How's Asus Z71V Doing For You?!!! - Page 2

How did you set that resolution? Did you download a seperate program?
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Cool, I've got it now.
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What is this "sparkly" effect all of you are talking about?
I feel at loss.... is it related to "glossy" screens or is it a a completely
different thing?

Its a completely different thing. Glossy screens are shiny. Some people see this screen as sparkly. Mainly, when they look at solid colors such as light green or white, it looks holographcic to them... someone explaineded it as if someone wiped greasy fingers on the screen. Personally, I don't see this effect at all.

you'll be getting my response this weekend... WITH a complimetary review

Figured I'd make my first non lurker post here.

Hopefully my replacement z71v will arrive tomorrow. I had a little bit of time to sit down with the first one when it arrived tuesday morning, and I was very impressed with the overall build quality of the machine. It's easy to upgrade, all of the internals are easily accessible, the screen looks nice and it boots nice and fast. However, since mine died during the windows install I haven't had a chance to really put it through it's paces, hopefully I'll be doing that on friday.
Until then, I'll just say from my first impressions this is going to be one rockin laptop.

so far, it looks like 18 people are satisfied, 5 are somewhat satisfied, and 4 are dissatisfied. ovarall opinion is running 3-4 to 1 in favor of the Z71v. how does that compare to other notebook satisfaction (Acer 8103/4 for instance)?

I got mine a couple days ago and i'm quite happy with it.

A couple things...

I made the mistake of installing the supplied intel pro wireless 8.0 drivers and have only just discovered that that is the likely cause of the 2200bg throttling between 54mbps and 1mbps. I'll be installing the 9.0 drivers shortly to see this resolves the problem.

It took a phone call to figure out how the remove the keyboard so i could install the 2nd stick of 1GB DDR2. Turns out that besides the 2 screws on the bottom marked with "<K" there are 3 tabs along the edge of the KB closest to the display. Using a small flat blade screw driver on those tabs was all that was needed to pop the KB out.

I'm using RMClock V1.4 to drop the 40W 2.0Ghz 68*c at 100% down to 31W 60*c @ 100%. The idle power is 20W. I couldnt get the new V1.5 of RMClock to work properly for me.

I installed LaptopVideo2Go.com driver V76.50 after having installed and used the supplied video driver for a while. So far so good, though i have yet to install and play any games with it.

It seems that my 80G SATA drive does indeed get its own channel as i can transfer data from a CD to the HD simultaneously. I have yet to try out the DVD burner for burn speeds.

Many thanks to the wonderfull posters on this board for helping me make a well informed laptop purchase. And a big thanks to 1toppc.com for quick delivery, great customer support and great prices.

Dave

thanks. Acer TM 8100 series satisfaction is running 38 completely satisfied, 9 partly satisfied, 4 unsure, 5 dissatisfied. at the moment, the Acer folks seem to be quite a bit happier (if you take the averages) than the Asus folks. I wonder why?

that makes sense. Here's something else I missed: since the poll questions are worded differently in the 2 polls, it seems that the satisfied to partially or not satisfied ratio is 23:9 for the Asus and 38:18 for the Acer. In other words, satisfaction for the Z71v is running approximately 2.5 to 1 and satisfaction for the 8100 series is running 2.1 to 1

actually, popularity dropped just a skitch, percentage-wise. it's now at 2.33 to 1. Still better than the Acer, though.

bump. vote if you have a Z71v!