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post #181 of 194
5/12/10 at 5:42pm
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Review has been updated. It's now been 5 years since I bought my Asus Z71V. While I doubt I'll have it another 5 years, another 1-2 years may be a possibility...
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post #182 of 194
5/12/10 at 5:43pm
Wish my Z83V is being that good. Still waiting for a replacement mobo

cheers ...
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post #183 of 194
5/14/10 at 9:58am
That's awesome Djembe.

I'm a year behind you with my m5500, which is still going good now that I've installed Linux.
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post #184 of 194
5/14/10 at 4:18pm
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Yeah, the beauty of Linux is that it runs on such a wide range of hardware.
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post #185 of 194
5/14/10 at 4:37pm
I just think it's great that your Z71V has lasted as long as it has. That was obviously a good platform.
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post #186 of 194
5/14/10 at 6:06pm
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Well, there were two problems with the Z71V that prevented Asus from continuing the series: the battery problems that Asus eventually fixed but took several months to do so, and the less-effective video card heatsink, which had something to do with several folks blowing out their video cards, especially when overclocking.

However, for those of us who kept our units through the battery switches and who didn't overclock our video cards and/or bought White Heat's improved heatsink, it seems to have proved a capable and durable machine.

I remember when I bought it that I was looking to fix some very significant daily use shortcomings in the notebook I had used previously, and I'm really happy that this notebook doesn't have any of those. It doesn't break or damage easily, has enough ports to easily connect to whatever I need, isn't too heavy, has decent battery life, is versatile enough that I can use it how I'd like (as opposed to some current notebooks that have annoying restrictions in how far the lid opens, for instance) and has solid and consistent performance in all applications.

Being interested in the tech field, I'm always looking for what could be my "next notebook" but so far, I haven't found anything that meets my experience with the Z71V, so I plan to keep it until something comes along that does better.
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post #187 of 194
5/14/10 at 6:32pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe View Post
Well, there were two problems with the Z71V that prevented Asus from continuing the series: the battery problems that Asus eventually fixed but took several months to do so, and the less-effective video card heatsink, which had something to do with several folks blowing out their video cards, especially when overclocking.

However, for those of us who kept our units through the battery switches and who didn't overclock our video cards and/or bought White Heat's improved heatsink, it seems to have proved a capable and durable machine.

I remember when I bought it that I was looking to fix some very significant daily use shortcomings in the notebook I had used previously, and I'm really happy that this notebook doesn't have any of those. It doesn't break or damage easily, has enough ports to easily connect to whatever I need, isn't too heavy, has decent battery life, is versatile enough that I can use it how I'd like (as opposed to some current notebooks that have annoying restrictions in how far the lid opens, for instance) and has solid and consistent performance in all applications.

Being interested in the tech field, I'm always looking for what could be my "next notebook" but so far, I haven't found anything that meets my experience with the Z71V, so I plan to keep it until something comes along that does better.
I don't see you as a G73 person, but I could be wrong.
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post #188 of 194
5/14/10 at 6:42pm
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The G73 is too big for my tastes and the lid doesn't open 180 degrees, which is one of my pet peeves. At the moment, the upcoming Asus N43 and HP Envy 14 have my attention.
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post #189 of 194
5/14/10 at 7:38pm
Do you know of anybody who's had experience with the ASUS external Blu-Ray player? I was thinking of getting one for my M11X.
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post #190 of 194
5/14/10 at 7:53pm
which one? I know that the SBW-06C1S-U is pretty good and look stylish. Saw the demo at ceBIT.

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post #191 of 194
5/14/10 at 7:58pm
I was thinking of This One
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post #192 of 194
5/14/10 at 8:01pm
That is probably good also. The difference between the 2 (yours and mine - mentioning) is 8x (yours) vs 6x (mine)

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post #193 of 194
9/25/10 at 7:47pm
well after sitting my closet collecting dust for a year and half, my z71v is finally up and running again. i don't what happened to it originally. back in december of 08 it just wouldn't boot up. as many have said, fans turn on, but that is it. took into a shop and they said the mb was bad. i eventually took the hard drive out and hooked it up to an external case to get my data off and use it as a usb drive.

this week i decided to look into it again. i found a post on the forms here about someone having video card problems but their machines would turn on. their home fix was to take the thermal pad off the card and replace it with a larger one. it worked for them so i decided to give it a shot. only problem is that no store in austin sells thermal pads. i used artic silver instead. hit the power button and nothing. fans turn on but that was it.

about an hour ago i decided to see if putting in a music cd would work in its nonbooted state. it played just fine. hmm i thought. popped in my windows xp disc and hit the power button and i heard the drive spinning and reading for awhile but nothing else. took the disc out and turned it off. i figure ok one my try and i'm putting it back up. hit the power button and i don't know how but it booted into bios. first time the screen had turned on in a year and half! totally excited.

i set boot order to cd-rom and put the hdd back in. right now im installing the original drivers to the machine that came on with it and its running! i honestly don't know how or why it just started up again. i have an oem version of vista but don't know if the drivers would work for it. i'll have to do some research into that.

for others still missing their laptop and having a similar problem try what i did. change out the pad, pop in windows and cross your fingers.
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post #194 of 194
9/25/10 at 7:50pm
Nice to hear. Hope it keeps going for you. It's a nice machine.

cheers ...
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