. Should be awesome for strength to weight...

I have shortly used it with my 19" SGI CRT monitor, and there where no noticeable difference from when the monitor is used with my desktop computer which has a Matrox G550 card. But it was only for like 5 mins. and my desktop pc isn´t here right now, so i can´t test it more deeply @ this moment....

These days ODMs are using all sorts of frames, such as plastic, carbon fiber, magnesium alloy, and aluminum alloy. I have no clue how to find out which is which, however.

I was told that Asus replace the display if:

2 consecutive dead pixels;
4 dead pixels in 1cm2;
8 dead pixels in total.

Regarding the carbon fiber frame, it was something mentioned in one of the german translation reviews posted earlier. Don't know how accurate it is-- so don't quote me on it;-) Would be cool if such was indeed the case though.

translated (google) from the german site:
"Asus gives by the pressing of this key the possibility to the user of selecting between individual operatings mode. Thus the modes superachievement, high achievement and play achievement are available in the line operation.
In the mode superachievement is over-clocked the Frontsidebus even by the Bios. Here one has however the disadvantage, which the CPU exhaust so well always runs."

Am I to understand that this means the m6000n is overclockable via a button? Has anyone heard anything about this?
I'd be interested if anyone who has one of these (aliensub?) has tried this feature out and if it actually overclocks the fsb...

I don´t think it actually overclocks the NB. It´s the button to control the Power4Gear app, which it´s an asus app. to manually control the speedstep stuff.

Here is some data from CrystalCPUID when it´s running in "super performance"

ahh, thanks very much for clearing that up. I haven't heard of a laptop that can "over clock" so I was skeptical that this one could. I have another question for you, aliensub, is your casing made of carbon fiber? Also, how is the built-in wireless reception?
Thanks!

The article referred to carbon fiber being used in the frame, not acutal case itself. I think the case itself is plastic.

Tha case is plastic, but it feels like a good quality. Not the quirky stuff dell uses in the inspiron series. I have also heard that it´s the frame that is build in carbon fiber.
Haven´t had the change to test the wireless yet.

I am unsure if this thread is still of interest to anyone but i came across it when searching for somthing else and thought i would try and answer some of the questions.

1. The warranty i beleive is covered by a company called BP Computing(1300799833) in Australia, Otherwise there are a number of other companies do cover the warranty as well. The way it often works that i know of is the user pays to send it to the repair centre and the repair centre pays for it to be sent back.

2. I know the company that i resell asus notebooks for in Brisbane has an office in Perth but to my knowledge they dont keep a lot of stock over there. It is very difficult for a lot of resellers to be able to offer to show a particular model of notebook as many dont have the financial capacity to afford to either keep a notebook in stock or buy one in to demo for you.

3. The Optical drive in the M6N is listed to perform at the following speeds. DVD-R 2X/ DVD-RW 1X/CD-R16X/CD-RW 10X/ CD-ROM 24X/ DVD-ROM 8X. Any drive that can burn a regular DVD should be able to Burn a CD-R. There are however 2 different drives available for the M6N the DVD drive with specs mentioned above and a Combo Drive which doesnt burn DVD's. There may also be different varients of DVD drive with higher speeds as i am getting the information form an ASUS magazine from April. The Drive is also hotswappable for a 2nd harddrive or battery.

4. Sorry cannot help here i dont have a notebook available though i might see if i can get my hands on one.

5. Not sure about this either hopefully the information above covers what you wanted to know.

On the issue of Colour the M6n i beleive does come in two different colours and i think the colour difference is based on the 15.1" or 15.4" screen. This is also the case with the M5N series there is a Pearl White and a Galaxy Black, two different colours for the same model.

Currently my supplier stocks only widescreen models and range in cpu from 1.5 to 18 centrino. The later models they have available have a Dual DVD burner and Wireless G network.

I keep my website upto date with the information from Asus about there range of notebooks, and after reading this post am going to look to extend what information i keep on my website. As my site is my business site, if you would like to see it please send me a PM and i will send the link as i dont want to annoy anyone by posting the wrong things in my first post.

Regards
Joel

Ergonomical questions:

Is the asus m6 series runs hot? I mean, in your palm when typing, and is it comfortable to use in your lap? And because of the palmrest design looks so hard-angular shaped, does it hurt your wrist when typing for longer period of time?

Mine seems quite cool so far. the hotest part is the hitachi 7200rpm hdd. even so i can keep it on bare skin and it feels nicely warm. thre hdd is under the left palm rest and it's warm like when you shake hands with someone.