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post #101 of 194
6/5/05 at 1:07am
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Originally Posted by Djembe_Rob
thanks! actually, reading your update inspired me to update mine.
thx, your review is excellent..

the z71v is great.. been pretty conscious at ppl's laptops lately..
and i have to say mine is by far the best 1 around ...

i can see ppl's loud toshiba's, weak spec'ed sony's... and then i realize my laptop probally costed me less too.. hopefully more ppl will notice asus from our reviews
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post #102 of 194
6/12/05 at 8:23pm
Nice review bro. This is one I'm looking at right now!
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post #103 of 194
6/13/05 at 12:59am
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Thanks! Ask any questions, and the extensive Z71v community will provide whatever answers we can!
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post #104 of 194
6/17/05 at 6:08am
I was wondering about the warranty on the Z71v. It sounds like if you open the back up to upgrade the ram it voids the warranty is that true or am i reading it wrong?
Any help would be appreciated thanks!
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post #105 of 194
6/17/05 at 7:05pm
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I believe you are correct, and I wish I knew that before I ordered 2 sticks of memory instead of 1. You can get at one of the memory spots by taking out 2 screws on the bottom (marked "k"), pushing three tabs at the top of the keyboard, and taking out the keyboard. However, the other one is apparently the one where you void the warrantee to get at it.
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post #106 of 194
6/17/05 at 8:47pm
Hmm... that's no good. They make a barebones laptop that has its warranty voided when you try to put in RAM? Anyways, how hard is it to get to that one slot of RAM? Are there instructions on how to do all of that?
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post #107 of 194
6/18/05 at 2:02am
What's the diffrence between the Z71v and the Z70v?
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post #108 of 194
6/18/05 at 2:08am
dude, do 5min of research and you will find out very fast. And this question has been answered a ton of times.


Any how if i seem a little short, thats because i got asses calling me a noob for bring up old threads that i have created a while back.


difference between Z71v and Z70v


GPU in Z71v is better 128mb instead of 64

70v has a different chasis
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post #109 of 194
6/18/05 at 2:30am
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BBoy, a full installation guide for the Z71v is on www.rjtech.com it's actually easy to get at either RAM slot, but from the back, you can also mess with hard drive, CPU, etc. which they wouldn't want you to do, hence (most likely) why it voids warrantee.

Seppuku, the Z70v is the M6v. The Z71v is the M7v. They're built on different series. The differences are such that the Z71v has a better video card, ALS, SATA support, and easier upgradeability/accessability of parts, and the Z70v is better in most other respects (looks, battery life, screen, building material)
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post #110 of 194
6/18/05 at 2:15pm
Hey guys, I'm real tempted to buy this laptop. You can read about my situation here:
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=89628


My main concerns are that I want a good 3 year warranty that will cover parts + accidental damage. Is there a good, reliable site I could get this from? The place the author got it from looks good, but it seems like a small business and I worry about what would happen if they went out of business in a year or 2. Would my warranty go out the window? How does that work? I do like the price/options they give though.
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post #111 of 194
6/18/05 at 3:22pm
Also, I'm not sure I want WSXGA+, because of the issue of small text. My brother's have a non widescreen laptop with a 15 inch screen and UXGA, and I hate looking at it.
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post #112 of 194
6/18/05 at 10:22pm
I ran into the same issue as well. WUXGA is 1900x1200 whereas WSXGA+ is 1680x1050 and WXGA is 1280x768.

On a 15.4" Widescreen laptop, the dimensions, if it were a 16:10 aspect ratio would be 13.0592x8.1620 (rounded).

So, how many pixels per inch?
WUXGA = 145.5 horizontal and 147 vertical
WSXGA+ = 128.6 horizontal and 128.6 vertical
WXGA = 98.0 horizontal and 94.1 vertical

As you can see, the drop from WUXGA > WSXGA+ isn't so bad, but the drop to WXGA is much bigger.
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post #113 of 194
6/18/05 at 11:21pm
I don't understand why a higher max res is considered "better," especially for gaming. Most games look fine at 1280x960, so why the need for higher res especially when there is AA and such.
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post #114 of 194
6/19/05 at 2:49am
First off, things are sharper at a higher resolution. It might not be *as noticeable* on a smaller screen though. Another reason higher resolution is better is because of the fact that it allows for more desktop space with everything smaller. For me, I'm running at 1280x960 on a 16" 4:3 and find it ok. I think I'm going to try and step up to WSXGA+ with my new ASUS that will be ordered soon enough.
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post #115 of 194
6/20/05 at 10:59pm
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Originally Posted by BeanTownMH
Hey guys, I'm real tempted to buy this laptop. You can read about my situation here:
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=89628


My main concerns are that I want a good 3 year warranty that will cover parts + accidental damage. Is there a good, reliable site I could get this from? The place the author got it from looks good, but it seems like a small business and I worry about what would happen if they went out of business in a year or 2. Would my warranty go out the window? How does that work? I do like the price/options they give though.
Asus' warrantee only covers their parts for whitebook units such as the Z71v. The rest of the parts are covered by the company you bought it from. To the best of my knowledge, the only company currently offering accidental damage protection warrantees for this notebook is Discount Laptops, which sells the Chembook rebrand. On their website it's listed as Chembook 2371v (Asus Z71v)
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post #116 of 194
7/24/05 at 1:35am
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review updated with "problem resolution" (bad battery) added.
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post #117 of 194
7/31/05 at 2:29am
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Originally Posted by Djembe_Rob
Seppuku, the Z70v is the M6v. The Z71v is the M7v. They're built on different series. The differences are such that the Z71v has a better video card, ALS, SATA support, and easier upgradeability/accessability of parts, and the Z70v is better in most other respects (looks, battery life, screen, building material)
Hehe, I seem to following you around today Djembe Quick question: you say that the Z71v GPU is better than the Z70v? I always thought that it was the other way around
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post #118 of 194
8/20/05 at 5:57pm
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Originally Posted by Cheerfulnut
Hehe, I seem to following you around today Djembe Quick question: you say that the Z71v GPU is better than the Z70v? I always thought that it was the other way around
Yikes, I missed a question on my own review for 3 weeks? Bad djembe!

Cheerfulnut, if you haven't found this out since you asked, the GPU on the Z71v is better than the one on the vanilla Z70v and roughly equal to, although slightly less than the one on the refresh (Z70va).

and for anyone interested, the review is updated with my PCMark05 score.
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post #119 of 194
9/19/05 at 3:03pm
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Review updated with my experience with Asus tech support for my battery RMA experience.
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post #120 of 194
10/10/05 at 1:45am
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Review is updated once again with info about the modular battery. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
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